Survey data from: Can community laboratory facilities increase access and inclusivity in geoscience?

Geochronology and geochemistry are critical tools in geoscience research and research training, but students and faculty at many institutions have little or no access to the specialized and expensive facilities needed for sample preparation and analysis. Here, we assess whether community laboratories, dedicated to hosting visitors, can help address these inequities by increasing access to cutting-edge methods and the resulting data. We report the first three years of outcomes from such a community laboratory, the goal of which is to improve access, equity, and diversity in geoscience by making an increasingly important analytical technique more widely available. Although the community sample preparation facility we describe here focuses on the cosmogenic nuclides 10Be and 26Al, the model we present is viable across the geosciences. Three years of development, assessment, and refinement demonstrate that the community laboratory model shows promise for including a greater diversity of use...

地质年代学（Geochronology）与地球化学（Geochemistry）是地球科学（Geoscience）研究与科研训练的核心工具，但诸多院校的学生与教职员工，却鲜有甚至完全无法获取样品制备与分析所需的专业且昂贵的实验设施使用权。本研究针对专为接待访客设立的共享社区实验室（community laboratories）展开评估，探讨其能否通过提升前沿分析方法与配套测试数据的可及性，助力缓解此类资源分配不公问题。我们汇报了该类共享社区实验室运营首三年的实践成果，其核心目标为：通过推广一项日益重要的分析测试技术，提升地球科学领域的资源可及性、研究公平性与群体多样性。尽管本文所介绍的社区样品制备设施，主要围绕宇宙成因核素（cosmogenic nuclides）10Be与26Al开展工作，但该运行模式可推广至地球科学的全研究领域。历经三年的建设、评估与优化，该社区实验室模式已展现出显著潜力，可助力吸纳更多元的使用者群体……