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WMRC Staff Milestones

Life passages can be both happy and sad at the same time. In the past year, two WMRC employees retired. While their fellow workers were happy that they could enjoy retirement, we were saddened to see them leave.

WMRC Librarian Prill Smiley retired after many years of service to the state of Illinois. Prill was a part-time librarian at WMRC and part-time librarian at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois. She worked nine years at WMRC, and 30 years for the University of Illinois.

Cliff Jahp retired after working nine years for the agency. He was a Technical Assistance Specialist for WMRC and worked out of the Oakbrook office. Cliff is enjoying retirement by spending time at his summer cabin on the lake in Wisconsin and visiting family and friends.

Degrees obtained

Two WMRC employees finished course work and received degrees in the past year:

  • Riyaz Shipchandler was awarded a MS degree in Environmental Engineering from UI-Chicago
  • Cynthia Melchi received an AAS degree in General Studies from Parkland College

WMRC staff members also have had a number of publications and poster presentations during the year.

Publications:

  1. Nelson, W.M. "Green Chemistry and the Path to Sustainable Agriculture" In "Agricultural Applications in Green Chemistry", in Agricultural Applications in Green Chemistry, ACS Symposium Series 887, Oxford University Press, 2004. Ch 2.
  2. Nelson, W.M.; Tkachenko, V.; Delawder, T. and Marsh, D. "Enzymatic microbial degradation: in-process bioremediation of organic waste-containing aqueous solvents" in Agricultural Applications in Green Chemistry, ACS Symposium Series 887, Oxford University Press, 2004, Ch 10.
  3. Nelson, W. M., editor, Agricultural Applications in Green Chemistry, ACS Symposium Series 887, Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8412-3828-6.
  4. V. M. Boddu, K. Abburi, J. L. Talbott, and E.D. Smith, "Removal of hexavalent Chromium from Wastewater Using a New Composite Chitosan Biosorbent," Env. Sci. & Tech., 2003, vol. 37, p.4449-56.
  5. C. Liu, Y. Huang, N. Naismith, J. Economy and J. Talbott, "Novel Polymeric Chelating Fibers for Selective Removal of Mercury and Cesium from Water," Env. Sci. & Tech., 2003, vol 37, p.4261-68.
  6. R.G. Darmody, J.C. Marlin, J. Talbott, R.A. Green, E.F. Brewer, and C. Stohr, "Dredged Illinois River Sediments: Plant Growth and Metal Uptake," J. Env. Quality, 2004, vol 33, p.458-464.
  7. Bordson, G. listed as a contributor on a section on Tremetone in the following book: Clinical Veterinary Toxicology by Konnie H. Plumlee, published by Mosby, St. Louis, MO., copyright 2004
  8. John P. Voyles, Zhongren Yue, James Economy and Gary Bordson. "Removal of Chlorinated Solvents from Water Using Tailored Activated Carbon on Fiberglass" submitted to Water Research 2004
  9. Barnes, Laura L. (2003). "Locating Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Information." ERMD News The Newsletter of the Environment and Resource Management Division, Special Libraries Association Spring 2003, 7-8.
  10. Barnes, Laura L. (2003) "Pollution Prevention and Environmental Security." ERMD News: The Newsletter of the Environment and Resource Management Division, Special Libraries Association Fall 2003, 7.
  11. Chow, T., M. Wilcoxin, M. Piwoni and N. Adrian. 2004. Trace Level Analysis of Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) and its Biodegradation Intermediates in Liquid Media by Solid Phase Extraction and HPLC Analysis. Journal of Chromatographic Science. (in Press).

