Continuation of a Facility: Institute for Rock Magnetism

9628693班纳吉这笔赠款提供824,994美元，作为对明尼苏达大学岩石磁性研究所(IRM)的持续支持。目前通过EAR/IF计划(EAR-9304363)提供的设施支持将于97财年初到期，这笔赠款将提供额外的三年支持，每年约275,000美元，主要用于支持IRM人员，包括5名高级人员的工资支持、一名博士后研究人员的支持和适度的设备升级，包括超导岩石磁强计、穆斯堡尔光谱仪、卡帕磁化率电桥和磁力显微镜的升级。资金还将用于支付与访问研究员计划和咨询委员会相关的差旅费，以及与制作和分发季度通讯以及该设施的基本运营相关的材料和用品。在过去六年中，在EAR/IF计划的支持下，IRM建立了一套最先进的设备，用于增进我们对岩石磁学的基础和应用知识，用于旨在揭示地球系统历史和气候变化的古地磁研究，并进一步了解板块构造运动和地球发电机。具体研究包括中国黄土的岩石磁性研究、阿巴拉契亚和克拉通内部古生代地层再磁化的岩石磁性特征、生物成因磁铁矿的研究和剩磁保真度的检验。在对EAR/IF的支持下，IRM向美国和国外的地球科学界免费提供这些仪器。***

9628693 Banerjee This grant provides $824,994 as continued support for the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) at the University of Minnesota. Current facility support through the EAR/IF program (EAR-9304363) will expire in early FY 97 and this grant will provide an additional three years of support at an annual level of approximately $275,000, which will primarily be used as salary support for IRM personnel including 5 senior personnel, support of a post doctoral researcher and modest equipment upgrades including upgrade of their superconducting rock magnetometer (SRM), Mossbauer spectrometer, Kappa susceptibility bridge and a magnetic force microscope (MFM). Funds will also cover travel expenses associated with their visiting fellows program and their advisory committee and materials and supplies associated with the production and distribution of their quarterly newsletter and basic operations of this facility. The IRM has, over the last six years under support from the EAR/IF program, established a facility of state-of-the-art equipment used to advance our knowledge of basic and applied rock magnetism, for paleomagnetic research aimed at unraveling earth system history and climatic variability, and to gain further insight into plate tectonic motions and the geodynamo. Specific research has included studies of the rock magnetic properties of Chinese Loess, the rock magnetic characterization of remagnitized Paleozoic strata in the Appalachians and the craton interior, studies of biogenic magnetite and examination of the fidelity of magnetic remanence. With support for EAR/IF, the IRM makes available these instruments at no charge to the earth science community both with the U.S. and abroad. ***