November 17-19: Doing science! APS beamtime at HPCAT!
November 14, 2017: Testing out some new equipment out on West Campus. Zygo 3D optical profiler
October 28-29, 2017: Running Workshop on challenges in the study of materials at extreme conditions using DAC at NSLS-II
September 8, 2017: G&G Chair’s Reception
August 30, 2017: First day of classes for the Fall 2017 semester.
August 21, 2017: Solar Eclipse!
August 13 - 18, 2017: Goldschmidt Conference in Paris! Kanani to give an invited talk on how redox affects mantle convection and possibly atmosphere composition.
August 7, 2017: Welcome to Bruce Zhou, a visiting researcher who recently graduated from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelors in Physics. Bruce will spend the next ~1 year learning how to do melting in a LHDAC. Watch out world!
August 2, 2017: AGU abstracts due. Five abstracts submitted from our group! Looking forward to December in New Orleans.
September 19, 2016: Alexander Goncharov (GL, CIW) special seminar and visit
August 31, 2016: First day of classes for Fall semester 2016. Welcome back students!
August 29, 2016: Freshmen Advising in Pierson College
August 4, 2016: Happy 5th Birthday to my son Makana!
August 1, 2016:New paper from our group by former postdoc Tingting Gu published in Nature Geoscience! Read the press release here.
July 9-July 22, 2016: At CIDER 2016 at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics on the beautiful UC Santa Barbara campus. Let’s study the deep Earth…
July 3, 2016: Happy 1st Birthday to my son Keola!
June 1, 2016: NSF Geophysics Proposal Target Date
May 30, 2016:New paper from our group by former postdoc Konstantin Glazyrin published in JGR, Solid Earth on how undesirable stress affects the spin transition in ferropericlase (Mg,Fe)O!
May 23, 2016: Yale Commencement. Congratulations to Zhixue Du (PhD, Geology & Geophysics) and Vasilije Dubrosavljevic (BS, Physics (Intensive)).
May 11, 2016: G&G Awards Lunch and department photo
April 18, 2016: Neala Creasy’s qualifying exam. She passes! Congratulations!
April 11, 2016: Kierstin Daviau’s third year review.
April 7, 2016: Jie Deng’s qualifying exam. He passes! Congratulations!
April 1, 2016: Congratulations to group member Neala Creasy for being awarded and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations also to group member Sarah Arveson for receiving an Honorable Mention! We’re doing great things here :)
February 25, 2016: G&G undergtraduate info session
February 5-6, 2016: G&G Prospective Graduate Student Open House Weekend
January 19, 2016: First day of classes, Spring 2016.
January 1, 2016: Happy New Year!
December 14 - 18, 2015: Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco. Graduate students Kierstin Daviau, Jie Deng, Sarah Arveson and Neala Creasy all have posters. Kanani has a talk and poster.
September 24, 2015: NSLS-II Strategic Planning Workshop
September 2, 2015: Start of the Fall 2015 semester.
August 31, 2015: Freshmen advising at Pierson College, Yale.
August 24-25, 2015: COMPRES site visit to NSLS-II.
August 5, 2015: AGU Fall Meeting abstracts are due. Kanani, Kierstin and Jie all submit abstracts.
August 4, 2015: Happy 4th birthday to my son Makana:)
August 2015: Farewell to Yusu Liu and Zhixue Du as they embark on their next adventures! Yusu off to MIT for graduate school and Zhixue off to the Geophysical Lab as a Carnegie postdoctoral fellow.
July 3, 2015: Welcome to Keola Maluhia Henson Wallenta:). 9 pounds, 7 ounces and 21.5 inches long healthy baby boy!
July 2, 2015: Final NSF budgets due for new proposals to grants administrator.
June 27, 2015: Due date…
June 21, 2015: Happy Father’s Day! If you are able to, be sure to give your dad a great big hug and kiss and thank him for all he has done and continues to do for you.
June 6-16, 2015: Kierstin Daviau is off to the Big Island of Hawaii for observations at Mauna Kea.
May 18, 2015: Yale Commencement. Congratulations to Yusu Liu, class of 2015. Best of luck as you head to MIT for graduate school.
May 14, 2015:COMPRES Distinguished Lecture Series announces Kanani as one of the lecturers for 2015-2016 academic year. Get your requests in by July 1, 2015.
May 11-12, 2015: New Haven Science Fair!
