2016 Winter Conference Short Courses Friday, January 8 - Monday, January 11, 2016 Schedule Analysis by Plasma Spectrochemistry SA-01 Elemental Testing in Toxicology Using ICP-MS, Saturday, January 9, 1 pm, Frederick Strathmann and Christian Law, ARUP Laboratories, 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, frederick.g.strathmann@aruplab.com SA-02 ICP-MS and ICP-MS/MS: Critical New Tools for Clinical and Biological Studies, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, Julio Landero-Figueroa, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172, julio_landero80@yahoo.com SA-03 Speciation Analysis: Complementarity of Elemental, Isotopic and Molecular Mass Spectrometry in Environmental and Life Sciences. Monday, January 11, 7 pm, Joanna Szpunar, Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique Bioinorganique et Environnement, CNRS UMR 5254-IPREM, Hélioparc, 2, Av. Président Angot, 64053 Pau, France, joanna.szpunar@univ-pau.fr SA-04 Arsenic and Mercury Speciation in Biological Samples, Sunday, January 10, 7 pm, Jörg Feldmann and Eva Krupp, University of Aberdeen, College of Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Trace Element Speciation Laboratory, Aberdeen AB24 3UE Scotland, United Kingdom, j.feldmann@abdn.ac.uk, e.krupp@abdn.ac.uk SA-05 Clinical ICP-MS I, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, Kathleen L. Caldwell, klc7@cdc.gov, and Cynthia Ward, dmo9@cdc.gov, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop F-18, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 SA-06 Clinical ICP-MS II, Responding to Inorganic Chemical Exposure Evaluations and Emergency Response. Sunday, January 10, 7 pm, Robert Jones and Kathleen L. Caldwell, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop F-50, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, rljones@cdc.gov, klc7@cdc.gov SA-07 ICPMS for the Characterization of Nanomaterials: Focusing on the Exposure to Nanoproducts, Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Petra Krystek, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, petra.krystek@ivm.vu.nl SA-08 USP <232> and <233> and ICH-Q3D: Next Steps and Compliance, Saturday, January 9, 1 pm, Nancy Lewen, BMS, 1 Squibb Dr., New Brunswick, NJ 08903, nancy.lewen@bms.com SA-09 Analysis of Petroleum and Petroleum Products, Sunday, January 10, 7 pm, José Luis Todolí, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Alicante, PO Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain, jose.todoli@ua.es Spectrochemical Instrumentation SI-01 Calibration, Optimization, and Interferences in Plasma Spectrochemical Analysis, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, José A.C. Broekaert, Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, D20146 Hamburg, Germany, jose.broekaert@chemie.uni-hamburg.de SI-02 Quantifying Complex Nanoparticles: Direct Coupling of Field Flow Fractionation with Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Saturday, January 9, 8 am, James F. Ranville, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Golden, CO 80401, jranvill@mines.edu; Chady Stephan, PerkinElmer; Soheyl Tadjiki, Postnova Analytics SI-03 High-Resolution ICP-MS, Sunday, January 10, 7 pm, Norbert Jakubowski, BAM, Federal Institute for Materials Research, Richard-Willstätter-Strasse11, 12498 Berlin, Germany, norbert.jakubowski@bam.de SI-04 Opportunities, Challenges, and Application of Glow Discharge Techniques, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, Volker Hoffmann, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials, Research Dresden, PO Box 27 00 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany, v.hoffmann@ifw-dresden.de; Cornel Venzago, AQura GmbH, Postcode 915-d115, Rodenbacher Chaussee 4, 63457 Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany, cornel.venzago@aqura.de SI-05 Time-of-Flight and Distance-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Elemental, Speciation, and Metallomic Analysis, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, Steven J. Ray and Gary M. Hieftje, Indiana University, Department of Chemistry, 800 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington IN 47405-7102, sjray@indiana.edu, hieftje@indiana.edu SI-06 ICP-MS I: Introduction, Saturday, January 9, 8 am, R. Sam Houk, Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory USDOE Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, rshouk@iastate.edu SI-07 ICP-MS II: Advanced Topics, Saturday, January 9, 1 pm, John Olesik, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, 125 S. Oval Mall, 026 Mendenhall Labs, Columbus, OH 43210-1002, olesik.2@osu.edu SI-08 Theory and Practical Use of Reaction Cells and Collision Cells for ICP-MS, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, John Olesik, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences 