SS-16 Soil Sample Handling and Shipment

  • Teacher: Gillian Nielsen
  • Level: Intermediate
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  • Price: $ 159.00
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Soil Sample Handling and Shipment

Description

Your soil samples may have been collected using the highest degree of care, but your job is still not complete – the samples need to get to the laboratory in good condition, on time and in compliance with shipping regulations.   This module discusses options available for sample delivery to the laboratory, dealing with awkward samples that pose shipping difficulties, and how to ship samples that are classified as being hazardous under shipping regulations. You will learn about tamper-proofing mechanisms that should be used in many projects to protect the physical and chemical integrity of your samples, and learn why U.S. EPA’s definition of “hazardous” does not necessarily agree with shipping regulation definitions of hazardous. Learn why you need to know about IATA and DOT shipping regulations and why you need to be certified to ship hazardous environmental samples.

  • Special Problems Encountered When Shipping Soil and Rock Samples
  • Options for Getting Samples From the Field to the Laboratory
  • Preparing for Sample Shipment
  • Discussion of ASTM Standard D 6911 on Packaging and Shipping Environmental Samples for Laboratory Analysis
  • Mechanisms to Protect Samples From Tampering During a Sampling Event and Shipment to the Laboratory
  • Understanding the Role of Chain-of-Custody Forms – Their Purpose, When and How They Should be Completed
  • Overview of DOT and IATA Shipping Regulations and How These Regulations Affect Getting Samples to the Laboratory
  • How to Correctly Pack a Cooler Containing Uncontaminated Samples for Delivery
  • What Happens to Samples When They Arrive at the Laboratory

Total CEUs for Module SS-16: 1.2 CEUs

Price

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1 Day: $ 159.00

Teacher

Gillian Nielsen

Gillian Nielsen is Vice President of Nielsen Ground-Water Science, Inc. the parent company of The Nielsen Environmental E-School and The Nielsen Environmental Field School.  She is also Chairman of the International Certification Program for Environmental Samplers and Specialists.  She has 37 years of International experience as an environmental and ground-water consultant and trainer.  During her professional career she has developed, managed and implemented ground-water monitoring and sampling programs, soil gas monitoring investigations, multimedia environmental sampling programs, RCRA compliance audits, environmental site assessments and remediation programs at hazardous and non-hazardous waste sites in the U.S. and Canada. She has also played a key role in the development and management of corporate standard operating procedures as well as health and safety procedures and policies. 

Gillian specializes in developing and instructing a wide variety of field practice-oriented training programs for private industry, consulting firms, state and Federal regulatory agencies, universities, professional and trade associations. She has lectured extensively and taught hundreds of field courses on the topics of ground-water monitoring and sampling, environmental sampling and field sample analysis, design and implementation of soil gas investigations and RCRA compliance throughout the U.S. as well as Canada, England, Guatemala, Mexico and Australia. Gillian also conducts 8-hour health and safety refresher training courses for clients across the U.S. who are involved in environmental contamination investigation and remediation projects. In addition to training, she works closely with industry and consulting firms as a consultant conducting audits of field investigation activities, negotiating with PRPs and regulatory agencies, developing corporate standard operating procedures and health and safety plans and providing technical reviews of site investigation reports. She also works closely with environmental instrumentation companies in the evaluation of new equipment and in development of new instrumentation. 

Gillian was a 16-year member of the Editorial Board of Ground-Water Monitoring and Remediation and a member of the ASTM Subcommittee D-18.21 task group on ground-water sampling. She is the recipient of Ground Water Publishing Company's Outstanding Service Award for her work on the editorial board of the journal Ground-Water Monitoring and Remediation and has received several Standards Development Awards from ASTM. She has authored a number of scientific papers and written many ASTM Standards dealing with ground-water sampling, soil-gas monitoring, field analysis of environmental samples, and field decontamination procedures, and was a contributing author for first (1991) and second (2006) editions of The Practical Handbook of Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring as well as Technical Guidance on Low-Flow Purging and Sampling and Minimum- Purge Sampling (2002). She is also a co-editor and contributing author of the text The Essential Handbook of Ground-Water Sampling, published in January 2007. Gillian frequently provides technical reviews of state and Federal regulatory agency technical guidance documents. Gillian holds B.Sc. degrees in geography (hydrology) and biology (aquatic) from Trent University in Ontario Canada.

