Acquisition of Gas-mixing and TZM Furnaces and Associated Equipment: Experimental Petrology at Fayetteville State University

该奖项将装备费耶特维尔州立大学的实验岩石学实验室，该实验室将与SENCR-MIC电子微探针一起使用，以研究行星组装的过程；让代表性不足的群体参与假设驱动的地球科学研究；加强北卡罗莱纳州东南部的K-12地球科学教育。在实验室进行的实验将产生新的数据，这些数据将有助于更好地理解原始陨石（其成分被认为代表了原始太阳星云的成分）在熔化过程中的行为，其压力近似于太阳系早期演化过程中的小行星内部。实验室产生的新数据将有助于调和观测结果与行星形成模型之间存在的差异。费耶特维尔州立大学是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学（HBCU），是北卡罗来纳大学系统的组成成员。它有大约6000名学生，其中女性占学生总数的70%以上，非洲裔美国人占学生总数的73%。校园里实验岩石学实验室的存在将允许将代表性不足的群体纳入地球科学研究，目标是鼓励他们继续研究生学习。FSU成立之初是一所教师培训学院，至今仍在发挥着这一作用。实验岩石学的本质以及由假设驱动和基于发现的研究带来的兴奋将有助于加强K-12地球科学教育，因为培训中的教师将通过实验室实验探索我们知识的边界。

This award will equip an experimental petrology laboratory at Fayetteville State University that will be used in conjunction with the SENCR-MIC Electron microprobe to investigate the process of planetary assembly; engage under-represented groups in hypothesis-driven Earth Science research; and strengthen K-12 Earth Science education in southeastern North Carolina. Experiments conducted in the laboratory will generate new data that will facilitate a better understanding of how primitive meteorites, the compositions of which are assumed to represent that of the primitive solar nebula, behave during melting at pressures that approximate asteroid interiors during early solar system evolution. New data generated in the lab will help reconcile discrepancies that exist between observations and models of planetary formation.Fayetteville State University is a historically black college/university (HBCU) that is a constituent member of the University of North Carolina system. It has an enrollment of ~6000 students, with females comprising over 70% of the student body and African-Americans comprising 73% of the student body. The presence of an experimental petrology laboratory on the campus will allow for the inclusion of underrepresented groups into Earth Science research with the goal of encouraging them to continue on to graduate studies. FSU was founded as a teacher training college and continues to serve in that role today. The nature of experimental petrology and the excitement that comes with hypothesis-driven and discovery-based research will serve to strengthen K-12 Earth Science education as teachers in training explore the boundaries of our knowledge through experimentation in the lab.