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SYMPOSIUM
ON ENVIRONMENTAL
198th NATIONAL
CHEMISTRY OF ART CONSERVATION
MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MIAMI, FL, 10-15 SE~EMBER 1989
This Symposium will be hosted by the Division of Enviranmental Chemistry at the 198th ACS Meeting, Miami. FL, IO15 September 1989, Issues addressed will include air quality measurements in museums, laboratory studies of poI!utant damage to objects of art, theoretical studies, damage by outdoor pollutants, microenvironments, national and international environmental art conservation programs, case studies, damage functions, and mitigation and protection measures. Contributed papers are welcomed by the Symposium organizers. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 April 1989 (one original plus three copies of ACS short abstract form, plus four copies of extended abstracts, 2-4 pages, for the Division of Environmental Chemistry Preprints volume). Requests for further information should be directed to Dr Daniel Grosjean, DGA, Inc., 4526 Telephone Road, Suite 205, Ventura, CA 93003, U.S.A. (805) 644-0125, and to Dr Frank Preusser, Scientific Research Program, The Getty Conservation Institute, 4503B Glencoe Avenue, Marina Del Rey, CA 902926537, U.S.A. (213) 822-2299.
CALL FOR PAPERS REACTIVE ORGANICS
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
The Symposium will be hefd in Honolulu, Hawaii. 17-22 December 1989, as part of the 1989 International Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM ‘89) co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) and the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ). Suitable topics for contributed papers include theoretical, laboratory and field studies of reactive organics in the trophosphere including urban air. For further information contact Daniel Grosjean, DGA, Inc. Suite 20.5, 4526 Telephone Road, Ventura, CA 93003, USA (ACS); Hajime Akimoto, National Institute for Environmental Studies, P.O. Yatabe Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan, (C&I) and H. Allen Wiebe, Atmospheric Environment Service, 4905 Dufferin Street, Downsview, Gntario, Canada M3H ST4 (CSC).
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE COMMISSION ON ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND GLOBAL POLLUTION(CACGP) “CHEMISTRY CHAMROUSSE, International
OF THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE” FRANCE, 5-11 SEPTEMBER 1990
Program Committee:
P. Buat-Menard (Co-chairman),
R. Charlson, R.J. Delmas (Co-chairman). P. Liss. E. Sanhueza.
Scientific program The committee will welcome contributions dealing with field and laboratory approaches as well as the description of chemical models of the atmosphere. Papers will be presented either orally or as poster. Time will be allocated for a discussion of poster topics in plenary. There will be no concurrent sessions. Deadline for submissions of abstracts is 1 April 1990. For further information please contact: Dr Robert J. Delmas, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de I’Environnment, B.P. 96,3%402 St Martin d’Heres Cedex, France. Phone: 76.42.58.72.Fax: 76.51.32.48. Telex: 980131 F.
NEW SERVICES NUS CORPORATION OFFERS “ANALYTICAL LABORATORY SOLVING THE MYSTERIES” SEMINAR
SERVICES:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - NUS Corporation’s “Analytical Laboratory Services: Solving the Mysteries” was developed specifically for the project manager or purchaser of enviranmental laboratory services. The 2-day seminar addresses
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subjects that must be understood to cost-effectively request laboratory services. The topics include lab certifications, regulatory requirements, legally defensible data, QILVQC, data package requirements, and more. Due to the success of the 1988 program, the 1989 seminar schedule has been expanded to include: 3-4 May Chicago 17 -18 May Philadelphia 7-8 June Boston 21-22 June Los Angeles 4-5 October Detroit 18-19 October Pittsburgh 1-2 November Houston 1.5-16 November Orlando. Included in the $395 seminar fee is the popular Annfyticai Laboratory Guidebook for Environmental Professionals. Hundreds of copies have been purchased by industries, consultants, utilities, and state and Federal government agencies The Guidebook, which sells for $165, includes important information on sample preservation, holding times, sample containers, regulations, analytical methods, and much more. For more information, contact Rose Ann Cochran, NUS, Anallytical Updating Services, Park West Two, Pittsburgh, PA 1.5275,U.S.A. Or call (412) 788-1080.