125 S. Oval Mall, 026 Mendenhall Labs, Columbus, OH 432101002, olesik.2@osu.edu SI-09 Understanding and Overcoming Matrix Effects in ICP-OES and ICP-MS, Monday, January 11, 7 pm, José Luis Todolí, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Alicante, PO Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain, jose.todoli@ua.es SI-10 Identification and Correction of Interferences in Practical ICP-OES, Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Deborah Bradshaw, Atomic Spectroscopy Consulting, PO Box 536307, Orlando, FL 32853-6307, bradshawdk@cs.com SI-11 Identification and Correction of Interferences in Practical ICP-MS, Sunday, January 10, 7 pm, Deborah Bradshaw, Atomic Spectroscopy Consulting, PO Box 536307, Orlando, FL 32853-6307, bradshawdk@cs.com SI-12 Direct Analysis with Ambient Mass Spectrometry: Chemical Analysis of Things as They Are, Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Jacob Shelley, Kent State University, Department of Chemistry, 214 Williams Hall, Kent, OH 44242, jshelley@kent.edu, and Carsten Engelhard, University of Siegen, Department of Chemistry & Biology, Analytical Chemistry, D-57076 Siegen, Germany, engelhard@chemie.uni-siegen.de Sample Introduction Approaches SS-01 A Practical Guide to Nebulizers and the Part They Play in Modern Sample Introduction, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, Gerhard Meyer, Promerus LLC, 9921 Brecksville Rd., Breckville, OH 44141, gary.meyer@promerus.com, and Geoff Coleman, Meinhard, 700 Corporate Circle, Golden, CO 80401-5636, gcoleman@meinhard.com SS-02 Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry I, Friday, January 8 1 pm, Henry Longerich, Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada, henryl@mun.ca, and Detlef Günther, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI, G113, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland, guenther@inorg.chem.ethz.ch SS-03 Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry II, Friday, January 8, 7 pm, Detlef Günther, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI, G113CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland, guenther@inorg.chem.ethz.ch, and Henry Longerich, Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada, henryl@mun.ca SS-04 Laser Ablation Fundamentals, Applications, and Directions, Monday, January 11, 7 pm, Jhanis Gonzalez, Applied Spectra, Inc., 46661 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538, jhanis@appliedspectra.com, jjgonzalez@lbl.gov; Rick Russo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, rerusso@lbl.gov SS-05 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Sunday, January 10, 7 pm, Nicoló Omenetto, University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, Gainesville FL 32611, omenetto@chem.ufl.edu SS-06 Practical Applications of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Saturday, January 9, 8 am, Sharla Woods, Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1 Squibb Dr, Mail Stop 107-1-1250, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, Sharla.Woods@bms.com SS-07 Traditional vs. Specialized Sample Introduction Systems for ICP-AES and MS. Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Vassili Karanassios, University of Waterloo, Department of Chemistry, Waterloo, ON, Canada, vkaranassios@uwaterloo.ca Plasma Spectrochemical Techniques ST-01 On-the-Job Skills for Technology Developers (Things You Were Not Taught in School), Saturday, January 9, 8 am, Andrew T. Zander, Consultant, Gerson Lehman Group, 1632 Hickory Ave, Torrance, CA 90503, atzander@earthlink.net; Megan Cotugno, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA ST-02 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) Using Isotope Dilution (ID): Fundamentals and Applications to Elemental and Elemental Species Analysis, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, Jörg Bettmer and Maria Montes-Baryon, Universidad de Oviedo, Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, C/ Julián Clavería 8, E-33013 Oviedo, Spain, bettmerjorg@uniovi.es, montesmaria@uniovi.es ST-03 Extraction Chromatography for Enhanced Elemental and Isotopic Analysis by ICPMS, Saturday, January 9, 8 am, Michael Ketterer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Campus Box 52, PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362, mkettere@msudenver.edu; Héctor Hernández Mendoza, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico ST-04 Environmental Forensics: ICPMS-Based Isotopic Methods, Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Michael Ketterer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Campus Box 52, PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362, mkettere@msudenver.edu; Héctor Hernández Mendoza, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico ST-05 Tracing Element