2.-
ACD composition and new members
ACD is currently
composed of 10 Titular Members (including 4 officers), 6 Associated
Members, and 8 National Representatives (10 are possible), and one
provisional member. The Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium
Data (SSED) and the Interdivisional Working Party for Harmonization
of Quality Assurance (WPQA) continue to be an integral part of the
Division. Following the recent election of Titular members a number
of new faces will be joining the ACD for the next biennium. The
following are short CVs of some of the new members or members who
will rejoin the ACD:
Prof.
John W. (Jack) Lorimer is a physical chemist who has been
involved in IUPAC for many years. He started as an Associate Member
of Sub-committee V.6.1 (Solubility Data), 1977-1979, becoming a
TM and Secretary of Commission V.8 (Solubility Data) from its beginning
in 1979 to 1983. In 1984, he organized the first International Symposium
on Solubility Phenomena. He chaired V.8 from 1987 to 1991, was Editor-in-Chief
of the Solubility Data Series from 1988-1991, and again a TM of
V.8 1979-1983. He was an elected member of the Bureau from 1993-2001,
a member, then chair, of the Project Committee, 1999-2003, a member
of the Canadian delegation to Council on several occasions and a
co-opted member of the Division V Committee 1983-1987 and 1993-1995.
After 1999-2001 as an AM and TM of IDCNS, he became a TM on ICTNS
and currently chairs that committee. As chair of ICTNS, he is editor,
Technical Reports and Recommendations, for PAC and a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board. Jack has been co-author of two volumes
in the Solubility Data Series and also of IUPAC Recommendations:
Glossary of Terms Related to Solubility (currently under review).
He has also written a number of reports for CI. He looks forward
to continuing his IUPAC contributions as a member of the Sub-committee
on Solubility and Equilibrium Data - a return to his roots in IUPAC
work!
Dr.
Maria Belli since 1999 is the head of the Environmental
Metrology Service of APAT (Italian Environmental Protection Agency).
APAT, established in 1994, represents the focal point for the European
Environmental Agency. The Metrology Service of APAT has the responsibility
to assure the comparability of the analytical data between the laboratories
of the regional environmental agencies. To this end the major activities
of the Service are: the development and validation of standard methodologies
for environmental monitoring; pre-normative research activities,
production and characterization of environmental reference materials
and the organization of inter-comparison exercises. Maria Belli
was responsible together with Ales Fajgelj and Umberto Sansone from
IAEA for organising an APAT IUPAC workshop on "Combining and
reporting analytical results" in Rome from 6 to 8 March 2006.
Proceedings of the workshop were published by the Royal Society
of Chemistry in December 2006. Maria is responsible for the IUPAC
project "Trace elements analysis: role of grain size distribution
in solid reference materials." The aim of the project is to
develop a guide to be used by reference material producers and by
the analytical community to select the most appropriate particle
size distribution of a particular reference material to fit the
analytical needs.
She is part of the IUPAC project "Selection and use of proficiency
testing schemes for limited number of participants (chemical analytical
laboratories)". The aim of the project is the development of
a guide for the selection and use of proficiency testing schemes
involving a limited number of participants (chemical analytical
laboratories). Maria is part of the General Metrology Commission
established by the Italian Standardization Body (UNI). In this context
she is the co-ordinator of a working group on reference materials.
She was the Italian representative in ISO/REMCO. She participated
at the working group for the elaboration of the EURACHEM/EUROLAB/CITAC/Nordtest
guide on measurement uncertainty arising from sampling.
Dr.
Paolo de Zorzi (Italian born 1960) graduated in Chemistry.
After working for private companies in the environmental field for
16 years, since 1999 he has been an environmental technician at
the Environmental Metrology Unit of APAT (Italian Environmental
Protection Agency). Paolo is responsible for an international project
aimed at assessing the uncertainty associated with the sampling
in agricultural soil, semi-natural soil, urban and contaminated
environment (SOILSAMP) and establishing protocols for soil sampling
in different environments. One of the outcomes of the project was
the publication by IUPAC in Pure
Appl. Chem.