COURSES AIR POLLUTION:
ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES, MONITORING AND STRATEGIES
INSTRUMENTS
The course will run from midday on Monday 2 October to the afternoon of Thursday 5 October 1989. Lecture topics will include the following: major air pollutant cycles; physical properties of the atmosphere; chemical and photochemical air pollution processes; synoptic scale dynamical processes; chemistry of atmospheric acids and bases; meso- and micro-scale dynamical processes; sampling of air pollutant gases and particles and deposition; low-cost methods of air pollution analysis: design of a monitoring station; atmospheric dispersion modelling; calibration of air pollution analyzers; design of monitoring programmes (a) to evaluate a specific source (b) urban and national; data acquisition and interpretation; chemical analysis of atmospheric particles and rianwater; air quality standards and their interpretation. Lecture Demonstrations will include state-of-the-art inst~ments for monitoring: sulphur dioxide; oxides of nitrogen; ozone; hydrocarbons; carbon monoxide; suspended particulate matter. Information: Dr Roy M Harrison, University of Essex (Director, Institute of Aerosol Science), Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K. Organized by the Institute of Aerosol Science (University of Essex) in collaboration with Analysis Automation Ltd.
NEW JOURNAL A NEW JOURNAL:
ENVIRONMENTRICS
A Journal calted Environmentrics will be published quarterly with approximately 100 pages per issue. The first isue will be publsihed at the end of July or early in August 1989, and it will contain papers from the proceedings of an Environmetrics Conference in Cairo. The scope of Environment~cs is described as follows: Environmetrics is a multidisciplinary journal concerned with the development and application of statistical methodology in the environmental sciences. The scope covers a wide range of methodological topics including sampling design, statistical modelling, methods of data analysis, and interpretation, statistical quality control, risk assessment, time series methods, multi-variate analysis, and other statistical methods with applications to such areas as: water and air quality, regulation and control, waste management, transboundary pollution, health aspects of pollution, risk analysis, monitoring, field and laboratory quality control. The annual sub~ription fee will the U.S. $75.00. Information: A.H. El-Shaawari, National Water Research Institute, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 4A6.
News and Opinions
SYMPOSIUM
ON ENVIRONMENTAL
198th NATIONAL
CHEMISTRY OF ART CONSERVATION
MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MIAMI, FL, 10-15 SE~EMBER 1989
This Symposium will be hosted by the Division of Enviranmental Chemistry at the 198th ACS Meeting, Miami. FL, IO15 September 1989, Issues addressed will include air quality measurements in museums, laboratory studies of poI!utant damage to objects of art, theoretical studies, damage by outdoor pollutants, microenvironments, national and international environmental art conservation programs, case studies, damage functions, and mitigation and protection measures. Contributed papers are welcomed by the Symposium organizers. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 April 1989 (one original plus three copies of ACS short abstract form, plus four copies of extended abstracts, 2-4 pages, for the Division of Environmental Chemistry Preprints volume). Requests for further information should be directed to Dr Daniel Grosjean, DGA, Inc., 4526 Telephone Road, Suite 205, Ventura, CA 93003, U.S.A. (805) 644-0125, and to Dr Frank Preusser, Scientific Research Program, The Getty Conservation Institute, 4503B Glencoe Avenue, Marina Del Rey, CA 902926537, U.S.A. (213) 822-2299.
CALL FOR PAPERS REACTIVE ORGANICS
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
The Symposium will be hefd in Honolulu, Hawaii. 17-22 December 1989, as part of the 1989 International Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM ‘89) co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) and the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ). Suitable topics for contributed papers include theoretical, laboratory and field studies of reactive organics in the trophosphere including urban air. For further information contact Daniel Grosjean, DGA, Inc. Suite 20.5, 4526 Telephone Road, Ventura, CA 93003, USA (ACS); Hajime Akimoto, National Institute for Environmental Studies, P.O. Yatabe Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan, (C&I) and H. Allen Wiebe, Atmospheric Environment Service, 4905 Dufferin Street, Downsview, Gntario, Canada M3H ST4 (CSC).
