(Carsten Engelhard, University of Münster, 16.09.2010)
Both the 22nd ICP-MS User meeting and the 9th Symposium on Mass Spectrometry Methods for Trace Element Analysis were held in Berlin, Germany recently. More than hundred-twenty participants from Austria, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland attended. The joint meeting was organized by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), EUROLAB-Deutschland, and the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS). The local organizing committee was headed by Jochen Vogl, Wolfgang Pritzkow and supported by EUROLAB.
2011 European Winter Plasma Conference Travel Award Winner Marion Brunner (second on the left) with jury members Jochen Vogl (BAM), Patrick Klemens (AHF Analysentechnik), and Jörg Bettmer (Universidad de Oviedo), from left to right. Picture: EUROLAB-D, Birgit Nüsser
Jörg Bettmer, Jochen Vogl, Bodo Hattendorf, Norbert Jakubowski, and Thomas Prohaska chaired well-attended sessions on speciation analysis, instrumental developments, solid sample analysis, and isotope analysis. In the exhibition hall booths from instrument companies and suppliers as well as poster presentations by young scientist could be visited during coffee breaks.
One young scientist is awarded a prize for the outstanding oral or poster presentation during the conference. This year, the 2011 European Winter Plasma Conference Travel Award (sponsored by AHF Analysentechnik AG) was awarded to Marion Brunner (BOKU Vienna) for her talk on provenance analysis in foodstuff and green coffee beans by trace element and isotope fingerprinting with MC-ICP-MS.
The symposium on mass spectrometry methods for trace element analysis was first organized by Klaus G. Heumann in 1987. Since that time, ICP-MS users from academia and industry meet biannually to discuss hot topics in elemental and isotopic analysis. The next meeting will be held at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria, in 2012.
Further reading: http://www.eurolab-d.bam.de/ms-symposium/
Participants of the meeting. (Picture: EUROLAB-D, Birgit Nüsser)
