Principal Trainers

Our principal trainers, Professor O. David Sparkman and Frederick Klink, deliver training courses on mass spec with over fifty years of combined experience. Their goal is to deliver up to date training on the basics as well as leading edge technology developments.

O. David Sparkman

O. David Sparkman is currently an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California; Consultant to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Mass Spectrometry Data Center; President of ChemUserWorld.com; and a former American Chemical Society Instructor (1978–2006) and American Society for Mass Spectrometry Member-at-large for Education (2004–2006).

At the University of the Pacific, Prof. Sparkman teaches courses in mass spectrometry and analytical chemistry and manages the mass spectrometry facility. Over the past 28 years, he has developed and taught five different ACS courses in mass spectrometry; he holds positions on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the European Journal of Mass Spectrometry and the HD Science GC/MS Update – Part B; and is the Book Review Editor for the European Journal of Mass Spectrometry. He is the author of Mass Spectrometry Desk Reference (Global View Publishing: Pittsburgh, PA, 1st ed. 2000; 2nd ed. 2006). Prof. Sparkman is a member of the Editorial Boards of the John Wiley Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation and Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, Editor of and a contributor to the Mass Spectrometry Section of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation. Along with J. Throck Watson, he developed the Mass Spectral Interpretation Quick Reference Guide.

He also provides general consulting service in mass spectrometry for a number of instrument manufacturers, manufacturing companies, and government agencies.

Frederick Klink

Fred received a degree in biochemistry from Northwestern University and completed graduate studies in forensic chemistry at the University of Illinois. He spent seventeen years in the analytical instrument business where he held positions as an applications chemist, development project manager, product manager, marketing manager, and manager for strategic planning. Fred has been teaching highly regarded courses in mass spectrometry, solid-phase extraction, and protein analysis since 1996.

Fred's specialty is HPLC and SPE technologies and the application of mass spectrometry to protein characterization.  Fred is the author of several journal articles and two book chapters: one on LC/MS for the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (Wiley, 2010) and another on chromatography systems in Cunico, Gooding, And Wehr, Basic HPLC and CE of Biomolecules (BBL, 1998).  Fred is also a principal contributor to the monthly column MS Solutions.  He is a member of the American Chemical Society and American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Jack Throck Watson

After graduating from Iowa State University with a B.S. in chemical technology in 1961, Dr. Watson attended graduate school at MIT, earning a PhD in chemistry in 1965.

Following a tour of duty in the USAF, he began his academic career in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in 1969 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1974. In 1980, he was appointed Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Michigan State University (MSU), where he was also appointed Director of the MSU Mass Spectrometry Facility. For 19 years at MSU, Dr. Watson was Principal Investigator of an NIH Regional Resources in Mass Spectrometry.

During his academic research career, he mentored more than 40 graduate students in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and supervised 15 postdoctoral associates in research activities involving mass spectrometry. He published more than 150 scientific papers, 15 chapters in books, and four books.

In August 2006, he retired from MSU and is completing the fourth edition of his book on mass spectrometry.

Patrick Jones

Professor, University of the Pacific B.A., University of Texas, 1966; B.S., 1966; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.

Research focus: Physical processes of photochemistry; electron-impact excitation of adsorbed gases; development of metabolite analysis methods using mass spectrometry; oxygen atom chemistry; physical and biological aspects of organometallic complexes; physical aspects of the electrochemistry of sea water; Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry; mass spectrometry of biological compounds; applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to biological systems.

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