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.
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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.
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