JAAS News

Since the announcement ofFrank Vanhaeckebecoming the newChair of the Editorial BoardforJAAS,we've had the opportunity to have a little chat with our incoming Chair.

What are your aims?First and foremost,I'll be aiming to continue the fantastic efforts of my predecessors,Detlef and Gary being the most recent!

Any goals for your term as Chair?To stimulate the publication of even more original interdisciplinary research involving atomic spectrometry inJAAS e.g.,from the fields of biomedicine and geo新利手机客户端chemistry,whilst preserving the attention for fundamental topics.We would also like to encourage more authors who are working in the development of techniques for elemental research such as synchrotron radiation XRF,X-ray absorption spectrometry XAS and isotope ratio mass spectrometry IRMS.

Anything else?Our primary goal of course has to be to further strengthen the position ofJAASas the leading journal exclusively devoted to atomic spectrometry in the community.

We'd of course like to welcome Frank once again,and we're looking forward to his term as Chair of the JAAS Editorial Board.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the Federation of Analytical 新利手机客户端Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) have announced that JAAS Advisory Board memberProfessor Ralph Sturgeonof the National Research Council,Canada,has been selected as the recipient of the New England Section of the SAS's 2012Lester W.Strock Award.

This award has been established by the New England Section and is given annually to an author in recognition of a selected publication of substantive research in/or application of analytical atomic spectro新利手机客户端chemistry in the fields of新利手机客户端 earth science,life 新利手机客户端sciences,or stellar and cosmic 新利手机客户端sciences.

Professor Sturgeon will present the Strock Award Plenary Lecture entitled "Vapor Generation – Make It Your Second Thought for Sample Introduction" onThursday October 4that theSciX conferencein Kansas,USA.

Ralph follows in the footsteps of other JAAS Board members as recipient of this award,including Gary Hieftje,John Olesik,Detlef Günther and Annemie Bogaerts.

Congratulations,Ralph!

Take a look at a few of Ralph's recent papers in JAAS below:

Perspective: Some speculations on the mechanisms of photochemical vapor generation
Ralph E.Sturgeon and Patricia Grinberg
J.Anal.At.Spectrom.,2012,27,222-231
DOI:10.1039/C2JA10249H

Technical Note: UV photochemical generation of volatile cadmium species
Joaquim A.Nóbrega,Ralph E.Sturgeon,Patricia Grinberg,Graeme J.Gardner,Christine S.Brophy and Edivaldo E.Garcia
J.Anal.At.Spectrom.,2011,26,2519-2523
DOI:10.1039/C1JA10252D

Critical Review: Applications of chemical vapor generation in non-tetrahydroborate media to analytical atomic spectrometry
Peng Wu,Liang He,Chengbin Zheng,Xiandeng Hou and Ralph E.Sturgeon
J.Anal.At.Spectrom.,2010,25,1217-1246
DOI:10.1039/C003483E
From themed issue2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectro新利手机客户端chemistry

After four wonderful years,Detlef Guentheris stepping down as the Chair of theJAAS Editorial Board.We would like to take this opportunity to thank Detlef for all of his hard work and dedication to the journal and look forward to his continued contributions as an Advisory Board member.And while we will miss him,we wish him all the very best for his future endeavors.

We are pleased to announce that the new Chair forJAASisFrank Vanhaecke,from Ghent University,Belgium.Frank's main research interests lie in the determination,speciation and isotopic analysis of trace elements using ICP-MS.He is especially interested in the direct analysis of solid materials using both ETV-ICPMS and LA-ICPMS,chemical and high mass resolution for overcoming spectral interferences and isotope ratio determination using single- and multi-collector ICPMS.

As an experienced Editorial Board member for the journal,Frank is fully qualified to be filling Detlef's shoes,and we are very much looking forward to his term as Chair.