Aquisition of Geophysical Field Equipment for Earth Science Research and Teaching at the University of Alabama

021652哈里在这项主要研究仪器拨款的支持下，阿拉巴马大学地质科学系将购买地球物理现场设备，以促进与本系强调自然资源勘探、保护和补救相关的研究和教学活动。购买的设备包括探地雷达系统、势场测量设备、沉积物取心系统和支持高分辨率海洋地震测量的设备。结合现有的陆地和海洋地震测量系统、浅层取心设施和最先进的地球成像计算设施，所要求的设备将建立一个强大的设施，用于获取和分析地球物理数据，以支持UA各种研究和教学活动的持续增长。这些设备将创造一个有利于跨学科研究的环境，非常适合系里的教师，并将极大地扩展内部和外部的合作研究和教学活动，并努力为州和地方社区提供服务。该设备的具体使用计划包括美国国家科学基金会、美国能源部和私人资助的沿海过程、地下水流动和污染物运输、化石燃料资源、沉积盆地分析和构造学方面的研究计划。将在不久的将来使用该设备的此类项目包括：(1)在密西西比州哥伦布市的宏观分散实验（MADE）试验场对含水层进行浅层地球物理成像，目的是为用于污染物输送建模的水文电导率模型开发地层背景；(2)对黑勇士盆地及其邻近的Appalachian和Ouachita褶皱冲断带进行势场测量，确定盆地沉降与造山构造的关系；(3)以约束环境形成的时间和物理过程为目标，对海岸系统进行地球物理和沉积学综合研究。* * *

0216520HarryWith support from this Major Research Instrumentation grant, the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama will purchase geophysical field equipment to facilitate research and teaching activities associated with our department's emphasis on Natural Resource Exploration, Conservation, and Remediation. Equipment to be purchased includes a ground penetrating radar system, potential field surveying equipment, a sediment coring system, and equipment to support high-resolution marine seismic surveys. Combined with existing land and marine seismic surveying systems, shallow coring facilities, and state-of-the-art Earth Imaging Computational Facility, the requested equipment will establish a robust facility for acquisition and analysis of geophysical data needed to support continued growth in a wide variety of research and teaching activities at UA. The equipment will create an environment conducive to interdisciplinary research that is ideally suited to the faculty in the department, and should greatly expand intra- and extramural collaborative research and teaching activities and efforts to provide service to state and local communities. Specific plans for use of the equipment include NSF, DOE, and privately funded research initiatives in coastal processes, groundwater flow and contaminant transport, fossil fuel resources, sedimentary basin analysis, and tectonics. Examples of such projects that will make use of the equipment in the immediate future include: (1) shallow geophysical imaging of the aquifer at the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) test site in Columbus Mississippi, with the goal of developing a stratigraphic context for hydrologic conductivity models used for contaminant transport modeling; (2) potential field surveying of the Black Warrior Basin and adjacent Appalachian and Ouachita Fold and Thrust belts, with the goal of determining the relationship between basin subsidence and orogenic tectonics; and (3) integrated geophysical and sedimentological studies of coastal systems with the goal of constraining the timing and physical processes of environment formation. ***