UCSB Materials Dept. Microscopy And Microanalysis Facility LEAP APT Kratos XPS Cameca IMS 7f-Auto SIMS MRL funding. MRL outreach. (PREM)

Outreach PREM and Cal Poly Live and remote sessions SIMS,XPS

Challenges in Mat. Sci. Interpretation, education, peer review Teaching instrument use Writing instruction manuals Teaching interpretation Many schools lack a Mat. Sci. major Teaching Mat. Sci. (physics, chem)

There is science behind the answer Typical XPS question Is this a peak ? There is science behind the answer The software doesn’t know the science

Problems in the literature Data too noisy to be making detailed inferences Background incorrect Peak widths incorrect Satellite structure incorrect No one with XPS experience was asked (peer review issue).

scientific publishing Let’s Stop Pretending That Peer Review Works By Julia Belluz and Steve Hoffman Dec. 7, 2015 The problem with scientific publishing March 30, 2017 More inclusive internal review Appreciation of lab managers’ teaching role