This workshop is intended to develop the science case for a beamline dedicated to X-ray imaging for Life sciences, Environmental sciences, the Arts and Plant sciences (X-LEAP).
X-ray techniques are ideal to discover microscopic details about plant and animal tissues, rocks, soils, and sediments, and even cultural heritage materials, that are otherwise invisible to the human eye. In radiography or tomography imaging mode, x-ray beams illuminate a field of view of a few square millimeters and can be used to probe morphology at the micron scale, either in 2D for dynamic systems (movies), or in 3D for reconstruction of static samples. Alternatively in microbeam-mode, x-ray fluorescence (XRF) can be employed to image elemental compositions with micrometer spatial resolution. Fluorescent x-rays are always emitted when high-energy x-rays hit an object. The energies (or wavelengths) of these emitted x-rays are specific to each element in the periodic table, and with that, XRF mapping measures the spatial distribution of each element in the system of interest.
This workshop is intended to develop the science case for a beamline dedicated to X-ray imaging for Life sciences, Environmental sciences, the Arts and Plant sciences (X-LEAP).
Please let us know how you would use X-LEAP in your research by taking our survey.
Tuesday June 9
| Time | Session | Presenter |
| 1:00 - 1:15 | Welcome and Charge to Participants | Elke Arenholz (Associate Director, CHESS) Louisa Smieska (Staff scientist, CHESS) |
| 1:15 - 1:45 | X-ray imaging methods at X-LEAP | Louisa Smieska, Staff scientist, CHESS |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Break | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) to study of genes involved in mineral nutrient transport in plants | Olena Vatamaniuk, Soil and Crop Sciences, Cornell |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00 - 3:45 | Fish otoliths as environmental monitoring tools: climate change and more | Karin Limburg, Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY ESF |
| 3:45 - 4:00 | Break | |
| 4:00 | User Meeting poster session |
Wednesday June 10
| Time | Session | Presenter |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Geological and mineral resources opportunities based on other methods | Karin Olson Hoal, Wold Family Professor in Environmental Balance and Human Sustainability, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Synchrotron applications and potentials in dendrochronology, archaeology, and climate-environment studies | Sturt Manning, Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | CHESS and the Johnson Museum: Partners Past, Present, and Future | Jessica Levin Martinez, The Richard J. Schwartz Director, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Andrew Weislogel, The Symour R. Askin, Jr. ‘47 Curator, Earlier European and American Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Brittany Rubin, Print Room Curatorial Assistant, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art |
| 11:45 - 2:00 | Break for lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Desired beamline characteristics, other potential projects | Open discussion - all participants welcome. Please let us know how you would use X-LEAP in your research by taking our survey. |
The Box folder for presentations can be found here.