The mission of SEES (Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science) is to advance research and education in synchrotron-based Earth and environmental science to better understand our planet from the atmosphere to the core, to address societally relevant problems, and to train the next generation of scientists. SEES is responsible for the management, operation, and development of multiple user facilities hosted at four DOE-operated US synchrotrons: Advanced Photon Source (APS), Advanced Light Source (ALS), National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).
2025 SEES-ISRD Joint Meeting
SEES and ISRD invite you to attend our annual meeting to be held jointly at the University of Chicago on August 11-13, 2025. Keynote speakers will discuss topics in rock and mineral deformation and rheological properties in Earth, and there will be a poster session with a broad scientific focus. All SEES and ISRD researchers are welcome and encouraged to attend. Click here to learn more.
Recent Publications
Hydrogenation of calcite and change in chemical bonding at high pressure: Diamond formation above 100 GPa
Alexander F. Goncharov, Huiyao Kuang, John S. Tse, Eric Edmund, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Timofey Fedotenko, Nico Giordano, Mohamed Mezouar, Jesse S. Smith, Hydrogenation of calcite and change in chemical bonding at high pressure: Diamond formation above 100 GPa, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2024, 107228, ISSN 0031-9201
Weyl Semimetallic Phase in High Pressure CrSb2 and Structural Compression Studies of its High Pressure Polymorphs
Carl Jonas Linnemann, Emma Ehrenreich-Petersen, Davide Ceresoli, Timofey Fedotenko, Innokenty Kantor, Mads Ry Vogel Jørgensen, Martin Bremholm, Weyl Semimetallic Phase in High Pressure CrSb2 and Structural Compression Studies of its High Pressure Polymorphs, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024, 175457, ISSN 0925-8388
Toward mending the marine mass balance model for nickel: Experimentally determined isotope fractionation during Ni sorption to birnessite
Laura E. Wasylenki, Ryan M. Wells, Lev J. Spivak-Birndorf, Eva J. Baransky, Andrew J. Frierdich, “Toward mending the marine mass balance model for nickel: Experimentally determined isotope fractionation during Ni sorption to birnessite,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 379, 76-88 (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2024.06.022
Phase transformation of ferric-iron-rich silicate in Earth’s mid-mantle
Lv, M., Zhu, S., Liu, J., Hu, Y., Zhu, F., Lai, X., Zhang, D., Chen, B., Dera, P., Li, J. and Dorfman, S.M., 2024. Phase transformation of...
High-Pressure oC16-YBr3 Polymorph Recoverable to Ambient Conditions: From 3D Framework to Layered Material
Alena Aslandukova, Andrey Aslandukov, Fariia Iasmin Akbar, Yuqing Yin, Florian Trybel, Michael Hanfland, Anna Pakhomova, Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, and Leonid Dubrovinsky, “High-Pressure oC16-YBr3 Polymorph Recoverable to Ambient Conditions: From 3D Framework to Layered Material”, Inorganic Chemistry Article ASAP
Deviatoric stress-induced metallization, layer reconstruction and collapse of van der Waals bonded zirconium disulfide
Linfei Yang, Junwei Li, Dongzhou Zhang, Yuegao Liu, Qingyang Hu. Deviatoric stress-induced metallization, layer reconstruction and collapse of van der Waals bonded zirconium disulfide. Commun Chem 7, 141 (2024).