PROGRAM
Synchrotron Environmental Science VI
Argonne National Laboratory
September 11-12, 2014
Time
5:00-6:30 PM
Session
SES-VI, 9/10/2014
Title
Ice Breaker
(ANL Guest House)
SES-VI Day 1, 9/11/2014
7:00-8:00 AM
(APS Lobby)
8:00 AM-12:00
PM
Session 1 (APS Auditorium)
Registration/Coffee Service
8:00-8:20
Ken Kemner and Stephen Streiffer (Argonne National
Laboratory) “Introduction and Welcome to SES-VI”
8:20-8:45
Gordon E. Brown, Jr./John Bargar (SLAC National
Accelerator Laboratory) "Synchrotron Environmental
Sciences at ALS, CAMD, and SSRL: Present and Future"
8:45-9:10
Sebastien Boutet (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
"LCLS and its Potential Applications to Environmental
Science"
9:10-9:35
Ryan Tappero/Qun Shen (Brookhaven National
Laboratory) "Opportunities for Environmental Sciences at
NSLS-II"
9:35-10:00
Mark Rivers (The University of Chicago) "New
Opportunities for Geoscience Research using the Multibend Achromat Storage Ring Being Proposed for the
Upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source"
10:00-10:25
Coffee Break
10:25-10:50
Gordon E. Brown, Jr. (Stanford University)
"Synchrotrons and the Environment – A Marriage Made in
Heaven"
10:50-11:15
Pupa Gilbert (University of Wisconsin Madison) "Mollusk
Shell Nacre and the Environment"
11:15-11:40
Jim Fredrickson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
"Technetium Environmental Biogeochemistry"
11:40-12:00
Ellery Ingall (Georgia Institute of Technology) "Role of
Diatoms in the Removal of Iron from Antarctic Seas"
12:00-1:30 PM
Lunchtime Tutorial
1:30-3:30 PM
Session 2 (APS Auditorium)
1:30-1:55
Tony Lanzirotti (U.Chicago) "Synchrotron X-ray
Fluorescence Imaging" and Joanne Stubbs (U. Chicago)
"X-ray Surface Scattering Techniques"
Heather Jamieson (Queen's University) "Using
Synchrotron Microanalysis to Solve Real-World
Environmental Problems"
1:55-2:20
Matt Lindsay (University of Saskatchewan) "Groundwater
Contamination, Remediation, and Management in Mining
Environments"
2:20-2:45
Kirk Scheckel (Environmental Protection Agency)
"Nanoparticles Down the Drain – Then What?"
2:45-3:10
Satish Myneni (Princeton University) "Application of Soft
XAS in Studying the Cycling of Elements Associated with
Organic Matter"
3:10-3:30
Chelsea Neil (Washington University Saint Louis)
"Arsenate and Phosphate Oxyanion Incorporation Affects
the Growth, Crystallinity, and Water Content of NewlyFormed Iron(III) (Hydr)oxides on Quartz"
3:30-5:30 PM
(APS Gallery)
Poster Session
6:00-8:00 PM
(ANL Guest House)
Banquet
Michael Hochella (Virginia Tech) “The Inaugural Gordon
Brown Lecture: The Life and Times of Professor Gordon E.
Brown, Jr.”
SES-VI Day 2, 9/12/2014
8:00-8:30 AM
(APS lobby)
8:30 AM-12:00
PM
Session 3 (APS Auditorium)
Coffee Service
8:30-8:50
Paul Fenter/Nouamane Laanait (Argonne National
Laboratory) “Imaging Dissolution Fronts at the CalciteWater Interface in Intense Radiation Fields"
8:50-9:15
Tracy Punshon (Dartmouth College) "Synchrotron X-ray
Fluorescence Microanalysis of Biological Tissue: From
Plants to Placentas"
9:15-9:35
Ryan Tappero (Brookhaven National Laboratory) "Seeing
the Forest through the Trees: Environmental Science with
X-ray ‘Macro’probes"
9:35-9:55
Joseph Jakes (USDA Forest Service) "U.S. Forest Service
Research at the APS"
9:55-10:35
Coffee Break
10:35-11:00
Ben Gilbert (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Structural and Chemical Studies of the Pyrite (001)
Surface"
11:00-11:20
H. Hsu-Kim (Duke University) "Nanoscale MercurySulfide-Organic Matter Interactions: Implications for
Bioavailability and Methylation Potential"
11:20-11:40
Joanne Stubbs (The University of Chicago) "Oxidative
Corrosion of Uraninite (UO2) Surfaces"
11:40-12:00
Michelle Nearing (Royal Military College of Canada)
"Uptake, Transformation and Fate of Arsenic Compounds
in Mushrooms"
12:00-1:30 PM
Lunchtime Tutorial
Matt Newville (U. Chicago) "X-ray Absorption Fine
Structure Spectroscopy"
1:30 - 3:15 PM
Session 4 (APS Auditorium)
3:15 – 5:00 PM
1:30-1:55
Bhoopesh Mishra (Illinois Institute of Technology/
Argonne National Laboratory) "Why Should We Study
Carbon Chemistry using X-ray Raman?"
1:55-2:15
Tom Regier (Canadian Light Source) "Measurement of the
C K-Edge in Environmentally Relevant Samples"
2:15-2:35
Mengqiang Zhu (University of Wyoming Laramie)
"Precipitation Pathways for Ferrihydrite Formation in
Acidic Solutions"
2:35-2:55
Jose Cerrato (University of New Mexico) "Integrated
Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Aqueous Chemistry
Investigation of Heavy Metal Contamination in Abandoned
Mine Wastes in the Southwest"
2:55-3:15
Closing Remarks
Tour of APS

Prof. Per Persson

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