May 11, 2015: Welcome to undergraduate Vasilije Dobrosavljevic (senior project) and graduate student Neala Creasy (minor project) to our group!
May 10, 2015: Happy Mother’s Day! If you are able to, be sure to give your mom a great big hug and kiss and thank her for all she has done and continues to do for you.
June 16-19 2014: Kanani Lee and graduate students Zhixue Du and Kierstin Daviau attend the Annual COMPRES Meeting at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA.
June 8 2014: Lee Lab Group Summer Party!
May 7 2014: Congratulations to undergrads Yusu Liu and Marjorie Hirs, recipients of the Von Damm award.
April 18 2014: Welcome to undergraduate G&G major Marjorie Hirs as she joins our group!
April 11 2014: Kanani Lee speaks at the the Graduate School of Oceanography (Univ of Rhode Island), “Melting in the Deep Earth.”
March 17 2014: Our group members become first-time users at CFN at Brookhaven National Laboratory to use the Focused Ion Beam (FIB).
March 10 2014: Kanani Lee speaks at the Geophysical Laboratory, “Melting in the Deep Earth.”
February 27 2014: Welcome to undergraduate Chemistry major Yusu Liu as she joins our group!
February 25 2014: Group dinner for farewell to postdoc Tingting Gu and to celebrate Kanani’s promotion.
February 24 2014: Happy News: Kanani Lee passed her promotion! Assistant Professor –> Associate Professor (without tenure).
January 1 2014: Happy New Year!
December 9-13 2013: AGU Fall Meeting. Graduate student Zhixue Du and former postdoc Konstantin Glazyrin present posters on melting ferropericlase and the effects of non-hydrostatic stresses and spin transition of Fe in ferropericlase, respecitvely. Kanani Lee gives talk on iron melting.
October 30-November 1 2013: XRD beamtime at HPCAT (APS)!
October 27-29 2013: GSA Meeting in Denver. Kanani Lee presents first measurements on iron melting at high pressures.
October 16 2013: XRD beamtime at the GSECARS (APS)!
October 4 2013: Former undergraduate Ilya Uts and former postdoc Konstantin Glazyrin’s newest paper published in RSI on pressure gradients in the laser-heated DAC. See the publications page for a pdf.
September 13 2013: Congratualtions to former postdoc Konstantin Glazyrin and their new baby boy Leonid!
September 3 2013: Welcome to our group’s newest member, postdoc Dr. Tingting Gu!
August 17 2013: Congratulations to lab manager George Amulele & Kirindi on their marriage! All the best to the couple.
August 16 2013: New student Kierstin Daviau successfully loads her first sample! She’s a quick learner with only 8 days since she touched her first DAC!
August 6/7 2013: Abstracts for GSA and AGU are submitted! Denver and San Francisco, here we come!
August 5 2013: Welcome to our group’s newest graduate student Kierstin Daviau!
August 4 2013: Graduate student Zhixue Du rode the 100-mile “Tour of Litchfield Hills”! Makana turns 2!
July 19 2013: Zhixue’s new paper published in RSI on 4-color temperature mapping. Check publications page for a pdf.
June 27 2013: Graduate student Zhixue Du off to SSAA Symposium in Albuquerque, NM to discuss 4-color temperature measurements and melting.
June 19 2013: Kanani leads jobs panel for students and postdocs at COMPRES Meeting.
June 17 2013: Off to the COMPRES Meeting in Wisconsin!
May 31 2013: New photo of Kanani uploaded. Although the photo is still ~6 months old, at least it isn’t nearly 10 years old.
May 28 2013: Labview is working. We can now synch our laser, cameras, spectrometer and photodiodes!
May 24 2013: Received new National Instruments equipment and Labview. Time to start shaping our laser pulses, triggering our detectors and the like! Fun things in store in the world of laser heating and melting.
May 22 2013: Group Celebration dinner to celebrate the abundance of great news culminating over the past couple of weeks:
Undergraduate Ilya Uts’s graduation and new job!
Postdoc Kaveh Pahlevan’s new adventure to Boudler then to Nice.
Undergraduate Philippa Stoddard has been awarded the Samuel Lewis Penfield Prize:“for proficiency in mineralogy.”
Graduate student Zhixue Du has been awarded the Ford Prize. The Ford Prize is given for excellence in “mineralogical” studies.
Lab Manager George Amulele’s engagement! (to be married in Kenya in August)
Postdoc Nikku Madhusudhan’s acceptance of a faculty position at Cambridge!