77(5), 827-841, 2005 of the IUPAC Recommendation 2005 "Terminology
in Soil Sampling". On the basis of the existing terminology
documents and of the most recent knowledge in the field of soil
sampling, including topics related to the estimation of the associated
uncertainty, the IUPAC Recommendation represents an up-dated terminology
in sampling (specifically soil sampling). He is involved in the
co-ordination of national and international inter-comparison exercises
on soil sampling and he supported the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) in the organization of a Soil Sampling Inter-comparison
Exercise (IAEA/SIE/01). The activity was carried out with a selected
number of laboratories participating in the ALMERA Network (Analytical
Laboratories for the Measurement of Environmental Radioactivity)
The objective was to compare the soil sampling protocols used by
the different participating laboratories, in the situation where
they are asked to determine the mean value of several radionuclides
in an agricultural area of about 10000 square meters. The inter-comparison
exercise was performed at the end of 2005 in Italy within an area
qualified as a "reference site" in the framework of the
SOILSAMP international project. He participates in training courses
at national and international level on sampling, mainly focused
on estimation of uncertainty arising from sampling. He participated
at the Eurachem/EUROLAB/CITAC/Nordtest working group to publishing
a guide on estimation of measurement uncertainty arising from sampling.
Note:
Dr. Paolo De Zorzi has been nominated as the new Chairman of
the Interdivisional WP on Harmonization of Quality Assurance. He
will take this position at the occasion of the IUPAC GA in Turin.
Dr.
Ilya Kuselman is Scientific Director of the National Physical
Laboratory of Israel. He is a specialist in the fields of metrology,
quality and standardization in chemistry and has published about
170 papers and 9 patents in these fields. Dr. Kuselman is the newly
elected Chairman of "Co-Operation on International Traceability
in Analytical Chemistry" (CITAC <www.citac.cc>).
He is Regional Coordinator of the National Conference of Standard
Laboratories (NCSL International) and is now also a Member of the
Interdivisional Working Party for Harmonization of Quality Assurance
of IUPAC.
>
see current membership
3.-
ACD projects
There are currently
38 active projects under the ACD umbrella, including 2 projects
run by the WPQA, 12 projects run by the SSDE. ACD is also involved
in 9 projects coordinated with other Divisions. The complete project
list and detailed information can be obtained from:
http://www.iupac.org/divisions/V/cp5.html
We wish the
task groups good luck in bringing the projects to a successful conclusion.
4.-
Report from SSDE (H. Gamsjäger)
At the 5th
Annual Meeting of the IUPAC Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium
Data the Franzosini Award went to Prof. Dr. Dewen Zeng in appreciation
of his scientific contributions to the Solubility Data Project.
A short laudatory note has been published in Chemistry
International,
28, No. 6 (2006) 23.
The 12th
International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium
Processes was held at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany
under the auspices of IUPAC. As initiated at the 10th ISSP in Varna
the organization of a workshop on a special topic related to solubility
was continued. This time "Quality assurance in thermodynamic
databases for performance assessment studies in waste disposal"
was discussed.
The three IUPAC
poster prizes were given to Prof. Alexander S. Lileev (N.S. Kurnakov
Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of Russian Academy
of Sciences, Russia) for the poster, "Non- additivity of contributions
into the dielectric constant of saturated solutions and ion-ion
interactions in ternary water-salt systems", to Dr. Sven Hagemann
(Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, Germany)
for the poster, "A new simple method for the investigation
of hydrogen sulfide solubilities in aqueous solutions" and
Georgia Wollmann (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, TU Bergakademie
Freiberg, Germany) for the poster, "Solubilities related to
substituted polyhalites". A conference report has been published
in CI,
28, No. 6 (2006) 31.
