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Accepted Research At Pittcon 2011 Author: Jennifer Maclachlan Abstract Number: 615 - 20P Session 615 - ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Poster Session Day and Time: Monday, March 14, 2011, Afternoon Room Red Area on Exposition Floor - Hall B, Aisle 400 Social Media is an incredibly powerful tool that connects people globally. This poster will illustrate the importance of each individual social media vehicle (Pittconnect, ACS Network, Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and Blog). Trends have shown that people become proficient in one particular medium and focus their time and energy honing that skill. In order to perform effective outreach with a consistent message about green chemistry and sustainability practices the message must be channeled through each social media vehicle individually. The American Chemical Society Sustainability Engagement Event Group 7 presented a proposal to the ACS Committee on Public Relations and Communications at the Boston National Meeting asking them

PID Analyzers manufactures sensors & analyzers for air, water and process applications and sells these products worldwide. Our sensor technologies include photoionization, infrared, electrochemistry, catalytic combustion, flame ionization, capacitance, thermal conductivity, process gas chromatography. Many of our analyzers are multifunctional and include multiple technologies. The parameters measured include: VOCs, O 2 , H2O, fixed gases, SO 2 , NO 2 , NO, CO 2 , formaldehyde... at ppb to % levels . We have analyzers for lab, field and fixed/continuous applications. We are currently seeking worldwide distribution of our products . Kindly send credentials via email including: how many sales people, how many service people, number of locations within a territory and other product lines that you carry. Help us fulfill analyzer demands in your territory.

Jennifer Maclachlan and Dr. Morton Hoffman I attended my first local section meeting of the  Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS)  on Thursday October 14, 2010 at 5:30pm in the evening at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. The purpose of my attendance was to meet the leaders of my local section in preparation for the Science Cafe I am planning to host on Cape Cod in January 2011 as an International Year of Chemistry kick-off event and to get some ideas for my own celebration of National Chemistry Week on Thursday October 21, 2010. I met the National Chemistry Week (NCW) coordinator, Christine Jaworek-Lopes who gave me hand-outs for my NCW event and other chemistry related goodies for the children. I had exchanged some emails with both Dr. John McKew, Chair, Northeastern Section , presiding and Dr. Morton Hoffman about my Science Cafe plans and was eager to meet them in person. The best part is that Dr. Morton Hoffman was my father, Dr. John Driscol

Barnstable residents, John Driscoll and Jennifer Maclachlan, a dynamic father-daughter team who own and operate PID Analyzers, LLC are in the process of moving their family business, PID Analyzers, LLC to the other side of the Sagamore Bridg e this Friday October 22, 2010 to 2 Washington Circle, Unit 4, Sandwich, MA. A secondary operation of PID Analyzers will be opening in Quincy, MA at the end of the month to retain their key employees involved in the specialty glass and sensor manufacturing portion of the business .  John Driscoll started the business as HNU Systems, Inc. in 1973 in Newton, MA as an incredibly talented chemist and innovator credited with commercializing the technique of photoionization and in 1976 utilizing his research and expanding the photoionization detector (PID) product development and applying it to gas chromatography-it was found that the PID when used with a gas chromatograph (GC) is 50 more sensitive than the accepted technology available in the 1970&#

Accepted Research at Pittcon 2011: J.N. Driscoll and J.L. Maclachlan PID Anal yzers LLC Abstract Number: 180 - 18P Session 180 - New Developments in Analytical Instrumentation and Software Day and Time: Sunday, March 13, 2011 5:30pm-7pm Room 412A Georgia World Congress Center A number of cities in the US have problems with high levels of Ozone and/or photochemical smog including LA, Denver, Houston and even Boston. This phenomenon, while observed in the LA Basin area since the 1950’s, is still not well understood. Fixed monitoring stations have been established for several decades but this has not helped understand the ozone/photochemical smog formation problem. A portable anal yzer could provide more valuable data to help solve the problem.. ... We have developed a portable anal yzer  for monitoring three of the pollutants that contribute to photochemical smog formation. namely: VOC’s, O 3 , ,NO 2 . The anal y zer incorporates a photoionization detector (PID) that measures VOC’

Accepted Research at PITTCON 2011 J.N. Driscoll PID Analyzers, LLC and K. Armstrong, W. Johnson, F. Little, P. Perov, N Perova, N. Steinsultz, Z. Mostapha Suffolk Univ. Boston, MA And J. Kochocki, Draper Labs, Cambridge, MA Abstract Number: 180 - 19P Session 180 - New Developments in Analytical Instrumentation and Software Day and Time: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 5:30PM-7PM Room 412A Georgia World Congress Center The primary goal of this project was to set up a triplex system of sensors and wireless motes to monitor a room sized Habitat and demonstrate stability of the information in the event of single system failures of different types. A secondary goal was to have the same system of sensors in place on a Rover and wirelessly transmit the data through a system of relay motes back to the base computers in the Habitat with redundant relay motes allowing for single mote failures anywhere in the relay chain. The sensors used are temperature, carbon dioxide (dual beam IR),

As an American Chemical Society (ACS) member volunteer through their Chemistry Ambassadors Program I am preparing to celebrate National Chemistry Week October 17-23, 2010 by reaching out to children in my local community in grades K-8 to "show them the chemistry". I've already scheduled my presentations on Thursday October 21, 2010 at my local YMCA After School Enrichment Program which will allow me to conduct age appropriate chemistry experiments with a K-8 audience. The ACS has excellent resources available for other chemistry folks out there who also want to share their love of chemistry in their community and educate the young chemists in grades K-12. Check it out:  http://www.acs.org/chemistryambassadors How will you celebrate National Chemistry Week?

Accepted Research for PITTCON 2011: http://www.pittcon.org J.N. Driscoll PID Analyzers LLC and P. Smith of Univiformed Services Univesity of the Health Sciences 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Abstract Number: 180 - 20P Session 180 - New Developments in Analytical Instrumentation and Software Day and Time: Sunday, March 13, 2011 FROM 5:30PM-7PM  ROOM 412A GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER Field environmental labs are typically pressed to reduce cost, provide rapid sample turnaround and analyze large volumes of samples. One potential solution to this dilemma is to utilize fast GC columns in a portable GC like the PID Analyzers Model GC312. What is a FAST GC column? There are several types: First, a FAST GC column is shorter and has a smaller internal diameter than a standard GC column A second approach involves using a 25m x 0.32 mm ID, 0.25um film thickness that is resistively heated and can be programmed at a much higher rate than conventional ovens. It can al