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Program

Technical sessions and the workshop will be composed of invited and contributed oral presentations.
Those wishing to contribute a talk in any session should indicate their intent and title by July 15, 2005.


There will be a separate poster session.
Abstract for poster should be submitted on-line by August 5, 2005


Working Program for Synchrotron Environmental Science III

Conference Activities
BNL Physics (Bldg 510) Large Seminar Room unless otherwise notes


Monday September 19, 2005 (open to the public)
8:00 a.m. Registration
Physics Lobby
8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Physics Lobby
Session I
9:00 a.m.-9:05 a.m. Welcome
9:05 a.m.-9:10 a.m. Laboratory Director's Welcome
Praveen Chaudhari (Brookhaven National Lab) Laboratory Director
9:10 a.m.-9:20 a.m. Stony Brook-BNL Connection
Robert McGrath (Stony Brook University) Provost & Executive VP for Academic Affairs
9:20 a.m.-9:30 a.m. NSLS
Steve Dierker (Brookhaven National Lab) Associate Laboratory Director for the Light Sources Directorate
9:30 a.m.-9:40 a.m. DOE OBER ERSD
Roland Hirsch (DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research)
9:40 a.m.-9:50 a.m. DOE BES Geosciences
Nick Woodward (DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences) Program Manager Geosciences
9:50 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Coffee Break
Physics Lobby
10:20 a.m.-11:10 a.m. Synchrotron Environmental Science: What HAve We Accomplished and What Lies Ahead?
Gordon E. Brown, Jr. (Stanford University)
11:10 a.m.-12:00 a.m. The use of synchrotron based techniques for biogeoscience research
Ken Kemner(Argonne National Lab)
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch
Provided by SES III in Berkner Hall Room A/B
Session II
1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Emerging applications of high-brilliance synchrotron radiation for molecular-scale characterization of structures and processes at the mineral-water interface
Neil C. Sturchio (University Illinois Chicago)
2:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. First Surface Structure Determination of an Elusive Oxide: GOETHITE (FeOOH)
Sanjit Kumar Ghose (GSECARS of University of Chicago)
2:45 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Physics Lobby
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Actinide Materials
David Shuh (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
3:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Curium solution speciation: A combined high-energy x-ray scattering (HEXS) and EXAFS study
Lynda Soderholm (Argonne National Lab)
4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. EnviroSync Open Meeting
Steve Sutton (GSECARS of the University of Chicago)
EnvirSync Chair
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Poster Session
Brookhaven Center
Buffet & Cash Bar

Tuesday September 20, 2005 (open to the public)
8:00 a.m. -9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Physics Lobby
Session III
9:00 a.m. -9:45 a.m. Mercury speciation in fish
Graham N. George (University of Saskatchewan)
9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Sturctural Chemistry and Environmental Reactivity of Bacteriogenic Mn oxides
John Bargar (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab)
10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
Physics Lobby
10:45 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Reduction of U(VI) by Fe(II) at a model cell surface: reactive species, products, and insight obtained by EXAFS
Maxim Boyanov (Argonne National Lab)
11:30 a.m.-12:00 a.m. Trace metal imaging in cells
Stefan Vogt (Advanced Photon Source)
12:00 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch
Provided by SES III in Berkner Hall Room A/B
Session IV
1:15 p.m.-2:00 a.m. Applications of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy and Imaging to Biological and Environmental Studies
Lisa Miller (Brookhaven National Lab)
2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. In situ metal localization and speciation in Ni/ Co hyperaccumulator Alyssum murale using bulk and micro-focused X-ray absorption spectroscopy and computed microtomography
Ryan Tappero (University of Delaware)
2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Effects of microbial siderophores on Pb speciation and adsorption: Combining EXAFS analysis, thermodynamic modeling, and Quantum Chemistry Calculations
Bruce Bunker (University of Notre Dame)
3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Physics Lobby
3:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering techniques: Aids to understanding structure, mechanism and functionality in nano-materials of interest to environmental scientists
John Parise (Stony Brook University)
4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Applying synchrotron-based micro-diffraction to evaluate bioavailability and environmental risk associated with arsenic-bearing mine waste
Heather Jamieson (Queens University)
4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Reduction and Retention Processes within Arid Subsurface Environments
Matthew Ginder-Vogel (Stanford University)
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Banquet
Brookhaven Center
Clam Bake

Wednesday September 21, 2005 (open to the public)
8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Physics Lobby
Workshop: Application of Microbeam Methods
9:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m. The Fantastic Four of Microbeam Environmental Analysis
Steve Sutton (University of Chicago)
9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m. The future is bright: The microXAS beamline project at the Swiss Light Source
Daniel Grolimund (Swiss Light Source)
10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
Physics Lobby
10:45 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Wet, dry or growing: environmental science at ALS Beamline 10.3.2
Matthew Marcus (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
11:30 a.m.-12:00 a.m. Investigating of atmospheric aerosols using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy
Mary Gilles (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
12:00 p.m.-12:45 p.m. STXM and cluster analysis
Chris Jacobsen (Stony Brook University)
12:45 p.m. Adjourn


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