COMPRES at Age 2

Bob Liebermann

Introductory Talk

on State of COMPRES

Third Annual Meeting of COMPRESGranlibakken Conference CenterLake Tahoe, CaliforniaJune 20, 2004

Outline• History of COMPRES• COMPRES Organizational Chart• Membership in COMPRES• Policies and Procedures of COMPRES Committees• Awards for Mineral Physicists• Community Facilities• Infrastructure Development Projects• COMPRES Other Activities• COMPRES-related Workshops• COMPRES Communications• Technology and Facilities Progress• Scientific Highlights

History of COMPRES

• February 2001: Mineral Physics Planning Workshop, La Jolla

• August 2001: COMPRES Proposal submitted to NSF-EAR

• May 2002: Collaborative Agreement signed with EAR and

COMPRES

• September 2002: First Annual Meeting at Stony Brook

• March 2003: Workshop on High Pressure Earth and Planetary

Sciences in the Future, Miami

• June 2003: Second Annual Meeting in Santa Cruz

• December 2003: COMPRES Exhibition Booth at Fall AGU Meeting

• Spring 2004: COMPRES-related Workshops

• June 2004: Third Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe

COMPRES Organizational Chart

Membership – June, 2004

39 U.S. Institutions11 Foreign Affiliates

COMPRES Worldwide MembershipJune, 2004

Policies and Procedures for COMPRES Committees - 2004

• COMPRES Executive Committee

• COMPRES Community Facilities Committee

• COMPRES Infrastructure Development Committee

Awards for Mineral PhysicistsMSA/GSA-2003

Charles Prewitt: Roebling MedalGuillaume Fiquet: MSA AwardGeorge Harlow: Distinguished Service AwardMichael Manga: Donath Medal of the GSAMichael Carpenter: New President of MSA

AGU-2003

David Kohlstedt: Hess MedalNew Fellows:

William DurhamEiji ItoIan Jackson

Outstanding Student in Mineral and Rock Physics: Annette Kleppe

AGU-2004

Mervyn Paterson: Bucher MedalAdolphe Nicolas: Hess MedalNew Fellows:

Brian EvansDavid GreenDavid JamesPeter KelemenMichael O’HaraAllan RubinErnest Rutter

National Academy of Sciences-2004

Donald HelmbergerRaymond JeanlozDennis KentDavid Stevenson

COMPRES – June, 2004

FacilitiesMegabar Synchrotron Center at the NSLS

Operated by Carnegie Institution of Washington [H-k. Mao and R. J. Hemley]

Multi-anvil High Pressure Facility at the NSLSOperated by Stony Brook University [D. J. Weidner and M. T. Vaughan]

West-Coast Synchrotron Facilities Operated by University of California at Berkeley [R. Jeanloz]

Neutron Studies at National FacilitiesOperated by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [N. L. Ross]

GeoSoilEnviroCARSOperated by University of Chicago [M. L. Rivers and S. Sutton] under grants and contracts from NSF and DOE. Not formally under COMPRES.

Community Facilities

Infrastructure Development Development of Laser Heated Diamond Cells

Project at Princeton University [T. S. Duffy, D. Heinz, G. Shen]

Multi-anvil Cell Assembly Development and ProductionProject at Arizona State University [K. Leinenweber and J. A. Tyburczy]

Pressure Calibration at High TemperatureProject at Carnegie Institution of Washington [Y. Fei]

Absolute Temperature and Pressure CalibrationProject at the University of Colorado at Boulder [I. Getting]

Brillouin Lab at Advanced Photon Source:  A Community Resource Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [J. D. Bass and G. Shen]

Nuclear Resonance ScatteringProject at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [J. D. Bass and W. Sturhahn]

Infrastructure Development Projects

Overall COMPRES Budget

Community Facilities

Infrastructure Development

Other COMPRES Activities

COMPRES-Related WorkshopsSpring 2004

20 March 2004“Future Directions for the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell at the Advanced Photon Source”

27/28 March 2004

Focused Ion Beam Workshop

1-2 May 1-2 2004:Rheology Grand Challenge Workshop on: "Ultra-High Pressure Rheology"

8 May 2004:Elasticity Grand Challenge Workshop

COMPRES CommunicationsWebsite at http://compres.us

Newletters

Monthly Messages from President

Fall 2003 AGU Meeting

“Current and Future Directions in High-Pressure Mineral Physics”

Listserv Electronic Distributions

Visits to Government Agencies

COMPRES Home Page

Newsletters

Current and Future Ditections in High Pressure Mineral Physics

Relations with Other Consortia

CSEDICSEDI Science Plan Workshop12 attendees from COMPRESIGPP/Univ of Calfornia at San Diego22-23 February 2004

SCECCo-sponsor Workshop on Rock Deformation FacilitiesMt Holyoke CollegeAmherst, Massachussetts12-13 August 2004

Technological and Facilities Progress

SNAP proposal funded by DOE at $11.9M over 5 years

Upgrade of beamline at ALS for high-pressure research.

Growth of CVD diamonds

DOD grant for monochromatic X-ray side station at X17B2 at NSLS

IF grant to GSECARS for side-station at APS

Post-Perovskite Phase of MgSiO3

Crystal structure of the newly discovered post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 [Murakami, Hirose, Kawamura, Sata and Ohishi, Science, Vol 304, pp. 855-858, 2004]. Confirmed by theoretical first-principles computations [see paper by T. Tsuchiya, J. Tsuchiya, Umemoto and Wentzcovitch, in press, Earth Planet,. Sci. Letters, 2004]

New Paradigms for Core-Mantle Boundary

From E.J. Garnero, Perspectives [Science, 304, pp. 834-836, 2004

U.S. Synchrotron Light Sources

From G. Brown

Geotherm with P-T Ranges

Diagram from G. Shen

Clathrate on Fire

www.geomar.de

Ultrasonics in T-25

From Y. Wang and B. Li

P-T Condition

Diagram from S. Karato

Deformation DIA [D-DIA]

D-dia.mov

Diagram from W. Durham

Conceptual Diagram of DIA-type Cubic-Anvil Apparatus

From Y. Wang, W.B. Durham, I.C. Getting and D.J. Weidner [RSI, 74, 3002-3011, 2003]

Cutaway View of D-DIA Apparatus

Details of D-DIA Apparatus

Actual testing of D-DIA apparatus at APS

Shimomura

Poster from W. Utsumi, May, 2004