U.S.-New Zealand Cooperative Research: Geophysical Measurements Using Ring Lasers

0124854邓文迪奖支持亨德里克斯学院的罗伯特·邓恩教授和新西兰坎特伯雷大学的杰弗里·斯特德曼教授之间为期三年的合作研究项目。 该项目将使国际社会能够利用大型环形激光器的极高灵敏度和宽动态范围作为地球物理研究工具。 具体而言，拟议的工作包括升级新西兰的环形激光设施，以及随后对地球潮汐、地震波旋转分量和日长变化等现象的测量。 这项合作汇集了拥有互补专业知识和研究设施的国际实验室的努力。 该项目将提高亨德里克斯学院的几名本科生的国际研究能力，他们将参加在新西兰的研究。

0124854DunnThis award supports a three-year collaborative research project between Professor Robert Dunn of Hendrix College and Professor Geoffrey Stedman of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. The project will enable an international effort to use the extreme sensitivity and wide dynamic range of large ring lasers as geophysical research tools. Specifically, proposed work includes upgrades to the ring laser facility in New Zealand, and subsequent measurements of such phenomena as earth tides, the rotational components of seismic waves, and length of day variations. The collaboration brings together the efforts of international laboratories that have complementary expertise and research facilities. The project will enhance the international research competence of the several undergraduate students from Hendrix College who will participate in the research in New Zealand.