News and Announcements
DAC Lab upgrade
GSE staff Chris Skordas, Max Yakovlev, and Mike Proskey move the laminar flow hood from the DAC Lab to make room for a new layout to include more functional work surfaces.
ID mono cryo cooler system upgrade
GSE Engineer Mike Proskey and Research Technician Carolyn Zaino working on the upgrade of the ID mono cryo cooler system.
Andy Campbell Named Louis Block Professor
Congratulations, SEES Director Andy Campbell, named Louis Block Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College, University of Chicago.
Zain Hussein, Irina Shaporeva, Daniel Garcia, James Vazquez, and Stella Chariton at 13IDD
Zain Hussein, Irina Shaporeva, Daniel Garcia, James Vazquez (Florida International University) and Stella Chariton (University of Chicago) research high pressure behavior of lanthanum borates, 13 IDD, Dec 2025.
Luisa Chavarria Chavarria, Susannah Dorfman and Biao Wang at 13 IDD
Luisa Chavarria Chavarria, Susannah Dorfman and Biao Wang (Michigan State University) study the effect of sodium on stability and equation of state of CaSiO3 perovskite (davemaoite), 13 IDD, Dec 2025.
Matt Newville, Chiara Elmi, Bryce Vick and Nate Sullivan at 13IDE
Matt Newville (UofC), Chiara Elmi, Bryce Vick and Nate Sullivan (James Madison University) explore geochemical pathways in the formation of Mn oxide deposits, 13 IDE, Dec 2025.
Stella Chariton, Tim Strobel, Shubham Sinha and Wencheng Lu at 13IDD
Stella Chariton (University of Chicago), Tim Strobel, Shubham Sinha and Wencheng Lu (Carnegie Institution of Washington) study High-Tc Superconducting hydrides at low pressure, 13 IDD, Dec 2025.
William Palfey and Alex Goncharov at 13IDD
William Palfey (Howard University) and Alex Goncharov (Carnegie Institution of Washington) work on the synthesis and characterization of novel polymeric and polyatomic compounds at high pressures, 13 IDD, Dec 2025.
Yong Park and Seongmin Ha at 13BMD
Yong Park and Seongmin Ha (Seoul National University) conduct deformation experiments of epidote blueschist and implications for earthquake-triggering mechanism, 13 BMD, Dec 2025.
Isabelle Rein at 13IDE
Isabelle Rein (Purdue University) evaluates the spatial distribution of sulfur speciation in Ediacaran-Cambrian carbonates for marine redox upheaval and faunal turnover, 13 IDE, Dec 2025.
APS Highlights:
New mineralogy of the deep Earth discovered
Published in Nature, researchers from ASU conducted a HP experiment at 13 IDD revealing a new mineral in the lower mantel.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05237-4
Solid-State Pathway Control via Reaction-Directing Heteroatoms: Ordered Pyridazine Nanothreads through Selective Cycloaddition
Samuel G. Dunning, Li Zhu, Bo Chen, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Maddury Somayazulu, Timothy A. Strobel, “Solid-State Pathway Control via Reaction-Directing Heteroatoms: Ordered Pyridazine Nanothreads through Selective Cycloaddition,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (5), 2073-2078 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12143
GSECARS Virtual Tour
GSE beamline scientist Tony Lanzirotti gave a virtual tour to Prof. Zach Dowdy and his science journalism class from Stony Brook University showing the students how synchrotron radiation is used in earth and planetary science research.
ESRP at 13 IDE, Mundelein HS
Students from Mundelein High School participated in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program conducting an experiment at 13 IDE, “Using X-Ray Fluorescence and Absorption Spectroscopy to Analyze The Relationship Between Particulate Matter And The Environment Through Factors Of Metal Type And Particle Size”.
ESRP at 13 IDE, UofC Lab School
Students from The University of Chicago Lab HS participated in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program conducting an experiment at 13 IDE, “Using particulates on honeybees and in their byproducts as a measure of local pollution”.