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Scientific Advances Made Possible by User Facilities

¹ Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA
E-mail: gordon{at}pangea.stanford.edu
² Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 69, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
³ Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, UMR
CNRS 7590, Universités de Paris 6 et 7, IPGP, 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France
E-mail: calas{at}lmcp.jussieu.fr
⁴ Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA
E-mail: r.hemley{at}gl.ciw.edu

National scientific user facilities are becoming increasingly available to many different scientific communities in a number of countries. There is a growing use of these facilities by Earth and environmental scientists to study a broad range of materials and processes under realistic P-T and environmental conditions at unprecedented levels of energy and spatial resolution and elemental and isotopic sensitivity. The results of these studies are providing new insights into biogeochemical processes operating at Earth's surface as well as petrological, geochemical, and geophysical processes in Earth's interior. The availability of national user facilities is changing scientific approaches and is leading to multidisciplinary studies that were not possible a decade ago.

KEYWORDS: national scientific user facilities, synchrotron radiation sources, neutron sources, Earth science research

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