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
A Sodium Germanosilicide with Unusual Network Topology
Julia-Maria Hübner, Thomas B. Shiell, Piotr A. Guńka, Shuo Tao, Li Zhu, Mads Fonager Hansen, Emma S. Bullock, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka,...
Multicaloric Cryocooling Using Heavy Rare-Earth Free La(Fe,Si)13-Based Compounds
Benedikt Beckmann, Lukas Pfeuffer, Johanna Lill, Benedikt Eggert, David Koch, Barbara Lavina, Jiyong Zhao, Thomas Toellner, Esen E. Alp, Katharina...
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,...
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...
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...
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...