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CSUSM SUBAWARD STATEMENT OF WORK FOR WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY STUDIES OF VOLATILE FORMATION AND TRANSPORT ON LUNAR SURFACE THE DISCOVERY THAT THE SURFACE OF EARTH"S MOON HAS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF WATER RAISES FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION WHOSE ANSWERS HAVE IMPORTANT RAMIFICATIONS FOR ITS SUSTAINABLE USE. AS PART OF A MULTI-INSTITUTION, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY EFFORT, THE DOMINGUEZ LAB @ CSUSM WILL BE PERFORMING A SET OF EXPERIMENTS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LUNAR WATER AND CO2. THIS EFFORT WILL BE SPREAD OUT OVER 5 YEARS AND WILL MAKE USE OF THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE TO CARRY-OUT LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE THE SHIFTS IN THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF WATER AND CO2 WHEN THESE COMPOUNDS ARE SUBJECTED TO PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LUNAR SURFACE, INCLUDING LUNAR POLES WHERE LARGE DEPOSITS OF WATER ARE EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT. SOME SAMPLES THAT ARE GENERATED IN THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL BE SHIPPED TO COLLABORATOR INSTITUTIONS WHERE THEY WILL BE EXAMINED USING A SUITE OF ADVANCED ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOLATILE ICES AND LUNAR GEOLOGY. FINALLY, MEASUREMENTS USING SIMS ANALYSIS AT UCLA WILL BE DONE TO QUANTIFY SHIFTS IN THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF REGOLITH-ANALOG MATERIALS UNDER SOLAR WIND IRRADIATION IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER ICE. FUNDS ARE REQUESTED AS PART OF A SUB-AWARD FROM WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TO (1) PURCHASE A HYDROGEN SOURCE WITH ENERGIES THAT ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SOLAR WIND AND (2) HIRE A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (YEARS 1-5) TO HELP CARRY-OUT THE PROPOSED EXPERIMENTS, DATA ACQUISITION, AND WRITE UP OF PAPERS. COURSE RELEASE TIME FOR THE PI (1-2/YR) AND SUMMER RESEARCH FUNDING IS ALSO REQUESTED AS WELL AS FUNDING FOR DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. WORK PLAN: IN FY1, CO-I DOMINGUEZ WILL RECRUIT AND TRAIN POSTDOC (TBN). CO-I DOMINGUEZ AND POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR WILL FINALIZE THE PROTOCOL FOR BULK ICE SUBLIMATION IN FY1. PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE PAID TO DEPOSITION CONDITIONS TO FAVOR AMORPHOUS ICE PRODUCTION. DURING FY2-FY3, POSTDOC WILL SUBLIMATE 20 H2O-ICES AT A RANGE OF TEMPERATURES TO DETERMINE ISOTOPOMER LIFETIMES. DESIGN AND ASSEMBLY OF REGOLITH SAMPLE HOLDER AND TESTING WILL OCCUR IN FY2 AND EXPERIMENTATION IN FY2. POSTDOC AND CO-I DOMINGUEZ WILL ANALYZE AND WRITE UP DATA FOR PAPERS IN FY2-FY5. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: DOMINGUEZ, AS TASK LEAD (FTE: FY1=0.178, FY2-4=0.083/Y, FY5=0.167) WILL OVERSEE OVERALL PROJECT AND WILL RECRUIT POSTDOC. ONCE TRAINED, POSTDOC (FTE: FY1=0.25, FY2-5=0.5/Y) WILL PLAN THE TIMING AND COMPLETION OF ALL SUBLIMATION EXPERIMENTS WITH ASSISTANCE FROM UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS. CO-I DOMINGUEZ WILL ENSURE THAT TIMELY ORDERING, DELIVERY, AND INSTALLATION OF EQUIPMENT OCCURS. POSTDOC WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR EXECUTION OF EXPERIMENTS, CRD CALIBRATION, AND DATA COLLECTION AND ARCHIVING OF IRRADIATED SUBSTRATES FOR SHARING WITH THEME 2 (TASK 2.1). MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION WILL BE LED BY POSTDOC AND CO-I DOMINGUEZ IN FY2, FY4 AND FY5.