Early Career: acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer with automated sample handling and rock magnetic characterization for paleomagnetism research

该奖项将为罗格斯大学古磁学实验室提供资金，用于购置一种灵敏的仪器来测量岩石的磁性。这些仪器将用于促进地球科学的进步。这种新的仪器将支持实验室的发展和研究计划的女性，早期的职业研究人员。仪器的使用也将支持研究生和博士后研究人员的培训。这个系统将是唯一一个在整个美国中大西洋地区运行的系统。古地磁研究为了解地球和其他行星体的历史提供了一个强有力的窗口。在岩石形成的过程中，它们记录下磁化强度，这些磁化强度可以在实验室中测量，从而推断出岩石的方向，在许多情况下，还可以推断出岩石形成时周围磁场的强度。新系统将用于解决地球和行星科学中的各种问题，包括：(1)古纬度研究，以测试白垩纪和古近纪期间印度-欧亚大陆汇合的不同构造模型；(2)确定超高速撞击事件对目标岩石的磁效应，以指导对陨石坑行星表面磁化的解释；(3)限制在其他行星体上产生古代发电机磁场的物理过程。

This award will provide funding to acquire a sensitive instrument to measure magnet properties of rocks in the paleomagnetism laboratory at Rutgers University. The instrumentation will be used to promote progress in the earth sciences. This new instrumentation will support the laboratory development and research program of a female, early-career researcher. Access to the instrumentation will also support the training of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. This system will be the only one of its kind in operation in the entire Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.Paleomagnetic studies provide a powerful window into the histories of Earth and other planetary bodies. As rocks form, they record magnetizations which can be measured in the laboratory to infer both the orientation and, in many cases, the intensity of the ambient field at the time of formation. The new system will be used to address a diversity of problems in the earth and planetary sciences including (1) paleolatitude studies to test different tectonic models for India-Eurasia convergence during the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, (2) determining the magnetic effects of hypervelocity impact events on target rocks to guide the interpretation of the magnetizations of cratered planetary surfaces, and (3) constraining the physical processes that generated ancient dynamo magnetic fields on other planetary bodies.