End of Introduction

Now that you have finished these introductory training modules, you will be interested in obtaining more information about performing and interpreting XAS experiments. Listed here are a number of resources.

• A variety of tutorials on XAS and related topics by leading names in the international XAS community can be found at http://xafs.org/Tutorials.

• A recent survey of XAS experimentation: S.D. Kelly, D. Hesterberg, and B. Ravel (2008) Analysis of soils and minerals using X-ray absorption spectroscopy. pp. 387-464; in A. L. Ulery and R. Drees (Eds.): Methods of Soil Analysis – Part 5. Mineralogical Methods; Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI. ISBN-13: 978-0891188469.

• A survey of available software resources is collected at http://xafs.org/Software.

• The authors of these training modules all use the Ifeffit package for their XAS data analysis. Athena and Artemis are user friendly GUIs for processing and analyzing XAS data using Ifeffit.