Monday, May 6, 2002

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 

Registration
APS Conference Center Atrium 

Poster Session Set-up
APS Gallery, Lower Level 

9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 

Tutorial: X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS)
Room E1100
Matthew Newville, Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources,
The University of Chicago

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break
APS Gallery, Lower Level

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 

Tutorial: Imaging
Room E1100
Mark Rivers, The Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources,
The University of Chicago
Stephen Sutton, The Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources,
The University of Chicago

12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch on your own

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. 

Tutorial: X-ray Reflectivity
Room E1100
Paul Fenter, Environmental Research Division,
Argonne National Laboratory
Kathryn Nagy, Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Break
APS Gallery, Lower Level

3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Tour of the APS Beamlines

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Cash Bar and Poster Session
APS Gallery, Lower Level

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Buffet Dinner
APS Galler, Lower Level

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Registration
APS Conference Center, Atrium

Continental Breakfast
APS Gallery, Lower Level

8:50 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Laboratory Director's Welcome
Herman Grunder
Argonne National Laboratory

9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m.

Introduction and Workshop Overview
Chris Reilly, Jr.
Environmental Research Division,
Argonne National Laboratory

9:05 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome to the Advanced Photon Source
Murray Gibson
Associate Laboratory Director for the Advanced Photon Source,
Argonne National Laboratory

9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

The Role of Synchrotron Radiation in Advancing Frontiers in Environmental Soil Science
Don Sparks
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences,
University of Delaware

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Atmospheric Particles
Frank Huggins
Consortium for Fossil Fuel Liquefaction Science,
University of Kentucky

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break
APS Gallery, Lower Level

11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Interaction of Bacteria with Their Environment: Bacterial Surfaces Ensure Metal Ion Sorption and Fine-grained Mineral Development
Terry Beveridge
Department of Microbiology,
University of Guelph

11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Bioleaching: Surface Phenomena
Corale Brierley
Brierley Consultancy LLC
Highlands Ranch, Colorado

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Buffet Lunch
APS Gallery, Lower Level

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Using X-ray Absorption to Understand Microbial Transformations of Metals
Bruce Rittmann
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Sciences,
Northwestern University

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Complexation of Methylmercury, Hg(II), and Pb(II) by Humic Substances: Implications for Microbial Methylation
William Bleam
Department of Agricultural & Life Sciences,
University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:15 - 3:45 p.m.

Coffee Break
APS Gallery, Lower Level 

3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

High-Energy X-ray-Microprobe Investigations of Metal-Mineral-Microbe Interactions
Ken Kemner
Environmental Research Division,
Argonne National Laboratory

4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Synchrotron XAS Applications in the Real World: The Speciation and Fate of Arsenic and Iron in Natural Sediments
Peggy O'Day
Department of Geology,
Arizona State University

4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Cash Bar and Poster Session
APS Gallery, Lower Level

6:30 p.m.

Banquet and Keynote Address
Guest House Dining Room

Biogeochemical Tracers of the Subsurface Biosphere
Everett Shock
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Washington University

Wednesday, May 8, 2002

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. 

Continental Breakfast
APS Gallery, Lower Level 

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Title to be Announced
John Zachara
Associate Director, Environmental Dynamics and Simulation/William R. Wiley Laboratory,
Batelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Revelations at the Mineral-Fluid Interface by Synchrotron X-ray Scattering and Standing Waves
Neil Sturchio
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences,
University of Illinois, Chicago

9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Unlocking Metal Sequestration in Soils
Alain Manceau
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
University of California at Berkeley

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break
APS Gallery, Lower Level

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Metal Adsorption onto Bacterial Surfaces: The Use of X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Measurements to Determine Metal Binding Mechanisms
Jeremy Fein
Department of Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences,
University of Notre Dame

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Actinide Molecular Environmental Science Utilizing Synchrotron Radiation Techniques
David Shuh
Chemical Sciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Novel Techniques for Metal Ion Speciation
Lynda Soderholm
Chemistry Division,
Argonne National Laboratory

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Buffet Lunch
APS Gallery, Lower Level

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Options for Using a Synchrotron in Your Research
Stephen Sutton
Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources,
The University of Chicago

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Summation

3:30 p.m.

Break and Open Forum
APS Gallery, Lower Level