Upgrading of the X-Ray Diffraction and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) Facilities for Mineralogical Research

9911501施罗德这笔赠款提供部分支持，用于升级佐治亚大学(UGA)地质系用于矿物学研究的X射线衍射(XRD)和傅立叶变换红外光谱仪(FTIR)设施。佐治亚大学研究基金会提供了同等的配套资金。私人助理保罗·A·施罗德博士将监督安装新的数据采集硬件、X射线管和X射线衍射仪系统的软件升级。他还将监督安装新的FTIR工作台、探测器和数据分析系统。FTIR的独特之处在于能够在远红外区域进行矿物研究。UGA的这些升级将允许对强大的地质研究和教学计划提供持续的分析支持。每年约有50名地质学学生接受实践培训和/或理论熟悉这些分析方法。X射线衍射仪和傅立叶变换红外光谱实验室通常被认为是具有成本效益的分析设备，通常被地质行业使用。因此，接受培训的学生在就业市场上处于竞争优势。UGA将受益的研究项目的例子包括：(1)保罗·A·施罗德博士关于土壤/腐泥岩矿物中碳固定的计划及其在估计硅酸盐风化和土壤呼吸的长期速率方面的应用，(2)桑德拉·J·怀尔德博士关于内华达州西北部黑岩沙漠地区白垩纪地壳不连续以及莫哈韦-雪湖断层和萨蒙河-爱达荷州缝合带之间运动学联系的计划，以及她关于解开变形空间模式的计划，(3)Alberto Patino Douce博士关于超高压变质作用的程序，(4)瓦伦丁·A·恩曾贡博士关于有机粘土制备和吸附有效性测定的程序，以及(5)Schroeder和Patino Douce博士提出的研究片状硅酸盐的远红外振动模式的想法。过去10年来，X射线衍射仪和傅里叶变换红外光谱仪所产生的数据帮助UGA的教职员工和学生出版了85份出版物(书籍、文章和论文)。

9911501SchroederThis grant provides partial support for the costs of upgrading the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) facilities for mineralogical research in the Geology Department at the University of Georgia (UGA). Equal matching funds have been provided by the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The PI, Dr. Paul A. Schroeder will oversee the installation of new data acquisition hardware, X-ray tube and software upgrades for the XRD system. He will also oversee the installation of a new FTIR bench, detector and data analysis system. Unique to the FTIR will be the ability to conduct mineral studies in the far-IR region. These upgrades at UGA will allow continued analytical support to a robust geological research and teaching program. Approximately 50 geology students per year receive practical training and/or theoretical familiarization with these analytical methods. XRD and FTIR labs are generally considered cost-effective analytical facilities and are commonly used by geological industries. For this reason, students who receive training are placed at a competitive advantage in the job market.Examples of research programs at UGA that will benefit include: (1) Dr. Paul A. Schroeder's program on carbon sequestration in soil/saprolite minerals and its application to estimating long-term rates of silicate weathering and soil respiration, (2) Dr. Sandra J. Wyld's program on the Cretaceous-age crustal discontinuity in the Black Rock Desert region of northwest Nevada and the kinematic link between the Mojave-Snow Lake fault and the Salmon River-Idaho suture, and her program for unraveling spatial patterns of deformation, regional metamorphism and exhumation within a Mesozoic fold-thrust belt, central Nevada, (3) Dr. Alberto Patino Douce's program on ultra-high pressure metamorphism, (4) Dr. Valentine A. Nzengung program on the preparation of organoclays and determination of their sorption effectiveness, and (5) Drs. Schroeder and Patino Douce's idea to study the far-IR vibration modes of sheet silicates. Data generated by the XRD and FTIR facilities over the past 10 years have helped produce 85 publications (books, articles plus theses) by UGA faculty and students.***