Environmental Measurement Symposium 2026
INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION SHOWCASE
Tuesday, August 4, 2026; 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Houston, TX
Strengthening Public Trust in Science
For the thirteenth year in a row, we are pleased to offer an exclusive opportunity for organizations to showcase innovative new environmental applications – sensors, apps, personal monitoring devices, among others – and network with several hundred managers and senior staff from commercial laboratories; the regulated community; EPA's regulatory program offices, EPA regional and headquarters compliance staff; state compliance officials; tribal nations; the international community; the exhibitor community; and others involved in or affected by the EPA's policies and procedures.
2026 Showcase Presenters
Agilent Technologies
Optimizing Laboratory Workflows and Enhancing Productivity in the Environmental Lab. Transforming routine ICP-MS analysis by optimizing simplicity, safety, and cost-effectiveness, utilizing an enhanced He mode together with the advanced reaction mode making high-quality elemental analysis more accessible across various laboratory settings. We will introduce an advanced reaction mode in the CRC (collision reaction cell), offering a sustainable, cost-effective, and safer alternative to existing approaches.
Chuck Schneider
[email protected]
2850 Centerville Rd
Wilmington, DE 19808
(201) 665-4731
Biotage
New Automated Solid Phase Extraction System: Biotage® PrepXpert™-8
Join us for a technical demonstration of the Biotage® PrepXpert-8, the newest addition to our automated SPE portfolio. This presentation will showcase PFAS and SVOC application workflows and explore the system capabilities that support high-throughput, precise, and reliable sample preparation. Learn how the Biotage® PrepXpert-8 redefines automated SPE, delivering efficiency, safety, and true application flexibility in one system. Topics covered:
1. Intuitive, audit-friendly software
2. Single or dual method mode
3. Transitioning from PFAS to SVOC testing
4. Inline clog detection & alerts
5. Atomized bottle rinsing technology
Evan Walters
[email protected]
10430 Harris Oaks Blvd, Suite C
Charlotte, NC 28269
(603) 401-6266
CE Elantech
CompactGC 4.0
The CompactGC 4.0 is a compact, high-performance gas chromatograph designed to bring reliable analytical capability directly to the point of need. With up to four channels and multiple detector options, it delivers precise gas analysis across a wide range of applications while maintaining a small footprint suitable a laboratory, at-line, or in process environments. Built for flexibility and real-world conditions, the CompactGC 4.0 supports continuous monitoring, multi-stream sampling, and integration into process systems or OEM solutions. Its robust design and scalable configuration make it ideal for industries requiring accurate, real-time gas analysis without the space and complexity of a traditional GC system.
Michael DiVirgilio
[email protected]
170 Oberlin Ave North, Suite 5
Lakewood, NJ 08701
(732) 370-5559
CEM Corporation
MARSXpress2.0: Optimized Microwave Digestion of Environmental Samples for Accurate Trace Elemental Analysis
Accurate trace elemental analysis of environmental samples requires effective sample preparation methods that ensure complete digestion and compliance with regulatory standards. Presented here is the MARSXpress 2.0™ scientific microwave system, applicable for aqueous, sediment, sludge, soil, and oil samples in accordance with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Methods 3015A, 3051A, and 3052. The system was designed with EPA methods preloaded on the system, meeting all digestion temperature and time requirements outlined. The MARSXpress 2.0 automatically determines the number of samples included in the batch and appropriate microwave parameters to ensure maximum recovery of highly regulated elements such as lead (Pb), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), and mercury (Hg), at the same time, minimizing sample contamination and loss of volatile elements. The MARSXpress 2.0 brings simplicity, flexibility, and accessibility to environmental laboratories. When not utilizing EPA protocols, starting a digestion is as easy as selecting the Xpress Start™ temperature and pressing "Start". The system automatically determines the optimal amount of microwave power, ramp time, and hold time to safely digest each sample, whether digesting just one or up to forty samples. Simple vessel assembly, the hallmark of CEM environmental digestion systems, is combined with XpressIntelligence™ in an advanced, yet remarkably easy to use system for high-throughput laboratory needs. The data presented here demonstrates quality control measures, including the use of certified reference materials (CRMs), method blanks, and sample replicates, implemented to the quality of the digestion. Results demonstrated that the microwave digestion process using the MARSXpress 2.0 met EPA criteria and provided fully digested samples for subsequent analysis by ICP-MS and ICP-OES. This method offers a robust, reproducible, and EPA-compliant approach for preparing environmental soil samples for trace elemental analysis.
