North Atlantic Chapter - SETAC  

North Atlantic Chapter
of the
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

 

12th Annual Meeting, Portland, ME
2006 Short Course
"Innovative Techniques for Sampling Contaminated Sediment, Surface Water, and Porewater"



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  • Introduction to sediment, surface water, and porewater sampling
    (Meg McArdle, Menzie-Cura Associates, Inc.)
  • Recent advances in surface water sampling and monitoring equipment
    (Mark Huggins, YSI, Inc.)
  • Break (with opportunity to look at sampling and monitoring equipment)
  • Use of In-situ Dializers for Determination of Sediment Porewater Contaminant Concentrations or “What is Porewater, and Who Cares?”
    (A. Lee Gustafson, PG, CHMM, LSP, Principal Hydrogeologist, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.)
  • Use of Acoustic and Imagery Data to Characterize Benthic Habitats
    (Tom Waddington, SAIC)
  • Lunch (served on site)
  • Passive organic contaminant samplers
    (Dr. Rainer Lohmann, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island)
  • Free ion measurements in surface water
    (Dr. James Shine, Harvard University)
  • Break
  • Direct push porewater sampling methods
    (Janet Robinson, Woodard & Curran, and Alan Parsons, ENTRIX)
  • Syringe-based porewater sampling methods
    (John Williams, Aquatec Biological Sciences)
  • Course wrap up
    (Mike Thompson, Woodlot Alternatives, Inc.)

 

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