New book: NMR Spectroscopy: A Versatile Tool for Environmental Research

Myrna J. Simpson (Editor)
Andre J. Simpson (Editor)
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Wiley; July 2014
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1118616475
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118616472.html
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1118616472
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/1118616472

Wiley: The challenges faced by environmental scientists today are vast, complex, and multi-faceted. For instance, predicting the fate of an environmental pollutant or understanding ecosystem responses to climate change, necessitate a firm understanding of molecular structure and dynamics of environmental media as well as the components that exist and interact within this media. Furthermore, linking information obtained at the molecular-scale to ecosystem-level processes is a major pursuit of modern environmental research. As such, NMR spectroscopy and its scalability from the molecular-scale to the macroscopic-scale, is facilitating rapid growth in environmental science. In addition, the versatility of NMR spectroscopy has resulted in the development and implementation of different types of NMR techniques to examine the structure of various types of environmental samples, living and non-living, as well as the study of critical environmental processes.

This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters that span from methods to how NMR is used in environmental research to gain insight into various ecosystem properties. It is organized into three parts:

Part A focuses on methods used in environmental NMR which span from solution-state to magnetic resonance imaging.
Part B emphasizes how NMR spectroscopy plays an essential role in understanding various types of environmental components and related processes, including different forms of organic matter found in soil, water, and air as well as how NMR is used to probe the fate of water, organic pollutants, and metals in the environment.
Part C focuses on the growing field of environmental metabolomics which uses NMR as its main discovery platform.

This volume highlights the immense potential of NMR spectroscopy to expand our fundamental understanding of environmental processes and how it will continue to do so well into the future.

56th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Agilent RMC 2014 Environmental Solid-State NMR Workshop 
July 12, 2014, Loveland, Colorado
http://events.signup4.com/NSF-RCNworkshop

Bruker RMC 2014 Solid-State NMR Symposium
July 13, 2014, Copper Mountain, Colorado
http://www.bruker.com/events/users-meetings/mr/nmr-us/registration-solid-state-nmr-symposium.html

Bruker RMC 2014 Annual North American EPR Users’ Meeting
July 13, 2014, Copper Mountain, Colorado
http://www.bruker.com/events/users-meetings/mr/epr-us/registration-north-american-epr-users-meeting.html

56th Rocky Mountain Conference 
July 13-17, 2014, Copper Mountain, Colorado
http://www.rockychem.com/

Special issue of Canadian Journal of Chemistry in honour of John Ripmeester

The Canadian Journal of Chemistry is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue in honour of John Ripmeester and his outstanding contributions to chemistry.

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2014. The special issue will be published in 2015.

The Canadian Journal of Chemistry reports current research findings in all branches of chemistry. It includes the traditional areas of analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical-theoretical chemistry and newer interdisciplinary areas such as materials science, spectroscopy, chemical physics, and biological, medicinal and environmental chemistry.

Please submit your paper at http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/cjc

The issue will be edited by Yining Huang, Darren Brouwer, and David Bryce.

Please confirm via email to [yhuang "at" uwo.ca] or [dbryce "at" uottawa.ca] your intent to submit an article as soon as possible.

Prof. David L. Bryce
Department of Chemistry
University of Ottawa
http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/dbryce/

Tenure-Track Faculty Positions, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa

Five Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Chemical Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa

http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/330851/tenure-track-faculty-positions-in-chemical-biology-and-biochemistry/

Six Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Materials Chemistry and Physics, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, University of Ottawa

http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/330852/tenure-track-faculty-positions-in-materials-chemistry-and-physics/

8th Annual VIVA NMR Symposium

Dear NMR Enthusiasts and Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the 8th VIVA (VIctoria VAncouver) NMR symposium is to take place at St. Johns College, UBC, Friday, August 8th, 2014.

The scope of this one day symposium is to bring together NMR users, researchers and managers from western Canada and the north-west of the USA to share information on topics of general NMR interest and to foster the development of NMR community. Talks or poster presentations by graduate students working in any aspects of NMR are especially encouraged. Deadline for registration is July 25th.

Further details and registration info are available at http://groups.chem.ubc.ca/viva

I am looking forward to welcoming you at VIVA.