Courses by this teacher

Name Level Release Date
ES-01: Planning an Effective EnvironmentalSampling ProgramThe Sampling Analysis Plan 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-02: Developing A Conceptual Site Model & Fine Tuning it With Site Reconnaissance 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-03: Strategies for Three-Dimensional Sampling of Environmental Media 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-04: Field Equipment Decontamination Procedures for Multi-Media Environmental Sampling 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-05: Field Quality Assurance/Quality Control Practices for Multi-Media Environmental Sampling 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-06: Environmental Sample Handling and Shipment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-07: Documentation of Environmental Sampling Events 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-13: Soil Sample Handling and Processing Using U.S. EPA Method 5035B – Introduction; Use of Volumetric Sample Collection Methods 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-14: Soil Sample Handling and Processing Using U.S. EPA Method 5035B – Use of Chemical Preservation/Extraction Methods 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-15: Field Sample Analysis Options for Soil Samples 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-25 Field Water-Quality Indicator Parameter Measurement During Well Purging 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-26 Ground-Water Sample Filtration 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-27 Ground-Water Sample Preservation 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-28 Overview of Aquatic Systems and Sampling Strategies for Surface Water 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-29 Overview of Surface-Water Sampling Devices 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-30 Overview of Sampling Strategies and Sampling Devices for Sediment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-31 Waste Sampling Strategies and Methods -- Planning a Waste Sampling Program; Sampling Strategies and Devices for Drums, Tanks and Other Containers 01/29/2017 22:03:52
ES-32 Waste Sampling Strategies and Methods -- Sampling Strategies and Devices for Dumps and Landfills; Stockpiles and Waste Piles; Lagoons, Basins and Pits; Artifactual Sampling 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-16 Field Decontamination Procedures for Ground-Water Sampling Equipment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-17 Field Quality Assurance/Quality Control Practices for Ground-Water Sampling Events 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-25 Field Water-Quality Indicator Parameter Measurement During Well Purging 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-26 Ground-Water Sample Filtration 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-27 Ground-Water Sample Preservation 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-28 Ground-Water Sample Handling and Shipment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-29 Documentation of Ground-Water Sampling Events 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-01 Planning an Effective Soil Sampling Program – The Sampling & Analysis Plan 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-02 Developing a Conceptual Site Model and Fine-Tuning it With Site Reconnaissance 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-03 Strategies for Three-Dimensional Sampling of Soil 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-04 Field Equipment Decontamination Procedures for Soil Sampling 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-05 Field Quality Assurance/Quality Control Practices for Soil Sampling 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-11 Soil Sample Handling and Processing Using U.S. EPA Method 5035B – Introduction; Use of Volumetric Sample Collection Methods 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-12 Soil Sample Handling and Processing Using U.S. EPA Method 5035B – Use of Chemical Preservation/Extraction Methods 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-13 Field Sample Analysis Options for Soil Samples 01/29/2017 22:03:52
SS-16 Soil Sample Handling and Shipment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-15 Planning and Executing a Successful Ground-Water Sampling Event 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-16 Field Decontamination Procedures for Ground-Water Sampling Equipment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-17 Field Quality Assurance/Quality Control Practices for Ground-Water Sampling Events 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-25 Field Water-Quality Indicator Parameter Measurement During Well Purging 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-26 Ground-Water Sample Filtration 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-27 Ground-Water Sample Preservation 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-28 Ground-Water Sample Handling and Shipment 01/29/2017 22:03:52
GWM-29 Documentation of Ground-Water Sampling Events 01/29/2017 22:03:52
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