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Students
learn how to analyze soil samples for metals in the field
using the Niton XRF analyzer. To make things more interesting,
everyone brought samples with them to the class to analyze,
which made for some interesting discussions in the field.
Students
also learn proper soil sample collection and preparation methods
using US EPA Method 5035 for volatiles. Here students weigh
soil samples prior to sample preservation using methanol.
Windy field conditions made things a little tricky, but ingenuity
created a wind break to ensure that the balances would work
properly.
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Students
learn correct ground-water sampling techniques as they operate
a gear-drive pump in one of the Field School's training wells
installed at Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park. Students learn
why it is so important to implement good QA/QC during all
aspects of well purging and sampling to ensure that the most
representative sample possible is ultimately submitted to
a laboratory for analysis.
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This intensive
four-day field course features classroom and field instruction
on sampling strategies, methods and equipment for soil, soil
gas, ground water, surface water, and sediment.
The first day
of the class sets the stage for the next three days (featuring
three field sessions) by covering preparation of effective
multi-media sampling and analysis plans; strategies for sampling
environmental media; field QA/QC; field equipment calibration,
operation and decontamination; sample handling and shipment;
and documentation of environmental sampling events.
Soil and soil
gas sampling strategies, methods and equipment and field sample
analytical methods are covered in detail on day two, which
includes a half-day field session. In this field session,
students collect data for site characterization purposes,
and they collect soil and ground-water samples and use a variety
of methods to analyze samples in the field. U.S. EPA Method
5035, for field collection and preservation of soil samples
for VOC analysis, is explained and demonstrated. Field analysis
methods include field portable gas chromatographs, x-ray fluorescence,
analyte-specific field kits, and immunoassay.
Ground-water
sampling methodologies, equipment and techniques and field
indicator parameter analysis are covered in detail on day
three, which includes a half-day field session. In this field
session, students sample ground-water monitoring wells using
electric submersible pumps and bladder pumps, learn correct
procedures for sample collection, filtration and preservation,
and learn traditional and low-flow purging and sampling methods
as well as no-purge sampling techniques.
On the final
day of the course, stream flow measurement methods and surface
water, and sediment sampling strategies, methods and equipment,
are covered in depth. In the final field session, emphasis
is placed on collecting stream-flow data and collecting samples
of surface water and sediment and analyzing those samples
in the field.
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Students
in Las Cruces, NM relax before heading home after completing
their final field sessions on surface water and sediment sampling.
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The Environmental Sampling Field Course.
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Massachusetts
Licensed Site Professionals (MA LSPs)
Credit Hours: 32 / Course Number: 1034
Connecticut Licensed Environmental Professionals (CT LEPs)
Credit Hours: 32 / Course Number: 067
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - Corrective Action
Project Managers (TCEQ CAPMs)
Credit
Hours: 32
Oklahoma Remediation Consultants
Credit
Hours: 32
Iowa Landfill Operators
Credit
Hours: 23.5
Iowa Drilling Contractors
Credit
Hours: 23.5
Ohio EPA
Voluntary Action Program (OH VAP) Certified Professionals
Credit
Hours: 33
West Virginia
Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) Licensed Remediation
Specialists
Credit
Hours: 32
There
are as many different ways to calculate "Continuing Education
Units" (CEUs) as there are programs that accept our courses
for earning continuing education credit. Contact the program
you are working with to determine exactly how it calculates
CEUs.
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