<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Apologies for any cross-posting, but we <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">would like to bring your attention to the “Synchrotron and Neutron Advances in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy” session at Goldschmidt 2009. Full details of the session and details of how to submit an abstract can be found at <a href="http://www.goldschmidt2009.org/index" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.goldschmidt2009.org/index</a>. Submission deadline is 22nd February. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Synchrotron and Neutron Advances in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy (session 18g)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Over the past 10 years there has been a large increase in the number of new generation synchrotron (e.g. Diamond Light Source, SSRL Spear 3 and The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)) and neutron sources (e.g. J-PARC, SNS, FRM-II, OPAL, ISIS-TS2) across the world. The development of these facilities has led to dramatic improvements in beam flux, size and stability which have enabled significant improvements in time resolution, data quality, detection limits and spatial resolution using microfocus techniques. Environmental geochemistry and mineralogy research has benefited greatly from these developments as the new facilities allow in situ studies of natural heterogeneous materials (e.g. soil, aqueous phases and poorly-ordered minerals) under near natural conditions. This session will focus on the recent developments in the applications of synchrotron- and neutron- based techniques for the study of low-temperature environmental systems including – but not limited to – biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, soil science, carbon sequestration, metal and metalloid speciation studies in natural and contaminated environments, aqueous geochemistry, colloid science, nano particles, mineral/solution/bio interface studies, environmental radiochemistry and phytoremediation studies. The session will cover research using all types of synchrotron and neutron based techniques including, XAS, X-ray microscopy (e.g. STXM), tomography, XPS, XRF, X-ray microprobe, scattering (e.g. SAXS/WAXS) XPEEM, diffraction, total scattering, inelastic and quasielastic scattering, infrared and time resolved studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Keynote Speaker: John Bargar (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Invited Speaker: David Cole (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Convenors:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Sam Shaw (University of Leeds, UK),<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Thomas Borch, (Colorado State University)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge),<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Nancy Ross (Virginia Tech)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">*<b>Apologises for any cross posting</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></body></html>