JAAS News

If you are interested in finding out more about laser ablation, or just need a good excuse to visit Oviedo, please see the invitation below from Jorge Pisonero!

11th European Workshop on Laser Ablation & II Spanish Workshop on LA – Gijón, Spain, June 19-22, 2012

Organized by University of Oviedo (Chairman Dr. Jorge Pisonero)

Dear Colleagues ,

We are very proud and excited to continue this tradition of excellence by hosting the 11 EWLA (Gijón 2012).

Starting in 1994 this workshop has evolved from an informal meeting on laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass  spectrometry into an inter-continental meeting covering all topics relevant for laser ablation in elemental analysis. Nonetheless this meeting has ever since and shall continue to keep its workshop character as a base for an intense exchange of ideas between users and researchers of the techniques. It is thus open to everybody interested in laser ablation based analytical methods, fundamental and application oriented researchers, who want to present recent research highlights and applications but also to discuss problems and limitations that arise in this field.

All the information related to this workshop at www.ewla.es.

Looking forward to meeting you!

Jorge Pisonero

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) has renamed their annual scientific conference.  Starting in 2012, the meeting will be known as SCIX- The Great Scientific Exchange.

FACSS  is an organization of scientific societies banded together to promote Analytical Chemistry: The American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Coblentz Society, the Americal Society for Mass Spectrometry, the ANACHEM Society, the International Society of Automation Analysis Divisiton, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.  For the last 38 years, FACSS has held an annual international meeting known informally as the ‘FACSS Conference’, where all member societies contribute to a scientific program that showcases a wide breadth of analytical chemistry topics.

The FACSS member societies have recently expressed a wish to expand this annual conference- and the first step in the expansion was to name the annual meeting.  The first SCIX conference will be held in Kansas City, MO from September 31-October 5.

More information can be found on the FACSS website (http://www.facss.org) or on the new SCIX website (http://www.sciexconference.org).  Of note, a program preview of the new SCIX conference is available online: (http://scixconference.org/scix2012.html).

Goldschmidt 2011: Earth, Life and Fire

JAAS will be enjoying all things geochemical at Goldschmidt 2011, and we’d love to see you there!

Deputy Editor, Vibhuti Patel, will be at the conference from Sunday to Wednesday so please do stop by Booth 37 to say hello and pick up a copy of the journal.

The conference will be held in Prague, a beautiful city whose skyline is dominated by the towering Prague Castle.

With over 3700 submitted abstracts, this meeting will be the largest ever Goldschmidt conference.  There are exciting socials and field trips to complement the packed science programme so it looks set to be a great week.

I look forward to meeting you in Prague!

Goldschmidt 2011
14-19 August
Prague Convention Centre
Prague, Czech Republic

Why not take a look at some recent geochemistry papers in JAAS?

The effect of quadrupole ICPMS interface and ion lens design on argide formation. Implications for LA-ICPMS analysis of PGE’s in geological samples
M. Guillong, L. Danyushevsky, M. Walle and M. Raveggi
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1401-1407
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10035A

Technical Note: Precise and accurate determination of Sm, Nd concentrations and Nd isotopic compositions in geological samples by MC-ICP-MS
Yue-Heng Yang, Zhu-Yin Chu, Fu-Yuan Wu, Lie-Wen Xie and Jin-Hui Yang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 1237-1244
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA00001B

Technical Note: NH₄F assisted high pressure digestion of geological samples for multi-element analysis by ICP-MS
Zhaochu Hu, Shan Gao, Yongsheng Liu, Shenghong Hu, Laishi Zhao, Yanxiang Li and Qi Wang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 408-413
DOI: 10.1039/B921006G

The 2011 meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) will be held in Reno, NV from October 2-6.

Lake Tahoe

The submission deadline for abstracts that will be considered for oral presentation is April 30 (Today!)– those abstracts that are submitted after the deadline will be presented as a poster.  Abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.facss.org.

Several focal areas have been identified by the atomic spectroscopy program chairman, Dr. Carsten Engelhard which are to be given special attention in the 2011 program:

• Plasma Spectrochemistry: From Fundamentals to Applications (Keynote: Prof. Gary M. Hieftje)

• Isotope analysis (Keynote: Prof. Frank Vanhaecke)

• Microplasmas for Atomic and Molecular Analyses (Organizer: Prof. José A.C. Broekaert)

• Chemistry in Arts and Archaeology (Organizer: Prof. Mary Kate Donais)

• Progress in Metallomics and Speciation Analysis (Organizer: Prof. Norbert Jakubowski)

• Laser and Laser Spectroscopy (Organizer: Prof. Rick Russo, Dr. Jhanis Gonzalez)

• X-ray Fluorescence (Organizer: Dr. George Havrilla, Dr. Brian Patterson)

• Laser Induced Breakdown Spectrometry (Organizer: Prof. Rick Russo, Dr. Jhanis Gonzalez)

…and contributed sessions will be added to the program as space allows…so if you do not see a program area above that fits your research focus, don’t let it stop you from submitting a paper!

The 13th Workshop on Progress in Trace Metal Speciation for Environmental Analytical Chemistry has extended the early registration

TraceSpec 2011

deadline to April 20, and late-breaking poster presentations are still being accepted.  The preliminary program is now online and can be accessed at: http://www.tracespec2011.com.