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
Complex Speciation and Distribution of Iron, Sulfur, and Trace Metals in Coal Mine Soils Reflect Grain- and Sub-Grain-Scale Heterogeneity during Pyrite Oxidative Dissolution
Chowdhury, Md Abu Raihan, and David M. Singer. 2024. “Complex Speciation and Distribution of Iron, Sulfur, and Trace Metals in Coal Mine Soils Reflect Grain- and Sub-Grain-Scale Heterogeneity during Pyrite Oxidative Dissolution” Soil Systems 8, no. 1: 2.
Non-Newtonian Dynamics in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Andrei Dukhin, Young-Jay Ryu, Dongzhou Zhang, Oleg Borodin, Miguel A. González, Osamu Yamamuro, David L. Price, and Marie-Louise Saboungi, ”
Non-Newtonian Dynamics in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes”,
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 0, 15DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03145
Effect of dislocation slip and deformation twinning on the high-pressure phase transformation in Zirconium
M. Arul Kumar, T. Yu, Y. Wang, Z. Jianzhong, R.J. McCabe, C.N. Tomé, L. Capolungo,
Effect of dislocation slip and deformation twinning on the high-pressure phase transformation in Zirconium, Scripta Materialia, Volume 242, 2024, 115941,
ISSN 1359-6462
Stability of hydrides in sub-Neptune exoplanets with thick hydrogen-rich atmospheres
Taehyun Kim, Xuehui Wei, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Young-Jay Ryu, Shize Yang and Sang-Heon Shim, “Stability of hydrides in sub-Neptune exoplanets with thick hydrogen-rich atmospheres”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, Vol 120, Issue 52,
Oxidation of iron by giant impact and its implication on the formation of reduced atmosphere in the early Earth
Jinhyuk Choi et al. ,Oxidation of iron by giant impact and its implication on the formation of reduced atmosphere in the early Earth.Sci. Adv.9,eadi6096(2023).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adi6096
High-pressure structural behavior and elastic properties of Ce2In and Ce3In: A combined in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study
Andrew C. Strzelecki, Sajib K. Barman, Samantha C. Couper, Maddury Somayazulu, Young-Jay Ryu, Emma Carlsen, Xiaofeng Guo, Curtis Kenny-Benson, Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, Garrett G. Euler, Hakim Boukhalfa, W. Adam Phelan, Paul H. Tobash, David C. Arellano, Eric D. Bauer, Sarah C. Hernandez, Jeremy N. Mitchell, Hongwu Xu,
High-pressure structural behavior and elastic properties of Ce2In and Ce3In: A combined in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study,
Intermetallics,
Volume 165, 2024, 108134, ISSN 0966-9795