SSRL Users’ Organization Ballot
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The SSRL Users’ Organization Executive Committee represents the scientific user community to the SSRL
administration, the SSRL Science Policy Board and the DOE in matters of operation, policy and improvements.
Members serve a two-year term.
Members are elected by the SSRL user community via majority vote.
Present Committee - Remaining Members
Name
Institution
Field
Inst. Type
Pat Allen
Bruce Clemens
Paul Foster
Bernhard Rupp
David Salt
Bob Scott
Sam Traina
Tom Trainor
LLNL
Stanford U.
UC San Francisco
LLNL
N. Arizona U.
U. of Georgia
Ohio State U.
Stanford U.
Environmental/Geosciences
Materials/Chemistry
Protein Crystallography
Protein Crystallography
Structural Molecular Biology
Structural Molecular Biology
Environmental/Geosciences
Environmental/Geosciences
Gov't Lab
University
*University
Gov't Lab
University
University
University
*University
Ex-Officio
Chair
* graduate student / post doc
SLATE OF NOMINEES
Vote for 3
Mark choice
with an
X
Paul Alivisatos
Corwin Booth
Susan Carroll
Howard Einspahr
Kim Hayes
Nancy Hess
Todd Hufnagel
George Meitzner
Satish Myneni
Marilyn Olmstead
George Redden
Stuart Stock
U. of California – Berkeley
LBNL
LBNL
Bristol Myers Squibb
U. of Michigan
Pacific Northwest Labs
Johns Hopkins University
Edge Analytical
LBNL
U. of California – Davis
Idaho National Engineering
& Environmental Lab
Georgia Tech University
Materials/Chemistry
Materials/Chemistry
Environmental/Geosciences
Protein Crystallography
Environmental/Geosciences
Environmental/Geosciences
Materials/Chemistry
Materials/Chemistry
Environmental/Geosciences
Protein Crystallography
Environmental/Geosciences
University
Gov’t Lab
Gov’t Lab
Industry
University
Gov’t Lab
University
Industry
Gov't Lab
University
Gov’t Lab
Materials/Chemistry
University
PLEASE RETURN BALLOT BY OCTOBER 6, 1999 TO:
DIANA VIERA
SSRL
PO BOX 4349 / MS 99
STANFORD CA 94309-0210
FAX: (650) 926-3600
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1999/2000 SSRLUO-EC Ballot
Paul Alivisatos: A Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at Berkeley. He and his coworkers use synchrotron
radiation to study phase transitions and structural transformations in nanocrystals.
Corwin Booth: A staff scientist in the Actinide Chemistry Group at LBNL. Conducts x-ray absorption investigations on a
wide variety of materials with interesting electronic, chemical, or structural properties. These include transition-metal
oxides, intermetallic compounds (esp. heavy fermions), borides as well as materials that relate to environmental concerns,
such as waste-form glasses, actinide species in solution, and other materials containing transuranic elements.
Susan Carroll: Research expertise is experimental and field investigations of equilibrium- and kinetically-controlled
water-rock interactions. For the past 7 years she has used synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy to determine
the local coordination and bonding of heavy metals to mine drainage and estuary sediments and of Sr to pure minerals
suspensions.
Howard Einspahr: Leads a macromolecular crystallography group supporting drug design for Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Uses synchrotron radiation for structure studies, including determinations of new protein structures and of structures of
complexes of proteins with novel ligands.
Kim Hayes: An Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the University of Michigan with a specialty in environmental surface and interfacial chemistry. Performing
work at SSRL since 1984, to characterize metal ion sorption complexes under environmentally relevant conditions in order
to improve our ability to model and predict sorption behavior of radionuclides and hazardous metals in colloidal and soil
systems.
Nancy Hess: Actinide and Trace Metal Geochemistry Group, Biogeochemistry Department, at PNNL. Her research focus
is environmental geochemistry and radiation effects in waste materials. She has specialized in the speciation of actinides
and trace metals and the structural investigation of solid phases over a range of length scales using molecular
spectroscopic methods such as XAS, diffuse x-ray scattering, vibrational and fluorescence spectroscopies.
Todd Hufnagel: An assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research
concerns the structure, phase transformations, and properties of amorphous metallic alloys. He performs a variety of
experiments at SSRL, including small-angle x-ray scattering, anomalous scattering and EXAFS.
George Meitzner: Is the President of Edge Analytical, Inc. and a consultant to academic and industrial groups. He
measures or assists in measurement of x-ray absorption spectra from a wide variety of materials, and analyzes spectra
regardless of having participated in the measurement. Clients are encouraged to bring their work to SSRL because
superior experimental support provides efficient learning and a high chance of success.
Satish Myneni: Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and conducting hard and soft X-ray spectroscopy
on geochemical systems.
Marilyn Olmstead: Is the Director of the small-molecule X-ray crystallographic facility in the Department of Chemistry at
UC Davis. We do about 400 crystal structures a year. Some of these structures are not routine and not that "small." I
use synchrotron to study higher fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes (those containing substances inside, e.g. Li, Sc, Er,
and La) because the crystals are typically quite small and poorly diffracting.
George Redden: Activity at SSRL involves a study of surface coordination of uranyl on iron oxides in the presence of
chelating ligands. The ligands are currently citric acid and EDTA with the expectation to extend the work to a suite of
microbial chelating compounds. A particular interest is in the thermodynamics of multidentate complexation on mineral
surfaces.
Stuart Stock: His area is materials science, specifically in diffraction. Areas of research are high resolution x-ray imaging
(x-ray diffraction topography and x-ray computed tomography) and microbeam diffraction.
1999/2000 SSRLUO-EC Ballot