Metabolism in Animals and Humans Using Stable Isotope Techniques, Monday, January 11, 7 pm, Thomas Walczyk, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, walczyk@nus.edu.sg ST-06 Contamination Control for Trace Element Analysis, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, Brad McKelvey, Seastar Chemicals Inc., 10005 McDonald Park Rd., Sidney, BC V8L 5Y2, Canada, bmckelvey@seastarchemicals.com ST-07 Adjusting Your Laboratory for Trace Analyses, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, Ela Bakowska, Elba Elemental Consulting, PO Box 1050, Corning, NY 14830, ela_bakowska@yahoo.com ST-08 Clean Microwave Digestions for Ultra-Trace Analysis, Monday, January 11, 7 pm, Joaquim A. Nóbrega, Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemistry, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, djan@terra.com.br ST-09 Microwave-Assisted Sample Preparation for Spectrochemistry, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, Joaquim A. Nóbrega, Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemistry, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, djan@terra.com.br ST-10 Plasma Diagnostics: Fundamentals, Measurements, and Applications, Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Igor B. Gornushkin, BAM, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany, igor.gornushkin@bam.de ST-11 Uncertainty Budget Cookbook – Ready to Serve, Saturday, January 9, 1 pm, Thomas Prohaska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, VIRIS Laboratory, Konrad, Lorenz Strasse 24, A-3430 Tulin, Austria, thomas.prohaska@boku.ac.at ST-12 ETV-AAS, ICP-AES/ICP-OES, Quadrupole and Sector Field ICP-MS Method Development Problem Solving, Saturday, January 9, 1 pm, R. Steven Pappas and Mark R. Fresquez, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, MS F-44, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, rpappas@cdc.gov ST-13 Sample Preparation Problem Solving for Atomic Mass Spectrometry, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, R. Steven Pappas and Naudia Gray, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, MS F44, Bldg 110, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, rpappas@cdc.gov ST-14 Validation Assessment, Sunday, January 10, 1 pm, Rob Ritsema, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands, rob.ritsema@rivm.nl; Petra Krystek, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, petra.krystek@ivm.vu.nl ST-15 Atomic Spectroscopy for Forensic Applications, Sunday, January 10, 8 am, Suresh Kumar Aggarwal, 1006, Sunflower, Neelkanth Gardens, Govandi-East, Mumbai 400088, India, skaggr2002@gmail.com ST-16 Field-Flow Fractionation in Hyphenated Techniques: Measurement Quality Control and Applications in Healthcare and Environmental Safety, Monday, January 11, 7 pm, Heidi Goenaga-Infante, LGC Limited, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 OLY, UK, heidi.goenaga-infante@lgcgroup.com Technical Seminar TS-01 Measurement of Size, Shape and Density of Nanoparticles Using Centrifugal Field-Flow Fractionation and a Multi Detection System, Saturday, January 9, 1 pm, Soheyl Tadjiki, Postnova Analytics, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT84102, soheyl.tadjiki@postnova.com Schedule by Date and Time Friday, January 8, 1 pm SS-02 Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry I, Henry Longerich, Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada, henryl@mun.ca, and Detlef Günther, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI, G113, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland, guenther@inorg.chem.ethz.ch Friday, January 8, 7 pm SS-03 Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry II, Detlef Günther, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI, G113CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland, guenther@inorg.chem.ethz.ch, and Henry Longerich, Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada, henryl@mun.ca Saturday, January 9, 8 am SI-02 Quantifying Complex Nanoparticles: Direct Coupling of Field Flow Fractionation with Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, James F. Ranville, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Golden, CO 80401, jranvill@mines.edu; Chady Stephan, PerkinElmer; Soheyl Tadjiki, Postnova Analytics SI-06 ICP-MS I: Introduction, Saturday, R. Sam Houk, Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory USDOE Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, rshouk@iastate.edu SS-06 Practical Applications of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Sharla Woods, Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1 Squibb Drive, Mail Stop 107-1-1250, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, Sharla.Woods@bms.com ST-01 On-the-Job Skills for Technology Developers (Things You Were Not Taught in School), Andrew