Sincerely,

Paul

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Zhicheng (Paul) Xia, Ph.D.
NMR Facilities
Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
2036 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T1Z1
http://www.chem.ubc.ca/high-resolution-nmr-spectroscopy

Graduate student position, the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

We are seeking highly motivated PhD students to work in the protein NMR group at the University of Guelph. Our group is broadly interested in membrane protein structure. Our main research tool is magic angle spinning solid state NMR, but we also used other complementary biochemical, biophysical and computational methods. The research will be conducted at the University of Guelph NMR Centre, which is equipped with an array of solid-state NMR spectrometers at field strengths from 500 MHz to 800 MHz, and with a recently installed Dynamic Nuclear Polarization spectrometer. This gives us the unique ability to probe atomic level details of molecular structure, dynamics, and interactions. The specific project will deal with protein-lipid and protein-water interactions, with emphasis on the methodological aspect.

For examples of our work, see our recent publications:http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n10/full/nmeth.2635.html
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja411633w

The candidates must have a degree in chemistry, physics or biochemistry.

Applications are accepted to both, the Department of Physics
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca
or Biophysics Interdepartmental Group 
https://www.uoguelph.ca/biophysics/welcome-biophysics

For more information contact

Dr. Vladimir Ladizhansky
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair II,
Department of Physics
University of Guelph,
50 Stone Road E, Guelph,
Ontario, Canada
N1G 2W1
phone: 519-824-4120 Ext 53989
departmental fax: 519-836-9967
email: [vladizha "at" uoguelph.ca]
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/~vladimir/

RMC 2014 Solid-State NMR Workshop

Topic: Targeting Environmental, Agricultural, and Plant Science with Solid-State NMR

When: Saturday, July 12, 2014, prior to the 2014 Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance http://www.rockychem.com

Where: Agilent Technologies, Inc. NMR Center of Excellence, 900 South Taft Avenue, Loveland, CO 80537

Program Details and Registration
please complete registration to attend this no-cost workshop
http://events.signup4.com/NSF-RCNworkshop

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

Colleagues and fellow MR-enthusiasts,

the Spring 2014 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" bulletin is now available for download, our traditional mix of news and research updates.

Thank you all who contributed and shared their news with the community. You are welcome to forward this bulletin to your colleagues and students.

Postdoctoral position in solid-state NMR of pharmaceuticals University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

A PDF position is available in the Schurko group at the University of Windsor with starting dates between May 2014 - September 2014. The PDF will be in charge of conducting research and managing a project area involving SSNMR of pharmaceutical compounds, related materials and nanoparticles. We are equipped with 400 MHz and 500 MHz SSNMR spectrometers, pXRD and scXRD equipment, wet lab spaces (including glove boxes) and fantastic shared computational resources. We also have access to high field (800, 900 MHz) NMR spectrometers. The PDF candidate should have extensive background in solid-state NMR. The position starts with a one-year contract, with option to extend to second and third years via mutual agreement of the PDF and the PI.
For more information, please contact me at: [rschurko "at" uwindsor.ca]

Robert W. Schurko, Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Windsor, 389 Essex Hall
Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4
Phone: 519-253-3000 x3548
Fax: 519-973-7098
rschurko "at" uwindsor.ca
Please visit my website:
http://www.uwindsor.ca/schurko

Post-doctoral position in solid-state NMR, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Applicants are sought for a post-doctoral associate to work jointly withProfessor Josef Zwanziger and Adjunct Professor Ulrike Werner-Zwanziger at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Research will focus on using solid-state NMR to characterize glass structure, with special emphasis on low-gamma nuclei. Two dedicated solid-state NMR spectrometers are available, a Bruker Avance 700 and a Bruker DRX 400, with a variety of probes. Duties will also include spectrometer maintenance and collaborative work with other users and industry partners in running samples. The position is initially for one year with possibility of extension.

To apply please submit a current CV and names of three references (electronic submission preferred) to:

Professor Josef Zwanziger
Department of Chemistry
Dalhousie University
Halifax, B3R 4H2
Canada
E-mail: jzwanzig "at" dal.ca
http://jwz.chem.dal.ca/