ISOTOPICS The Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society Volume 88 Issue 6 Sept 2012 September Meeting Notice On Deck: October 17, 2012 Cleveland State University Plenary Speaker: Paul Boggs, Drug Chemistry Supervisor, Cuyahoga County Regional Forensic Science Lab Cleveland ACS Officers Chair: Kat Wollyung PerkinElmer, Inc., Akron 330-686-0056 ACS.NCW.Kat@gmail.com Chair-Elect: Don Jaworske NASA Glenn Research Center 216-433-2312 Donald.A.Jaworske@nasa.gov Treasurer: John Moran Department of Science and Mathematics Phone: 216-373-6380 jmoran@ndc.edu Secretary: Anna Bowman a.bowman@neu.edu Cleveland Section Web Site: http://www.csuohio.edu/sciences /dept/cleveland_acs/ Joint Meeting: Cleveland and Akron ACS Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Yellow Tail Restaurant, Fairlawn 4:30 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Executive Committee Meeting Social/Networking Dinner Presentation Shale Development and Ohio’s Chemical and Polymers Sector Douglas Southgate, The Ohio State University Thanks to technological improvements, driven largely by market forces, production of natural gas and other hydrocarbons from deep shale formations and other unconventional deposits has increased substantially in recent years. One result of this development has been to “decouple” markets for petroleum and dry gas (i.e., methane) and prices of the latter were below $3 per thousand cubic feet in early 2012. In response, drilling in methane-rich deposits, including portions of the Marcellus play in Pennsylvania, is falling off and drilling in Ohio’s Utica play, which appears to be rich in crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs), is increasing. The chemical industry and polymer firms in Ohio are expected to benefit as energy and feedstock become more inexpensive, although expansion of this sector of the state’s economy will also depend on inter-regional competition for NGLs extracted from the Utica play as well as access to national and international markets. DINNER RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: Please RSVP to Dr. Michael Davis (mdavis.nmr@gmail.com) and cc Kathleen Wollyung (acs.ncw.kat@gmail.com) by Monday, September 17 with your name, total number of guests in your party, and a phone number. Checks made out to “Akron ACS” are greatly appreciated; cash otherwise. Cost of the dinner is $25 for professionals/guests and $8 for students. Delicious Buffet that features a 160-foot seafood buffet counter brimming with over 30 kinds of sushi and over 15 dishes are served at both the fresh salad bar and hot entrée section. A delectable dessert bar with over 20 petite cakes and fresh fruits are included. A cash bar will also be provided. Dinner includes coffee, herbal tea, and water. Page 2 Isotopics Sept 2012 Directions to Yellow Tail Restaurant The Yellow Tail Restaurant is located on Medina Road (Route 18) approximately 500 feet east of the Interstate 77 – Route 18 cloverleaf, in the Market Square at Montrose shopping center. The address and phone number are 4054 Medina Road Fairlawn, OH 44333, (330) 666-9988. GAK Day Volunteers Needed By Bob Fowler The National Chemistry Week Planning Committee is in need of volunteers to assist with the assembly of demonstration kits for NCW. If you have even an hour to spare, please consider coming to GAK (Grand Assembly of Kits) Day on Saturday, September 15, 2012 from 8:30 AM until finished in room W318 of the Dolan Science Center at John Carroll University. No one will be asked how to balance redox equations or anything technical, and we’re a friendly bunch! We’ll have snacks available all day, and we’ll serve our famous pizza lunch around noon. We need all the hands we can get, so we hope to see you there on the 15th. Please email Bob Fowler at jrfowler@cox.net with any questions. Speaker Bio Professor Southgate is an economist with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, and has been a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University since 1980. Dr. Southgate is the author five books and numerous articles and papers addressing a wide American Chemical Society Cleveland Section variety of topics, including the causes of tropical deforestation and the pricing of water resources. He has worked for the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development in sixteen African, Caribbean, and Latin American nations, and directed Ohio State’s Center for Latin American Studies. He was recently named co-director of the university’s new Subsurface Energy Resource Center. Page 3 Isotopics Sept 2012 American Chemical Society Cleveland Section ISOTOPICS STAFF Editor: Daniel Tyson Day-Glo Color Corporation Phone: 216-391-7384 daniel_s_tyson@yahoo.com Business and Advertising: Anna Bowman a.bowman@neu.edu Associate Editor Dwight Chasar dwight.chasar@yahoo.com Associate Editor Richard L. 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