The Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society is nearly here. I have amazed even myself with my level of organizational involvement at this meeting.  I have planned programming for three Divisions: Small Chemical Businesses, Agricultural and Food Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry. Sunday morning of the meeting kicks off for me with the SCHB poster and networking session where I will be presenting Social media marketing influences sales at a small chemical business. 

Monday evening Jack will join me in New Orleans in preparation for his busy schedule Tuesday morning on the SCHB track including True Stories of Success from Chemical Entrepreneurs and then after lunch as a panelist on Best Practices with John Newsam, Kathleen Schultz and Terry Jones. By then I'll be at our joint poster at the convention center with Bennington College titled: Sensitive photoionization (PID) method for the measurement of ppb levels of inorganic arsenic in well water on the AGFD track. This poster is part of the Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water poster session.  Simultaneously Something's Brewing in the Bayou, a delightful facilitated panel discussion between some local New Orleans Brew Masters that I co-organized with Sharon Vercellotti will be taking place at the DoubleTree on Canal Street on the SCHB track. See the event flyer here for more information. 

Wednesday morning is the Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water Symposium two day event that I co-organized with members of the AGFD and AGRO Divisions of the American Chemical Society. Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Deborah Blum, is our keynote speaker. The ACS Pressroom will be conducting a press conference at noon about this symposium and Jack will be participating.  This press conference will be streamed live and I will post the link to Twitter and Linked-In once it is online. The afternoon continues with an exploration of the toxicological aspects of arsenic contamination  and concludes with arsenic surveys including talks by Brian Jackson of Dartmouth College and Jack Creed of EPA. 

Thursday morning while I am presiding over the Air Monitoring Symposium on the ENVR track, Jack will be presenting in the AGFD Analytical Methods subsection of Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water reporting on the: Comparison of sensitive methods for the measurement of inorganic arsenic in apple juice: Photoionization (PID) and ICP-MS. Jack will then appear at the Air Monitoring Symposium  to give his talk on Monitoring ppb levels of ambient air pollutants via hyphenated techniques: HRGC/ in-series selective detection. The Air Monitoring Symposium is the first in what we hope will be a continued session on the ENVR track at ACS National Meetings. 

 

The next Air Monitoring Symposium will take place in Indianapolis, IN in September 2013 at the American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting on the ENVR track with co-sponsorships from the following ACS Divisions: Agrochemicals, Chemical Health & Safety and Analytical.