Laboratory Technician Support: University of Connecticut Helium Geothermochronology Laboratory

该奖项将资助康涅狄格大学氦地热年代学实验室（HGL）的一名实验室技术员。HGL支持广泛的矿物的低温（U-Th）/He热年代学研究，包括磷灰石，锆石，钛铁矿和独居石。该奖项将使更广泛的地球科学界能够进入HGL设施，并将支持游客培训和地热年代学的应用和发展。这个实验室技术人员支持奖也将促进科学在社会中提供学生培训和教育在实验室环境中，提高早期职业地球科学家的研究计划，并促进当地曼斯菲尔德，CT社区通过科学外展活动的参与集中在深时间和定年方法在构造，地球化学，沉积学，古气候学和地质考古学。HGL的研究重点是解决造山过程中折返的时间和机制，具体集中在使用碎屑多矿物（U-Th）/He地热年代学进行的沉积物来源分析上。该奖项将支持HGL努力开发更广泛的碎屑矿物，如钛铁矿，独居石和磷灰石等的改进方法。实验室技术员将被期望（1）监督在校园和访问的学生和研究人员，（2）有助于正在进行的研究和方法的发展（U-Th）/他geothermochronology在康州大学，（3）进行日常实验室职责和仪器维护，（4）提供收费的服务分析支持的科学和应用研究项目，以及（5）参与社区外展活动，以提高公众对深时、地质年代学和地球过程的兴趣和知识。

This award will fund a laboratory technician in the Helium Geothermochronology Laboratory (HGL) at the University of Connecticut. The HGL supports research in low-temperature (U-Th)/He thermochronology of a wide range of minerals, including apatite, zircon, titanite, and monazite. This award will enable the broader Earth science community to gain access to the HGL facility and will support visitor training and applications and development in geothermochronology. This laboratory technician support award will also promote science in society by providing student training and education in a laboratory setting, enhancing the research program of an early career geoscientist, and promoting engagement of local Mansfield, CT community through science outreach activities centering on deep time and dating methods in the tectonics, geochemistry, sedimentology, paleoclimatology, and geoarchaeology. Research in the HGL focuses on resolving the timing and mechanisms of exhumation during mountain building, with specific concentration on sediment provenance analysis using detrital multi-mineral (U-Th)/He geothermochronology. This award will support HGL efforts to develop improved methodology on a wider suite of detrital minerals, such as titanite, monazite, and apatite, among others. The laboratory technician will be expected to (1) supervise on-campus and visiting students and researchers, (2) contribute to ongoing research and methodological development of (U-Th)/He geothermochronology at UConn, (3) conduct routine laboratory duties and instrument maintenance, (4) provide fee-for-service analytical support for scientific and applied research projects, and (5) participate in community outreach activities to promote public interest and knowledge in deep-time, geochronology, and Earth processes.