Events & Outreach

On September 20, SEES hosted a workshop at the Bay Area Light Sources Joint Users’ Meeting at SLAC. The session, Synchrotron X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopic Capabilities for Earth and Environmental Samples, included talks on both beamline capabilities and research applications, showing how combining soft, tender, and hard X-ray techniques at

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the University of Chicago on August 10-12 for the 2026 SEES-FORCE Joint Meeting! We had a series of talks, two poster sessions, several discussions (including one on FAIR data management), and a tour of the SEES facilities at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. It

SEES ran its first Multigrain Single Crystal Workshop at the University of Chicago on August 8-9, 2026, in conjunction with the 2026 SEES-FORCE Joint Meeting. Twenty-eight participants spent two days with SEES beamline scientists Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, and Dongzhou Zhang, covering the collection and analysis of single- and multigrain

The SEES team had a great time connecting with geochemists at the Goldschmidt conference in Montréal, Québec. Program PI Andrew Campbell and Associate Director Emily Padston staffed the exhibition booth, introducing attendees to the SEES program and how synchrotron user facilities can support their research. During our “Talk to a

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 AGU Annual Meeting, taking place December 7–11, 2026, in San Francisco, CA. The abstract submission deadline is August 5, 2026 (11:59 PM EDT / 03:59 UTC). AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 25,000+ attendees from 100+

Beamline scientists from SEES, the Advanced Light Source (ALS), and the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) connected during SEES general user beamtime at COSMIC. They discussed coordination opportunities for the upcoming ALS-U dark time and future capabilities of the Soft X-ray Nanoprobe at NSLS-II. Left to right: Dr. Kyounglim

SEES Director Andrew Campbell recently authored a Triple Point article in Elements Magazine discussing the history and continued importance of community-driven synchrotron facilities for mineral physics research and user support. Read the full article: “Community-Driven Management of Synchrotron-Based Mineral Physics Facilities”

As part of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools “Adventure Day” program, kindergarten students participated in a hands-on outreach activity led by SEES beamline scientist Dongzhou Zhang. Using microscopes, synthetic gems, posters, and a model diamond anvil cell, students learned how scientists investigate materials under the extreme pressures found deep