Dave is a chemical metrologist with particular expertise in chemometrics, experimental design, exploratory data analysis, graphical communications, interlaboratory comparisons, measurement uncertainty, and quality assurance/control. He is an advocate for R&D at interfaces of chemistry, biology, and measurement science. His current interests include better approaches to the: evaluation of chemical purity, demonstration of comparability among reference materials that nominally deliver the same measurands, and summarization of chemical data that have defined measurement uncertainties.
Awards:
- W.J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing, American Statistical, 2000
- US DOC Bronze Medal Award, 2002
- NIST Edward Bennett Rosa Award, 2003
- JCTLM Recognition of Achievement, 2007
- CITAC Most Interesting/Important Papers on Metrology in Chemistry, 2007
- US DOC Gold Medal Award, 2008
Membership and Professional Activities:
- Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
- Member, Expression of Uncertainty in Clinical Measurement C51, 2004 - present
- Member, Evaluation Protocols Committee, 2006 – present
- Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM)
- Member, Quality Systems Team, 2003 - present
- North American Chapter of the International Chemometrics Society (NAmICS)
- Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, 1990 – 1993
- Membership Secretary, 1993 – present
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Position:
Research Chemist
Analytical Chemistry Division
Employment History:
- Senior Research Chemist (Process), Monsanto, St. Louis 1979-1982
- Research Specialist (Synthesis), Monsanto, St. Louis 1982-1985
- Senior Research Specialist (Herbicide Discovery), Monsanto, St. Louis 1985-1990
- Research Chemist, NIST, 1991- present
Education:
- Chemistry, BS, University of Washington, Seattle 1967-1971
- NDEA Graduate Research, Arizona State University, Tempe 1971-1973
- Analytical Chemistry, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle 1973-1976
- Research Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson 1976-1977
- Senior Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle 1977-1979
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