March is a busy month for the BAL Road Warriors! The AEHS Foundation's International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air (AEHS Conference), held March 20-23 in San Diego, brings together environmental professionals to exchange information related to...
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BAL Brings Science Discovery to Primary Education!
On February 15th, BAL’s Project Manager Amanda Royal organized over 70 exhibitors for the annual Science Discovery Night at Lake Forest Park Elementary. Over 300 kids with their families attended this fantastic event to explore the wonderful world of science and to...
New Method for Ultra-Trace Se in Seawater
Brooks Applied Labs recently unveiled a new method for the quantitation of selenium in saline waters at concentrations of 5 ng/L (that converts to 0.005 µg/L!). This new capacity to support ultra-trace detection limits for elements predominately existing as anions in...
Brooks Applied Labs is Headed Overseas!
Dr. Hakan Gürleyük, Technical Director at BAL, and Tamas Ugrai, Research Chemist, will both be presenting at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, taking place February 19 - 24 in the Austrian ski resort town of Sankt Anton am Arlberg. The Winter...
The Role of Ultra-Trace Selenium Speciation Analyses and Ecological Risk Assessments
Ecotoxicity models for selenium have historically used total selenium concentrations to determine the risk to the ecosystem. However, more and more regulatory agencies are gaining an understanding of how the molecular form of selenium can impact the environment....
BAL Presents at Battelle Sediments Conference
Our Technical Sales Manager, Jamie Fox, presented at the Ninth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments, presented by Battelle. The title of Jamie's talk was "Overview of Sequential Extraction Methods to Assess Bioavailability...
BAL is On the Road Again
Brooks Applied Labs' Technical Services Specialist, Elizabeth Madonick, will be exploring Vancouver, BC for AME's Mineral Exploration Roundup on January 24-25. The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia hosts this annual event supporting 800 mineral...
BAL Welcomes another New Face to the Family
On December 2nd, BAL's Speciation Group Leader, Jacki Aitken, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Silas Porter Aitken was born at 10:30 am, weighing in at just over 9 pounds! Reports are he is a calm and happy baby who already knows how to pose for a photo....
Happy Holidays from Brooks Applied Labs!
Happy Holidays to you and yours! As 2016 winds down, we are filled with gratitude for our clients, and not just for the obvious reasons. You help us learn about your industries and projects, give us opportunities to use our creativity to solve problems,...