A collection
of 12th ISSP Plenary and Invited Lectures as well as the Workshop
report have been published in Pure
Appl. Chem.
79(5), 825-894 (2007).
In January
2007, project
2005-017-1-500 "Glossary of Terms Related to Solubilities"
by H. Gamsjäger, J. W. Lorimer, P. Scharlin, D. G. Shaw (Task
Group Chair) was submitted to Peer Review. A poster presentation
of the "Glossary" project at the 41st IUPAC World Congress
in Torino is in preparation.
5.-
A New Project: Metal-focussed -omics: guidelines for terminology
and critical evaluation of analytical approaches (R. Lobinski,
J.S. Becker, H. Haraguchi, B. Sarkar)
Bioinorganic
analytical chemistry is a rapidly developing discipline at the interface
of trace element analysis and analytical biochemistry which targets
the detection, quantitation, identification and characterization
of complexes of metals (metalloids) with molecules of natural origin
(biomolecules) by hyphenated (coupled) techniques (PAC, 1999,
71, 899-917). The advances in trace element analysis in the life
sciences have resulted in a proliferation of new terms related to
the description of metal-interactions with biomolecules. Examples
of these terms include: metallome, ionome, metalloproteome, metallogenome,
metallometabolome, heteroatom-tagged proteome, single element proteomes
(ex. selenoproteome) and the corresponding -omics. The terms are
being coined by various disciplines and the lack of communication
between them is resulting in a growing confusion. All the terms
are very recent and were not considered in the Guidelines for
Terms Related to Chemical Speciation Analysis published in PAC,
2000, 72, 1453-1470. In addition to the confusion in terminology,
the methodological approaches are specific to each individual discipline.
They have all the characteristics to be complementary but in practice
they are carried out independently. The project aims to carry out
a critical analysis of these approaches, of the information they
produce and of the validity of data obtained. The project targets
the speciation analysis community organised around the European
Virtual Institute of Speciation Analysis (EVISA, <www.speciation.net>),
structural genomic consortia, clinical biochemistry, medicine and
health sciences communities (characterization of metal-related diseases
and related areas, heteroatom-containing species as new clinical
biomarkers), nutrition and metabolic sciences (molecular targets
of metal binding for essential nutrients and toxic metals), and
environmental toxicology (toxic metals in life-sciences and their
environmental effects). It should be of interest to regulatory bodies
asking the question on what valid information can be obtained in
a quantitative and routine way in the metal-related -omics areas.
> see project
2006-037-1-500
6.-
ACD links with other International Organizations and Groups
In the 2006-2007
biennium the Members of the ACD formally represent IUPAC in the
following organizations: the Inter Agency Meeting (IAM), the International
Committee on Weights and Measures/Consultative Committee for Amount
of Substance - Metrology in Chemistry (CIPM/CCQM), the International
Committee on Weight and Measures/Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology
(CIPM/JCGM), the International Organization for Standardization
- Committee on Reference Materials (ISO REMCO). There are however
numerous other organizations and groups with which the ACD members
cooperate. In the forthcoming issues of Teamwork we intend to provide
a short description of the activites of these organizations in liaison
(one per issue) and to provide the necessary links for interested
readers. This time we present the Consultative Committee for Amount
of Substance - Metrology in Chemistry (CCQM) and International Bureau
of Weight and Measures (BIPM). You may access the PowerPoint presentation
under the following link <www.iupac.org/standing/on/ccqm>.
7.-
Invitation
IThere will
be the formal presentation on Sunday, 5 August 2007 at 11:15 of
the report of the project 'Metrological Traceability of Measurement
Results in Chemistry' by Paul De Bièvre, René Dybkaer,
Ales Fajgelj and Brynn Hibbert. This project and its outcome is
relevant for all areas of chemistry which include measurement results
and therefore you are cordially invited to attend the presentation.
More information about the project can be found at:
www.iupac.org/projects/2001/2001-010-3-500.html
