GSECARS Scientists Continue to Decode Moon's Mysteries 50 Years Later

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Argonne explores its early lunar research as it anticipates studies at the Advanced Photon Source of pristine moon rocks from the final lunar landing missions.
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Diffraction at 13 BMC

Jin Zhang, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was recently awarded a NSF CAREER grant to pursue new research on the elastic anisotropy of mantle minerals and potential relationships with mantle flows.  Pictured here at 13 BMC.

Dr. Jin Zhang awarded prestigious NSF Career Grant

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What Diamond Impurities Tell Us About Earth's Mantle

Pockets of water may lay deep below Earth’s surface.
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GSECARS Outreach

GSECARS hosts experiments at 13 IDE for high school students in the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) representing local area high schools.

GSECARS Outreach

X-ray Diffraction Patterns from a Diamond Anvil Cell.

X-ray diffraction is the most powerful technique for crystal structure determination. From left to right, patterns from a single crystal, polychrystalline, nano-cyrstalline and amorphous crystals.

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Paris-Edinburg Press

The 180 ton Paris-Edinburg press combined with a multi-channel collimator to study structures of liquid silicates up to 12 GPa and 3000 K in 13-ID-C. The intense double focused monochromatic beam allows collection of X-ray scattering patterns with robust statistics in 5 minutes.

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GSECARS
A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

GSECARS provides earth scientists with access to the high-brilliance hard x-rays from this third-generation synchrotron light source. All principal synchrotron-based analytical techniques in demand by earth scientists are being brought to bear on earth science problems.

APS Experiment Hall Floor Access Temporarily Restricted

Beginning Tuesday, April 9, 2024, access to the Advanced Photon Source experiment hall floor is temporarily restricted while Health Physics conducts radiation shielding tests. This planned testing is part of the APS Upgrade Project as commissioning begins on the new storage ring.

Restricted access is expected to last approximately two weeks.
The pedestrian walkway and lab office module spaces remain accessible.

https://gsecars.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radiation-safety-FAQ-3-11-24.pdf

SEES: Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science

On September 1, 2023 the National Science Foundation announced a $35 million award to the University of Chicago to operate SEES: Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science. The mission of SEES  is to advance research and education in synchrotron-based Earth and environmental science to better understand our planet from the atmosphere to the core, to address societally relevant problems, and to train the next generation of scientists. SEES will manage, operate, and enhance multiple user facilities hosted at four DOE-operated US synchrotrons: Advanced Photon Source (APS), Advanced Light Source (ALS), National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-new-award-synchrotron-earth
https://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/sees/

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Apr
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10:00 am PSC All Hands Meeting
PSC All Hands Meeting
Apr 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
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26
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1:00 pm FORCE Seminar – Andrew Campbell
FORCE Seminar – Andrew Campbell
Apr 26 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
FORCE Seminar  Andrew Campbell, Department of the Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago Director, SEES April 26. 2024 12:00 pm AZ/MST (11 am PT, 2 pm ET) Launch Meeting – Zoom
May
2
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11:00 am APS Webinar – Universal Proposal...
APS Webinar – Universal Proposal...
May 2 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
APS Webinar – Universal Proposal System You are invited to a Town Hall webinar on the Universal Proposal System (UPS), which is a collaboration between the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory, the[...]
May
6
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all-day APS / CNM Users Meeting 2024
APS / CNM Users Meeting 2024
May 6 – May 10 all-day
APS / CNM Users Meeting 2024 May 6-10, 2024 • Registration now open! This year’s meeting will be held on site at Argonne National Laboratory, Building 401. Register : https://web.cvent.com/event/5afe434c-aae8-44ef-899b-69233f57da91/summary?locale=en You can look forward to the[...]
May
21
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all-day 4th ISRD-RCN Workshop
4th ISRD-RCN Workshop
May 21 all-day
4th ISRD-RCN Workshop Exploring Dynamic Properties of Earth and Planetary Materials Using Neutron and X-Ray Methods The 4th ISRD-RCN workshop, hosted by the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) and the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France) will take[...]
May
24
Fri
1:00 pm FORCE Seminar – Innocent Ezenwa
FORCE Seminar – Innocent Ezenwa
May 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
FORCE Seminar  Innocent Ezenwa, HPCAT, Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory May 24, 2024 12:00 pm AZ/MST (11 am PT, 2 pm ET) Launch Meeting – Zoom

Recent Publications

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GSECARS has organized an exciting session at the Goldschmidt Conference 2024 in Chicago entitled “2b – Deep planetary interiors: new experimental and analytical approaches ” . This session will highlight cutting-edge achievements in static and dynamic experimental methods as well as novel analytical approaches that address a variety of physical and chemical properties of minerals, that enhance our understanding of the evolution, structure and dynamics of the Earth’s interior and that of other planetary bodies.

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