Many of you will have seen the email below over the weekend or today about the closure of the beam lines at Daresbury. As MX is so well provided for in Year 1 beam lines on Diamond only 1 of the PX stations will continue past March 2007.As the MX member of the SR Forum I have to coordinate responses in the next couple of weeks. If you have any comments please contact me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear SRS User, Following on from the communication issued to SRS users and staff on 22nd July regarding the SRS to Diamond transition this message is to convey the details of the proposed SRS Station Closure Plan. The general principles used to prioritise which stations should close first are: 1. Maximisation of the opportunities for users and the quality of scientific output 2. Retention of stations where there is high demand and a large user community 3. Provision of sufficient overlap between SRS and Diamond stations where there is a clear match in the science areas covered 4. Where Diamond matching stations are not planned to be ready by December 2008, aim to minimise dark periods, consistent with criteria 1 and 2. 5. Consideration of the availability of similar facilities at the SRS or elsewhere in Europe/rest of world The SRS Science Advisory Committee and the Facility Access Panel Chairs have been consulted regarding the plan and there is broad agreement regarding the prioritisation. The station profile is presented below and shown pictorially at http://www.srs.ac.uk/srs/station_plan/proposed_station_closure_plan.htm. At the end of March 2006 the following stations will close: 2.3, 3.4, 4.1, 13.3, 16.1 At the end of March 2007 the following stations will close: 1.1, 3.1, 4.2, 7.1, 9.2MF, 9.6, 14.1, 14.2, 16.3 At the end of March 2008 the following stations will close: 9.5HPT, 10.1, 12.1, 16.2SMX At the end of July 2008 the following stations will close: 9.1, 9.8 At the end of December 2008 the remaining stations will close: 2.1, 3.2, 5U.1, 6.1M, 6.2M, 9.3, 11.1, 13.1, 16.4, 16.5 Comments on the plan are welcome through your representatives on the SR Forum (http://www.srs.ac.uk/forum/membership.htm) by the 26th September: Atomic & Molecular Richard Tuckett X-ray Diffraction Paul Raithby Protein Crystallography Nick Keep Time resolved UV/Vis Rob Janes X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Alan Chadwick Non Crystalline Diffraction Patrick Fairclough Surface Science Phil Moriarty SR Forum Chair Trevor Rayment Please note that the overall rate of closure of stations is unlikely to change over the sunsetting period of the SRS. We expect to be able to confirm the closures planned for the end of March 2006 by 30th September in time for the call for proposals for AP46 (April-September 2006). SRD Executive Group Tracy Turner, Paul Quinn, Pat Ridley & Elaine Seddon 16th September 2005 -- Dr Nicholas H. Keep School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury LONDON WC1E 7HX email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone 020-7631-6852 (Room G59 Office) 020-7631-6868 (Rosalind Franklin Laboratory) 020-7631-6800 (Department Office) Fax 020-7631-6803 If you want to access me in person you have to come to the crystallography entrance and ring me or the department office from the internal phone by the door
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