Acquisition of new paleomagnetic lab equipment for Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania

0418663威尔这笔赠款支持布林莫尔学院（BMC）购买新的古地磁设备，用于（1）支持褶皱冲断带运动学，全球构造，古地理学和古地磁学及其应用的基本方面的研究，（2）支持跨学科教师和学生在环境磁学，地质考古学，海洋地质学和古气候学;（3）加强BMC的本科生研究和课程。 拟采购的设备包括：1）旋转磁力计和相关附件，用于测量沉积物和岩石样品的再磁化，2）退磁仪器（包括热和交变场消磁器）以在受控的实验室条件下逐渐去除剩余磁化，3）磁屏蔽空间，在该空间中进行古地磁分析，（4）磁性矿物学表征的岩石磁性基础设备。该设备的能力将增强BMC创新结构地质学和构造研究的广泛基础，并将极大地增强学院新的跨学科努力。 这些新设施将可供整个大费城地区其他教育机构的研究人员使用。 最后，这些新设施的购置将纳入大学课程，本科生将积极参与将利用所要求的设备的所有研究项目。由于BMC的所有本科生都是女性，这些设备将用于培训地球科学领域代表性不足的学生。 ***

0418663WeilThis grant supports acquisition of new paleomagnetic equipment by Bryn Mawr College (BMC) for the purposes of (1) supporting research into fold-thrust belt kinematics, global tectonics, paleogeography, and fundamental aspects of paleomagnetism and its applications, (2) supporting new creative initiatives in interdisciplinary faculty and student research in fields such as environmental magnetism, geoarcheology, marine geology and paleoclimateology, and (3) enhancing undergraduate research and the curriculum at BMC. Equipment to be purchased includes: 1) a spinner magnetometer and related accessories to measure remanent magnetizations in sediment and rock samples, 2) demagnetization instruments (including thermal and alternating field demagnetizers) to progressively remove remanent magnetizations under controlled laboratory conditions, 3) a magnetically shielded space in which to perform the paleomagnetic analysis, and 4) basic rock magnetic equipment for characterization of magnetic mineralogy. The capabilities of this equipment will enhance a broad base of innovative structural geology and tectonic research at BMC, and will greatly enhance the college's new interdisciplinary efforts. These new facilities will be available for use by researchers at other educational institutions throughout the greater Philadelphia area. Finally, the acquisition of these new facilities will be incorporated into college courses, and undergraduate students will be actively involved in all research projects that will utilize the requested equipment. Because all undergraduate students at BMC are women, the equipment will serve to train underrepresented students in the geosciences. ***