Dr Kevin Ashley from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH, USA, was recently awarded the prestigious Moyer D. Thomas Award for his “outstanding contributions to the standardization of the sampling and analysis of atmospheres” from the ASTM International Committee D22 on Air Quality.
Dr Ashley is a senior research scientist at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he has worked since 1991. His current research is working to evaluate and validate workplace air sampling techniques to improve sample collection and analysis aspects and to harmonize methods for occupational exposure assessment.
A regular author in JEM, some of Dr Ashley’s recent work on environmental atmospheric analysis was published as part of our issue from last year’s AIRMON conference:
Interlaboratory evaluation of trace element determination in workplace air filter samples by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Kevin Ashley, Stanley A. Shulman, Michael J. Brisson and Alan M. Howe
J. Environ. Monit., 2012,14, 360-367
DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10695C
Preparation, certification and interlaboratory analysis of workplace air filters spiked with high-fired beryllium oxide
Thomas J. Oatts, Cheryl E. Hicks, Amy R. Adams, Michael J. Brisson, Linda D. Youmans-McDonald, Mark D. Hoover and Kevin Ashley
J. Environ. Monit., 2012,14, 391-401
DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10688K
The Moyer D. Thomas award was established in 1975 and is awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the standardization of the sampling and analysis of atmospheres. It was last awarded in 2010, to George Luciw, by a task group of the Executive Committee of Committee D22 on Sampling and Analysis of Atmospheres.
Our congratulations to Dr Ashley on receiving this award.
