Environmental Measurement Symposium 2025
INNOVATIVE NEW TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE
Tuesday, August 5, 2025; 3:30 - 5:00 pm
St. Louis, MO

Building a Quality Culture as the Foundation for Reliable Data

The Innovative New Technology Showcase will feature a five-minute oral presentation describing each new technology followed by a networking session.

Access Sensor Technologies LLC
Next Generation Sampling & Analysis Tools for Air Quality
Access Sensor Technologies has developed from the ground up a new generation of sampling, sensing and now automated lab analysis tools for air sampling. This table will demonstrate the tools and describe their unique value propositions in light of the increasing needs for quality and traceability in ambient, indoor and personal air sampling measurements.

Agilent Technologies
Small Size, Big Impact: the Agilent 8850 GC with MS: High Performance in a Compact Footprint
The 8850 Gas Chromatograph from Agilent is a small, high-performance GC that takes just half the bench space of traditional instruments while delivering the chromatographic performance and rugged reliability expected from Agilent. The small, precisely designed air-bath oven facilitates fast temperature ramps and rapid cool-down for short turnaround times and high throughput. Using 45% less power than other GCs, the 8850 can also help reduce energy costs and meet sustainability goals. Coupling the 8850 with Agilent single or triple quadrupole MS systems can help environmental analysis laboratories to maximize productivity and uptime. We will showcase a GC/MS single quadrupole instrument using the Agilent 8850 GC and Agilent 5977C MSD. In one example, this system has been used to analyze environmental VOCs with excellent chromatography and sensitivity.

Biotage
Extrahera Automated Sample Prep System
The Biotage® Extrahera™ automated sample preparation system is experiencing nationwide adoption into environmental laboratories. This system offers unprecedented throughput for applications such as PFAS testing and EPH fractionation. Recent developments have found utilization of the Extrahera for total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) cleanups, removing polar interferences from soil and wastewater extracts for analysis by EPA Method 8015. This solution achieves a >40x reduction in solvent consumption, a 20x decrease in silica sorbent waste, and a >8x increase in productivity when compared to the traditional manual technique. Performance demonstrates robust analytical reliability, with method blanks <5 μg/mL across the C6-C40 range, laboratory control sample (LCS) recoveries of > 70% for C10-C28 and C17-C44 ranges, as well as surrogate (n-octacosane). Even when spiked at high concentrations, there was no breakthrough of reverse surrogate (decanoic acid/capric acid), confirming effective removal of polar interferences. The Biotage Extrahera offers a transformative approach to sample preparation, balancing EPA compliance with high-throughput, precise analysis.

Inorganic Ventures
Discrete Analyzer Reagents for SEAL Analytical Instrumentation
Your SEAL discrete analyzer is built for speed, accuracy, and high throughput—it's time your reagents kept up. In today's fast-paced lab environment, relying on house-made solutions can slow you down, introduce errors, and waste valuable time. Learn about ready-to-use reagents specifically engineered to complement your SEAL discrete analyzer.

Princeton GeoScience, Inc.
ROCK VOC Consolidated Solid Matrix Field Screening and Sampling System
The ROCKVOCTM System is a convenient new system for controlled screening and sampling to accurately measure volatile organic compound concentrations in rock, concrete and other consolidated, solid matrices; limiting or eliminating VOC loss inherent to other standard methods and equipment currently in use.

PromoChrom Technologies
Machine Vision and Remote Monitoring for Automated Sample Prep
This presentation highlights how Machine Vision and Remote Monitoring can enhance the reliability of unattended liquid handling by enabling real-time error detection and mitigation. Using deep learning, the system is trained to monitor critical liquid handling components, recognizing common operational patterns and identifying anomalies similarly to the human eye. By leveraging image recognition and an expanded training dataset that includes edge cases, the system can automatically detect unforeseen issues. Beyond logging video and timestamped data for troubleshooting, Machine Vision actively integrates with equipment software to apply corrective actions, ensuring sample preparation continues with minimal disruption.

Seal Analytical
MiniLab AR & AP for BOD Analysis
SEAL Analytical's MiniLab AR and AP robotic systems streamline BOD testing by automating both sample preparation and analysis steps. The AP (Auto Prep) system handles tasks such as pH adjustment and pre-dilution, while the AR (Auto Read) system automates reagent addition and dissolved oxygen readings using industry-standard probes. Together, they deliver consistent, regulation-compliant BOD workflows with minimal operator involvement—boosting efficiency and reducing error in the lab.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Exemplary Mass Spectrometers for Reliable, Resilient, and Responsible Environmental Analysis
Shimadzu's 150 years of dedication to advancing science and technology have resulted in exemplary LCMS instruments. The Ultra-Fast LCMS technology has provided outstanding performance in support of analyzing PFAS, pesticides, herbicides, aquatic toxins, haloacetic acids, and other emerging contaminants for decades. To respond to modern and challenging demands in environmental laboratories, our newest LCMS instruments are ready to deliver improved data reliability with high stability and measurement sensitivity, while ensuring that lab operations remain resilient and responsible.

Site Lab
UVF Hydrocarbon Field Screening Methods
Sitelab manufacturers portable benchtop and handheld analyzers using Ultraviolet Fluorescence (UVF) to detect a wide range of petroleum contaminants, including gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oils, crude oils, coal tars and more. These instruments are highly sensitive to aromatic hydrocarbons and exhibit very low detection limits. Soil and water samples are extracted in solvent and analyzed in only a few minutes. The equipment is easy to operate. Results correlate well to laboratory GC methods. Test for GRO, DRO, TPH, PAHs or perform hydrocarbon fingerprinting on-site or in your lab. Learn more about UVF technology at this conference. See Sitelab's presentations provided in the Drinking Water, Environmental Forensics and New Organic Monitoring Techniques sessions.

Waters Corporation
Improved MS Robustness from Novel Slotted Bandpass Ion Guide
There is a growing demand for PFAS analysis in a variety of complex matrices such as soil, biosolids, and leachate to name a few. Although associated methods use solid phase extraction or other sample prep techniques, these samples are far from "clean." We have studied a novel slotted bandpass ion guide using continuous injections of established "dirty" sample matrices to evaluate robustness in real-world conditions. We will chat about how this new ion guide, when combined with a high sensitivity tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer, can improve signal robustness and increase method reliability.