Alicia Stell
[email protected]
3100 Smith Farm Rd.
Matthews, NC 28106
(704) 821-7015
ePrep, Inc.
Fully automated EPA method 552.2: Haloacetic Acids in Drinking Water: The ePrep ONE application for fully automated haloacetic acids in drinking water has been developed. Method steps following the salt addition are performed with accurate dispensing via gas-tight syringes, then vigorous shaking on the new large amplitude vortex. Methylation is performed using the novel solid-state heating system. Neutralisation via carbonate is performed safely with adequate venting, then aliquots with ISTD addition are performed quantitatively.
The fully automated application will allow for a complex, difficult method to be performed easily by any environmental laboratory.
Bradley VanMiddlesworth
[email protected]
Suite 130, 2820 Shadelands Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
(850) 727-1136
Finapp S.p.A
Soil Moisture & Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) with Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS)
Accurate monitoring of soil moisture and snow water equivalent (SWE) is essential for water resource management, agricultural productivity, and natural hazard mitigation. Conventional methods - such as point sensors and satellite observations - are limited by spatial representativeness, temporal resolution, or environmental constraints. Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS) provides a robust alternative by enabling continuous, non-invasive measurements of water content at field to catchment scale. Finapp has developed a compact, patented CRNS probe capable of measuring soil moisture down to 50 cm depth and SWE across a 100-300 m radius footprint, depending on altitude (with larger footprints at higher elevations). CRNS operates by detecting neutrons generated by cosmic rays, which are naturally moderated by hydrogen atoms in water. A decrease in neutron counts corresponds to an increase in water content. Finapp's system integrates real-time, in-situ corrections, including measurements of incoming cosmic-ray flux via muons, along with atmospheric pressure and temperature. This enables highly reliable, site-specific calibration under varying environmental conditions—representing a unique feature of the technology. The probe includes an integrated data acquisition system, with telemetry via GSM/LTE, local storage on SD card, and compatibility with SDI-12 protocols for integration into existing monitoring networks. All components are housed in an IP67-rated enclosure for long-term outdoor deployment. A built-in self-diagnostic system ensures operational reliability, while proprietary algorithms convert neutron counts into soil moisture and SWE tailored to site conditions. Building on this hardware, Finapp provides application-specific digital decision support services (DSS):
- Fin4Crop: supports irrigation management and agricultural decision-making through field-scale soil moisture insights
- Fin4Fire: enhances wildfire risk assessment by improving real-time inputs to fire danger indices
- Fin4Earth: supports landslide and hydrogeological risk monitoring by detecting soil saturation dynamics associated with slope instability
CRNS technology has been deployed in diverse environments and large-scale initiatives. Recent applications include collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where sensors have been installed in Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Guatemala, and Honduras to monitor drought conditions in agricultural regions and dry corridors. Additionally, CRNS probes have been integrated into snow monitoring networks in Northern Italy (ARPAE) to measure SWE across complex alpine environments.
Demonstrated results show that CRNS:
- Provides spatially representative soil moisture data, reducing uncertainty compared to point sensors
- Captures temporal dynamics critical for drought, flood, and landslide risk assessment
- Improves validation and integration with satellite-based products
- Enables long-term, low-maintenance environmental monitoring
Finapp's CRNS technology, combined with its digital service ecosystem, offers a scalable, reliable solution for bridging the gap between localized measurements and large-scale environmental processes, supporting data-driven decision-making in agriculture, climate adaptation, and natural hazard management.
Madeline Tomka
[email protected]
Via Del Commercio 27
Montegrotto Terme, Padova 35036 Italy
(515) 360-6523
https://www.finapptech.com/en/
FREDsense Technologies Corp.
FREDsense Technologies: Rapid, Field-Deployable PFAS Detection for a Contaminated World
FRED-PFAS is the industry's first portable testing solution for PFAS. This field kit provides same-day detection of PFAS. Using this kit, you get on-site PFAS testing without a lab technician. Up to 80% reduction in analytical testing costs versus traditional testing. Rapid and accurate testing in <4 hours testing up to 12 samples per day. The FRED-PFAS technology employs proprietary "binding systems" to detect the fluorocarbon backbones of PFAS molecules. It employs fluorescent detection methods, allowing for versatile product configurations. The system is designed as a Total PFAS screening measurement system, demonstrating the ability to detect <1000 ng/L – parts per trillion (ppt) of isolated PFAS compounds. The technology utilizes polymer-based binding systems that can be generalized or chemically customized to detect a surrogate for Total-PFAS or particular species.
