Instead of watching the falling snow outside my window right now, I’d much rather remember last April when I got to spend a week on beautiful Hawaii participating in the MARC XI conference. It was great to see old friends again and meet new people. There was quite a large group of students there, too, making me realize that I’m finally not a “young scientist” anymore 😉
There were great sessions on many different topics and the discussions inbetween were also interesting and mostly fun. I was lucky in that I got to give a presentation on the Cs and Sr adsorption capabilities of Clinoptilolite(Sterba et al. 2018) which I also submitted as a manuscript. Dorian Zok, a student of Georg Steinhauser, whom I count as a close friend of mine, also gave a great presentation on Ru-106 containing air-filters we measured at the Atominstitut (Zok, Sterba, and Steinhauser 2018).
So, even though I wish I could enjoy some Hawaiian sun (and coffee) right now, I’m content with the memories and those two nice publications that came out of the conference.
References
- Sterba, Johannes H., Hannes Sperrer, Florian Wallenko, and Jan M. Welch. 2018. “Adsorption Characteristics of a Clinoptilolite-Rich Zeolite Compound for Sr and Cs.” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6096-6.
- Zok, Dorian, Johannes H. Sterba, and Georg Steinhauser. 2018. “Chemical and Radioanalytical Investigations of 106Ru-Containing Air Filters from Vienna in Fall 2017: Searching for Stable Element Anomalies.” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6132-6.