Dear GSECARS Users, On October 29 and 30, Dr. Mark Rivers at GSECARS will host virtual hands-on tutorial sessions on synchrotron computed microtomography. Two identical tutorial sessions will be offered. We will use Zoom, and each session will last 4 hours (1-5pm CDT). Title: Virtual Hands-On Tutorial on Synchrotron Computed Microtomography Teacher: Mark Rivers rivers@cars.uchicago.edumailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu Dates: October 29 and 30 Time: 1-5 PM CDT Number of participants: 12 each day, 24 total Background reading: Introduction to Computed Microtomography & Applications in Earth Science (https://cars.uchicago.edu/data/rivers/ClayMineralSociety/05-Rivers.pdf) Schedule 1:00 Introduction to beamline 1:20 Introduction to computed microtomography 1:40 Overview of data collection process 2:00 Break 2:10 Collect absorption and phase contrast tomography data on Doug Schmitt's Chicxulub samples 3:10 Break 3:20 Overview of tomography data reconstruction 3:40 Reconstruct the Chicxulub data 4:30 Discussion 5:00 End If you are interested, please contact Mark Rivers at rivers@cars.uchicago.edumailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu with your preferred date. If the number of applicants exceeds 12 for one session, we will follow a "first come first serve" selection process.