Facility Support: Institute for Rock Magnetism

该奖项为美国国家科学基金会在36个月内持续提供1,396,115美元的支持，用于运行岩石磁学研究所（IRM），该研究所支持对岩石，沉积物和矿物磁性进行深入的纯研究和应用研究。资金提供：PI和副主任暑期工资支持；回收昂贵液态He的氦再液化系统；设施经理和工作人员科学家的工资支持；访问学者计划和咨询委员会会议的旅行支持；支持消耗品（如液氦、液氮和气体）和替换件；以及IRM季度通讯的出版和邮寄费用。在过去的二十年里，IRM一直由地球科学部的仪器和设施计划（IF）资助，以支持、开发和运营一个世界级的国际多用户设备，用于研究岩石磁学和古磁学。IRM的目标包括：1)为社区提供服务，以促进对细颗粒组合（包括氧化铁、氢氧化物和硫化物的天然纳米颗粒）的磁性行为（在不同温度、时间、应力和环境磁场条件下）的复杂物理机制的更深入理解；2)为地球科学研究界提供一套完整的敏感仪器来进行这些详细的研究；3)维护设施仪表和计算机网络；4)为访问学者提供有效使用设施所需的支持，包括技术、教育和后勤方面的支持；5)适应物理和材料科学的方法和技术，以及开发新的方法，使用磁测量数据来表征复杂的自然样品，并解决地球科学家特别感兴趣的问题；和;6)通过举办研讨会和会议，以及在这些领域保持活跃的（和单独资助的）研究项目，在扩大和改进磁分析在地质和生物研究中的应用方面发挥催化剂作用；7)。通过网站、在线数据库和季刊向地球科学界和相关学科提供与研究有关的新闻和信息。持续的设施支持将为地球科学界提供和加强研究基础设施。IRM维护并提供地球科学中独一无二的一套先进的磁学研究仪器，并通过组织两年一次的专题会议和不定期的培训讲习班来促进跨学科合作。来自澳大、当地学院和全国各地的本科生通过众多项目获得支持，包括NSF-REU项目和irm常驻研究生、博士后、教职员工的指导。一所新的岩石磁学暑期学校将针对地球科学的研究生和高级本科生开设。IRM组织跨学科研讨会，在我们的季度通讯和网站上为非专业观众发布信息和文章，并维护一个公共数据库，其中包含了对合成和天然磁性材料进行了充分表征的实验结果

1053743MoscowitzThis award provides $1,396,115 in continued NSF support over 36 months to operate the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) which supports in-depth pure and applied research on rock, sediment and mineral magnetic properties. Funds provide for: PI and associate director summer salary support; a helium reliquification system to recover expensive liquid He; salary support for a Facility manager and staff scientists; travel support for the Visiting Fellows program and advisory committee meetings; support for consumables (e.g., liquid He, liquid Nitrogen and gases) and replacement parts; and publishing and mailing costs for the IRM quarterly newsletter. The IRM has been funded by the Instrumentation and Facilities Program (IF) in the Division of Earth Sciences for the last twenty years to support, develop and operate a world-class, international multi-user facility for studies in rock magnetism and paleomagnetism. IRM's goals include: 1) providing service to the community to foster a deeper understanding of the complex physical mechanisms that govern the magnetic behavior (under varying conditions of temperature, time, stress, and ambient magnetic field) of fine-particle assemblages including natural nanoparticles of iron oxides, hydroxides and sulfides; 2) providing the geoscience research community with access to a full suite of sensitive instrumentation for these detailed studies; 3) maintaining the facility instrumentation and computer network; 4) providing visiting scholars with the support necessary to use the facilities effectively, including technical, educational, and logistical components of support; 5) adapting methods and techniques from physics and materials science, as well as developing new methods, for using magnetic measurement data to characterize complex natural samples and to address questions of specific interest to geoscientists; and; 6) serving as a catalyst in widening and improving the applications of magnetic analysis in geological and biological studies, by holding workshops and conferences, and by maintaining active (and separately funded) research programs in those areas; and 7) .providing research-related news and information to the geoscience community and related disciplines through a web site, online database and quarterly newsletters. Continued facility support will provide and enhance research infrastructure for the geoscience community. IRM maintains and provides access to a set of advanced instruments for magnetic research that is unique in the Earth sciences, and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration by organizing biannual topical conferences and occasional training workshops. Undergraduates from UM, local colleges, and from around the country receive support through numerous programs including NSF-REU program and mentorship of IRM-resident graduate students, post-docs, faculty and staff. A new Summer School for Rock Magnetism will be started targeted at graduate and advanced undergraduates in the geosciences. IRM organizes interdisciplinary workshops, publishes information and articles for non-specialist audiences in our quarterly newsletter and on our web site, and maintains a public database of experimental results on well-characterized synthetic and natural magnetic materials.***