SES-2025
Synchrotron Environmental Science 2025
Land, Water, and Energy Interactions in the Critical Zone
Held at Stony Brook University, Charles B. Wang Center
September 29–October 1, 2025
September 29–October 1, 2025
Land, Water, and Energy Interactions in the Critical Zone
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Keynote Speakers
- Prof. Susan Brantley, Atherton Professor and Evan Pugh University Professor Emerita of Geosciences (Penn State University)
The lab-field discrepancy in weathering rates: why we need to study the critical zone - Prof. Derek Peak, Professor of Soil Science (University of Saskatchewan) and SSSA Soil Chemistry Division Chair-Elect
Shining Light on Soil Health: Soft X-ray Spectroscopic Studies of Soils - Prof. Ingrid Pickering, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Environmental Science and Chief Science Officer for the Canadian Light Source
Synchrotron Environmental Science: Perspective from the Canadian Light Source
Invited Speakers
- Alessandra Leri (Marymount Manhattan College)
How X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Has Illuminated Widescale Halogenation of Natural Organic Matter - Elizabeth Herndon (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Sulfur and phosphorus interactions with iron in a coastal freshwater marsh - Kathryn Szerlag (Texas A&M)
Multi-modal, micro-spectroscopic speciation of legacy phosphorus in two U.S. mid-Atlantic agricultural soils - Lauren Pincus (George Washington U.)
Using Synchrotron Microscopy and Spectroscopy to Examine the Effect of Environmental Systems Conditions on Plastic Degradation Pathway - Matthew Reid (Cornell U.)
Elucidating Biogeochemical Mechanisms for Woody Biomass Decomposition in Aquatic Environments with Multi-Modal Synchrotron Techniques - Matthew Siebecker (Texas Tech U.)
Nutrient accumulation and cycling in wetlands impacted by animal agriculture in the Southern High Plains of the US - Layla Izadi (U. Texas Dallas)
Salinity influences arsenic speciation and mobility in coastal soils impacted by saltwater flooding and intrusion - James O'Sullivan (Argonne National Laboratory)
Using X-ray computed tomography to examine the recovery in soil aggregate pore structure during prairie restoration - Akriti Sharma (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Elucidating Novel Mechanisms Contributing to Excessive Potassium Fixation in Soils via (Synchrotron) X-ray Techniques - Juergen Thieme (U. Goettingen)
Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy of P-O-Fe Bonds in Mineral-Organic Associations - Sarick Matzen (U. Illinois Chicago)
Novel imaging reveals nanoparticulate hydrothermal iron is available for ex-port to iron-poor open ocean waters - Joshua LeMonte (Brigham Young U.)
Molecular Clues for Regional Risk: Contaminant Speciation from the Shrinking Terminal Great Salt Lake - Mohammed Baalousha (U. South Carolina)
Redox and Phase Transformations of Metal(loid)s in Wildland Urban Inter-face Fir Ash and Heated Soils - Evert ‘Eef’ Elzinga (Rutgers U.)
XAS studies of the transformation of soil minerals in estuarine wetlands - Antonio Lanzirotti (U. of Chicago)
New Research Opportunities for Environmental Scientists at GSECARS post APS Upgrade - Christian Dewey (U. of Delaware)
Molecular controls on nutrient and carbon fluxes in coastal soils and sediments - Yuanzhi Tang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Waste mining: Challenges and opportunities for rare earth element recovery - Brandy Toner (U. Minnesota-Twin Cities)
A ptychographic spectromicroscopy workflow for marine nanoparticles
Facility Update Speakers
- Ryan Tappero (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) - Ken Kemner (Argonne National Laboratory)
The Advance Photon Source (APS) - Ingrid Pickering (U. Saskatchewan)
The Canadian Light Source (CLS) - Amitava Roy (Louisiana State U.)
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) - Louisa Smieska (Cornell U.)
