2012 Technical Program
NEMC 2012 will feature over 100 presentations and posters organized into concurrent technical sessions from Monday through Thursday with a general session on Wednesday morning. A keynote address on a major topic will kick-off the start of each day. Abstracts and speaker biographies for each of the presentations will be posted on this site, as they become available. Note: Training courses will be held on Sunday, August 5; Monday, August 6; and Friday, August 10. Details of these courses are elsewhere and can only be attended by those who register for them.
The Forum on Laboratory Accreditation
The Forum on Laboratory Accreditation (the Forum) held concurrently with NEMC 2012, 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. The schedule for the Forum meetings can be found at www.nelac-institute.org. |
| The Chemistry of Red Wine: pH, SO2 and Phenolics | Al Verstuyft | Al Verstuyft Consulting LLC and Fickle Fermenters Wine Club |
| Challenges and Advances in the Ultra-Trace Analysis of Contaminated Sediments Using Isotope-Dilution (ID) SIM HRGC/HRMS | Bryan Vining | Analytical Perspectives |
| Determination of 137Cs Concentrations in Soil as a Function of Depth using Gamma Ray Spectroscopy | Sheldon Landsberger | University of Texas, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab |
| Selective, Low Sample Mass Invertebrate Sampling in Support of a Remedial Investigation with Potential Bioaccumulation of COPCs | Julia Caprio | Geosyntec Consultants |
| Monitoring of a Northeastern Lake Fishery Following the Removal of Sediments Containing Lead Chromate | Stephen Clough | Hayley and Aldrich |
| Monitoring the Efficacy and Environmental Effects of an In-situ Remedy for Contaminated Sediment | Charles Menzie | Exponent |
| Global Efforts to Monitor Stationary Source Emissions | Maria Friedman | TestAmerica Laboratories, Inc. |
| PM2.5 and Condensible Particulate Matter Regulatory Developments | Dave Ostaszewski | O'Brien & Gere |
| Community Air Monitoring for the Onondaga Lake Dredging Project | Scott Manchester | O’Brien & Gere Engineers, Inc. |
| Using the Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer (TAGA) Mobile Laboratory to Resolve Vapor Intrusion Issues – Interpretation of Multiple Lines of Evidence for Vapor Intrusion | David Mickunas | US EPA/Environmental Response Team |
| Critical Components of Risk Based RCRA Closure as Implemented at Chemical Weapons Destruction Facilities | Andrew Shaffer | Battelle Memorial Institute |
| A PBMS Response to Regulatory ICR Measurement Quality Objectives | Yves Tondeur | Analytical Perspectives |
| Benefits to Laboratory Accreditation | Roger Muse | ACLASS / ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board |
| A Comparison of TNI's Accreditation Standard to ISO?IEC 17025 | Jerry Parr | The NELAC Institute |
| Transparent and Open Recognition of Accreditation Bodies | Marlene Moore | Advanced Systems Inc. |
| ISO Guide 34 for Environmental Labs | Bill Hirt | ACLASS / ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board |
| ISO/IEC 17043 Proficiency Testing | Kelly Black | Neptune and Company |
| Conducting Programmatic Reviews to Strengthen Internal Controls for Quality and Management Integrity | Jeffrey Worthington | EPA Office of Environmental Information |
| Method Development and Research for Measuring Emissions from Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) Insulation | John Sebroski | Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI), Bayer MaterialScience LLC |
| Low-level TNMNEOC (Total Non-Methane, Non-Ethane Organic Carbon) Measurements | Sucha Parmar | Atmospheric Analysis and Consulting Inc. |
| A Rapid Method for the Confirmatory Analysis of Airborne Lewisite by Solid Sorbent Sampling and Liquid Chromatography/Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry | Milan Mraz | Battelle |
| Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Air | Anne Jurek | EST Analytical |
