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Catalog 3020098 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/332; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
Statement of Work: The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Catalog 3060063 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
Statement of Work: The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Catalog 3070063 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/332; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
Statement of Work The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Catalog 7010030 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/575; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
Statement of Work The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Catalog 7030175 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/332; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Catalog 9050119 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/579; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
Statement of Work The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Catalog 9050135 - Analytical Services Proposal to USFWS
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/575; DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service
Statement of Work The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) will provide a variety of analytical services in support of the USFWS mission. USFWS the responsibility for managing most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation’s parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. GERG, in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University welcomes the opportunity to submit this proposal for consideration in response to the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) solicitation (F17PS00726). GERG proposes to provide the USFWS high quality organic analytical services and data management support. The proposed project team is skilled in trace contaminant analysis in all environmentally relevant matrices. The project team includes scientists and technicians that have conducted a range of national and international environmental programs involving analytical services including being one of the current analytical contract laboratories for organic contaminant analysis for the USFWS. GERG is in its 30th year of being a USFWS organic analytical contract Laboratory. Therefore, GERG has the required organization and abilities required to meet USFWS stringent analytical and reporting needs. GERG has an established reputation for quality analytical services and competitive costing. A special ability in the analysis of large numbers of environmental samples while maintaining stringent QA/QC requirements is a hallmark of GERG's analytical laboratories. GERG also specializes in analyzing problematic sample matrices and difficult to determine analytes. GERG has just acquired many state of the art analytical tools and expect to expand our analytical capabilities to include pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants. GERG has provided USFWS Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) data that has been acceptable in Court and Dr. Wade served as an expert witness for the US Government.
Field Mesocosm Testing of in situ PFAS Treatment Trains at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/231; DOD-Army-COE-Fort Worth
The overall project will demonstrate an efficient method to evaluate promising in situ adsorptive amendment materials. This method will be demonstrated using several amendments: granulated activated carbon (GAC), colloidal active carbon (e.g. PlumeStop®), an ion-exchange resin (e.g. A600E, A300, etc.), biochar, and Osorb®. The list of tested sorbents may change based on new promising sorbents being detected, or as directed due to end user or NESDI Technology Development Work Group (TDWG) interest. To be selected for use in this project, the sorbent should be sufficiently mature and cost-effective that its use as an in situ amendment is reasonable (as determined during a thorough literature review of relevant sorbents [Task 1]). After completing the literature review and selecting candidate sorbents, benchtop evaluations will be conducted. This will include a series of laboratory studies to quantify adsorptive capacities for both long (e.g. PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS) and short chained (e.g. PFBA, PFHxA, PFBS) PFAS, including a faster screening method as well as a rapid small scale column test (RSSCT) evaluation. In addition, breakthough potential and bioavailability will be assessed of the compounds. These laboratory studies will indicate what amendments would be most effective for different PFAS constituents and water quality conditions, which vary from site to site. Sequential exposure to the amendments is likely necessary to achieve cleanup goals of the wide variety of PFAS constituents that occur at contaminated sites. Therefore, the second main objective is to develop a field-testing apparatus to test the efficacy of adsorptive amendments, in parallel or in sequence, at specific field sites. This field-testing apparatus will be designed to be used at a given site before in-situ remediation is undertaken. Initial mesocosm testing using this apparatus, as well as the results from the lab evaluation, will first indicate which individual or sequence of amendments would be most effective, so that this treatment can be delivered at a site. This apparatus will be demonstrated with currently-available amendments, and will also provide a framework to test future, promising amendments in this rapidly evolving field.
Field Mesocosm Testing of in situ PFAS Treatment Trains at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/231; DOD-Army-COE-Fort Worth
Tasks & Objectives The overall project will demonstrate an efficient method to evaluate promising in situ adsorptive amendment materials. This method will be demonstrated using several amendments: granulated activated carbon (GAC), colloidal active carbon (e.g. PlumeStop®), an ion-exchange resin (e.g. A600E, A300, etc.), biochar, and Osorb®. The list of tested sorbents may change based on new promising sorbents being detected, or as directed due to end user or NESDI Technology Development Work Group (TDWG) interest. To be selected for use in this project, the sorbent should be sufficiently mature and cost-effective that its use as an in situ amendment is reasonable (as determined during a thorough literature review of relevant sorbents [Task 1]). After completing the literature review and selecting candidate sorbents, benchtop evaluations will be conducted. This will include a series of laboratory studies to quantify adsorptive capacities for both long (e.g. PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS) and short chained (e.g. PFBA, PFHxA, PFBS) PFAS, including a faster screening method as well as a rapid small scale column test (RSSCT) evaluation. In addition, breakthough potential and bioavailability will be assessed of the compounds. These laboratory studies will indicate what amendments would be most effective for different PFAS constituents and water quality conditions, which vary from site to site. Sequential exposure to the amendments is likely necessary to achieve cleanup goals of the wide variety of PFAS constituents that occur at contaminated sites. Therefore, the second main objective is to develop a field-testing apparatus to test the efficacy of adsorptive amendments, in parallel or in sequence, at specific field sites. This field-testing apparatus will be designed to be used at a given site before in-situ remediation is undertaken. Initial mesocosm testing using this apparatus, as well as the results from the lab evaluation, will first indicate which individual or sequence of amendments would be most effective, so that this treatment can be delivered at a site. This apparatus will be demonstrated with currently-available amendments, and will also provide a framework to test future, promising amendments in this rapidly evolving field.
REU Site: Ocean Observing Technology for Emerging Ocean Scientists
Geochemical & Environmental Research Gro; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/416; National Science Foundation
A new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site will be located at Texas A&M University's campus in College Station, TX. The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) and the Department of Oceanography will host 10 REU students for 10 weeks each summer, and the program will focus on innovative ocean observing technologies. Students will have access to a suite of ocean data acquisition technologies incorporated in TAMU's offshore buoy system, glider technology, remote real-time measurements from moored instrumentation, shipboard field surveys with CTD profiling and water sampling. A group project to develop and deploy a glider mission in the Gulf of Mexico onboard a research vessel will promote team building. Training modules on sensors, data analysis, graphical representation of oceanographic data, data management, and science writing will be provided. Students will participate in weekly REU seminars, and at the program end, they will demonstrate their communication skills with a final written report and a seminar presentation at the GERG REU Student Research Symposium. Although the program is open to students who are US citizens or permanent residents attending any university, local recruitment efforts will be coordinated with faculty in the NSF-funded Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program which supports mentoring of STEM majors across TAMU branch campuses (Kingsville, Corpus Christi, Prairie View and West Texas).