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) - David Shapiro (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
The Advance Light Source (ALS) - Sam Webb (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
Contributed Talks
- Brett Poulin (UC Davis)
The Formation, Loss, and Speciation of Reduced Organic Sulfur - Colleen Hoffman (National Energy Technology Laboratory)
Geochemical Redox Fractionation of Rare Earth Elements in Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Solids: Implications for Recovery - Danielle Jones (UC Merced)
Speciation of Mercury on Carbon-Based Sorbents and Iron-Bearing Swelling Clays under Reduced Conditions using HERFD-XANES - Graham George (U. Saskatchewan)
Understanding the Toxicity of Mercury, the Most Toxic Non-Radioactive Heavy Element, using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy - Rixiang Huang (U. New York Albany)
Wildland fire ash chemistry and the effects on post-fire nutrient cycling - Ajith Pattammattel (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Trace-Level Nanoscale Chemical Mapping in Complex Environmental Matrices - Louisa Smieska (Cornell U.)
XLEAP: a microfocus beamline under construction at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source - Qingyun Li (Stony Brook University)
Identifying Redox Reaction Zones in Shale Using Multi-Energy Micro-XRF and XANES Linear Combination Fitting - Paul Northrup (Stony Brook University)
Advances in Tender-Energy Microspectroscopy for Synchrotron Environmental Science - Wei Ren (Oklahoma State U.)
Impact of Fungal Manganese Oxides on Zinc Mobility - Itamar Shabtai (Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station)
Combining synchrotron spectromicroscopy with NanoSIMS to reveal the formation of soil organo-mineral associations - Jun Hu (Princeton U.)
Carbon Mineralization of Sulfate Wastes Containing Pb: Synchrotron Pb M3-Edge XANES Analysis of Simultaneous Heavy Metal and Carbon Sequestration - Peng Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Pb2+ Sorption at the Barite (001)–Water Interface under Hydrothermal Conditions - Brandy Stewart (SLAC)
Organic Colloid Composition in Variable-Redox Porewaters - Vincent Noel (SLAC)
Laboratory for Observing (An)oxic Microsites in Soils (LOAMS) - India Reddell (Texas A&M)
Exploring phosphorus and sulfur speciation in Martian and lunar regolith simulants via synchrotron-based microspectroscopy
Posters
- Kristen Bidas (U. of Tennessee Knoxville)
Mn oxides have the potential to store more organic C than Fe oxides in Arctic tundra soils - Maxim Boyanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Iron Redox Dynamics in Depressional Wetland Soils Studied by Spatially-Resolved XAFS spectroscopy - Daniel Scharton (UC Merced)
Investigation of Mercury Reduction by Iron-bearing Solids using HERFD XANES - Tiffany Victor (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Elucidating Zinc Tolerance Mechanisms in Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Pine Hosts - Roberto Colina Ruiz (U. of Chicago)
Redox transformations in wildfire ashes studied by micro X-ray absorption spectroscopy - Lindy Miller (Brigham Young U.)
Assessing Arsenic Speciation and Contaminant Risks in Great Salt Lake Dust - Katherine Coyle (Texas Tech U.)
Assessment of the Feasibility of Treated Oilfield Produced Water as an Agricultural Irrigation Source from the Perspective of Soil Chemistry - Christopher Schuler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Using X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Understand Phosphorus Cycling at the Root-Soil Interface - Caleb Shackelford (Texas A&M)
Investigating the Interactions of Phosphorus Rhizodeposition and Iron Oxides - Sharon Ulate Chacon (Texas Tech U.)
Chemical Transport Effect on Bioavailable Phosphorus and Sulfur and Their Speciation in Livestock Wastewater-Impacted Texas High Plains Wetlands - Emma Hart (Texas Tech U.)
