Rationale for the Workshop

As recently announced, the NSF-EAR is soliciting proposals to develop, manage, operate, and support user access to U.S. synchrotron-based and supporting laboratory capabilities necessary to advance Earth sciences research and training (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21592/nsf21592.pdf).

The new single lead organization will manage currently supported synchrotron facilities (operated by GSECARS and COMPRES) and develop new capabilities to address priority science questions and related infrastructure recommendations such as those identified in the report: Earth in Time (https://doi.org/10.17226/25761).

In the light of this solicitation, we are organizing a workshop (hybrid or virtual mode) to address future opportunities to advance geomaterials research at high pressures, temperatures, and strain rates. We encourage everyone who plans to utilize synchrotron-based and supporting sample analytical capabilities in their research to participate in the workshop. Graduate student and post-doctoral scholar participation is particularly encouraged.

Topics to be Addressed:

1. Current state-of-the-art synchrotron capabilities for studies of Earth and planetary materials at elevated conditions, from crust to the core and beyond.
2. Novel technological developments and capabilities that will boost Earth and planetary sciences research, especially in view of recent and planned upgrades to US synchrotron facilities.
3. New approaches to foster engagement and expansion of the user community, including to traditionally underrepresented constituencies.
4. User community needs for cyberinfrastructure and data services.

Agenda

Tentative agenda is available below (subject to change).  Be sure to check back often to see latest changes.  You may need to refresh your browser window to see the latest changes.

Click here to view the latest agenda (PDF, posted 9/1/2021)

Registration

Registration deadline is August 24th, 2021.

After submitting your registration form, you should receive a confirmation email.  If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact Stella Chariton (chariton@cars.uchicago.edu).

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Survey

We are conducting a pre-workshop survey to help prepare for the round table discussion. The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 15-20 min to complete. Your inputs are important regardless of whether you are a current user at U.S. synchrotron facilities.

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Thanks to our sponsor, Silvana Westbury,  https://lightsources.org/,  we have two prizes that will be awarded at the end of the workshop to young scientists (student/postdoc/early career)  most actively participating in discussion and for most attention-grabbing and/or proactive questions.