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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear
colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
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">http://www.goldschmidt2009.org/index</a>.
Submission deadline is 22nd February. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Synchrotron
and Neutron Advances in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy (session 18g)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keynote
Speaker: John Bargar (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Invited
Speaker: David Cole (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Convenors:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sam
Shaw (University of Leeds, UK), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thomas
Borch, (Colorado State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Simon
Redfern (University of Cambridge), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nancy
Ross (Virginia Tech)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*<b>Apologises
for any cross posting</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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