T. Zander, Consultant, Gerson Lehman Group, 1632 Hickory Ave, Torrance, CA 90503, atzander@earthlink.net; Megan Cotugno, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA ST-03 Extraction Chromatography for Enhanced Elemental and Isotopic Analysis by ICPMS, 8 am, Michael Ketterer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Campus Box 52, PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362, mkettere@msudenver.edu; Héctor Hernández Mendoza, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico Saturday, January 9, 1 pm SA-01 Elemental Testing in Toxicology Using ICP-MS, Frederick Strathmann and Christian Law, ARUP Laboratories, 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, frederick.g.strathmann@aruplab.com SA-08 USP <232> and <233> and ICH-Q3D: Next Steps and Compliance, Nancy Lewen, BMS, 1 Squibb Dr., New Brunswick, NJ 08903, nancy.lewen@bms.com SI-07 ICP-MS II: Advanced Topics, John Olesik, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, 125 S. Oval Mall, 026 Mendenhall Labs, Columbus, OH 43210-1002, olesik.2@osu.edu ST-11 Uncertainty Budget Cookbook – Ready to Serve, Thomas Prohaska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, VIRIS Laboratory, Konrad, Lorenz Strasse 24, A-3430 Tulin, Austria, thomas.prohaska@boku.ac.at ST-12 ETV-AAS, ICP-AES/ICP-OES, Quadrupole and Sector Field ICP-MS Method Development Problem Solving, R. Steven Pappas and Mark R. Fresquez, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, MS F-44, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, rpappas@cdc.gov TS-01 Measurement of Size, Shape and Density of Nanoparticles Using Centrifugal Field-Flow Fractionation and a Multi Detection System, Soheyl Tadjiki, Postnova Analytics, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT84102, soheyl.tadjiki@postnova.com Saturday, January 9, 7 pm SA-07 ICPMS for the Characterization of Nanomaterials: Focusing on the Exposure to Nanoproducts, Petra Krystek, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, petra.krystek@ivm.vu.nl SI-10 Identification and Correction of Interferences in Practical ICP-OES, Deborah Bradshaw, Atomic Spectroscopy Consulting, PO Box 536307, Orlando, FL 32853-6307, bradshawdk@cs.com SI-12 Direct Analysis with Ambient Mass Spectrometry: Chemical Analysis of Things as They Are, Jacob Shelley, Kent State University, Department of Chemistry, 214 Williams Hall, Kent, OH 44242, jshelley@kent.edu, and Carsten Engelhard, University of Siegen, Department of Chemistry & Biology, Analytical Chemistry, D-57076 Siegen, Germany, engelhard@chemie.uni-siegen.de ST-04 Environmental Forensics: ICPMS-Based Isotopic Methods, Michael Ketterer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Campus Box 52, PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362, mkettere@msudenver.edu; Héctor Hernández Mendoza, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico ST-10 Plasma Diagnostics: Fundamentals, Measurements, and Applications, Igor B. Gornushkin, BAM, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany, igor.gornushkin@bam.de Sunday, January 10, 8 am SA-02 ICP-MS and ICP-MS/MS: Critical New Tools for Clinical and Biological Studies, Julio Landero-Figueroa, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172, julio_landero80@yahoo.com SI-01 Calibration, Optimization, and Interferences in Plasma Spectrochemical Analysis, José A.C. Broekaert, Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany, jose.broekaert@chemie.uni-hamburg.de SI-05 Time-of-Flight and Distance-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Elemental, Speciation, and Metallomic Analysis, Steven J. Ray and Gary M. Hieftje, Indiana University, Department of Chemistry, 800 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington IN 47405-7102, sjray@indiana.edu, hieftje@indiana.edu ST-02 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) Using Isotope Dilution (ID): Fundamentals and Applications to Elemental and Elemental Species Analysis, Jörg Bettmer and Maria Montes-Baryon, Universidad de Oviedo, Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, C/ Julián Clavería 8, E-33013 Oviedo, Spain, bettmerjorg@uniovi.es, montesmaria@uniovi.es ST-07 Adjusting Your Laboratory for Trace Analyses, Ela Bakowska, Elba Elemental Consulting, PO Box 1050, Corning, NY 14830, ela_bakowska@yahoo.com ST-09 Microwave-Assisted Sample Preparation for Spectrochemistry, Joaquim A. Nóbrega, Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemistry, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, djan@terra.com.br ST-15 Atomic Spectroscopy for Forensic Applications, Suresh Kumar Aggarwal, 1006, Sunflower, Neelkanth Gardens, Govandi-East, Mumbai 400088, India, skaggr2002@gmail.com Sunday, January 10, 1 pm SA-05 Clinical ICP-MS I, Kathleen L. Caldwell, klc7@cdc.gov, and Cynthia