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Revealing the hidden beauty of a miniature world – exploring Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photography

December 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photography allows for incredible detail and magnification up to 100,000 times. Led by Dr. Paul Brooke, and Dr. Neal Magnafrau (who will be pre-recorded), this webinar will teach you how to use a SEM, how to prepare your samples, how to take provocative images, and how to post-process those images. There are also opportunities to see a stitching program used for very large images and the ChemiSEM, which allows the photographer to capture real-time chemical analysis in color. All of this sounds complicated; however, this webinar should give you a window into how you can integrate this unusual method into your own photographic work. For webinar attendees interested in trying SEM photography of their own, in February 2025 NANPA will be offering a regional event led by Dr. Paul Brooke and Dr. Neal Magnafrau at EmitLLC’s facilities in Hartford, CT. At the end of the webinar, Paul will discuss the regional event and answer questions about SEM photography in general and the event in particular. There is still space available in the event Scanning Electron Microscope Photography NANPA Regional Event (February 26-28, 2025) if you’d like to try your hand at SEM photography.

Paul Brooke, Ph.D. is a professor and Endowed Chair at Grand View University, where he teaches Creative Writing, Creative Photography and Experimental Photography. He serves on the Board of Directors at NANPA and is the Chair of NANPA’s Awards Committee. Paul is the author of six books of including Sirens and Seriemas, The Skáld and the Drukkin Tröllaukin, and Pantagruelian. Most of his books combine his love of science, poetry, and photography. In 2020, with his coauthor Paul Donahue, he published Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal: Panthera onca at the Meeting of the Waters by Elsevier Publishing.

Paul has been published in Audubon and Wild Planet magazines and 100 literary journals across the world, winning numerous prizes and awards. His photography has been shown in ten different exhibits and he specializes in wildlife and nature photography. He is always pushing the limits of his work by trying new techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscope photography. Brooke teamed up with Magdefrau twice before to work on his images for grant projects and loves finding new partnerships.

Neal Magdefrau, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO, Electron Microscopy Innovative Technologies. He is a research scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur who enjoys working with advanced materials characterization to solve problems. He previously spent 15 years working at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC). In 2014, he founded Electron Microscopy Innovative Technologies (EMIT, LLC), the first and only business in the U.S. offering rentals of desktop Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs). In 2021, Neal left his position at UTRC to run EMIT, LLC fulltime.

Neal currently holds 15 patents in topics ranging from solid oxide fuel cells, bulk metallic glasses, ceramic matrix composites and high temperature coatings. He earned his bachelor’s degree in MSE from UConn in 2005 and his master’s in 2006. He worked full-time at UTRC while continuing his education in Professor Mark Aindow’s lab and graduated from the MSE program with his Ph.D. in 2013.

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Date:
December 5
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST
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ASMP / NANPA

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Virtual