Hello fellow scientists

[TemperateSeaIsland]

I've noticed that there are a few scientists frequenting this board and I'm curious what your current work/research is.

I'll start... I'm an organic chemist and my current research is centered on developing catalysts suitable for making drug intermediates from derivatives of certain natural products (sorry can't really give any more details). Within the overall project there is an emphasis on green chemistry so a lot of my work involves trying to get the reaction conditions as mild as possible (low pressure/temperature preferably in water) and to move away from a petroleum based feedstock (especially with the current economic climate).

 

[TheManeki]

I'm a polymer chemist, and bump around among organic, analytical, and physical chemistry. Currently I'm more on the physical and analytical side, and my research concerns oilfield production and stimulation applications.

 

[Blayz]

I'm a computational biologist working for a large pharma. Current projects involve nucleic acid and small molecule therapeutics for viral diseases.

 

[eri]

I'm finishing a PhD in physics, concentration in high energy astrophysics, particularly gama ray bursts. I haven't posted much lately, but I check in once a day or so - you guys have it covered.

 

[sfs]

My training was in high energy physics, and I worked in that field for ten years. These days I'm a statistical geneticist at a biomedical research institute, focusing on the detection of episodes of natural selection at the moment -- mostly in humans, but also in malaria.

 

[thaumaturgy]

I am a coatings chemist working on print coatings. My background is geochemistry so I focus mainly on the inorganic (mineral) compounds in the coatings.

 

[Molal]

Hey TSI,

I'm a structural geologist with a background in oil/gas/mineral exploration/exploitation.

Molal

 

[Baggins]

My degrees were in Geology and Micropalaeontology, but I have always worked in exploration geophysics.

For the last 13 years I have worked as a quality control geophysicist on a number of exploration vessels, currently in the Norwegian Sea on the MV Ocean Explorer.

 

[ChordatesLegacy]

My early background was in hard rock geochemistry and analytical chemistry, these days its still analytical chemistry, but I am at present writing a paper on metal concentrations in shellfish and trying to put together a research project on arsenic speciation in soils with some local geotechnical companies.

 

[juvenissun]

A YEC geologist with no boss on earth. Study earth processes that may contradict to current geology models. Teach students to question idea of evolution.

 

[Blayz]

A YEC geologist with no boss on earth. Study earth processes that may contradict to current geology models. Teach students to question idea of evolution.

Do your students laugh in your face when a geologist tries to teach them biology? I know I would. So anyway, more on this research. Perhaps a pointer to a paper? Or if you don't want to disclose that, perhaps a brief precis of your recent findings?

project on arsenic speciation in soils

No! its arsenic adaptation.

 

[Prince Lucianus]

I'm surrounded by chemists

I have a degree in classical archaeology.
Syracusan trade relations (between 480-300 BC) was my research and attended 3 archaeological underwater surveys near Syracuse. Been out of practice for a few years now.....

Lucy

 

[TheGnome]

Wow, there are quite a bit of chemists here! I'll be finishing my bachelor's in biology in the fall--got 8 credits left to finish. I plan on going to do a master's instead of going straight to a Ph. D. in case I may have issues with the lab am in, and more importantly, for some extra experience that I may need before getting out in the real world. So if everything works out, I'll probably be a population geneticist.

Essentially, I have no business participating in this thread, but I wanted to feel important.

 

[juvenissun]

Do your students laugh in your face when a geologist tries to teach them biology? I know I would. So anyway, more on this research. Perhaps a pointer to a paper? Or if you don't want to disclose that, perhaps a brief precis of your recent findings?

No. I do not teach them biology or paleontology. The idea/model of evolution is not limited to that.

 

[TheGnome]

No. I do not teach them biology or paleontology. The idea/model of evolution is not limited to that.

You're right, the evolution of organisms is related to factors like geology. I haven't heard of any leading research in geology that has shown any problems for evolution, though. You are a YEC, however, but when was the last time you've published any research in any respected journals that support the YEC hypothesis? Have you published any research at all? What are your credentials as a geologist?

 

[Baggins]

No. I do not teach them biology or paleontology. The idea/model of evolution is not limited to that.

I would be worried about you teaching them geology due to your reticence in discussing what qualifications you have to do that and the glaring errors you have made in basic geological concepts.

 

[ChordatesLegacy]

No! its arsenic adaptation.
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No; its arsenic speciation.

Arsenic species in biological systems.
Name Abbreviation Chemical formula
Arsenite, arsenious acid AsIII As(OH)3
Arsenate, arsenic acid AsV AsO(OH)3
Monomethylarsonic acid MMAV CH3AsO(OH)2
Monomethylarsonous acid MMAIII CH3As(OH)2
Dimethylarsinic acid DMAV (CH3)2AsO(OH)
Dimethylarsinous acid DMAIII (CH3)2AsOH
Trimethylarsine oxide TMAO (CH3)3AsO
Trimethylarsine TMAIII (CH3)3As
Arsenobetaine AsB (CH3)3As+CH2COO–
Arsenocholine AsC (CH3)3As+CH2CH2OH
Tetramethylarsonium ion Me4As+ (CH3)4As+
Dimethylarsinoyl ethanol DMAE (CH3)2AsOCH2CH2OH

 

[ChordatesLegacy]

No. I do not teach them biology or paleontology. The idea/model of evolution is not limited to that.

Neither do you teach geology, if indeed you are a teacher. Assuming for the moment that you do teach; its creationism that you specialise in, i.e. magical mysticism.

Give us a list of your teaching material

How about posting something you teach, let’s say chalk formation.

However, I do not think there is a school anywhere that would leave you teach geology. I am also convinced you have no formal qualifications in geology.

What was you dissertation on.

 

[Blayz]

No; its arsenic speciation.

Arsenic species in biological systems.
Name Abbreviation Chemical formula
Arsenite, arsenious acid AsIII As(OH)3
Arsenate, arsenic acid AsV AsO(OH)3
Monomethylarsonic acid MMAV CH3AsO(OH)2
Monomethylarsonous acid MMAIII CH3As(OH)2
Dimethylarsinic acid DMAV (CH3)2AsO(OH)
Dimethylarsinous acid DMAIII (CH3)2AsOH
Trimethylarsine oxide TMAO (CH3)3AsO
Trimethylarsine TMAIII (CH3)3As
Arsenobetaine AsB (CH3)3As+CH2COO–
Arsenocholine AsC (CH3)3As+CH2CH2OH
Tetramethylarsonium ion Me4As+ (CH3)4As+
Dimethylarsinoyl ethanol DMAE (CH3)2AsOCH2CH2OH

Those are just breeds of the same species. Arsenic microevolution.

 

[thaumaturgy]

Those are just breeds of the same species. Arsenic microevolution.

Please....it's Arsenic "Kinds"