Karen D. Sam is an Application Scientist and Lab Manager at CDS Analytical. She has over 20 years ofexperience in sample preparation and analysis, including 15 years in application developmentexperience, supporting the design and testing of analytical pyrolysis instruments. She is the authoror co-author of several professional papers on the use of analytical pyrolysis. She holds an A.A.degree from Cottey College in Nevada, MO, and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from BloomsburgUniversity, in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.Thomas P. Wampler earned his B.S. degree (1970) in chemistry and an M.Ed. degree (1973) innatural science from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. Currently retired, he wasactively engaged in the field of analytical pyrolysis for over 25 years. He was the director ofscience and technology at CDS Analytical, LLC, in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He is the author andcoauthor of numerous professional papers on the use of analytical pyrolysis and other thermalsampling techniques.