Charges for supplies and postage will now be available on the weekly reports. Heretofore, these charges were only reflected on the monthly billing report. Applications include producing automated control charts, parametric and nonparametric statistical summaries, and other graphic techniques, such as box plots. QAU is planning to use many of these applications to publish QC data on the NWQL's Web page. These applications will also be available to others within the NWQL to assess QC data.
Plans call for adding inorganic chemistry data at a later date.
Chief named to head Methods Program Robert B. Green has been selected Supervisory Chemist to head the NWQL Methods Research and Development Program. The announcement was made January 8 by Bob Williams, NWQL Chief, who cited Green's record as a research chemist with extensive management experience. Green is a consulting scientist with Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company in Idaho Falls, where he analyzes and assesses research and development projects funded through the University Research Consortium and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Programs. Prior to the Lockheed position, he was vice president of programs from 1994-97 at Associated Western Universities, Inc., in Salt Lake City and in Richland, Washington. From 1984-94, he worked at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, where he served as head of the Instrumental Chemical Analysis Branch and then directed the Chemistry Division.