The impacts polished desalinated treated produced water on soil nutrient availability at field scale - Kevin Hatton (Stony Brook University)
Mobility of Immobile Elements in Low Temperature Hydrothermal Systems - Melissa Passik (Stony Brook University)
Bioimaging of Element Abundance and Distribution in Response to Boron Availability Extremes - Taylor Grandfield (Stony Brook University)
Linking luminescence signal dynamics to feldspar geochemistry: a synchrotron-based investigation to improve infrared radio fluorescence dating - Victoria Castle (Stony Brook University)
Geochemistry and Luminescence Sensitivity in Quartz Grains from Chemically Active Soils - Dali Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Quick X-ray Absorption and Scattering (QAS) beamline at NSLS-II - Bruce Ravel (NIST)
The Beamline for Materials Measurement (6-BM) - Shaleen Bhattacharya (Chattahoochee High School) and Ryan Jung (Orange County School of the Arts)
Decoding the Drivers of DOC: Coupled Solar–Microbial Exposure System for Optical and Chemical Analysis of Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration and Composition - Ryan Tappero (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Tender X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy at the X-ray Fluorescence Microprobe (XFM) beamline at NSLS-II - Tiffany Victor and Ryan Tappero (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Integrated Bioimaging for Biological and Environmental Research - Xiaoyang Liu (Argonne National Laboratory)
A High-throughput Synchrotron X-ray Micro-Tomography Workflow - Liam McCarthy (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
The AttoMap: A lab-based microXRF microscope for Biological Research - Wen Hu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Upcoming SXN Beamline: A Versatile Tool for Investigating Environmental Science at NSLS-II - Lin Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Multimodal imaging at LiX for plant and environmental sciences - Andrew Kiss (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
High-resolution XRF Imaging and Spectroscopy at the Submicron Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy (SRX) Beamline at the NSLS-II - Samuel Webb (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)
Multi-modal geochemical analysis merging synchrotron x-ray imaging with conventional microscopies - Emily Padston (U. Chicago)
Introducing the NSF-SEES Program: New Opportunities and Developments in Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science - Tamas Varga (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
SOILARIUM: a collaboration between EMSL’s Molecular Observation Network (MONet) and APS’ eBERlight - Matthew Whitaker (Stony Brook University)
The XPD (X-ray Powder Diffraction) Beamline at NSLS-II - Debora Motta Meira (Argonne National Laboratory)
Advancing Soil Research Through the eBERlight–EMSL–MONet Collaboration - Xiaojing Huang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
New nanoprobe beamlines at NSLS-II in hard and tender X-ray regimes - Maria Zawadowicz (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
< In-situ and off-line characterization of vertical profiles of supermicron bioaerosols in forest and coastal-urban environments - Peng Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Geochemical and Environmental Science Program at Integrated In-Situ and Resonant Hard X-ray Studies (ISR) Beamline, NSLS-II - Christian Parry (Howard U.)
New Schiff Base Ligands for the Remediation of Environmental Heavy Metal - Srikant Singh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Interfacial Miscibility and Structure of Binary Long-Chain PFAS and Cationic Hydrogenated Surfactant Mixtures - Andrew Wright (Stony Brook University)
Characterization of PFAS Adsorption at the Air-Water Interface through X-ray Methods - Christian Knox (University of Pittsburgh)
Computational Investigation of Reductive Dehalogenation of Alkenyl Halides with Cobalamin-Dependent Enzymes - Lavish Arya (Stony Brook University)
Elemental mapping of CO2-attacked wellbore cement using SEM-EDS versus synchrotron XRF microprobe - Yanyi Yang (Oklahoma State U.)
Mineralogical Roles of Typical Secondary Minerals in Cerium Adsorption and Oxidation - Lijie Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Facilitated dark reduction of Hg(II) by dissolved organic matter from photoaging microplastics - Tracy Punshon (Dartmouth College)
Breeding for Flood Tolerance: Experiences with Time-series Elemental Imaging of Fresh and Live Plants - Shyrill Mae Mariano (U. New York Albany)
Controls on manganese oxidation in natural and fire-disturbed ecosystems - Mengqiang ‘Mike’ Zhu (U. Maryland College Park)
Mineral stabilization of soil organic sulfur at the continental scale
*Please see Agenda and Program for time and date of presentation.
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