Acquisition of Instrumentation to Enhance Research and Teaching of the Coastal Processes Research Group at East Carolina University

这项授予东卡罗来纳大学的主要研究仪器奖提供资金，用于购买地球化学、地球物理和海洋仪器，以用于沿海过程的研究和教育。地球化学仪器包括α和伽马能谱仪、低本底α/β计数系统、镭延迟符合计数系统和电感耦合等离子体光学发射光谱仪。泥沙输送仪器包括声学多普勒水流剖面仪和用于测量温度、电导率、压力和浊度的自主‘吊舱’。地球物理仪器包括地震采集系统、海底剖面仪、GPS系统以及地震勘探采集和处理软件。提出了一个整合良好的计划，将这些系统整合到现有的和计划的课程中，让学生参与研究项目，并为教师和学生提供跨学科的互动。该部门有一名全职技术人员，具有支持这些仪器的专业知识和责任。计划使用这些工具的更广泛影响包括教育和研究的紧密结合，它们可能会影响大量本科生以及研究生的研究培训和教育。这些手段可能应用于的许多研究项目具有很高的社会相关性，包括研究海底生境、人类活动对生态系统的影响、海平面变化和侵蚀/沉积、气候变化以及影响沿海湿地生存的过程。这项提议得到了美国国家科学基金会海洋科学部的支持。***

0419554CorbettThis Major Research Instrumentation award to East Carolina University provides funds for acquisition of geochemical, geophysical and oceanographic instrumentation to for research and education in coastal processes. Geochemical instrumentation includes alpha and gamma spectrometers, a low background alpha/beta counting system, a radium delayed coincidence counting system, and an ICP optical emission spectrometer. Sediment transport instrumentation includes acoustic Doppler current profilers and autonomous 'pods' for measuring temperature, conductivity, pressure and turbidity. Geophysical instrumentation includes a seismic acquisition system, sub-bottom profiler, a GPS system and software for seismic survey acquisition and processing. A well-integrated plan is presented that incorporates these systems into existing and planned courses, involves students in research projects, and provides cross-disciplinary interactions for faculty and students. The department has a full-time technician with expertise and responsibility for supporting these instruments. The broader impacts of the planned use of these instruments include very strong integration of education and research, and they are likely to impact the research training and education of a large number of undergraduate students, as well as graduate students. Many of the research projects to which these instruments are likely to be applied have high societal relevance, including studies of benthic habitats, anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems, sea level change and erosion/deposition, climate variability, and processes impacting the survival of coastal wetlands. This proposal is supported by the Division of Ocean Sciences at NSF. ***