I bring over 30 years of experience in the business to the table –experience in laboratory instruments, portable and handheld analyzers, start-up and mature companies.
Resources
Professional Societies and Journals
Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS)
The premier professional society for applied spectroscopy
https://www.s-a-s.org/
Applied Spectroscopy
The SAS journal
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ASP/current
SPIE
SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light
http://www.spie.org
The Coblentz Society
The Coblentz Society’s purpose is to foster the understanding and application of vibrational spectroscopy
www.coblentz.org
Review Articles on Field Spectroscopy
Review articles covering miniature and portable instrumentation from NMR to near-infrared and Raman spectroscopy.
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, Field Portable Instrumentation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470027318/toc
My comprehensive (50 pages, 582 references) review article on portable spectroscopy has been published in Applied Spectroscopy as a ‘Focal Point’ article. Focal Point articles are ‘open access’, and thus are free to download.
See: https://doi.org/10.1177/0003702818809719
This is the December 2018 issue of the journal. Applied Spectroscopy, 2018, Vol. 72(12) 1701–1751.
Two-Volume Book on Portable Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
‘Portable Spectroscopy and Spectrometry’, edited in conjunction with Pauline Leary and Brooke Kammrath
Pharmaceutical Analysis With Portable Spectrometers
Richard Crocombe, “Pharmaceutical analysis with portable spectrometers”, European Pharmaceutical Review, 27(1), 8-13 (February 2022).
Scientific Meetings
FACSS/SCiX
The objective of FACSS is to provide an international forum in which representatives of academic, industrial, and government institutions, from diverse scientific disciplines, can participate and cooperate in an effort to confront the challenges of complex analytical problems and share their knowledge
http://www.facss.org/
The great SCIentific eXchange --- the national meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
https://www.scixconference.org/
Pittcon (The Pittsburgh Conference)
Pittcon is the leading conference and exposition for laboratory science featuring new technology and scientific research.
https://pittcon.org/
EAS (Eastern Analytical Symposium)
The Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS) is held each year to provide professional scientists and students continuing education in the analytical and allied sciences through the presentation of symposia of papers, workshops, and short courses. An exposition of apparatus and supplies allied to these sciences is held concurrently with the symposia. Usually held in Princeton, NJ
www.eas.org
SPIE Defense and SECURITY
The home of the 'Next-Generation Spectroscopic Technologies' Conference’ (NGST).
2026 in National harbor, MD, USA (Washington DC area)..
https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/defense-and-security
Portable Raman Spectroscopy and Fluorescence
Two papers in Applied Spectroscopy:
Richard A. Crocombe, Brooke W. Kammrath, Pauline E. Leary, Thomas J, Tague and William D. P. Costa, “LEGO blocks as “Standard” Samples for Evaluation of Fluorescence Avoidance and Mitigation in Raman Spectroscopy”, Appl. Spectrosc. 2024. 78(3): 340-348. DOI: 10.1177/00037028231221585. Cover paper in March 2024 issue.
Richard A. Crocombe, Pauline E. Leary, Brooke W. Kammrath, Thomas J. Tague, Jr., William D. P. Costa, and Michael D. Hargreaves, “Using LEGO Blocks for the Evaluation of Fluorescence Avoidance and Mitigation in Handheld Raman Spectrometers”. Applied Spectroscopy, June 2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/0003702825134848