| Long Term Sampling with Mini Canisters-A Comparison With Sorbent Tubes | Allan Rossner | Clarkson University |
| Analysis of TO-15/TO-17 Air Toxics in Urban Air Using TD-GC/TOF MS and Automated Compound Identification Software | Nicola Watson | Markes International |
| EPA and Sustainability | Stephen Polasky | University of Minnesota |
| Developing a Reference Material for VOC Emissions Testing | Andrew Persily | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| A Statewide Survey of Trace Metals and Organic Chemicals in Municipal Wastewater | Lori Pillsbury | Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
| Development of a Method for Rapid Emissions Screening of Potential Alternative Diesel Fuels | Daniel Geller | University of Georgia |
| The Important Relationship Between Monitoring and Modeling | Lara Phelps | US EPA |
| EPA GeoPlatform: Increasing the Value of Monitoring and Modeling at EPA | Richard Allen | US Environmental Protection Agency |
| Pathogenic Bacteria in North American Soils: A Joint USGS-USEPA Survey | Dale Griffin | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Modeling Spatio-Temporal, Genetic, and Environmental Patterns of Anthrax Outbreaks in Texas and Montana | Jason Blackburn | University of Florida |
| Land Use Scenarios to Assess Global Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystems | Phil Morefield | U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment |
| Advocacy Support for the Environmental Testing Industry | Robert Wyeth | Pace Analytical Services, Inc. |
| The Use of an Internet Based Learning Management System in a Multi Site Laboratory | Bruce Warden | Pace Analytical Services Inc. |
| DOE Consolidated Audit Program | George Detsis | US Department of Energy |
| Frequency of Analyte Detections in Environmental Samples | Mark Bruce | TestAmerica Inc. |
| Environmental Data Management – An EPA Perspective | Anand Mudambi | US EPA |
| Algal-Microbial Desalination System for Clean Energy, Water and Biomass Production | Veera Gnaneswar Gude | Mississippi State University |
| Phylogenetic Diversity of Coliform Isolates in USA | Wen-Tso Liu | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Validating New Microbiological Methods: How Equivalent Is Equivalent? | Colin Fricker | Analytical Services Inc. |
| Setting Up a qPCR Lab | Julie Kinzelman | City of Racine, Health Department Laboratory |
| Life Technologies Waterborne Pathogen Testing | Jeffrey Strain | Life Technologies |
| Microbiology Method Variability and Sensitivity in the Detection of Total Coliforms and E.coli | Shawn Kassner | ERA - A Waters Company |
| Auditing Microbilogical Laboratories | Debra Waller | New Jersey Dept. Of Environmental Protection |
| Collaborative Opportunities for Meeting Environmental Measurement and Monitoring Needs | Michael Shapiro | US EPA Office of Water |
| Collaboration in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater | John Gumpper | ChemVal Associates |
| Working with EPA to Improve Detection and Quantitation | Richard Burrows | TestAmerica Inc. |
| Collaboration with Other Analytical Fields: Adapting Food Safety Methodology for Environmental Monitoring Purposes | Kory Kelly | Phenomenex |
| Standard Methods and QA/QC Updates for Drinking Water and Wastewater – the Balancing Act of Regulatory Constraints | Andy Eaton | MWH Laboratories |
| Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together | Kim Kirkland | USEPA |
| Expedited Method Approval of Alternate Test Procedures for the Analysis of Contaminants Under the Safe Drinking Water Act | Glynda Smith | US EPA Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water/Standards and Risk Management Division/Technical Support Center |
| Further Validation of the Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater ICP/MS SOP | Richard Burrows | TestAmerica Inc. |
| Total Nitrogen-Present and Future | William Lipps | OI Analytical |
| Review of Methods 1664A and 1664B for HEM and SGT-HEM | Joe Stefkovich | Xenosep |
| Evaluation of Preservation Recommendations in SW-846 for Volatile Organic Chemicals in Aqueous Sample Matrices | Troy Strock | U. S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Low Level Phosphorus: A Method Comparison Study | Katie Adams | US EPA Region 10 |
| Development of a Multi-component (Organics and Inorganics) Reference Material with Analyte Concentrations at Levels Comparable to Those Most Commonly Analyzed by Environmental Laboratoties | Stuart Nagourney | NJDEP |
| Responding to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Interlaboratory Comparisons, Sample Protocol Development and Sample Archival | John Kucklick | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Coordinated Efforts in the Development of Mercury Monitoring Technologies and Quality Assurance Procedures for the Electric Utility Industry | Reynaldo Forte | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Partnering with Watershed Organizations to Produce Tributary-Specific Report Cards | Jonathan Kellogg | EcoCheck (NOAA-UMCES) |
| A Systematic Approach to Methods Development and Validation | William Telliard | United States Environmental Protection Agency (Retired) |
| The BP Oil Drilling Disaster: Two Years Later | Matt Rota | Gulf Restoration Network |
| Water Quality Trends | Roger Stewart | Virginia Department of Environmental Quality |
| WebEDR as a Web‐Based Automated Data Review Tool | Jack Krueger | APHL and EPA Co-Presentation |
| Using Excel as a Laboratory Data Checker at the Analytical Batch Level | Keith Kibbey | Lee County (Florida) |
| Using Excel as a Laboratory Data Checker at the Analytical Batch Level | Keith Kibbey | Lee County (Florida) |
| Native or Contamination? All A Matter of Perspective! | Stephen Zeiner | Environmental Standards, Inc. |
| Enhancing Data Quality with Electronic and Field Audits | Reynaldo Forte | EPA |
| Dioxin TEQ Calculators Using Kaplan-Meier Technique for Handling Nondetects | Deana Crumbling | USEPA |
| Ozone-based Treatment of Emerging Contaminants in Water | Rominder Suri | Temple University |
| The Use of 2-D IC for the Determination of Haloacetic Acids in Drinking Water | Richard Jack | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| High Resolution LC-MS for Screening and Quantitative Analysis of Antibiotics in Drinking Water Using an Orbitrap and Online Sample Preparation | Jia Wang | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Using Root Cause Analysis to Determine the Source of Total Coliform Contamination | Elizabeth Turner | North Texas Municipal Water District |
| Water Contaminant Information Tool | Adrian Hanley | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Region 7 and 8 Laboratory Full-Scale Exercise | Adrian Hanley | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Accelerated Solvent Extraction of Cr(VI) from Soil | Richard Jack | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Reagent-Free Solid Phase Extraction Disk for Method 1664 | Joe Boyd | Environmental Express |
| Trace Analysis of Compounds in Potable Water by On-Line SPE-LC/MS/MS | Joan Stevens | Agilent Technologies |
| Improved SPE for UPLC/MS Determination of Diquat and Paraquat in Environmental Samples | Michael Young | Waters Corporation |
| An Optimized Method for the Determination of Haloacetic Acids and Dalapon Using Quaternary Amine Anion Exchange SPE | Don Shelly | UCT LLC |
| Automated Solid Phase Extraction of Water Samples for EPA8270D | Phillip Bassignani | FMS, Inc |
| New Advances in the Automation of Cartridge Based Solid Phase Extraction for Supporting EPA 500 Series Methods | Michael Ebitson | Horizon Technology Inc. |
| Nanoparticle Analytical Analysis | Edward Askew | Askew Scientific Consulting |
| US EPA UPLC/MS/MS Method Development for Analytes of Concern | Lawrence Zintek | US EPA |
| Chemical Agent Sampling from Surfaces Using Solid Phase Extraction Disks | Thomas Malloy | Battelle |
| Trace Metals Analysis of Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater by ICP-MS | Stan Smith | Perkin Elmer |
| Introducing the eAir™ - A Leap Forward in the Collection and Analysis of Air Samples Using TO-15 | Chris Domaradzki | United Chemists |
| Evaluation of Preservation Recommendations in SW-846 for Volatile Organic Chemicals in Aqueous Sample Matrices | Troy Strock | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Challenges in PFC Analysis – Methods Comparisons | Ali Haghani | MWH Laboratories |
| Stability Assessment of Organophosphorous Pesticides During GCMS Analysis in the Presence of Analyte Protectants and Frequently Used Organic Solvents | Eduardo Morales | Weck Laboratories |
| Improved Analytical Results Using an Innovative Concentration Technique | Michael Flournoy | SGS and Genevac |
| Determination of PCDDs, PCDFs, Dioxin-like and Non-Dioxin-Like PCBs in Fish Samples – A Comparison between Pressurized Solvent Extraction and Soxhlet Extraction | Susanne Feifel | BUCHI Labortechnik AG |
| CWA (VX, GB and HD) Vapor Characterization at the General Population Level (GPL) Using the Army’s Optically Enhanced Flame Photometric Detector (ENFPD) | Gary Moffett | US Army Dugway Proving Ground |
| Evaluation of an Automated Air Sampling System: LESSTM | Kyle Hunt | Signature Science, LLC |
| Stability of VOC’s on a Sorbent Tube | Elizabeth Winger | Calscience Environmental Laboratories, Inc |
| Advances in the Analysis of Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewaters by ICP-MS | Steven Wilbur | Agilent Technologies |
| Myths and Mysteries Resolved - Chromium Speciation Analysis | Jay Gandhi | MetrohmUSA |
| An Improved Arsenic Speciation Method for Urine and Apple Juice | Dennis Yates | PerkinElmer Health Sciences |
| Does EPA Method 7471 Accurately Measure Mercury Concentrations in Fish? | Michelle Briscoe | Brooks Rand Labs |
| Evaluating the Effectiveness of Best Management Practices (BMPs): Synthesizing the Lessons Learned from Water Quality Studies Across the Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed | Ana Hernandez | UMCES/CPBO |
| SW-846: 2012 and Beyond | Amy Dahl | TechLaw, Inc. |
| Gasoline Range Organic Detection Using Headspace Sampling Techniques | Anne Jurek | EST Analytical |
| Decision Analysis as a Guide to Applying Data Validation Efforts in Environmental Data Collection Projects | David Gratson | Neptune and Company |
| Validation Study for the Analysis of Toxaphene and Toxaphene Congeners in Fish Tissue | Shen-yi Yang | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| Comparison of CVAFS with a New CVAA Instrument for the Measurement of Hg in Industrial Sludge | David Clarke | Cetac Technologies |
| One-Step Extraction and Concentration for Identifying Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Water, Biosolids and Solids | Tom Hall | FMS,Inc. |
| Analysis of Statistically-representative Human Health Fish Tissue Samples in the Great Lakes for Perfluorinated Compounds | John Wathen | U.S. EPA |
| A Better Way to Guard Your GC Column | Robert Wiedemer | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Rapid-Throughput Analysis for EPA Methods by ICP-AES and ICP-MS | Michael Sgroi | Cetac Technologies |
| Simultaneous Analysis of Available and Total Cyanide by Gas Diffusion Amperometry Methods USEPA OIA-1677 and ASTM D 7511 | William Lipps | OI Analytical |
| Determination of Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, Xylenes and Styrene in Olive Oil Using Headspace Extraction and Gas-Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry | David Scott | PerkinElmer Inc. |
| On-site Field Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback and Produced Waters | Scott Tucker | Hach Company |
| Automated Sample Preparation of Dissolved Gas in Water Samples | Anne Jurek | EST Analytical |
| Alternative Methods to RSK 175 Using Purge and Trap Concentration and Automated Headspace for the Analysis of Dissolved Gases in Drinking Water | Nathan Valentine | Teledyne Tekmar |