Richard Russo, Xianglei Mao, Dale Perry and Inhee Choi of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, and their co-workers at other institutions named below, received the 2011 Elsevier/Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award for a series of three papers focused on a novel approach of performing accurate isotopic analysis called Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry (LAMIS). LAMIS, which was developed by Russo and co-workers, represents a joint effort of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley), Applied Spectra, Inc. (Fremont, CA) and NASA-Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA).

The group of papers selected for the Award is the following:

R.E. Russo, A.A. Bol'shakov, X. Mao, C.P. McKay, D.L. Perry, O. Sorkhabi. Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry. Spectrochim. Acta Part B 66 (2011) 99–104.

X. Mao, A.A. Bol'shakov, D.L. Perry, O. Sorkhabi, R.E. Russo. Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry: Parameter influence on boron isotope measurements. Spectrochim. Acta Part B 66 (2011) 604–609.

X. Mao, A.A. Bol'shakov, I. Choi, C.P. McKay, D.L. Perry, O. Sorkhabi, R.E. Russo. Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry: Strontium and its isotopes. Spectrochim. Acta Part B 66 (2011) 767–775.