Acquisition of GPR System

9816044戴维斯这笔赠款为购买用于近地表地球物理调查的探地雷达(GPR)系统的费用提供部分支持，这是纽约州立大学石溪分校地球科学系和其他系和计划的研究计划的一部分。少年派，丹·戴维斯和比尔·霍尔特，是地球科学系的副教授，其地质和地球物理研究包括对长岛冰川构造变形的冰川沉积的地层和构造研究。纽约州立大学探地雷达的其他用户将包括纽约州立大学石溪海洋科学研究中心的Henry Bokuniewicz和他的同事。在石溪获得一套探地雷达系统将使包括长岛在内的干燥、多孔冰川沉积物中的分层沉积物得到成像。这将使人们能够在远离钻孔和挖掘的地方外推观测到的地层学，从而解决与它们的沉积和变形历史有关的广泛的理论和实践问题，以及这对它们的水文学有何影响。PI和他们的学生将是探地雷达系统的主要用户，但它将为石溪正在进行的广泛研究工作提供一个宝贵的额外工具。通过这种方式，它将加强纽约州立大学地球物理小组、长岛地下水研究所、当地水务当局和纽约州立大学海洋科学研究中心之间的合作。

9816044DavisThis grant provides partial support for the costs of acquiring a ground penetrating radar(GPR)system for near-surface geophysical surveys as a part of research programs in the Department of Geosciences and other departments and programs at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The PI's, Dan Davis and Bill Holt, are associate professors in the Department of Geosciences whose geological and geophysical research includes stratigraphic and structural studies of the Glaciotectonically deformed morainal deposits of Long Island. Additional SUNY users of the GPR will include Henry Bokuniewicz and his colleagues at SUNY Stony Brook's Marine Science Research Center.The acquisition of a GPR system at Stony Brook will allow imaging of layered sediments in dry, porous glacial sediments, including those of Long Island. This will make it possible to extrapolate observed stratigraphy away from boreholes and excavations and thereby to address a wide range of theoretical and practical questions related to their depositional and deformational history and how that affects their hydrology. The PI's and their students will be the primary users of the GPR system, but it will provide a valuable additional tool for a wide range of ongoing research efforts at Stony Brook. In this way, it will allow the enhancement of the collaborations between the SUNY geophysics group, the Long Island Groundwater Research Institute, local water authorities, and the SUNY Marine Science Research Center.***