Continued development of PyChron for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

该合同将为新墨西哥州地质年代学研究实验室开发用于Argon地质年代学数据采集和数据简化的软件套件提供资金。全面的软件套件对所有现代分析仪器都至关重要，最好由仪器的用户而不是仪器的供应商来开发。该奖项将支持用户和开发人员文档的开发，以及由早期职业博士后研究员开发的新的和创新的实验室技术。Ar年代学是确定岩石年龄和热历史的许多重要方法之一，用户友好、高质量的软件对所有Ar年代学设施的成功至关重要。硬件自动化、高效的数据存储和数据处理极大地增强了地质年代学家S得出有意义的地质结论的能力，并通过提供对多种数据简化和获取方法的简化访问来促进新的发现。然而，由于缺乏全面的文档和社区对新开发的参与，目前的许多现有软件最终都不能持续。该奖项将帮助解决这两个问题，支持编写全面的文件，目的是使其更容易为其他实验室所用。该软件套件还将通过对用于Ar地质年代学的其他软件套件的数据输出进行详细的可比性，来发挥超高精度和精确度地质年代学的重要功能。

This award will provide funding to further the development of a software suite used for Argon geochronology data acquisition and data reduction at the New Mexico Geochronology Research Laboratory. Comprehensive software suites are vital to all modern analytical instrumentation and are best developed by users of the instrumentation rather than providers of the instruments. This award will support the development of user and developer documentation as well as new and innovative laboratory techniques by an early-career Post-Doctoral researcher. Argon geochronology is one of many critically important methods to determine rock age and thermal history and user friendly, high quality software is essential to the success of all argon geochronology facilities. Hardware automation, efficient data storage and data processing have greatly enhanced the geochronologist?s ability to make meaningful geologic conclusions and promotes new discovery by providing streamlined access to multiple methods of data reduction and acquisition. However, much of the currently existing software is not ultimately sustainable because of lack of comprehensive documentation and community involvement towards new development. This award will help address both of these issues by supporting the writing of thorough documentation with the intent making it easily available to other laboratories. This software suite will also serve an important function of ultra-high precision and accuracy geochronology by conducting detailed comparability of data outputs from other software suites used in argon geochronology.