Table 1.

Listing of oral and poster presentations from the Joint NIST/AGA Workshop on Odor Masking

Oral Presentations:
Odorization and Odor Masking in the Natural Gas Industry, Ms. Rosemarie Halchuk, PE, Gas Quality Engineer, Xcel Energy, Denver, CO
Chronicle of NIST Research Related to Natural Gas, Dr. Thomas J. Bruno, Group Leader, Thermophysical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO.
Age Associated Loss of Selectivity in Human Olfactory Sensory Neurons, Dr. Diego Restrepo, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, (Director, Neuroscience Program) University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO.
Presence of the Solitary Chemosensory Cells in the Airways: Involvement in the response to Irritants and Neuorgenic Inflammation, Dr. Marco Tizzano, Research Associate, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO
Cognitive Influences on Adaptation and Sensitization to Odors, Dr. Pamela Dalton, Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA
Detection of Odor Mixtures by Humans, Dr. Paul M. Wise, Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA
Odor Mixture Perception in Rodents—Effects of Odor Identity, Experience, Motivation and Concentration, Dr. Sasha Devore, Research Associate Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Whence Odor Masking: Olfaction as a Nonlinear System, Dr. William Cain, Professor of Surgery (otolaryngology), School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA.
Change of Viscosity in DNA and Mucosal Systems, Dr. Jessica Burger, Research Associate, NIST, Thermophysical Properties Division, NIST, Boulder, CO.
Overview of Research Activities at the Rocky Mountain Taste & Smell Center, Dr. Thomas E. Finger, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO.
Overview of Research Activities at Monell Chemical Senses Center, Dr. Pamela Dalton, Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Poster Presentations:
The American Gas Association, Ali Quraishi, AGA.
Thermophysical Properties Division, Daniel G. Friend, NIST.
Experimental Properties of Fluids Group, Thomas J. Bruno, NIST.
Theory and Modeling of Fluids Group, Marcia L. Huber, NIST.
Olfactory Oscillations and the Respiratory Cycle in Humans, H. Gunney and T. J. C. Jacob, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Methodological Factors in Odor Detection by Humans, Toshio Miyazawa, Michelle Gallagher, George Preti, Paul M. Wise, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Why We Don’t Know More About Odor Masking and How To Solve the Problem, William S. Cain, Chemosensory Perception Laboratory, University of California, San Diego CA.
If You Do Not Like it Now, You Will Not Like it Later: Self Adaptation Does Not Have an Effect—Hedonic Valence of Some Odors, Claudia Damhuis and Charles J. Wysocki, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Gas Leak Detection: Human Factors’ Considerations, Michael S. Wogalter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Kenneth R. Laughtery, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Fluid-Clay Interactions, Keith E. Miller and Thomas J. Bruno, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO.
Heats of Adsorption and Interaction Determinations of Natural Gas Odorants on Surrogate Soil Surfaces, Keith E. Miller and Thomas J. Bruno, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO.
Directed Attention Increases Sensitivity to Target But Not Background Odors, Jeanmarie Diamond, Paul A. S. Breslin, Pamela Dalton, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Component Concentration Influences Perceptual Quality of Binary Odor Mixtures, Ann Marie McNamara, Phillip Magidson and Christiane Linster, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Configurational and Elemental Odor Mixture Perception Can Arise From Local Inhibition, Christiane Linster and Thom Cleland, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Intramodal Blocking Between Olfactory Stimuli in Rats, E. L. Giannaris, T. A. Cleland and C. Linster, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
An Application for a New Three Dimensional Model of the Main Olfactory Bulb in Examining the Effects of Aging on the Main Olfactory System, Ernesto Salcedo and Diego Restrepo, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center.
Viscosity of a Model Cystic Fibrosis Sputum over an Extended Temperature Range, Jessica Burger, Arno Laesecke, Thomas J. Bruno, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO.
G-protein α-Gustducin and TrpM5 Channel in Solitary Chemosensory Cells are Necessary for the Trigeminal Respiratory Depression Response Elicited by the Bitter Compound Denatonium Benzoate, Marco Tizzano, University of Colorado, Denver, A. Vandenbeuch, University of Colorado, Denver, W. L. Silver, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, T. E. Finger, University of Colorado, Denver.
NYSEARCH Voluntary Research, Development & Demonstration Organization and Example Commercial Leak Detector, Daphne D’Zurko, NYSEARCH, Needham Heights, MA.
REFPROP, Eric Lemmon, Marcia L. Huber, Mark O. McLinden, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO.
New Techniques for Product On Demand Design, Michael Frenkel, Robert Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Chris Muzny, Andrei Kazakov, Joe Magee, Ken Kroenlein, Ilmutdin Abdulagatov, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO.