I promised updates about the Southwest Regional ACS meeting. I unfortunately missed a lot of sessions that I wish I could have made it to, due to being lost, and a resume review session, but I did get to see some.
My favorite research by far was looking at air mixing by radioactive isotopes, coming out of Arkansas. They found troposphere and stratosphere mixing, and looked at things like time to see results from Fukishima. Interesting stuff. Also, some good green chemistry overview, but much of it seemed like just that-an overview, not new knowledge. An interesting model of toxicity studies-preliminary at any rate-to be done on the computer.
I did a lot of career events, because in part I was there looking for a job. I heard excellent panelists talk about things that you can do with a chemistry degree other than labwork, which I'm looking hard at right now. And about people's individual stories. I heard about being the only woman at a water treatment plant. I still hope to hang out with that speaker-she sounded very interesting.
I love getting to hang out in Austin, especially now, because I love warm weather. It's cold outside.
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