Preliminary Technical Program

The NEMC Technical Program is organized into 28 breakout sessions in four separate tracks, a plenary session, and 4 luncheon presentations. Each NEMC technical session consists of 4 – 8 oral presentations. The TNI sessions are primarily meetings of TNI committees and special sessions on laboratory quality, assessor issues, and updates on TNI activities. 

All NEMC sessions and TNI meetings are open to all attendees according to your registration. Attendees have the ability to view each presentation live or view a recorded version that will be made available shortly after the presentation. Registration is by full conference, which includes all In-Person and virtual events, or daily for the In-Person portion of the conference. For virtual-only registration, you may choose specific tracks or full virtual conference.

Below you will find the Program for both weeks of the conference. Tracks are color-coded for your convenience: note the key at the top of the program. The EPA program presentations, plenary session, lunch speakers, and poster session are included with any virtual registration and with full conference in-person registrations.

The Forum on Environmental Accreditation

The Forum on Environmental Accreditation (the Forum) held concurrently with NEMC, is the principal conference for addressing policy and technical issues affecting the accreditation of environmental laboratories in addition to field sampling and measurement organizations. The Forum features open public meetings of all TNI committees to allow quality professionals, chemists, analysts, microbiologists, engineers, and managers from federal and state agencies; commercial, municipal, state and federal laboratories; and many others who are actively involved and interested in laboratory accreditation issues to review what has been done and participate in the efforts to establish a national program for environmental laboratories and field sampling and measurement organizations. Details for the Forum meetings can be found at www.nelac-institute.org.

Track Color Key

Track 1
Analytical Chemistry

Track 2
Environmental Monitoring

Track 3
Emerging Contaminants

Track 4
Lab Operations/Mgt.

Track 5
TNI Sessions

Everyone !!!

 

Monday, August 2 –  Pacific Daylight Time

Welcome and Introductions
8:00 – 8:30

EPA Program Presentations
Updates from the Safe Drinking Water Program, Solid Waste Program and Clean Water Program
8:30 – 10:00

NEMC: Best Management Practices for Environmental Laboratories
10:30 – 12:00

NEMC: Shale Oil and Gas

10:30 – 12:00

TNI: Laboratory Accreditation
Body Committee

10:30 – 12:00

Lunch on Your Own
12:00 – 1:30

Poster Sessions
12:00 – 5:00

NEMC: Crafting Consensus Methods for
Environmental Sampling and Measurement

1:30 – 5:00

NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Environment (Session 1)
1:30 – 5:00

TNI: Chemistry Expert Committee

1:30 – 5:00

Opening Reception and Exposition
5:30 – 7:00

 

Tuesday, August 3 – Pacific Daylight Time

Poster Sessions and Exposition
7:30 – 5:00

Welcome
8:00 – 8:15

Keynote Address
Leading Through Effective Communication
Rick Parmely, Polished and Professional, LLC
8:15 – 9:00

NEMC: Air Monitoring Methods and Technology (Session 1)
9:00 – 12:00

NEMC: Laboratory Informatics

9:00 – 12:00

TNI: Mentor Session
Laboratory Quality: Are You in Jeopardy?

9:00 – 12:00

Lunch Provided
(In-Person Attendees)
12:00 – 1:00

NEMC: Environmental Sensors and Instrumentation
1:00 – 3:00

NEMC: Identifying and Combatting Inap- propriate Laboratory Practices
1:00 – 3:00

TNI: Mentor Session (Cont.) Laboratory Quality: Are You in Jeopardy?
1:00 – 3:00

Innovative New Technology Showcase and Reception
(In-Person Attendees)
3:30 – 5:30

The Innovative New Technology Showcase allows up to twelve (12) organizations to showcase innovative new technologies such as sensors, sampling devices, personal monitoring devices, and other new or innovative approaches to environmental monitoring. The Showcase will feature:

  • A table set-up in an interactive setting;
  • A 5-minute platform speaking opportunity to present each technology; and
  • A networking reception with attendees following the presentations

 

 

Wednesday, August 4 – Pacific Daylight Time

Poster Session and Exposition
7:30 – 3:30

Welcome
8:15 – 8:30

Plenary Session: “Hitting Reset”
Christopher Frey, USEPA, Office of Research and Development
Bob Persciasepe, Environmental Protection Network
Panel led by Paul Anastas, Yale school of Public Health: New Thinking, New Paths to a Sustainable Future
8:30 – 12:00

