Media Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2005
Unique Global Light Source Website Launched
Today the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and 15 other facilities in the international light source community launched the first website dedicated to providing the media, general public and scientific community with the latest news and information on the world’s accelerator-driven light sources (synchrotrons and free-electron lasers) and the science they produce.
The web site -- www.lightsources.org --
was developed and is jointly maintained by the Light Source Communicators
Group, whose members represent the world's light source facilities in Europe,
North America and Asia. Funding for the project is provided by science funding
agencies of many nations.
Light sources around the world are advancing research and development in fields
as diverse as medicine, drug design, environmental science, agriculture, minerals
explorations, advanced materials, forensics, engineering, and materials fabrication.
Visit www.lightsources.org for the latest news releases on cutting-edge areas of advanced light source applications for science and technology from facilities around the world.
Anyone can subscribe free of charge to “News Flash” which will email subscribers when news releases and other light source information is posted to the website. Also available on the website are an image bank of light source-related photos and graphics, clippings of news stories, links to light source facility websites, and relevant articles and presentations.
Educators will find links to websites relating to light sources and the science conducted at these facilities. Researchers can find specific information regarding each light source facility including job opportunities and events related to the science outreach activities.
Located on the University of Saskatchewan campus, the CLS officially opened in 2004. This national synchrotron research facility is one of the country’s largest science projects in the last 30 years. It is funded through an unprecedented collaboration among the university and all three levels of government: federal, provincial and civic. Significant funds were also provided by industry partners in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors. The synchrotron will be used by researchers in academia, government and industry.
Sponsors of Lightsources.org include:
- Advanced Light Source (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
- Advanced Photon Source (APS, Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Canadian Light Source (CLS, Canada),
- ELETTRA (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, France)
- Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungs Labor (HASYLAB Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany)
- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC, Taiwan)
- National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory USA)
- Photon Factory (KEK Laboratory, Japan)
- Pohang Light Source (PLS, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea)
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA)
- SPring-8 (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Japan)
- Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC, University of Wisconsin, USA)
- Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
- Swiss Light Source (SLS, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
- The Free-Electron Laser at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab, USA)
For more information, contact:
Matthew Dalzell
Communications Coordinator
Canadian Light Source Inc.
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 657-3739
matthew.dalzell@lightsource.ca
www.lightsource.ca
Michael Robin
Communications Officer
Office of the Vice-President Research
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-2427
michael.robin@usask.ca
www.usask.ca/research
Amaya Munoz
webmaster@lightsources.org
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