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The 15th Harsh-Environment Mass Spectrometry Workshop
September 15-18 2025,
Virginia Beach, VA

There will be no printed program handed out for this workshop

Download the program .pdf

Mon, 9/15
Travel Day
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception Sheraton Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Ocean Grand Hallway & Foyer
Tue, 9/16
HEMS Workshop
7:30 a.m.
Set-up of vendor tables (Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Henry) and registration (Ocean Grand Hallway)
8:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Ocean Grand Foyer
9:45 a.m.
Welcome Remarks by Dave Vincett, Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
10:00 a.m. Technical Session I: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
10:00 a.m. Using Classes of Molecules to Identify Air Health
Guido Verbeck
Abstract
10:30 a.m. ARAMMIS: Autonomous Robots for Area Mapping, Monitoring and In-situ gas Sensing, focused on Lunar exploration and Earth Science applications
James Fox
Abstract
11:00 a.m. A cart-portable TOF-MS coupled with a thermal desorber for in-field analysis of CBRNE threat materials
Bett Kimutai
Abstract
11:30 a.m. Spaceflight Laser Desorption Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry
Madeline Raith
Abstract
12:00 noon
Lunch, Ocean Grand Foyer
1:30 p.m. Sponsor Introductions, Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
2:00 p.m.
Technical Session II: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
2:00 p.m. A rugged and field deployable multi-laser resonance Single Particle Mass Spectrometer: Ship-based detection of trace metal-containing aerosols in the atmosphere of the Indian Ocean
Aleksandrs Kalamasnikovs
Abstract
2:30 p.m. Non-proximate, Handheld Probe with Positional Feedback for Real-time Analysis of Three-dimensional Object Surfaces
G. Asher Newsome
Abstract
3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Break, Ocean Grand Foyer
3:30 p.m.
Technical Session III: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
3:30 p.m. 2D MS/MS using a small ion trap mass spectrometer
Joseph Caruso
Abstract
4:00 p.m. Instrument Simulation --Why, What to Expect, What tools to use
Bob Jackson
Abstract
4:30 p.m.
Dinner on your own
Wed, 9/17
HEMS Workshop
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Ocean Grand Foyer
8:30 a.m.
Technical Session IV: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
8:30 a.m. Novel ship-based and submersible Membrane Inlet-Photo-Ionization Mass Spectrometer (MI-PIMS) for on-line detection of fuel spills, environmental contaminants and TNT in sea water
Ralf Zimmermann
Abstract
9:00 a.m. Simultaneous MIMS and UV/VIS absorption for chemical reaction kinetic studies exemplified by disinfection byproduct formation from environmental contaminants
Frants Lauritsen
Abstract
9:30 a.m. SPionĀ®: Flexible Ion Guide for Mass Spectrometry
Mazdak Taghioskoui
Abstract
10:00 a.m.
Mid-morning Break, Grand Ocean Foyer
10:30 a.m.
Technical Session V:Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
10:30 a.m. Design and Performance of a Person-portable Two-dimensional Tandem Mass Spectrometer for Machine-Learning Enhanced Identification of Threats
Dalton Snyder
Abstract
11:00 a.m. Integration of the Submersible Under-Ice Mass Spectrometer (SUIMS) with the Icefin ROV for Dissolved Gas Measurements at the Grounding Zone of a Marine-Terminating Glacier
Jorge Coppin-Massanet
Abstract
11:30 noon
Lunch on your own
1:30 p.m. Technical Session VI:Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
1:30 p.m. A New Aerosol Threat Detector
Gottfried Kibelka
Abstract
2:00 p.m. Multimodal Ionization Strategies for Broad-Spectrum Threat Detection with a Miniature Field Mass Spectrometer
Nathan Grimes
Abstract
2:30 p.m. Afternoon Break, Grand Ocean Foyer
3:00 p.m.
Technical Session VII: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
3:00 p.m. Vertical transport of biogenic CO2, O2 and DO2/Ar in eddies and at fronts is revealed by submersible mass spectrometer
Brice Loose
Abstract
3:30 p.m. Development of the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer (DraMS) for Titan
Desmond Kaplan
Abstract
6:30 p.m.
Workshop Dinner, Ocean Grand Foyer
Thu, 9/18
HEMS Workshop
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Ocean Grand Foyer
8:30 a.m.
Technical Session VIII: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
8:30 a.m. Standoff Laser Ablation Mass Analyzer (LAMA) for Lunar Surface Analysis
Xiang Li
Abstract
9:00 a.m. Under Water Coded Aperture Miniature Mass Spectrometer for Measurements of Methane Content in the Ocean
Raphael Bento Serpa or Jason Amsden
Abstract
9:30 a.m. Extraterrestrial Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI): Development of Flight-Like Prototype
William Brinkerhoff
Abstract
10:00 a.m.
Mid-morning Break, Ocean Grand Foyer
10:30 a.m.
Technical Session IX: Ocean Grand Ballroom Cape Charles
10:30 a.m. Underwater Mass Spectrometry Advancements for Real-time Geochemical Analysis of Deep-sea Cold Seeps
Ryan Bell
Abstract
11:00 a.m. Concurrent Cloud Distributed Simulation with Space Charge using SIMION
Mark Osgood
Abstract
11:30 a.m. Surface Induced Dissociation (SID) with Quadrupole Mass Filters: MS/MS without Collision Gas
Randy Pedder
Abstract
12:00 noon Closing Remarks
12:00 noon
Workshop Ends