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University of Alaska Fairbanks Environmental Chemistry Programs

E-Chem Group Meeting Schedule

Meetings are every other Wednesday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in room 300 (the Runcorn Room) in the Reichardt Building. Bring a bag lunch.

2008 Spring Semester Schedule:
DATE PRESENTER TITLE
6 Feb Deanna Donohoue, UAF Chemistry Gas Phase Oxidation of Elemental Hg - Kinetic Studies and their Implications
20 Feb Randy Apodaca, UAF Chemistry Measurements and atmospheric reactivity of nighttime nitrogen oxides at high latitudes
5 Mar Raena Rowland, Anastasia Ilgen, Vanessa Ritchey, UAF Chemistry Arsenic, Antimony and Iron analytical method development
19 Mar Jeremy Mathis, Institute of Marine Science Carbon Biogeochemistry and the Impact of Future Sea Ice Loss in the Arctic Ocean
2 Apr Kunal Tanwar and Anastasia Ilgen, UAF Chemistry Two talks in preparation for the Spring ACS meeting: Structural investigation of Fe(II) adsorption on hematite (1-102) and (0001) using crystal truncation rod diffraction and Arsenic and Antimony speciation in water and bottom sediments associated with geothermal waste fluids: Dachny geothermal field, Kamchatka, Russia
16 Apr Njideka Chukwu, UAF Chemistry

In Vitro Analysis of Sodium Arsenite Neurotoxicity and Alaskan Blueberry Neuroprotection

Special time -- 2:30 PM Reic300
23 Apr Alexander Laskin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (EMSL)

Chemistry of Atmospheric Particles: Field and Laboratory Studies

Special time -- Thursday at noon, Reic 300
14 May Open  

2007 Fall Semester Schedule:
DATE PRESENTER TITLE
10/4 Bill Simpson, UAF Chemistry Introduction and Semester scheduling
10/18 Todd Gouin, UAF Chemistry Delayed occurrence of maximum Arctic contamination for organic chemicals
11/1 Chris Iceman, UAF Chemistry Using computers to solve your problems: computational chemistry at UAF
11/15 William Simpson, UAF Chemistry Surface reactivity and catalysis by liquid and liquid-like surfaces
11/29 Todd O'Hara and laboratory, UAF Institute of Arctic Biology Recent activities in the O'Hara laboratory.

2007 Spring Semester Schedule:
DATE PRESENTER TITLE
2/7 Laura Alvarez-Aviles, Graduate student in the Simpson Lab Observations of chemical composition in frost flower growth process and their implication in aerosol production and bromide activation
2/12 Raena Rowland, Graduate student in the Trainor Lab Impedance Characterization of Magnetite Reactivity
3/7 Tom Douglas, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Trace Metal Contaminants in the Alaskan Arctic-Unwanted Gifts from other Friends in High (Latitude) Places
3/20 Dr. Jingfeng Wu from IARC Determination of Trace Levels of Iron and Iron-Binding Organic Ligands in Oceanic Waters. (**During Chem. Dept. Seminar, Tues. at 4 pm, NSF Rm. 201)
4/18 Mike Jaramillo, Graduate student in the Green Lab Proposed Method to Monitor Cyclodextrin Derivatives at the Hexane-Water Interface using X-Ray Reflectivity
5/2 Dan Carlson, Graduate student in the Simpson Lab Bromide on First-Year Sea Ice

2006 Fall Semester Schedule:
DATE PRESENTER TITLE
9/26 Bill Simpson, UAF Assoc. Prof. Chemistry Springtime Halogen Chemistry and Mercury Deposition in the Arctic
10/11 Dea Huff, Graduate student in the Simpson Lab Variability of N2O5 Surface Reactivity on Water and Ice
10/25 Patti Picha, UAF Career Services Student Job Assistance and Career Planning
11/15 Mary Beth Leigh, UAF Assist. Prof. Microbiology Bioremediation of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants: Microbes to the Rescue
11/29 Meeting Cancelled Vanessa Ritchie's Seminar is Postponed till Spring, 2007