Talk at the EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research. By Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1. &
Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences
Funded by NSF Division of Earth Sciences [2002-2017]
EarthCube End-Domain User Workshop, Nov.

2. Thanks to the Penn State Team
Chris Marone, Shea Winton, Elizabeth Wood,
Kelly Rhoades
Also: Tuscon Arizona EarthCube Office
Genevieve Pearthee, Kim Patten

3. COMPRES Mission
• COMPRES is a community-based consortium
• Goal: Enable Earth Science research in highpressure science on world-class equipment and
facilities.
We support:
– the operation of synchrotron beam lines
– development of new technologies for high pressure
research
– Educational & outreach programs to the various funding
agencies
• Funded through the EAR Instrumentation and Facilities
program
– $12.0M for new cooperative agreement 2013-2017

4. COMPRES: Providing the fundamental data on
materials at extreme conditions that needed in
seismology, geodynamics, planetology, petrology,
geochemistry.

5. COMPRES Membership
• Institutional Members
• 60 U. S. Institutions
• Voting
• 44 Foreign Members—
non-voting
• National and International visibility

6. Synchrotron Facilities
Advanced Light Source at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory

7. •
Community Facilities
NSLS National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven
Operations
– 3 Beamlines for XRD and IR research using DAC’s and
multi-anvil presses. Managed by StonyBrook, Princeton,
Carnegie
– Longest operating beamlines dedicated to high-pressure
research
• ALS Advanced Light Source, Berkeley
– West-Coast Synchrotron Facilities at -X-ray DAC
Managed by by UC Santa Cruz
• APS Advanced Photon Source, Argonne IL
– COMPTECH Managed by by U Hawaii. Virual beamlines
– Inelastic X-ray Scattering, Sectors 3 & 33
– NEW! Two XRD stations for DAC & Multi-Anvil rheology
• NSLS-II Brookhaven, Oct. 2014
– DAC and MAP facilities at XPD beamline, Managed by
Stony Brook

8. How can new CI initiatives make a big difference in our field
• Strategic Investments in critical/first need tools
• Strategically planned team efforts (e.g. through Software Institutes
for Sustainable Innovation).
• Professional collaborative framework and communication platform
(e.g. though EarthCube Research Coordination Networks)
• Open source and technology transfer focused development
philosophy
• Perspective of real sustainability (e.g. become part of the National
Facilities or COMPTECH)
• Attractive long term employment perspectives for scientific CI
developers
• Active involvement of CI professionals and experts from outside
fields (e.g. geophysicists, materials engineers)

9. CI solutions are important vehicles in
the experimental science discovery
process. They make experimental
science fast, efficient, robust and
reproducible. They also facilitate
dissemination of results and discoveries.
Novel
instrument
Experiment
Data collection
software and
experiment
automation
New
experimental
method design
Data
Scientific
motivation
New
technological
capability
Data analysis
tools
Databases
and social
media
Physicist
Instrument scientist
Academic researcher
Computational scientist
Dissemination and outreach
Scientific
publication

10. Examples of critical needs in CI for Mineral Physics
Software for novel experimental techniques
Custom data collection software
Custom data analysis software
New universal data formats
Databases, data mining tools and data deposition standards
Online tools and calculators
First principles computations made more accessible
Parametrizable geophysical modeling software explicitly incorporating
mineral physics information (e.g. TEMPSPOL Matlab thermo-kinematic
model of subduction)
Open source finite element modeling
Understanding uncertainties – Bayesian statistics
Online outreach/science popularization tools, (e.g. like currently available
impact event simulators)