High-resolution ITRAX XRF core scanning facility for global change research

该设施将使研究人员能够在环境变化和气候变异研究中获得高分辨率的地球化学剖面。它将提供关于沉积物和土壤岩心、岩石岩心、木材样本、洞穴和珊瑚的密度变化和化学元素组成的档案数据。这些档案包含重要的信息，如人类活动、气候变化、水质变化、污染历史、最近的地貌变化、土地利用变化、入侵物种的引入和森林火灾的发生。更好地了解这些重大环境问题的发生和时间，对国家和地区都具有重要意义。

This facility will enable researchers to obtain high-resolution geochemical profiles in the study of environmental change and climate variability. It will provide archive data on the variation of density and chemical element composition along sediment and soil cores, rock cores, wood samples, speleothems and corals. These archives contain important information such as human activity, climate variability, water quality changes, pollution histories, recent geomorphological change, land-use change, introduction of invasive species and the occurrence of bushfires. A better understanding of the occurrence and timing of these major environmental issues is of national and regional importance.