Ward, dmo9@cdc.gov, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop F-18, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 SI-04 Opportunities, Challenges, and Application of Glow Discharge Techniques, Volker Hoffmann, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials, Research Dresden, PO Box 27 00 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany, v.hoffmann@ifwdresden.de; Cornel Venzago, AQura GmbH, Postcode 915-d115, Rodenbacher Chaussee 4, 63457 Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany, cornel.venzago@aqura.de SI-08 Theory and Practical Use of Reaction Cells and Collision Cells for ICP-MS, John Olesik, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences 125 S. Oval Mall, 026 Mendenhall Labs, Columbus, OH 43210-1002, olesik.2@osu.edu SS-01 A Practical Guide to Nebulizers and the Part They Play in Modern Sample Introduction, Gerhard Meyer, Promerus LLC, 9921 Brecksville Rd., Breckville, OH 44141, gary.meyer@promerus.com, and Geoff Coleman, Meinhard, 700 Corporate Circle, Golden, CO 80401-5636, gcoleman@meinhard.com ST-06 Contamination Control for Trace Element Analysis, Brad McKelvey, Seastar Chemicals Inc., MV Laboratories, 10005 McDonald Park Rd., Sidney, BC V8L 5Y2, Canada, bmckelvey@seastarchemicals.com ST-13 Sample Preparation Problem Solving for Atomic Mass Spectrometry, R. Steven Pappas and Naudia Gray, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, MS F44, Bldg 110, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, rpappas@cdc.gov ST-14 Validation Assessment, Rob Ritsema, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands, rob.ritsema@rivm.nl; Petra Krystek, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, petra.krystek@ivm.vu.nl Sunday, January 10, 7 pm SA-04 Arsenic and Mercury Speciation in Biological Samples, Jörg Feldmann and Eva Krupp, University of Aberdeen, College of Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Trace Element Speciation Laboratory, Aberdeen AB24 3UE Scotland, United Kingdom, j.feldmann@abdn.ac.uk, e.krupp@abdn.ac.uk SA-06 Clinical ICP-MS II, Responding to Inorganic Chemical Exposure Evaluations and Emergency Response, Robert Jones, Kathleen L. Caldwell, 4770 Buford Hwy, Mailstop F-50, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, rljones@cdc.gov, klc7@cdc.gov SA-09 Analysis of Petroleum and Petroleum Products, José Luis Todolí, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Alicante, PO Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain, jose.todoli@ua.es SI-03 High-Resolution ICP-MS, Norbert Jakubowski, BAM, Federal Institute for Materials Research, Richard-WillstätterStrasse11, 12498 Berlin, Germany, norbert.jakubowski@bam.de SI-11 Identification and Correction of Interferences in Practical ICP-MS, Deborah Bradshaw, Atomic Spectroscopy Consulting, PO Box 536307, Orlando, FL 32853-6307, bradshawdk@cs.com SS-05 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Nicoló Omenetto, University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, Gainesville FL 32611, omenetto@chem.ufl.edu SS-07 Traditional vs. Specialized Sample Introduction Systems for ICP-AES and MS. Saturday, January 9, 7 pm, Vassili Karanassios, University of Waterloo, Department of Chemistry, Waterloo, ON, Canada, vkaranassios@uwaterloo.ca Monday, January 11, 7 pm SA-03 Speciation Analysis: Complementarity of Elemental, Isotopic and Molecular Mass Spectrometry in Environmental and Life Sciences. Joanna Szpunar, Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique Bio-inorganique et Environnement, CNRS UMR 5254-IPREM, Hélioparc, 2, Av. Président Angot, 64053 Pau, France, joanna.szpunar@univpau.fr SI-09 Understanding and Overcoming Matrix Effects in ICP-OES and ICP-MS, José Luis Todolí, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Alicante, PO Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain, jose.todoli@ua.es SS-04 Laser Ablation Fundamentals, Applications, and Directions, Jhanis Gonzalez, Applied Spectra, Inc., 46661 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538, jhanis@appliedspectra.com, jjgonzalez@lbl.gov; Rick Russo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, rerusso@lbl.gov ST-05 Tracing Element Metabolism in Animals and Humans Using Stable Isotope Techniques, Thomas Walczyk, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, walczyk@nus.edu.sg ST-08 Clean Microwave Digestions for Ultra-Trace Analysis, Joaquim A. Nóbrega, Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemistry, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, djan@terra.com.br ST-16 Field-Flow Fractionation in Hyphenated Techniques: Measurement Quality Control and Applications in Healthcare and Environmental Safety, Heidi Goenaga-Infante, LGC Limited, Queens Rd, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 OLY, UK, heidi.goenaga-infante@lgcgroup.com