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE COMMISSION ON ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND GLOBAL POLLUTION(CACGP) “CHEMISTRY CHAMROUSSE, International
OF THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE” FRANCE, 5-11 SEPTEMBER 1990
Program Committee:
P. Buat-Menard (Co-chairman),
R. Charlson, R.J. Delmas (Co-chairman). P. Liss. E. Sanhueza.
Scientific program The committee will welcome contributions dealing with field and laboratory approaches as well as the description of chemical models of the atmosphere. Papers will be presented either orally or as poster. Time will be allocated for a discussion of poster topics in plenary. There will be no concurrent sessions. Deadline for submissions of abstracts is 1 April 1990. For further information please contact: Dr Robert J. Delmas, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de I’Environnment, B.P. 96,3%402 St Martin d’Heres Cedex, France. Phone: 76.42.58.72.Fax: 76.51.32.48. Telex: 980131 F.
NEW SERVICES NUS CORPORATION OFFERS “ANALYTICAL LABORATORY SOLVING THE MYSTERIES” SEMINAR
SERVICES:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - NUS Corporation’s “Analytical Laboratory Services: Solving the Mysteries” was developed specifically for the project manager or purchaser of enviranmental laboratory services. The 2-day seminar addresses
1173
News and Opinions
subjects that must be understood to cost-effectively request laboratory services. The topics include lab certifications, regulatory requirements, legally defensible data, QILVQC, data package requirements, and more. Due to the success of the 1988 program, the 1989 seminar schedule has been expanded to include: 3-4 May Chicago 17 -18 May Philadelphia 7-8 June Boston 21-22 June Los Angeles 4-5 October Detroit 18-19 October Pittsburgh 1-2 November Houston 1.5-16 November Orlando. Included in the $395 seminar fee is the popular Annfyticai Laboratory Guidebook for Environmental Professionals. Hundreds of copies have been purchased by industries, consultants, utilities, and state and Federal government agencies The Guidebook, which sells for $165, includes important information on sample preservation, holding times, sample containers, regulations, analytical methods, and much more. For more information, contact Rose Ann Cochran, NUS, Anallytical Updating Services, Park West Two, Pittsburgh, PA 1.5275,U.S.A. Or call (412) 788-1080.
COURSES AIR POLLUTION:
ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES, MONITORING AND STRATEGIES
INSTRUMENTS
The course will run from midday on Monday 2 October to the afternoon of Thursday 5 October 1989. Lecture topics will include the following: major air pollutant cycles; physical properties of the atmosphere; chemical and photochemical air pollution processes; synoptic scale dynamical processes; chemistry of atmospheric acids and bases; meso- and micro-scale dynamical processes; sampling of air pollutant gases and particles and deposition; low-cost methods of air pollution analysis: design of a monitoring station; atmospheric dispersion modelling; calibration of air pollution analyzers; design of monitoring programmes (a) to evaluate a specific source (b) urban and national; data acquisition and interpretation; chemical analysis of atmospheric particles and rianwater; air quality standards and their interpretation. Lecture Demonstrations will include state-of-the-art inst~ments for monitoring: sulphur dioxide; oxides of nitrogen; ozone; hydrocarbons; carbon monoxide; suspended particulate matter. Information: Dr Roy M Harrison, University of Essex (Director, Institute of Aerosol Science), Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K. Organized by the Institute of Aerosol Science (University of Essex) in collaboration with Analysis Automation Ltd.
NEW JOURNAL A NEW JOURNAL:
ENVIRONMENTRICS
A Journal calted Environmentrics will be published quarterly with approximately 100 pages per issue. The first isue will be publsihed at the end of July or early in August 1989, and it will contain papers from the proceedings of an Environmetrics Conference in Cairo. The scope of Environment~cs is described as follows: Environmetrics is a multidisciplinary journal concerned with the development and application of statistical methodology in the environmental sciences. The scope covers a wide range of methodological topics including sampling design, statistical modelling, methods of data analysis, and interpretation, statistical quality control, risk assessment, time series methods, multi-variate analysis, and other statistical methods with applications to such areas as: water and air quality, regulation and control, waste management, transboundary pollution, health aspects of pollution, risk analysis, monitoring, field and laboratory quality control. The annual sub~ription fee will the U.S. $75.00. Information: A.H. El-Shaawari, National Water Research Institute, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 4A6.