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Group Jobs

Job Responsibility Assigned Group Member
Safety Captain Ensures compliance with safety policy, group job assignments, and overall cleanliness for all laboratories.  Bharat
Chemical inventory Maintains chemical inventory Ruth Viboh
HPLC and other chromatography including supplies Maintains HPLC and keeps a supply of chromatography equipment on hand.  Also maintains inventory of columns and log books for their condition. Cameron Hilton
Glassware and sundry laboratory supplies Small items (e.g. TLC plates, etc) and glassware. Does not order chemicals or plumbing. Jeremy Crowfoot
Nitrogen Verifies that full nitrogen cylinders are available. Radha Bhola
Small Equipment Enforces maintenance schedules; watches for “equipment abuse,” including waste of gaseous nitrogen and failure to use liquid nitrogen in pump traps.  Keeps pump oil on hand.  Calibrates balances and ensures their cleanliness.  Monitors rotovap use and keeps spare rotovap parts on hand.  Includes hot plates, vacuum pumps, ovens, rotary, evaporators, balances, syringe pump, and Rayonett photoreactor. Matt Hilton
Stills and solvent purification system Maintain THF still and solvent purification system Pawel Rempala
NMR, IR, UV, and analysis supplies Keeps on hand: NMR tubes, solvents, labels, etc., mailing supplies and labels for exact mass and combustion analysis, keeps IR samples press, IR and UV cells. Ruth Viboh
Fluorine line, pipe fittings, valves, o-rings etc. Keeps a supply of fittings, valves, and o-rings on hand.  Keeps the fluorine/aHF equipment in safe working order.  Organization and maintenance of all regulators.  Gas cylinder safety.  Orders fittings, regulators, tubing, etc. Ben King
Tools Ensures tool kit is organized and tools are used properly and returned promptly. Ben King
Glove box Care, feeding, and training for the glove box. Bharat
Computers, laboratory printers Installs software, maintains licenses, and monitors appropriate usage.  Makes sure things work.  Maintains printing supplies:  paper, toner, etc. Pawel Rempala and Jeremy Crowfoot
Group SIL Liaison Training and assistance on SIL instruments Cameron Hilton
Group Crystallographer Solving group crystals and preparing data for publication. Bharat (Cameron Hilton to assist)
CB102 Entrance Area Handle incoming shipments - log new chemicals, store supplies and equipment, keep receiving area clean. Radha Bhola
Waste Management Generate and submit waste information for waste disposal for all laboratories. Ruth Viboh/Matt Hilton
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