Facilities & Equipment

The EAS laboratory and offices are located in the Applied Process Engineering Laboratory, a user facility in Richland, Washington.

Our laboratory is equipped with all of the instrumentation, supplies, and safety controls needed to prepare environmental samples for analysis in accordance with the highest QA/QC standards, including:

  • Temperature calibrated and continuously monitored freezer/refrigerators with limited key distribution
  • Calibrated balances and digital scales
  • High purity deionized water supply for cleaning instruments
  • Autoclave
  • Laminar flow biological safety cabinet
  • Chemical fume hood
  • Equipment storage areas for projects with dedicated equipment needs

Field Tools and State-of-the-Art Techniques

  • Liquid-phase Trident probe, porewater sensing, sampling tool for precise detection, mapping, and monitoring groundwater discharges to the riverbed.
  • GIS (geographical information system) for reporting results in electronic format with spatial illustration
  • PDA-based (personal digital assistant) survey forms for rapid downloading of survey records
  • GPS (geographical positioning system) high accuracy (sub-meter), real-time correction-based spatial mapping tools
  • Remote monitoring video cameras
  • Small mammal live traps
  • Boats and aquatic sampling equipment

Boating Services

Specialized staff with more than 80 years combined experience in boat operations under a range of conditions and navigational challenges, including submerged land features and fluctuating river levels.

  • Major part of sampling and surveying offshore areas
  • Transporting staff and equipment to job sites located along the river
  • Transporting samples from field
  • Dive vessels and divers
  • Hanford Site/Reach Tours

Certifications

  • All operators have completed boat operator training
  • 1 U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Boat Captain
  • 1 U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Merchant Marine Boat Operator

Insurance

  • Professional and Pollution Prevention Insurance
  • Watercraft Liability for Bodily Injury and Property Damage

Permits

  • US Fish and Wildlife Migratory Bird Collecting Permit
  • Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Scientific Collecting Permits
  • NOAA Section 10 endangered species "take" permit (5-year long)
  • Master Bird Banding Authorization
  • Radioactive materials license for receiving, preparing, and shipping samples for analysis