FREDsense Lab Services works on your timeline. FREDsense Lab Services has a guaranteed 5-day turnaround time, fully customized reports, and detection limits as low as 1 ppt. Over 8,000 samples run with 99.9% on-time delivery. Analytical solutions for all water types and 40+ PFAS compounds including Precursors and Ultra Short chains like TFA. FREDsense technologies is the fastest provider of PFAS sample analysis in the lab and field helping developers, operators, and consultants expand screening programs, optimize destruction and remediation efforts, and accelerate PFAS mitigation efforts globally. The Company applies its decade's worth of innovative rapid test development for hard-to-detect compounds and parameters and using the power of biology, quickly and affordably helps organizations understand exactly what's in their water.
Margaret Renaud-Young
[email protected]
3320 14 Ave NE Bay #8, Calgary, AB T2A 6J4 3320 14 Ave NE
Calgary, AB T2A 6J4 Canada
(403) 701-2614
www.fredsense.com
MANTECH
AM500 Series Autosamplers. While MANTECH has been providing automated water, soil and food quality analyzers to laboratories for years, a new line of robotic autosamplers has been recently made available to automate front-end and back-end tasks in addition to analysis. This was done to help address increased testing demand, turnover rate and concern for analysts' health regarding physical strains. The AM500s automate barcode scanning, uncapping/capping bottles, sample splitting, preparing samples (adding diluents, reagents, etc.), filtering and more to free up analyst's time and reduce the physical strain theymay endure if performing these actions on hundreds of samples manually. These autosamplers are highly configurable to meet each laboratory's unique requirements. For example, an AM505 has been installed as a metals digestion screening system to measure pH and turbidity before samples are digested followed by acidification and splitting with dilution to an ICP rack for the samples below 1NTU. Another system was installed for pH, alkalinity and conductivity testing. With a AM500 system, the analysts simply put the received samples on the system without worrying about scanning barcodes, uncapping bottles and pipetting samples into separate vessels for titration analysis. If the AM500 system is used in preparation for analysis on another system like HPLC, the system can accommodate custom racks to make the transfer of samples easier. There are many laboratory applications that the AM500s can be used to help streamline laboratory testing procedures to ensure analysts get the results they need.
Annette Marbella
[email protected]
5473 Highway 6 North
Guelph, Ontario N1H 6J2 Canada
(519) 763-4245
Restek Corporation
RMX GC Columns with Trimax Technology
EPA Method 8270E increases analytical demands for consistent recovery, linearity, and peak symmetry across a broad range of chemically diverse semivolatiles, while laboratories simultaneously reduce or eliminate methylene chloride. This methylene chloride has resulted in labs exploring alternate solvent or reduced volume extraction and still maintain and exceed picogram level sensitivity on column. This presentation highlights how RMX® GC columns with next generation TriMax® technology enable laboratories to meet these challenges with greater confidence. TriMax technology is engineered on a pristine column surface formed by a three dimensional array of bonding, crosslinking, anddeactivation, creating a dense, uniform, and exceptionally inert layer that eliminates residual active sites common to traditional deactivation chemistries. This integrated 3D surface chemistry is unbiased and resilient to acids, bases, and polar semivolatiles from adsorption and degradation, resulting in sharper peak shapes, improved low level sensitivity, and more reliable linearity at the lowest calibration points. Combined with the rugged durability, low bleed, and retention time stability of RMX metal columns, TriMax technology delivers extended column lifetime, improved method robustness, and sustained compliance with 8270E data quality objectives.
