Laboratory Support Award: Optical Emission Spectrometer for the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry

实验室支持奖：考古化学实验室直读光谱仪

• 批准号: 0911044
• 负责人: T. Douglas Price
• 金额: $ 12.87万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0911044&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Support; Award; Optical; Emission

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Drs. T. Douglas Price and James H. Burton will use support from the National Science Foundation to replace the primary scientific instrument in the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The lab will purchase a new, state-of-the-art Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES). ICP spectroscopy has been highly productive in the laboratory and responsible for the research activities of many established, as well as promising, scientists. An in-house analytical instrument is essential in basic research and the training of new scientists. In addition to the instrument, the award will provide for some remodeling of the laboratory to accommodate the installation of the new instrument and upgrade the facility. Since its acquisition in 1988, the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry has produced instrumental data that has resulted in hundreds of publications by laboratory staff and students in edited volumes, scientific literature, and as books, theses, and dissertations. Numerous other secondary publications have been generated by these results as well as presentations by students and staff at local, national, and international venues. The scientific instruments in the lab have also been the principal tools for instructional activity in archaeological chemistry, both for classroom use and for many independent studies by students at the University of Wisconsin, students from other universities, high-school students, and various scholars and professional colleagues from other institutions both here and abroad. The previous ICP spectrometer in the lab was essential for the establishment of the facility as an internationally recognized center for the study of archaeological chemistry. The new instrument should allow the center to maintain and expand the efforts of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry.The National Science Foundation support will allow continued investigation of a wide variety of archaeological materials and anthropological remains and to develop new methods of inquiry. Archaeological chemistry is an exceptionally exciting field where new methods and new discoveries are opening windows and doors on the human past by producing information thought unknowable until recently. Most of the major future discoveries in archaeology will come from laboratories. Studies of trace elements in food chains, and subsequent isotope studies, for example, have generated new approaches of study of both modern and prehistoric animal mobility and diet, approaches that have proven useful in other fields such as animal ecology. In addition to traditional research, the team will explore and develop new analytical methods of inquiry, the fruits of which cannot be assessed a priori, but the track record of the past two decades indicates that their value is inestimable. Scientific instrumentation is the key to success in such investigations. Basic research in laboratories and the training of future scientists are primary goals in the growth and development of this field.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国回收与再投资法》（公法111-5）.DRS资助的。 T. Douglas Price和James H. Burton将使用国家科学基金会的支持来代替威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校考古化学实验室的主要科学工具。该实验室将购买新的，最先进的电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪（ICP-OES）。 ICP光谱学在实验室中的生产力很高，并负责许多已建立和有前途的科学家的研究活动。内部分析工具对于基础研究和新科学家的培训至关重要。除该仪器外，该奖项还将对实验室进行一些改建，以适应新仪器的​​安装并升级设施。自1988年收购以来，考古化学实验室产生了工具数据，从而导致了实验室工作人员和学生在编辑的数量，科学文献以及书籍，论文和论文中的数百份出版物。 这些结果以及当地，国家和国际场所的学生和员工都产生了许多其他二级出版物。 实验室中的科学仪器也是考古化学教学活动的主要工具，包括课堂使用以及威斯康星大学学生的许多独立研究，其他大学的学生，高中生以及来自其他机构和国外其他机构的各种学者和专业同事。实验室中先前的ICP光谱仪对于建立该设施作为国际公认的考古化学研究中心至关重要。新工具应允许该中心维持和扩大考古化学实验室的努力。国家科学基金会的支持将继续研究各种考古材料和人类学遗物，并开发新的探究方法。考古化学是一个异常令人兴奋的领域，新的方法和新发现正在通过直到最近才能产生不知情的信息来打开人类过去的窗户和门。考古学的大多数未来发现将来自实验室。关于食物链中的微量元素以及随后的同位素研究的研究，例如，对现代和史前动物流动性和饮食的研究进行了新的研究方法，这些方法已证明在其他领域（例如动物生态学）中有用。除传统研究外，团队还将探索和开发新的询问分析方法，其果实无法先验评估，但是过去二十年的往绩表明其价值是不可估量的。科学仪器是此类调查成功的关键。实验室的基础研究和未来科学家的培训是该领域成长和发展的主要目标。