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GSECARS is a national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 25/09/2026
Tony Lanzirotti (University of Chicago) unlocks Asteroid Bennu's past: aqueous and thermal alteration from the mineralogy and water contents of returned samples, 13 IDE, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 24/09/2026
Piotr Rejnhardt (University of Warsaw) researches a role for kaolin minerals in water regulation in the Earth's mantle traced by experimental quantum crystallography methods, 13 BMC, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 24/09/2026
Subin Yang (Northwestern University) studies the dynamics of sand rubber mixtures under oedometer loading and unloading via X-ray microtomography and ultrasonic compressional wave speed (Vp) measurements, 13 BMD, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 23/09/2026
Minghao Ai, Xiong Bi, Yichuan Zhu (Temple University) with Laura Jimenez Arcia (Oregon State University) and Max Yakovlev (University of Chicago) study three-dimensional micro-CT imaging of soil Liquefaction and post-liquefaction phenomena, 13 BMD, Sept 2026. @temple.edu @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 23/09/2026
Juejing Liu and Xiaoxu Li (Pacific Northwest National Lab) work on understanding the effect of iron ions on the migration, enrichment, and separation of REEs in hydrothermal fluids using quantitative XRF/XAS mapping, 13 IDE, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 23/09/2026
Mark Rivers and Max Yakovlev (GSECARS) were pleased to host and work with Laura Jimenez Arcia (Oregon State University) on her project to develop specialized cells for X-ray tomographic imaging of porous media, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @oregonstate.edu
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/09/2026
Amila Darshana Emihami Mudiyanselage, Ganga Hettiarachchi and Anuj Poudel (Kansas State University) research translating molecular insights to field application of soil amendments for lead stabilization in urban soils, 13 IDE, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @kstate.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/09/2026
Bin Zhao (University of Hawaii at Manoa) studies the isotope fractionation of Si in lower-mantle minerals by single crystal XRD and force constants method, 13 BMC, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/09/2026
Marianna Corum, Noah Brown (UW-Madison), Natasha Morgan-Witts (Caltech) with Max Yakovlev (UofC) and Laura Jimenez Arcia (Oregon State U) conduct computed micro tomography projections of intergranular melt and brine development, 13 BMD, Sept 2026. @caltech.edu @oregonstate.edu @uwmadison.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/09/2026
GSECARS scientists Stella Chariton and Dongzhou Zhang hosted students from the 2026 National X-ray School. After hearing lectures and learning data analysis software, the students toured Sector 13 beamlines. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 14/09/2026
Carly Haas, Shoshanna Peifer and Gregory Moller (Northwestern University) and GSE hosts Stella Chariton and Chris Skordas (Uni. of Chicago) study the pressure dependent structural properties on 4-fluorobenzylammonium lead iodide, 13 BMC, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @nupress.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 10/09/2026
Stella Chariton and Chris Skordas (University of Chicago) work on modernizing XRD workflows at 13BM-C and commissioning new software capabilities, 13 BMC, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 10/09/2026
Christopher Allison, Joe Sam Nkuah, Samuel Sluder, Shukrah Adesola-Olabiyi, and Anna Herring (U Tennessee) study density-driven convective fingering in porous media using dissolved noble gas contrast agents at elevated pressure, 13 BMD, Sept 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 02/09/2026
GSE Beamline Scientist Vitali Prakapenka presented an invited talk at the EHPRG Meeting, "Supersonic Ice at Planetary Interior". @ehprg.bsky.social ehprg2026.org
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 14/08/2026
Shradhanjli Ravikumar (Harvard University) works on the technical development for cryogenic experiments in the multi-anvil devices, LVP Sample Prep Lab, 13 IDD, Aug 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @harvard.edu
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 28/07/2026
Barbara Lavina (UChicago/ANL) co-chairs a session at Goldschmidt 2026 focusing on bonding at extreme condition. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 28/07/2026
Results of the recent high-temperature Raman validation experiment. During the Raman experiment, the system was successfully operated to ~1773 K (~1500 °C), as measured by a thermocouple positioned near the upper diamond. The enclosure and Raman optical configuration remained operational (1/x)
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 27/07/2026
Sean Shieh (University of Western Ontario) studies stability and equation of state of ZrSiO4 at high pressure and high temperature, 13 BMC, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @westernu.ca
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 27/07/2026
Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory work to understand multicomponent fluid effects on permeability evolution in fractures, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 27/07/2026
Ben Gilbert (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Redmond Coleman (University of Oxford) study constraining natural hydrogen, non-ideal iron redox partitioning in serpentinite, 13 IDE, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @ox.ac.uk
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 22/07/2026
CARS Director Peter Eng chaired a session at the 18th International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering (SXNS18) entitled "Advanced Instrumentation and Methods". The conference participants toured GSECARS / Sector 13 at The Advanced Photon Source. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/07/2026
Natasha Morgan-Witts and Noah Brown (University of Wisconsin-Madison) develop computed micro tomography projections of intergranular melt and brine development in Europa analog ice, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/07/2026
Ethan Suwandi (Northwestern University) studies element-specific structural models of the amorphous intergranular phase in dental enamel, 13 IDE, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/07/2026
Marine Boulanger and Aaron Ashley (Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans) research high pressure viscosities of aluminosilicate melts, 13 IDD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 21/07/2026
Janani Peshala Madanayaka and Ganga Hettiarachchi (Kansas State) with host Tony Lanzirotti(UChicago) use the GSECARS SEM and Beamline 13IDE to help decipher Pb bioaccessibility in indoor dust via spatially resolved elemental associations and Pb speciation analysis, Jul26. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 17/07/2026
Qi Chen (The University of Chicago) is developing a novel split-cube multi-anvil technique for viscosity measurements of mantle melts at transition zone pressures, 13 IDD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 15/07/2026
Noah Weinstein and Wencheng Lu (Carnegie Science) investigate perovskite hydrides as a new class of low-pressure superconductors, 13 BMC, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @carnegiescience.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 15/07/2026
Tony Lanzirotti (University of Chicago) studies aqueous and thermal alteration from the mineralogy and water contents of returned asteroid samples - NASA Osiris REx mission, 13 IDE, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 15/07/2026
Wenfeng Li and Mohmad Mohsin Thakur (Los Alamos National Laboratory) work on in-situ visualization of gas migration in fluid stemming columns under high pressure and high temperature conditions, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 15/07/2026
Katherine Armstrong (@unibayreuth.bsky.social) and Amartya Kattemalavadi (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) conduct an experimental study of anisotropy in Earths transition zone and upper mantle using in situ transformation of feldspars, stilbite, and Na-carbonates to high pressure phases with D-DIA.
