We've got a beamrun scheduled to begin this Friday. As such, the blog will probably be updated fairly regularly. We've got a week of time at beamline 12-BM again. I'll post as we go to keep my dear readers (all 3 of you) up-to-date on our progress. It will again be an experiment where I assist. We will be performing some x-ray scattering/electro-chemistry experiments and possibly more metal-oxide surface experiments.

My own beamtime comes up the second week of April. We were initially to have another week in April for a different experiment (where I would again be assisting though not the principle person). We've lost that week due to equipment failure and will try to make up for it a bit in this coming week (by attempting two things instead of just one). The current science budget has further reduced our hopes as we're expecting the APS to be shutdown several weeks later in the year. This will make the available beamtime even more precious and the competition even tighter.