How to Preserve the Integrity of Your Water Sampling Regime
Webinar Overview
This webinar is a comprehensive guide to maintaining the integrity of your water sample at every stage of the process. We will review best practices for sample and data collection in the field and sample control for accurate results in the lab.
This webinar will be presented in partnership with ALS.
Topics will include:
- Monitoring point selection
- Sampling methodology
- Equipment, including type, maintenance and decontamination
- Sample preservation
- Quality control
- PFAS contamination sampling
- Consultants
- Hydrologists
- Hydrogeologists
- Environmental Technicians
- University students
- Researchers
- Professors and teachers
- Environmental Regulators
Presenter: Kayleigh Smith, In-Situ and Geraint Williams, ALS
Kayleigh Smith is an In-Situ Sales Manager for the UK and Scotland and has worked in the industry for more than 16 years, selling, using and supporting equipment for groundwater and surface water monitoring and sampling. Her no-nonsense approach and expert advice have led to working relationships with some of the environmental sector’s biggest names.
Kayleigh trained at the Nielsen Environmental Field School in New Mexico where she became a Groundwater Monitoring Specialist. She is a member of IAH and has presented at WWEM, Contamination Expo, SWIG and CIRIA. She has also appeared on BBC News as an Independent Water Monitoring expert and is the curator/host of Thursday Focus Group, a bi weekly focus group on leading environmental topics.
Geraint has a keen interest in promoting best practice and serves on the Contaminated Land Working Group of the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS) and the Executive Committee of the Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA), where he is also a member of the Technical Panel and Vapour Intrusion subgroups. In addition, Geraint serves on EH/4, British Standard’s technical committee on soil quality.