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 13/07/2026
Amartya Kattemalavadi (University of California, Berkeley) conducts an experimental study of anisotropy in Earths transition zone and upper mantle using in situ transformation of feldspars, stilbite, and Na-carbonates to high pressure phases with D-DIA, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 09/07/2026
Tim Officer (University of Chicago) tests the effect of pressure on transformational faulting in Mg2GeO4, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 09/07/2026
SEES's Mission and History: Campbell, Andrew. "Community-driven management of synchrotron-based mineral physics facilities." Elements 22, no. 2 (2026): 122-122. Read more at www.elementsmagazine.org/triple-point/.
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Triple Point - Elements Magazine
By Özgül Öztürk1, Sekazi K. Mtingwa, and Michele Zema | April 2026
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 07/07/2026
Jeff Catalano and Bavan Rajan (Washington University) study surface-specific rare earth element fractionation pathways underlying critical mineral accumulation in regolith deposits, 13 IDC, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 07/07/2026
Daniel Coulthard (Colorado State University) and Allan Lerner (USGS) work on the determination of sulfur speciation (valence and coordination) in dacitic glass from synthetic analogues of hazardous evolved magmas, 13 IDE, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 06/07/2026
Bin Zhao (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and beamline host Dongzhou Zhang (University of Chicago) work on determining the isotope fractionation of Si in lower-mantle minerals by single crystal XRD and force constants method, 13 BMC, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 06/07/2026
Sang Soo Lee, Yihang Yuan and Bupmo Kim (Argonne National Laboratory) conduct an in-situ X-ray reflectivity investigation of heterogeneous film growth and dissociation at impurity-containing mineral-water interfaces, 13 IDC, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 06/07/2026
Haemyeong Jung and collaborators (Seoul National University) perform deformation experiments on hydration-induced faulting looking at implications for an earthquake-triggering mechanism in subducting slabs, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 30/06/2026
Paul Sherk and Quinn Cabenda (University of Waterloo) conduct XRF mapping of biologically mediated incorporation of sulfur in metal-sulfides for remediation studies in mining-impacted environments, 13 IDE, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 29/06/2026
Autum Downey and Yihang Fang (University of Missouri-Kansas City) investigate REE adsorption on calcite (104) surfaces in the presence of phosphate, 13 IDC, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 29/06/2026
Luan Heywood, Michelle Muth (University of Washington), Maryjo Covellone, Brianna Wenzel, Jade Simoneau and Shan Shan Zhu (UC, Riverside) research assessing sulfur magmatic redox state on Earth and other planets, 13 IDE, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 25/06/2026
Nester Korolev and Ekaterina Kiseeva (American Museum of Natural History) with GSE hosts Dongzhou Zhang and Stella Chariton (UofC) study metallic inclusions from the Earth's lower mantle, 13 BMC, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @amnh.org
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 22/06/2026
Yianni Garatziotis (Queens College, City University of New York) and GSE host Peter Eng (UofC) study amorphous phase formation on KCl as a function of relative humidity, 13 BMC, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 22/06/2026
Biao Wang (Michigan State University) and Rong Huang (University of Michigan) with host Stella Chariton (UofC) study the melting behavior of organic-rich exoplanets, 13 IDD, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @michiganstateu.bsky.social @umich.edu
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 22/06/2026
Qi Chen (The University of Chicago) studies the gold speciation across the sulfide-sulfate transition in basaltic melts: insights from Au and S XAS studies, 13 IDE, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 22/06/2026
Francois Tissot and Shane Houchin (California Institute of Technology) investigate magma redox using XANES analysis of zircon, 13 IDE, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social @caltech.edu
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 17/06/2026
Seohee Yun, Yeonhak Jung, Byeonggwan Go (Yonsei University), Chanbi Lee, and Grace Lee (GIST) with host Stella Chariton (UofC) study coupled cycling of molecular water and sulfur in the CaSO4H2O system under cold subduction geotherms, 13 IDD, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 08/06/2026
Laura Waters, Emily Yoder, Teagan Skinner, Aaron Bell (New Mexico Tech) and GSE host Matt Newville (UofC) conduct an Fe-K edge XANES investigation of Fe valence in biotite, to improve MELTS and develop a biotite-sanadine-magnetite hygrometer, 13 IDE, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 08/06/2026
Sai Krishna Reddy Adapa, Juliane Weber and Nishu Devi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) study the effect of aqueous impurities on the transformation of MgO into Mg(OH)2 and subsequent carbonation using time-resolved X-ray diffraction, 13 BMC, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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GSECARS @cars.uchicago.edu · 08/06/2026
Trevor Tyson (New Jersey Institute of Technology) studies the pressure dependent properties of the Fe3-xGeTe2 2D magnet system, 13 BMD, June 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social
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