A Bold New Environmental World

Symposium Overview

Your challenges have never been greater, whether analyzing contaminants in wastewater or drinking water, measuring indoor air quality, or identifying emerging contaminants. Environmental analysis must be done more reliably, more efficiently, and with even higher quality results than ever before. Learn from thought leaders in environmental analysis about the latest analytical and regulatory developments from the comfort of your laboratory, home, or office.

Symposium Key Learning Objectives

Get informed on the latest updates on the new PFAS drinking water regulations
Learn about the latest PFAS workflows to help your lab
Find out how to integrate a Metrohm IC with an ICP-MS for Cr Speciation
Explore the latest methodology for characterizing microplastics in the environment

Symposium Who Should Attend

Environmental lab chemists
Academic researchers in emerging contaminants
Lab supervisors that need the latest information on EPA PFAS regulations

Agenda:

A Bold New Regulatory World: Understanding the Testing Needs for the New PFAS Drinking Water Regulations
Agustin Pierri, PhD, Technical Director, Weck Laboratories
Tarun Anumol, PhD, Director, Global Environment Market, Agilent Technologies

Unravelling the PFAS Puzzle with Comprehensive Targeted & and Untargeted Workflows
Emily Parry, PhD, LCMS Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies
Tarun Anumol, PhD, Director, Global Environment Market, Agilent Technologies

Automated Microplastics Analysis Using a Laser-Based IR Microanalyzer
Louis Tisinger, Application Chemist

IC-ICP/MS Analysis of Trace Chromate
Christopher LeValley, Student and Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Yan Cheung, ICP-MS Application Scientist, Agilent
Dr. Jay Gandhi, Sr. Market Development Scientist, Metrohm USA

Featured Speakers

Agustin Pierri, PhD

Technical Director

Weck Laboratories

Dr. Agustin Pierri obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara where he worked on synthesizing photoactive pharmaceuticals and nanocarriers. He has authored many scientific publications and has given numerous presentations at technical meetings on topics ranging from inorganic photochemistry to environmental analytical chemistry. At Weck Labs, he has worked as an analyst in all sections of the laboratory, and has worked on developing methods for emerging contaminants by LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS, and ICP-MS. Since becoming the laboratory technical director, he continues to be active in developing methods for emerging contaminants, as well as modernizing legacy analytical methods to lower detection limits and improve data quality. In 2020, he was appointed to the Environmental Laboratory Technical Advisory Committee, an advisory body to California ELAP.

Tarun Anumol, PhD

Director, Global Environment Market

Agilent Technologies

Tarun Anumol is the director for global environment market for Agilent Technologies. Previously, he was an LC-MS applications scientist at Agilent, focused on developing analytical methods for trace contaminants on LC-MS/MS and LC-Q/TOF in food and environmental matrices. Tarun has a strong history of working in the environmental & food testing industry, with a background in technical and applied science, with over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications in this area.

Prior to joining Agilent, Tarun graduated with a Ph.D. in chemical and environmental engineering from the University of Arizona with a focus on emerging contaminant attenuation including PPCPs, PFAS, and DBPs in water reuse schemes.

Emily Parry, PhD

LCMS Application Scientist

Agilent Technologies

Emily Parry has focused her career on developing methods of measurement for environmental contaminants in both human and environmental matrices. She brings 10 years of laboratory experience using both targeted and untargeted techniques to her role of LCMS Application Scientist at Agilent Technologies. Prior to joining Agilent, she worked as a researcher at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Public Health Institute. She received her Ph.D. degree in environmental chemistry from the University of California, Davis where she was recipient of the National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Louis Tisinger

Application Chemist

Agilent Technologies

Louis (Lou) Tisinger has a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where his graduate research involved the study of ATR imaging and microscope performance in vibrational spectroscopy. Most of his career has been related to pre- and post-sales support of FTIR spectrometers, microscopes, imaging systems, and thermal analytical instruments, focusing on analyzing customer samples, demonstrations, post-sales training, troubleshooting, and R&D.

Christopher LeValley

Student and Researcher

University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Christopher LeValley is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside where he's involved in the finishing touches on the data for tap water analysis, as well as the bulk of data of several bottled waters, apple juice, and orange juice. Chris is seeking an undergraduate bachelor’s degree in professional chemistry and criminal justice, with a certificate in green chemistry and is currently an intern at PPG. His experience involves sample preparation and operating for IC-ICPMS, focusing on the analysis of trivalent and hexavalent chromium in different beverages.

Yan Cheung

ICP-MS Application Scientist

Agilent

Yan Cheung is a ICP-MS Application application Scientist scientist at Agilent Technologies who received a Ph.D. in Analytical analytical cChemistry from Indiana University Bloomington. She brings over 15 years of experiment experience in both ICPMS and ICPOES techniques. She has worked at Chevron where she used ICPMS and ICPOES and alsoand did work at Phillips 66 as the ICPMS and ICPOES subject matter expert before joining Agilent.

Dr. Jay Gandhi

Sr. Market Development Scientist

Metrohm USA

Dr. Jay Gandhi is the Vertical Markets Manager at Metrohm USA. He brings over 30 years of experience in analytical instrumentation and techniques in medical research and in various fields including environmental, petrochemical and pharmaceutical. He has held positions at Varian and NASA and has shepherd several ASTM and USEPA methods. Dr. Gandhi is a non-paid adjunct faculty member at the University of Houston-Clearlake where he enjoys guiding graduate and post graduate students in their independent study program.

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