On May 3rd-May 5th, Jiaxin Zhang, Meichen Liu, Yurong Zhang, and I convened an oral and poster session at the 57th North-Central GSA meeting. Our session was T31 “The Origin of Compositional and Thermal Heterogeneity within Earth’s Interior.” You can view details from the session here.
Convening a session was a great experience and I can’t wait to do it again!

March 19th, 2023 was our final group beamtime to HPCAT-IDB before the APS upgrade. While at HPCAT, Luisa Chavarria, Dr. Susannah (Suki) Dorfman, Dr. Maddury (Zulu) Somayazulu, and I collected valuable data on solid solutions that occur in the lower mantle! We anticipate continuing these experiments at the Advanced Light Source and APS after the shutdown. During the APS shutdown, they will replace the electron storage ring, increasing the brightness by 500 times! Additional information can be found here.