Bureau of Laboratories Presentations

The Bureau is making its presentations given at various training sessions, workshops and seminars available online. Please see a listing of events below.

• TREEO SOP Training
  • SOP Sampling Training for Groundwater, Surface Water and Wastewater This is the presentation given at the TREEO course which gives an overview of the FDEP SOPs (.pdf, 1.5 mb).
• Mercury TMDL Stakeholders Meeting, October 15, 2007
  • Introduction (.pdf, 800kb)
  • Florida Atmospheric Deposition Monitoring and Modeling Component of the Statewide TMDL Study (.pdf, 13mb)
  • Components of a Comprehensive Regional Mercury TMDL (.pdf, 175kb)
  • Linking Hg Deposition to Fish Tissue Hg Concentrations (.pdf, 1.7mb)
• Waste Cleanup Workshop, May 3- - June 1, 2007
  • Waste Cleanup Workshop Toxicity Testing
  • ESOCs for Waste Cleanup
• Emerging Contaminants - This presentation was given by Bureau of Laboratories staff at the first meeting of the Emerging Substances of Concern Workgroup. The presentation provides an overview of the current state of the science in the areas of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds, Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products, Global Organic Contaminants, and Nanoparticles.
• How to Ace Your TMDL Audit-This training session was given at the Bureau of Laboratories on March 2^nd 2006 by various laboratory staff.  Please contact Russel Frydenborg for additional information.
• Trace Mercury Sampling Using Clean Techniques - Given at the Florida Water Resources Conference in Orlando by Tom Frick, April 11^th 2006.
• Proposed Dip Net Sampling Changes - This presentation was given at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida Association of Benthologists. The presentation describes the logic behind proposed changes in laboratory processing of 20-dip net sweep composite samples used in the calculation of the Stream Condition Index.