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Data Collection Schedule | Screening Parameters

Data Collection Schedule

Schedules are created as they become available from the ALS schedule page. If you wish to participate in one of these trips, please contact Jonathan Parrish.

Advanced Light Source: 2007–2008

Date Hours Type Attending
April 20-22, 2007
56 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Dustin Ritchie
June 26-27, 2007 32 hours Collection Jo Parrish
August 1-4, 2007 72 hours Collection Kathy Bateman
Matt Schellenberg
Megan Dugdale
Nobuhiko Watanabe
October 11-13, 2007 56 hours Collection Rob Gruninger
Stephen Campbell
Charles Leung
Ross Edwards
November 29, 2007 - December 2, 2007 64 hours Collection Matt Schellenberg
Marie Fraser
January 25-26
Dewars shipped January 21
32 hours Collection Matt Schellenberg
Dustin Ritchie

Advanced Light Source: 2006–2007

Date Hours Type Attending
April 13-15, 2006 48 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Joyce Wong
Rob Gruninger
Paula Burke
May 10-12, 2006 48 hours Collection Ernst Bergmann
Jo Parrish
Sheraz Khan
Karine Moncoq
June 21-23, 2006 48 hours Collection Jo Parrish
B.K. Biswal
Craig Garen
Matt Schellenberg
July 21-23, 2006 48 hours Collection Marie Fraser
Kathy Bateman
Ken Sherley
August 25-26, 2006
32 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Brian Mark
Larisa Jancewicz
Misty Balcewich
September 20-22, 2006 48 hours Collection Ernst Bergmann
Rob Gruninger
October 12-13, 2006 24 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Matt Schellenberg
January 27-28, 2007 24 hours Collection Jo Parrish
February 27-March 1, 2007
40 hours Collection Ross Edwards
Matt Schellenberg

SSRL: 2006–2007

Date Hours Type Attending
November 22-27, 2006 92 Remote Collection Sheraz Khan

Canadian Light Source: 2006–2007

Date Hours Type Attending
December 12-15, 2006 cancelled cancelled cancelled

Advanced Light Source: 2005–2006

Date Hours Type Attending
April 2-3, 2005 16 hours Collection Ross Edwards
Megan Lee
May 25-26, 2005 24 hours Collection Marie Fraser
Joanne Lemieux
June 14-16, 2005 48 hours Collection Ernst Bergmann
Karine Moncoq
Matt Schellenberg
Stephanie Kernaghan
July 20-22, 2005 48 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Craig Garen
Kathy Bateman
Joanne Lemieux
August 26-27, 2005 32 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Steve Mosimann
Rob Gruninger
September 23-25, 2005 48 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Sheraz Khan
Stephanie Kernaghan
Vivian Hung
October 18-20, 2005 56 hours Collection Ernst Bergmann
Rob Gruninger
Stephanie Kernaghan
Karine Moncoq
November 8-10, 2005 40 hours Collection Nina K. Bernstein
Megan Lee
Ross Edwards
Dave Arthur
December 16-18, 2005 40 hours Collection Steve Mosimann
Paula Burke
Gerald Audette
Luke Price
January 19-21, 2006 (cancelled) 40 hours Collection Cancelled
February 10-12, 2006 40 hours Collection Jo Parrish
Craig Garen
Sheraz Khan
Karine Moncoq
March 10-11, 2006 32 hours Collection Ernst Bergmann
Paul Scott

Screening Parameters

Trips designated as screening trips will involve mounting crystals and taking two exposures for the purpose of indexing and creating a collection strategy. They will not involve data set collections unless there is adequate time. Our MAD data collection strategy can be found on a different page.

Screening Parameters
11111 eV (~1.11 Å)
10 second exposure
1° oscillation
Q 210 (2x2 ADSC Quantum 4) detector
100 µm collimator
2 images, 90° apart
175 mm crystal to detector distance

These parameters produce images which are ~2.0 Å at the edge and ~1.6 Å in the corners. Other parameters can be accommodated if necessary; however, in the interests of time these should be limited to only those considered absolutely necessary. Collimator changes are particularly discouraged as they are very time consuming. Smaller changes, like those of wavelength and exposure times, are less time consuming but still require new dark currents to be collected, increasing the collection times by at least a factor of two. Scans for MAD experiments should be requested in the database entries.


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