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                   May 2013 
Greetings!
  
The Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans last month was an overwhelming success for us. Jack and I are pictured left with Pulitzer Prize 
Jack Driscoll, Deborah Blum and Jennifer Maclachlan
winning journalist and our Keynote speaker at the Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water symposium, Deborah Blum. My symposium co-organizers and I decided that Deborah's anecdotes on arsenic and it's *long and sometimes homicidal* history would be an engaging way to begin our two day exploration of the complex problems associated with arsenic contamination which included general, toxicological, surveys, analytical methods and 
Jennifer Maclachlan presenting Sensitive PID method for the measurement of inorganic arsenic in well water on the AGFD program track.
remediation techniques. I had the immense pleasure of introducing both the entire symposium and our Keynote speaker Deborah Blum as well as preside over the first morning session. 
As both a presider and an audience member it was amazing to have the room packed with experts on each of the aspects of arsenic contamination. I have never seen such an attentive audience; I was the only one looking down at my phone but in fairness I was live-tweeting from the symposium.  Even though we had average  attendance of seventy-five persons in the room at each of our four sessions, oftentimes the presentations became conversational when speakers would call upon colleagues in the audience and/or other speakers in the symposium to address a point and/or a question. 
Our arsenic contamination in food and water symposium included a poster session that preceded the two day oral symposium. I presented our work with the PID for the analysis of inorganic arsenic in well water.
Jack had the opportunity to participate in the Press Conference organized by the ACS Pressroom. You can watch it here. Additionally, Jack is quoted (see quote below) in the May 6, 2013 issue of Chemical & Engineering News article Eating Arsenic (the link to the full article is here and requires an ACS login). 
C&EN Volume 91 Issue 18 pp. 36-39
I had the distinct honor of being a presenter along with  Ron Seely, Science and Environment Editor at the Wisconsin State Journal and 2010 recipient of the American Chemical Society Grady-Stacks Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public, at the American Chemical Society Office of Public Affairs *Sparkle* Public Relations Training Weekend May 3-5, 2013 at the ACS Headquarters in Washington D.C. 
I presented *Getting the word out via social media*on  
Ron Seely and Jennifer Maclachlan at Sparkle
Saturday afternoon and sat on a panel Sunday morning sharing my experiences of being a Public Relations Chair for the American Chemical Society Division of Small Chemical Businesses (SCHB) and working on the Public Relations Committee of my local section: Northeastern Local Section (NESACS)
Note that I gave a presentation at Sparkle in 2011 titled *Twitter for the PR Chair* and acted as a participant in the training. Last year Jack went to Sparkle in his role as PR Chair for NESACS and he gave an informal presentation on social media. 
My Sparkle experience was different this time around: I observed the training from the staff table and served as a social media adviser at breaks and mealtimes for the Local Section, Division and Student Chapter workshop attendees. 
The highlight of the weekend for me was during the *Tournament of the Sparklers* (the Sparkle version of Jeopardy!) when this answer appeared on the*board*~the question of course is Who are Jack and Jennifer aka @pidguy and @pidgirl?
Jack is heading to Montreal, Canada next week to participate in the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition #AIHCE. He will be presenting in the Real-Time Detection Systems Committee Technical Program on Methods and Systems for Extremely Dangerous Atmospheres and Emergency Response. 
The title of his paper is: An air analysis method for extremely toxic atmospheres. This link will take you to my blog post which includes the abstract and a sneak peek of the actual presentation. The research for this presentation was completed on our portable gas chromatograph Model GC 312. Below is the morning session lineup in which we are participating. The afternoon session is just as spectacular and can be accessed using this link to my blog.

 

 

  
  

 


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Jennifer L. Maclachlan, NA Distribution & OEM Sales Manager