Office of Research and Development Publications

FROM RECEIPT TO REPORT: 1000 SAMPLES, ONE ANALYST, ONE SHIFT USING AMBIENT-AIR SAMPLING MASS SPECTROMETRY

Citation:

GRANGE, A. H. AND G. SOVOCOOL. FROM RECEIPT TO REPORT: 1000 SAMPLES, ONE ANALYST, ONE SHIFT USING AMBIENT-AIR SAMPLING MASS SPECTROMETRY. Presented at Fifteenth International Conference on On-Site Analyses and Homeland Security, Baltimore, MD, January 28 - 31, 2007.

Impact/Purpose:

Provide state-of-the-science sampling, analysis, separation, and detection methods to allow rapid, accurate field and laboratory analyses of contaminated soils, sediments, biota, and groundwater to support Superfund clean-up decisions. Apply state-of-the-science methods in chemical analysis and data interpretation (e.g., mass spectral interpretation) to actual problems of OSWER, the Regions, and the States, in cooperation with the Las Vegas Technical Support Center as well as by direct contacts with Regional and State employees. Provide technical advice and guidance to OSWER using the environmental chemistry expertise (e.g., mass spectrometry, analytical methods development, clean-up methodology, inorganics, organometallics, volatile organics, non-volatile organics, semi-volatile organics, separation technologies, etc.) found within the branch.

Technical research support for various projects initiated either by Regions/Program Offices or ECB scientists. While these efforts will support the Regions and Program Offices, they cannot be predicted or planned in advance, and may serve multiple duty (e.g., solve real-world problems, serve to ground-truth analytical approaches that ECB is developing, transfer new technology). Many of the activities in this task support requests involving enforcement decisions and therefore are categorized as "environmental forensics".

Description:

There is no abstract available for this product. If further information is requested, please refer to the bibliographic citation and contact the person listed under Contact Field.

Record Details:

Record Type:DOCUMENT( PRESENTATION/ SLIDE)
Product Published Date:01/31/2007
Record Last Revised:10/26/2006
Record ID: 160113