Lunch on your own
12:00 – 1:30

NEMC:  Collaborative Efforts to Improve
Environmental Monitoring (Session 1)

 

1:30 – 5:00

NEMC:  SARS CoV-2/Wastewater
Testing - State of the Science (Session 1)

 

1:30 – 5:00

TNI: Update of
TNI Activities

- Reinventing the Technical Manager, Aaren Alger
- Applying Management System Concepts to
Environmental Activities, Marlene Moore
- Benefits of Accreditation for Field Sampling and
Measurement Organizations, Justin Brown
- TNI’s Training Efforts, Calista Daigle
- State of National Accreditation, Jerry Par
- TNI’s Mentor Initiative, Jacob Oaxaca
1:30 – 5:00

 

Thursday, August 5 – Pacific Daylight Time

Welcome
8:00 – 8:15

Keynote Address
Environmental Testing Laboratories and COVID 19: Not Such Strange Bedfellows
Dr. Eric Blank, Association of Public Health Laboratories
8:15 – 9:00

NEMC: Data Quality, Management, and Review
9:00 – 12:00

NEMC: New Organic Monitoring
Techniques (Session 1)
9:00 – 12:00

TNI: Assessment Forum
Unmasking the 2016 TNI Standard
9:00 – 12:00

Lunch Provided
12:00 – 1:00

NEMC: Analyzing Microplastics in the Environment:
Striving to Better Assess Occurrence, Fate and Effects (Session 1)
1:00 – 5:00

NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
(PFAS) in the Environment (Session 2)

1:00 – 5:00

TNI: Assessment Forum Unmasking the 2016 TNI Standard (Cont.)

1:00 – 5:00

 

Track Color Key

Track 1
Analytical Chemistry

Track 2
Environmental Monitoring

Track 3
Emerging Contaminants

Track 4
Lab Operations/Mgt.

Track 5
TNI Sessions

Everyone !!!

 

Monday, August 9 – Eastern Daylight Time

NEMC: Air Monitoring Methods & Technology (Session 2)

9:00 – 12:00

NEMC: Analyzing Microplastics in the Environment: Striving to Better Assess Occurrence, Fate and Effects (Session 2)
9:00 – 12:00

TNI: Laboratory Quality Systems
Committee

9:00 – 12:00

Lunch Presentation by Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Environmental LCMS based applications – What is allowed vs What is possible
12:15 – 12:45

Shimadzu

NEMC: California Efforts to Regulate
Microplastics
1:00 – 5:00

NEMC: Instrumentation Focus: LCMS
1:00 – 5:00

TNI: NELAP Accreditation Council
1:00 – 3:00

TNI: Laboratory Accreditation System
Executive Committee (LASEC)
3:15 – 5:00

Tuesday, August 10 – Eastern Daylight Time

NEMC: Citizen Science in
Environmental Monitoring
9:00 – 12:00

NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
(PFAS) in the Environment (Session 3)
9:00 – 12:00

TNI: Microbiology Expert Committee
9:00 – 12:00

Lunch Presentation by Waters Corporation
Analytical Concerns Associated with Emerging Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Jennifer Robinson, Wellington Laboratories
12:15 – 12:45

Waters

NEMC: Drinking Water
1:00 – 5:00

NEMC: Metals Analysis and
Remediation
1:00 – 5:00

TNI: Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing
Expert Committee
1:00 – 5:00

Wednesday, August 11 – Eastern Daylight Time

NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
(PFAS) in the Environment (Session 4)
9:00 – 12:00

NEMC: SARS CoV-2/Wastewater
Testing: State of the Science (Session 2)
9:00 – 12:00

TNI: Proficiency Testing Program
Executive Committee
9:00 – 12:00

Lunch Presentation by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Targeted Quantitation Workflow with Orbitrap GC-MS and CDS: PAHs and PCBs in Soil Extracts
12:15 – 12:45

Thermo Fisher Scientific

NEMC: New Organic Monitoring
Techniques (Session 2)
1:00 – 5:00

NEMC: Operational Issues Impacting the Environmental Laboratory Industry
1:00 – 5:00

TNI: Field Activities Committee

1:00 – 5:00

Thursday, August 12 – Eastern Daylight Time

NEMC: Advances in High Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Its Emerging Environmental Applications
9:00 – 12:00

NEMC: Collaborative Efforts to Improve
Environmental Monitoring (Session 2)

9:00 – 12:00

TNI: Advocacy Committee

 

9:00 – 12:00

Lunch Presentation by Agilent Technologies

12:15 – 12:45

Agilent Technologies