Presentations and posters

  1. J.W. Scott, J. Talbott, M. Piwoni, and B. Quach, "Robust and Reliable Arsenic Speciation Methods by Liquid Chromatography-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LC-ICP-MS) for a Variety of Sample Matrices," #13200-1300, Pittcon 2004, Chicago, IL, March 9th, 2004.
  2. J. Talbott, A. Deguzman, C. Liu, "On-Line Characterization of Materials", WaterCAMPWS Symposium, Champaign, IL, Jan. 2004.
  3. J. Talbott, J. Scott, B. Quach, M. Piwoni, T. Holm, W. Kelly and S. Wilson, "A Robust HPLC(IC)-ICPMS Method for 'Routine' Speciation of Arsenic in Drinking and Ground Waters", Int. Ion Chromatography Symposium, San Diego, CA, Sept. 21, 2003.
  4. J. Talbott, J. Scott, B. Quach, T. Holm, S. Wilson, M. Piwoni, "A Robust HPLC(IC)-ICPMS Method for "Routine" Speciation Analysis of Ground Waters for Arsenic", #559, 30th FACSS Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 22, 2003.
  5. T. R. Holm, W. R. Kelly, S. D. Wilson, G. S. Roadcap, J. L. Talbott and J. W. Scott "Speciation and Distribution of Arsenic in the Mahomet Aquifer, Illinois." Oral presentation, Symposium on Advances in Arsenic Research, American Chemical Society, 226th National Meeting, New York, NY, September 8, 2003.
  6. T. R. Holm, S. D. Wilson, W. R. Kelly and J. L. Talbott "Chemical Factors Affecting Arsenic Removal at Water Treatment Plants." Poster. Symposium on Advances in Arsenic Research, American Chemical Society, 226th National Meeting, New York, NY, September 9, 2003.
  7. PCB Congener Profiles in Forage Fish Collected in the Calumet Region of South Chicago, Luann Wiedenmann, Gary Bordson, Illinois Waste Management and Research Center, and Jeff Levengood, Illinois Natural History Survey, presented at the 2004 PCB Workshop, Champaign, IL
  8. Organic Contaminant Levels in Forage Fish Collected in the Calumet Region of South Chicago, Jeff Levengood, Illinois Natural History Survey, Gary Bordson and Luann Wiedenmann, Illinois Waste Management and Research Center, presented at the 2004 Chicago Joint Conference on the Environment, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  9. Curry, B. Brandon, E.C. Grimm, D. M. Nelson, J. Slate, S. Greenberg, and J.W. Scott. 2004. Contrasting hydrological response to Holocene climate at Nelson Lake and Crystal Lake, northeastern Illinois. American Quaternary Association, Program and Abstracts of the 18th Biennial Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas, June 26-28, 2004, Kansas Geological Survey, pp. 110-112.
  10. Nelson, W. M. "New Surfactants II: Practical Results and Applications", CleanTech 2004, Chicago, IL, February 2004.
  11. Nelson, W. M. "Catalytic Oxidation of CW Agents Using H2O2 in Ionic Liquids" 2003 Joint Service Scientific Conference on Chemical and Biological Defense Research.
  12. Nelson, W. M. "New Dimensions for Surfactants and Cleaning", CleanTech 2003, Chicago, IL, March 2003.
  13. "Direct Analysis of Cyanide and the Effect of Dilution in Electroplating Bath Samples by Ion Chromatography with Amperometry," Poster Presentation. Teresa Chow and Monte Wilcoxon, International Ion Chromatography Symposium, San Diego, CA, September 21-24, 2003
  14. Debra Jacobson, GLRPPR display at the National Environmental Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on April 19-22, 2004.
  15. Debra Jacobson, PNEAC display at the Printers National Environmental Health & Safety Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 14-16, 2004.
  16. Barnes, Laura L. "Environmental Storytime" series (Dr. Howard Elementary School, Champaign, IL, weekly January-May 2004)
  17. Barnes, Laura L. and Emily Weingartz. "State Environmental Librarian's Roundtable". Presented at the Special Libraries Association Great Lakes Regional Conference (Grand Rapids, MI, September 18, 2003).
  18. Barnes, Laura L. "The View From a State Agency Library." presented to Professor Linda Smith's Science Reference Class, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (Urbana, IL, March 8, 2004)

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