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. |
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Everyone !!! |
Monday, August 2 – Pacific Daylight Time |
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Welcome and Introductions |
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EPA Program Presentations |
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NEMC: Best Management Practices for Environmental Laboratories |
NEMC: Shale Oil and Gas 10:30 – 12:00 |
TNI: Laboratory Accreditation |
Lunch on Your Own |
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Poster Sessions |
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NEMC: Crafting Consensus Methods for |
NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Environment (Session 1) |
TNI: Chemistry Expert Committee 1:30 – 5:00 |
Opening Reception and Exposition |
Tuesday, August 3 – Pacific Daylight Time |
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Poster Sessions and Exposition |
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Welcome |
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Keynote Address |
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NEMC: Air Monitoring Methods and Technology (Session 1) |
NEMC: Laboratory Informatics 9:00 – 12:00 |
TNI: Mentor Session |
Lunch Provided |
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NEMC: Environmental Sensors and Instrumentation |
NEMC: Identifying and Combatting Inap- propriate Laboratory Practices |
TNI: Mentor Session (Cont.) Laboratory Quality: Are You in Jeopardy? |
Innovative New Technology Showcase and Reception 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:
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Wednesday, August 4 – Pacific Daylight Time |
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Poster Session and Exposition |
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Welcome |
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Plenary Session: “Hitting Reset” |
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Lunch on your own |
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NEMC: Collaborative Efforts to Improve
1:30 – 5:00 |
NEMC: SARS CoV-2/Wastewater
1:30 – 5:00 |
TNI: Update of - Reinventing the Technical Manager, Aaren Alger |
Thursday, August 5 – Pacific Daylight Time |
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Welcome |
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Keynote Address |
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NEMC: Data Quality, Management, and Review |
NEMC: New Organic Monitoring |
TNI: Assessment Forum |
Lunch Provided |
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NEMC: Analyzing Microplastics in the Environment: |
NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances 1:00 – 5:00 |
TNI: Assessment Forum Unmasking the 2016 TNI Standard (Cont.) 1:00 – 5:00 |
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Monday, August 9 – Eastern Daylight Time |
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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) |
TNI: Laboratory Quality Systems 9:00 – 12:00 |
Lunch Presentation by Shimadzu Scientific Instruments |
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NEMC: California Efforts to Regulate |
NEMC: Instrumentation Focus: LCMS |
TNI: NELAP Accreditation Council TNI: Laboratory Accreditation System |
Tuesday, August 10 – Eastern Daylight Time |
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NEMC: Citizen Science in |
NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances |
TNI: Microbiology Expert Committee |
Lunch Presentation by Waters Corporation |
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NEMC: Drinking Water |
NEMC: Metals Analysis and |
TNI: Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing |
Wednesday, August 11 – Eastern Daylight Time |
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NEMC: Polyfluoroalkyl Substances |
NEMC: SARS CoV-2/Wastewater |
TNI: Proficiency Testing Program |
Lunch Presentation by Thermo Fisher Scientific |
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NEMC: New Organic Monitoring |
NEMC: Operational Issues Impacting the Environmental Laboratory Industry |
TNI: Field Activities Committee 1:00 – 5:00 |
Thursday, August 12 – Eastern Daylight Time |
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NEMC: Advances in High Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Its Emerging Environmental Applications |
NEMC: Collaborative Efforts to Improve 9:00 – 12:00 |
TNI: Advocacy Committee
9:00 – 12:00 |
Lunch Presentation by Agilent Technologies 12:15 – 12:45 |
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