Research and Professional Summary
Energy Dymanics Laboratory (2010 - 2012)
In 2010 Utah State University opened the Bingham Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center (BEERC) in Vernal Utah. While a faculty member at USU, Dr. Langley was heavily involved in the design and equipping of the BEERC research laboratories. Working with known and potential stake holders he coordinated the selection of the chemical analysis instrumentation to be purchased, set the bid requirements and evaluated bids received for each major instrument. Dr. Langley also directed the installation of puchased equipment and oversaw the initial operations of the chemical analysis laboratory at the BEERC. The total value of this instrumentation was nearly $1 million dollars. He also provided technical assistance to USU and USU Research Foundation in preparing the documentation for cost sharing of, and the operational use plan for, the BEERC instrumentation on a DOE earmark.
Leaving USU in June 2010, Dr. Langley accepted a position as a scientist with the Energy Dymanics Laboratory with primary responsibility for overseeing the chemical analysis laboratory in the BEERC.
Heat Plot and chromatograph for GC-MS analysis of derivitized water soluble compounds liberated from oil sands. | Assistant Professor Chemistry Utah State University - Uintah Basin Between 2005 and 2010, Dr. Langley was a member of the faculty at Utah State University - Uintah Basin. In this capacity he taught a wide range of chemistry courses including Principles of Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. He developed many new teaching methods and sought to bring the curriculum in line with the needs of the modern student. As part of this work he planned and directed a $250,000 upgrade all of chemistry instrumentation for the teaching laboratories. This included the purchase of an NMR, GC-MS, and a FT IR. He also incorporated the Vernier LabQuest instrumentation into the teaching curriculum which provided state-of-the-art science education opportunities for students. His research focused on the GCMS characterization of water soluble Naphthenic acid species liberated from oil sands treated with a hot sodium hydroxide solution. Dr. Langley and his students presented papers at the 2008 ACS NORM/RMRM and the 2010 ASMS National Conference. |
Post Doctoral Studies (2001 - 2005)
Enviromental and Molecular Science Laboratory-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2003-2005)
While at EMSL, Dr. Langley was part of a team of scientists and engineers responsible for mantaining and improving the capacities of several FT-ICR mass spectrometers. In this role he worked extensively with engineers in implementing data acquistion and analysis software and hardware.
Sandia National Laboratory - Livermore (2002-2003)
During this one year appointment Dr. Langley developed software to implment Stored Waveform Inverse Fourier Transform capability on a Bruker Apex FTICR MS. The application was used in supporting structural characterization of protiens.
University of Washington - Dept. of Chemistry (2001-2002)
Worked on a wide range of mass spectrometric systems. Primarily focused on mating an ion funnel and electrospray source to a neutralization reionization mass spectrometer.
Graduate Studies - University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994 - 2002)
Research
Dr. Langley's graduate reserch focused on utilizing microwave spectroscopy and quadrupole mass spectrometry to characterize the chemical species formed in glow discharges. A significant amount of time was spent trying to observe the rotational spectrum of ozonide, or the negative ion of ozone. In addition to searches for ozonide, Dr. Langley also studied the pressure broadening of the silicon monfluoride cation by neon and argon. These studies included both modeling the pressure broadening using ATC theory and the determination of pressure broadening coefficients from experimental data.
During this period Dr. Langley created computer code to control and acquire data from an Extranuclear quadrupole mass spectrometer. Data analysis code was also developed.
Mass Spectrometriy Facility
Dr. Langley spent one year of his graduate studies working in the departmental mass spectrometry facility analyzing samples submitted by a wide variety of scientists. His work was primarily on a Waters (Micromass) Autospec instrument using EI and FAB ionization methods.
Teaching Laboratories
As a graduate student Dr. Langley, taught 21 semesters as a teaching assistant, primarily for the Physical Chemistry laboratory. This required the mastering of error analysis, a wide range of instrumentation, and developed strong skills in teaching students to utilize scientific instrumentation.
Above. Rotational transistion lines of ozone observed in a glow dischare. Right: rotational linewidth as a function of the change in pressure. |
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