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| Geology Open Night: Shining Light on Earth Materials |
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| Start Date: | 4/13/2012 | Start Time: | 7:30 PM |
| End Date: | 4/13/2012 | |
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Event Description
Speaker: Lars Ehm, Professor, Mineral Physics Institute, and Photon Science Directorate at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Topic: Shining Light on Earth Materials: How modern synchrotron light sources help us understand the Earth
The National Synchrotron Light Source has provided very intense and bright light in the X-ray and infrared spectrum to experiments used by the Earth Sciences community, since 1985. The advances in experimental techniques, instrumentation, automation over the last 22 years, have resulted in significant gains in our ability to study the atomic structure, bonding, composition and properties of Earth materials. We are able to create a variety of different environmental conditions in the experiments and simultaneously study the atomic structure, bonding and composition of the material. These capabilities transformed our knowledge of the structure, evolution and processes in the Earth.
This talk will explore the impact that experiments at synchrotron radiation facilities have on our current understanding of the structure and evolution of the Earth and will take a look at the future capabilities of the National Synchrotron Light Source II and their potential impact on our insight into processes in the Earth. |
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