Ramkumar Dhandapani
[email protected]
Restek110 Benner Circle
Bellefonte, PA 16803
(732) 397-1478
SCIEX
novus V55 system
The SCIEX novus V55 system is a new nominal mass triple quadrupole mass spectrometer positioned at the center of the SCIEX portfolio, purpose built to deliver high performance and operational efficiency for environmental and food testing laboratories. Leveraging more than 50 years of proven SCIEX reliability, the novus V55 extends this legacy with new innovations tailored to the demands of modern, high throughput testing environments. A key innovation of the novus V55 system is the accelerated MRM (aeMRM) technology, which enables acquisition speeds of up to 1000 MRM transitions per second. This ultrafast capability makes the system ideally suited for laboratories running large analyte panels, high plex screening methods, and multi class quantitative workflows, without compromising data quality, sensitivity, or precision. We will demonstrate the application of aeMRM technology for the analysis of approximately 500 pesticides in food, representing nearly 1400 MRM transitions. By leveraging faster dwell and pause times, the total method runtime was reduced from 30 minutes to 20 minutes, while maintaining sensitivity and sufficient data points across the chromatographic peaks. These results highlight the ability of the novus V55 system to significantly improve laboratory throughput while preserving analytical performance. In addition to fast acquisition, the novus V55 system incorporates the advanced OptiFlow ion source from the 7500+ system and the industry proven curtain gas technology, delivering exceptional robustness for routine analysis. This robustness was demonstrated through approximately 4200 consecutive pesticide injections across a diverse range of food matrices (salmon, kale, spice powder, avocado), corresponding to more than five weeks of continuous operation with consistent performance. The versatility of the novus V55 platform will also be demonstrated for PFAS analysis, including drinking water testing using EPA Method 533 and environmental sample analysis using EPA Method 1633A, highlight its suitability for emerging and regulatory driven workflows. Beyond analytical performance, the novus V55 system is engineered to meet the realities of today's constrained laboratory environments. It delivers high performance within a compact, energy efficient footprint, helping laboratories reduce operating costs, optimize laboratory space, and improve sustainability. By combining fast acquisition, operational robustness, and cost efficient performance, the SCIEX novus V55 system enables laboratories to expand testing capabilities, improve efficiency, and achieve maximum return on investment (ROI) across diverse routine and high throughput applications.
Craig Butt
[email protected]
250 Forest Street
Marlborough, MA 01752
(770) 324-5163
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc
Analysis of PFAS in Textiles using high sensitivity GC-MS/MS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely utilized in various industrial applications due to their exceptional heat resistance and water repellency. However, their environmental persistence and potential bioaccumulation have raised significant global health concerns, prompting stringent international regulations on their production and use. For instance, the EU POPs Regulation enforces a strict threshold of 0.025 mg/kg (25 ppb) for specific PFAS, including PFOA, PFOS, and PFHxS. To ensure compliance, accurate analytical methods are essential. While many PFAS are typically analyzed via LC/MS/MS, certain semi-volatile and volatile neutral PFAS—commonly used in textile treatments—are more effectively measured using gas chromatography. This study follows the EN 17681-2 standard, utilizing GC/MS/MS to provide a highly sensitive and suitable analytical approach for detecting these volatile compounds and fluoroalkyl ether substances, ensuring they meet the required regulatory limits.
Yoshiro Hiramatsu
[email protected]
7102 Riverwood Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21046
(240) 749-3572
Waters Corporation
Resilient and Future‑ready Environmental Workflows
Environmental laboratories face increasing pressure to expand analytical capability while maintaining reliability amid evolving regulations and global supply‑chain constraints. This product showcase highlights recent and emerging advances across separations, ionization, and mass spectrometry that support more resilient and future‑ready environmental workflows.
New column chemistries with alternative stationary‑phase selectivity are expanding options for challenging separations, offering differentiated retention behavior that complements traditional reversed‑phase approaches and improves confidence when working with complex environmental matrices.
Advances in ionization and high‑resolution mass spectrometry continue to broaden analytical strategies for both targeted and discovery workflows. The expanded availability of desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) on high‑resolution time‑of‑flight platforms enables direct analysis and imaging with minimal sample preparation while preserving accurate‑mass performance. In parallel, ongoing enhancements across high‑resolution MS systems are focused on improving robustness, data quality, and usability to better support routine and advanced environmental applications.
Operational resilience is becoming equally critical. Recent disruptions in the global helium supply have renewed interest in analytical solutions that reduce dependence on scarce resources. Atmospheric pressure gas chromatography (APGC) enables nitrogen operation for both ionization and collision processes on tandem quadrupole systems, allowing laboratories to sustain high‑performance GC‑MS workflows without compromising sensitivity or selectivity. These capabilities are further supported by access to certified reference materials and proficiency testing programs, including PCB congener and PAH offerings from ERA, helping laboratories maintain confidence in method performance and data quality.
Together, these developments demonstrate an integrated approach to environmental analysis—combining innovative separations, flexible ionization, advanced mass spectrometry, and practical strategies that help laboratories maintain continuity today while preparing for tomorrow's challenges.
Ken Rosnack
[email protected]
34 Maple Street
Milford, MA 01757
508-482-4639
