California Air Monitoring: From Inception to Current Trends in the New Millennium

 

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Here's Jack and I with Deborah Blum (center), our Keynote Speaker from our Major Symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water. Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and her book, The Poisoner's Handbook, was featured on The American Experience last week. Here is a link to this fascinating historical exploration of chemistry and forensic science.

My Year in C&EN 2013 is a blog post on my blog: The Analyzer Source that compiles the notable mentions that my father, our company, our ACS Local Section/Division and/or I received  (as a result of my marketing efforts and/or serendipity) in 2013 in Chemical and Engineering News. 

2013 was a truly spectacular year. The R&D100 Award was the pinnacle. While Jack is no stranger to the R&D100 award, having been the recipient of five of them in the 1980's back when they were called the IR100 Awards, this time was special since his wife, two daughters (pictured above) and two granddaughters attended the awards ceremony. This daughter loved being on stage beside her father to receive the 2013 R and D100 award! Below is a list of the IR100 Awards that Jack Driscoll, as Principal Developer,  received:

Our longtime friend and collaborator, Greg Cutter, of Old Dominion University, got to "share in the limelight" since he is part of the development team for our R&D100 award winning arsenic analyzer. Read the full story from the ODU website here. 

In 2013 I began to shift into the role of symposium organizer, based on my experience, late in 2012, organizing the American Chemical Society Division of Small Chemical Businesses (ACS SCHB) program track at the 38th Northeast Regional Meeting in Rochester, NY (NERM2012). In February 2013, as a representative of the ACS SCHB, I organized and facilitated a Career Pathways Workshop titled How to Satisfy Your Entrepreneurial Career Cravings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS Meeting in Boston. Here is my blog post about that experience. 

In April, at the Spring National Meeting of the American  Chemical Society, I co-organized a two day symposium titled Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water, with members of the Agricultural & Food Chemistry (AGFD), AgroChemicals (AGRO) and I represented SCHB and Environmental Chemistry. I had my first of what is now a series of consecutive Air Monitoring Symposiums on the Environmental Chemistry Track: Air Monitoring Oral session and Air Monitoring poster session in New Orleans and Air Monitoring Oral and Air Monitoring poster session at the Fall National Meeting in Indianapolis. Additional programming I co-organized at the Fall Meeting in Indy was the Role and Value of Social Networking in Advancing the Chemical Sciences morning session and afternoon session on the Chemical Information track see writeup here and STEM Women in Innovation and Investing on the Small Chemical Business track with the Women Chemists Committee see recorded content from that symposium here.  I concluded 2013 with a day and a half of programming at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NERM) in New Haven CT. I organized and presided over the three
 half day sessions and presented three presentations of my own (access the full presentations by clicking on titles): So You're Linked-In, Now What?, Social Media Marketing Best Practices for Entrepreneurs and Discover the Entrepreneurial Resources Available to Members of the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses.

Resources for Startups Presenters at NERM2013 L to R: Merrie London of Connecticut Innovations, Jennifer Maclachlan, SCHB Program Organizer at NERM2013 and Mukund Chorghade, 2014 Chair SCHB

2014 promises to be every bit as amazing as 2013 so far. Here's a glimpse of what I've currently got planned. Here's what Jack has planned for the American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting in Dallas March 16-20.  

• The Model 114 is an IR based analyzer that utilizes interchangeable IR sensors (for CO2 and CH4) for low range or high range (0-100% v/v).
• The Model 114 includes one IR sensor for CH4 or CO2 with up to 3 optional electrochemical sensors, datalogging, Operator's Manual, and Rechargeable Nickel Metal Hydride Battery. The main application is checking the composition of landfill gases.
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Pictured: Driscoll and Karplus in Cambridge, MA January 10, 2014 Photo by J.N. Driscoll