[Neutron] Synchrotron and Neutron Advances in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy

[Simon Redfern]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring your attention to the “Synchrotron and Neutron  
Advances in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy” session at  
Goldschmidt 2009. Full details of the session and details of how to  
submit an abstract can be found at http://www.goldschmidt2009.org/ 
index. Submission deadline is 22nd February.

Synchrotron and Neutron Advances in Environmental Geochemistry and  
Mineralogy (session 18g)

Description:
Over the past 10 years there has been a large increase in the number  
of new generation synchrotron (e.g. Diamond Light Source, SSRL Spear 3  
and The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)) and neutron sources (e.g.  
J-PARC, SNS, FRM-II, OPAL, ISIS-TS2) across the world. The development  
of these facilities has led to dramatic improvements in beam flux,  
size and stability which have enabled significant improvements in time  
resolution, data quality, detection limits and spatial resolution  
using microfocus techniques. Environmental geochemistry and mineralogy  
research has benefited greatly from these developments as the new  
facilities allow in situ studies of natural heterogeneous materials  
(e.g. soil, aqueous phases and poorly-ordered minerals) under near  
natural conditions. This session will focus on the recent developments  
in the applications of synchrotron- and neutron- based techniques for  
the study of low-temperature environmental systems including – but not  
limited to – biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, soil science, carbon  
sequestration, metal and metalloid speciation studies in natural and  
contaminated environments, aqueous geochemistry, colloid science, nano  
particles, mineral/solution/bio interface studies, environmental  
radiochemistry and phytoremediation studies. The session will cover  
research using all types of synchrotron and neutron based techniques  
including, XAS, X-ray microscopy (e.g. STXM), tomography, XPS, XRF, X- 
ray microprobe, scattering (e.g. SAXS/WAXS) XPEEM, diffraction, total  
scattering, inelastic and quasielastic scattering, infrared and time  
resolved studies.

Keynote Speaker: John Bargar (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation  
Lightsource)
Invited Speaker: David Cole (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Convenors:
Sam Shaw (University of Leeds, UK),
Thomas Borch, (Colorado State University)
Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge),
Nancy Ross (Virginia Tech)

*Apologises for any cross posting*




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