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

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

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

GSE Beamline Scientist Vitali Prakapenka presented an invited talk at the EHPRG Meeting, "Supersonic Ice at Planetary Interior". @ehprg.bsky.social ehprg2026.org

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

Barbara Lavina (UChicago/ANL) co-chairs a session at Goldschmidt 2026 focusing on bonding at extreme condition. @advancedphoton.bsky.social

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)

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

Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory work to understand multicomponent fluid effects on permeability evolution in fractures, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social

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

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

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

Ethan Suwandi (Northwestern University) studies element-specific structural models of the amorphous intergranular phase in dental enamel, 13 IDE, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social

Marine Boulanger and Aaron Ashley (Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans) research high pressure viscosities of aluminosilicate melts, 13 IDD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tim Officer (University of Chicago) tests the effect of pressure on transformational faulting in Mg2GeO4, 13 BMD, July 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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