Major Research Instrumentatin: Acquisition Of An ICP-MS For Archaeometric And Geological Research

主要研究仪器：购买 ICP-MS 用于考古和地质研究

• 批准号: 1531394
• 负责人: Laure Dussubieux
• 金额: $ 12.34万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1531394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Major; Research; Instrumentatin; Acquisition; ICP

With support from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Laure Dussubieux, Patrick Ryan Williams and Philipp Heck from the Field Museum and Dr Marc Walton from the Northwestern University-Art institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies will replace the inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) that is the central piece of equipment of the Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF) at the Field Museum. The EAF is used mainly to determine the composition, including major, minor, and trace elements, of a large range of materials including obsidian, ceramic, clay, synthesized glass and metals from all around the world and natural terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks. This new state-of-the-art instrumentation will be used to establish extensive new datasets of archaeological, cultural and geological materials that directly informs hypotheses about ancient trade and exchange, technology, and their relationship to the development of social complexity around the world and the origin and the evolution of Earth and the solar system. This new instrument will contribute to the research and training of undergraduate, graduate students and young researchers. They will be initiated into the analytical process using ICP-MS by undertaking the analysis itself and will be trained in method development, the statistical processing of the data, and interpretation. Results of the research at the EAF will inform future exhibits and education activities at the Field Museum, Art Institute and Oriental Institute, which educate hundreds of thousands of school children and millions of visitors annually. A new ICP-MS, will not only increase inter-disciplinary collaborations at the Field Museum but also stimulate collaborative efforts between the Field Museum and other Chicago-based institutions. Among those are the new Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies, the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago), and the Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry (C3), comprised of the three-institutions Field Museum, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, to enhance training, scientific research and exchange in the fields of Anthropology, Cosmochemistry, Geochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering. The connection of the EAF with the Field Museum, The Art Institute and the Oriental Institute collections will be a unique opportunity to linking leading scholars and graduate students to those institutions, extensive collections and giving them the tools to analyze these one of a kind assemblages to significantly enhance understanding of the role of cultural production in the development of complex societies. The C3 enables their scientists to access the world-class collections of meteorites, terrestrial rocks and minerals from the Field Museum and analyze them using the specialized analytical tools at its institutions and at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University with whom we have established a close collaboration.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，博士。菲尔德博物馆的 Laure Dussubieux、Patrick Ryan Williams 和 Philipp Heck 以及西北大学芝加哥科学研究中心艺术学院的 Marc Walton 博士将取代电感耦合等离子体质谱仪 (ICP-MS)，后者是菲尔德博物馆元素分析设施 (EAF) 的设备。 EAF 主要用于测定多种材料的成分，包括常量元素、微量元素和微量元素，包括来自世界各地的黑曜石、陶瓷、粘土、合成玻璃和金属以及天然陆地和地外岩石。这种最先进的新仪器将用于建立广泛的考古、文化和地质材料的新数据集，直接为有关古代贸易和交换、技术及其与世界各地社会复杂性发展的关系的假设提供信息。地球和太阳系的起源和演化。这一新仪器将有助于本科生、研究生和年轻研究人员的研究和培训。 他们将通过进行分析本身开始使用 ICP-MS 进行分析过程，并将接受方法开发、数据统计处理和解释方面的培训。 EAF 的研究结果将为菲尔德博物馆、艺术学院和东方学院未来的展览和教育活动提供信息，这些活动每年为数十万学童和数百万游客提供教育。 新的ICP-MS不仅将增加菲尔德博物馆的跨学科合作，还将促进菲尔德博物馆与其他芝加哥机构之间的合作。其中包括新的西北大学-芝加哥艺术研究所科学研究中心、东方研究所（芝加哥大学）以及由菲尔德博物馆、芝加哥大学和阿贡国家实验室三个机构组成的芝加哥宇宙化学中心（C3）国家实验室，加强人类学、宇宙化学、地球化学、材料科学与工程等领域的培训、科学研究和交流。 EAF 与菲尔德博物馆、艺术学院和东方研究所藏品的联系将是一个独特的机会，将顶尖学者和研究生与这些机构、广泛的藏品联系起来，并为他们提供分析这些独一无二的收藏品的工具，显着增强对文化生产在复杂社会发展中的作用的理解。 C3 使他们的科学家能够访问菲尔德博物馆世界级的陨石、陆地岩石和矿物藏品，并使用其机构和西北大学材料科学与工程系的专业分析工具对它们进行分析。建立了密切的合作关系。