Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth and Space Science at the Carnegie Institution

卡内基研究所地球与空间科学跨学科研究基础设施

• 批准号: 0963396
• 负责人: Linda Elkins-Tanton
• 金额: $ 109.3万
• 依托单位: Carnegie Institution of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963396&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Infrastructure; Interdisciplinary; Research; Earth; Space

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award will provide funds for infrastructure renovations needed to house new analytical and computational instrumentation for interdisciplinary research in the Earth and space sciences. The new infrastructure will enable Carnegie Institution researchers, together with a large community of visiting scientists, to pursue more effectively a broad sweep of fundamental research addressing the origin and evolution of stellar and planetary systems, the geochemical cycles of planetary volatiles, the evolution and dynamics of the Earth?s interior and surface, Earth?s energy resources, the origins of life, and the coevolution of the geo- and biospheres. The new infrastructure will support analytical micro- and nanocharacterization and imaging laboratories, together with associated sample preparation facilities, including a focused ion beam workstation, a transmission electron microscope, X-ray nanoscopes, an ultramicrotome, an ion mill, optical microscopes, and micromanipulators. Our objective is to collocate novel new instruments with existing instruments (that are currently in deficient lab facilities) into a unique cross-disciplinary research laboratory targeted for advances in planetary and solid-Earth science, astrobiology, studies of deep carbon reservoirs on Earth, and materials science problems related to energy. Renovation of an existing computational laboratory is needed to accommodate large clusters of multi-core processors, critical for future theoretical research in astrophysics, computational seismology, geodynamics, and molecular dynamics. This renovation will mesh with a campus-wide installation of a much faster (up to 10 Gb/s) internal network to support the growing data bandwidth needs of laboratory and theoretical research. Space targeted for renovation meets strict electromagnetic field and vibration requirements to house even the most sensitive state-of-the-art microanalytical instrumentation, but lacks adequate temperature control and power. Together with institutional contributions, NSF support will revitalize this otherwise outmoded space, with updated environmental controls that will allow full-time operation, additional electrical power, and instrument-specific utilities. The renovated facility will serve as a unique research center for the broad scientific community. The new infrastructure will allow the installation of new and existing analytical instruments that will enable precise and sensitive characterization of a broad range of Earth, space, and technological materials. It will be a user-friendly facility that will be frequented annually by more than 100 scientists, including Carnegie staff, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scientists, graduate students, and high school and undergraduate interns. Benefits of the new facility will also extend to the international mineral physics and high-pressure communities through the NSF COMPRES consortium and two DOE centers headquartered on the Carnegie Institution campus and serving 24 partner universities across the country, and to researchers and students from other institutions in the region. The new facility will also directly benefit the Deep Carbon Observatory, a Carnegie-based consortium sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, planned to involve 400 investigators at 80 institutions in 24 countries. The upgraded facility will have significant impact on the research programs in many fields, including geochemistry, experimental petrology and geophysics, cosmochemistry, high-pressure physics and mineral physics, diamond technology, geobiology, molecular evolution, extrasolar planets, and astrobiology, thereby promoting interdisciplinary science and collaborations, and providing unique new educational opportunities for students from high school to postdoctoral levels.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。 该奖项将为拥有新的分析和计算仪器的基础设施翻新提供资金，用于地球和太空科学的跨学科研究。 The new infrastructure will enable Carnegie Institution researchers, together with a large community of visiting scientists, to pursue more effectively a broad sweep of fundamental research addressing the origin and evolution of stellar and planetary systems, the geochemical cycles of planetary volatiles, the evolution and dynamics of the Earth?s interior and surface, Earth?s energy resources, the origins of life, and the coevolution of the geo- and生物圈。新的基础架构将支持分析的微型和纳米含量和成像实验室，以及相关的样品制备设施，包括聚焦的离子束工作站，透射电子显微镜，X射线纳米镜，超大型机构，一个离子磨机，光学显微镜和微型摩托剂。我们的目标是将新的新仪器与现有工具（目前处于不足的实验室设施中）合并为一个独特的跨学科研究实验室，该研究实验室针对行星和固态科学的进步，天体生物学，对地球上深碳储层的研究以及与能源有关的材料科学问题。需要对现有的计算实验室进行翻新，以适应大量的多核处理器集群，这对于未来的天体物理学，计算地震学，地球动力学和分子动力学至关重要。这种翻新将与校园范围内的安装更快（最多10 GB/s）内部网络相结合，以支持实验室和理论研究的增长数据带宽需求。用于翻新的空间符合严格的电磁场和振动要求，即使是最敏感的最先进的微分析仪器，但缺乏足够的温度控制和功率。 NSF支持将振兴这一原本过时的空间，并提供更新的环境控制，将允许全职操作，额外的电力和特定于仪器特定的公用事业。经过翻新的设施将成为广泛科学界的独特研究中心。新的基础设施将允许安装新的和现有的分析仪器，这些仪器将实现广泛的地球，空间和技术材料的精确和敏感的特征。它将是一个用户友好的设施，每年将有100多名科学家经常光顾，包括卡内基员工，博士后研究员，访问科学家，研究生，高中和本科实习生。新设施的好处还将通过NSF组成的财团和总部位于卡内基机构校园的两个DOE中心，并为全国各地的24个合作伙伴大学提供服务，并向该地区其他机构的研究人员和学生服务。该新设施还将直接受益于由斯隆基金会赞助的卡内基财团深碳天文台，计划涉及24个国家的80个机构的400名调查人员。升级后的设施将对许多领域的研究计划产生重大影响，包括地球化学，实验性岩石学和地球物理学，宇宙化学，高压物理学和矿物质物理学，钻石技术，地球生物学，分子进化，分子进化，外部运动学，外交生物学和天文学，从而促进跨学科的科学级别，并为学生提供新的教育级别，并提供新的教育级别，并提供了新的教育。