1. Scientific Advances Made Possible by User Facilities
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Georges Calas, Russell J. Hemley, Gordon E. Brown, Department of Geological Sciences [Stanford] (GS), Stanford EARTH, Stanford University-Stanford University, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL SLAC), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Institut de minéralogie et de physique des milieux condensés (IMPMC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Geophysical Laboratory [Carnegie Institution], Carnegie Institution for Science, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington]
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Geophysical Processes ,Engineering ,business.industry ,Ecology ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,synchrotron radiation sources ,13. Climate action ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Multidisciplinary approach ,0103 physical sciences ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,neutron sources ,national scientific user facilities ,010306 general physics ,business ,Environmental planning ,Earth science research ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
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.
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- 2006
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