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 Welcome from the 41st MAS President:

Welcome to the official website of the Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS).

Our Society was founded four decades ago “to advance and diffuse knowledge concerning the principles and applications of microbeam instruments or related instrumentation.” A major focus of the MAS membership at that time was the ongoing development of the electron microprobe, an instrument capable of quantifying the elemental composition of microscopic volumes of material with great accuracy and precision. Today’s MAS continues in this dedication to the quantitative analysis of small volumes of matter – now down to the atomic level! – using a host of instrumentation and techniques. We encourage students and teachers, promoters and practitioners, developers and innovators of such instrumentation, techniques, and their applications to join in the life of our society and its mission. All who wish to learn more are encouraged to apply.

Follow these links to discover who we are and what we stand for as a society:

  • Society News
  • Our Leadership
  • Our Members
  • Our Meetings
  • Our Journal
  • Our Regional Societies
  • Our Awards
  • Our History
  • Student Outreach

The main page of the website will give you timely information about upcoming events:

  • our annual meeting, Microscopy and Microanalysis, which has been jointly held for more than a decade with the Microscopy Society of America;
  • our periodic topical conferences that explore in depth an area of extensive activity in the field of microanalysis; and
  • various national and international meetings supported and attended by our membership.
You will also find the current and archived issues of MicroNews, the periodic news publication of the society, which details ongoing activities and recent initiatives of the MAS Council and membership.

Sincerely,

Ian M. Anderson
MAS President
2007-2008

NEWS

MAS Topical Conference: Electron Backscatter Diffraction
Madison, Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin)
May 20-21-22, 2008

Contacts:Luke Brewer (lnbrewe@sandia.gov), Joe Michael (jrmicha@sandia.gov), or John Fournelle (johnf@eology.wisc.edu)

DAVID B. WITTRY

1929 – 2007


Sadly, we inform you that Dave Wittry has passed due to complications from pneumonia. From 1959 to his retirement in 1999, he was a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Material Science Departments at the University of Southern California. He authored 23 patents and was a member of the Patents Committee at USC for 25 years. He lived in Pasadena for 56 years. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and by five children: Jim (Nadine), Robert, Kris (Sonya), Diane (Rick Peckham), Linda, and three grandchildren, Kyle, Amanda, and Elaine. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church Chapel, located at 500 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, 91101. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association. An obituary page can be found at USC [http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2007/david-b-wittry.htm].

EUGENE JAROSEWICH

1926 – 2007


It is with great sadness that we report the death of Eugene Jarosewich at his home on April 30, 2007. Gene joined the Smithsonian’s Department of Mineral Sciences in 1964, where he soon became Head Chemist. He retired in 1998, but remained active as Chemist Emeritus. He was an expert in the instrumental analysis of rocks and minerals, and in pursuing these interests he developed the Department’s analytical laboratories into a world-class facility for the analysis of geological materials. Gene is known in the meteoritics community for having accomplished superb wet chemical analyses of meteorites, and for developing the only meteorite whole-rock standard through his work on specimens of Pueblo de Allende (1969).
Working with specimens from the National Mineral Collection, in the 1970s Gene and his co-workers developed a set of microbeam standards for electron microprobe analysis, based upon wet chemically derived values for elements that displayed microscale homogeneity. Gene’s Smithsonian Microbeam Standards (SMS) continue to be distributed to this day and are used worldwide by more than 900 laboratories. These accomplishments are lasting legacies of a distinguished career. Gene was particularly well known to members of the the Microbeam Analysis Society and the Meteoritical Society, but he cooperated broadly both within the Smithsonian Institution and the international scientific community on a number of topics in a variety of disciplines. [http://www.minerals.si.edu/]

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