Sentences with phrase «environmental testing at»

The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) medium angle unit (image # 2, left) and wide angle unit (image # 2, right) are presently on the Mars Climate Orbiter, awaiting environmental testing at the Lockheed Martin facility.

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ALBANY - BASED Supersorb Minerals has taken a significant step in its drive to develop environmental technology projects as an extension of its core absorbent minerals business, starting test work for mine water treatment and mine site remediation at th...

When residue testing detects prohibited substances at levels that are greater than 5 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's tolerance for the specific residue detected or unavoidable residual environmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organicaEnvironmental Protection Agency's tolerance for the specific residue detected or unavoidable residual environmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organicaenvironmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organically produced.

«Based on these production issues and our goal to redesign and relaunch all of our packaging in a sustainable manner, with product protection and environmental concerns in mind, we decided on the new MasterBag Pyramid format and a high - barrier, paper - based outer packaging, following a lengthy development and testing phase,» confirms Thomas Holz, Managing Director and Tea Taster at TeeGschwendner.

But that was before the Cook County Department of Environmental Control requested additional asbestos inspections and testing at the decades - old shopping center, pushing the project back several weeks.

NAPERVILLE — Trapshooters at the shuttered Sportsman's Park range must cool their heels for at least two more weeks while officials of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Naperville Park District await test results from ground water samples taken near the park.

The latest soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment testing at Sportsman's Park in Naperville found lead concentrations in wells within Illinois Environmental Protection Agency standards for drinking water and groundwater, according to the Naperville Park District.

«We advise families with private wells to have their tap water tested for arsenic,» Dr. Margaret Karagas, senior author and professor at Dartmouth's Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center, said in a press release.

Environmental advocates are calling on state lawmakers to use the final six weeks of the session to develop and pass legislation requiring lead and copper water testing at the tap in New York schools and, if necessary, remediation of contamination.

Ultimately, the test of a speech like this is does it provide us with a political narrative for coping with a situation where we face (at least) a triple crisis - economic, political, and environmental?

State environmental officials have been mum for two months about their plans for a second round of air monitoring at the Peace Bridge after they misrepresented the flawed first round of testing.

According to results provided by the Department of Environmental Conservation, testing done in 2004 shows some wells at their site had 152,000 and 117,000 parts per trillion of PFOAs.

Suffolk County Health Department officials testing water from private wells near East Hampton Airport have found levels of chemicals at one residence above the Environmental Protection Agency's acceptable level for lifetime exposure.

«I urge the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to work with their partners at the New York State Department of Health to offer blood testing to residents of Newburgh, so that they can finally begin to have clarity about the extent of this problem,» she said.

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

State health and environmental regulators have known for decades that at least 62 properties — most in Niagara County — contain varying degrees of radioactivity that tested at levels two to more than 10 times normal for the local environment.

A recent round of state tests on 145 water wells in the town of Hoosick and village of Hoosick Falls showed slightly less than a third indicated a presence of a toxic chemical at levels exceeding the safety threshold recently set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Aug. 30, 2011)-- The New York State Environmental Facilities Corp. today announced that New Rochelle today won the 25th New York State Drinking Water Taste Test at the New York State Fair.

In May, Newburgh's main water source, Lake Washington, tested at more than 140 parts per trillion for Perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, which is about twice the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recommended safety limit of 70 parts per trillion.

The state conducted testing at the dump in March, and did find levels that exceeded federal safety limits, the state Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed this week.

At 2 p.m., environmental justice advocates, community groups, and city officials will meet to stage an emergency drill to test and evaluate community preparedness for future hurricanes and other major climate disasters, THE POINT Community Development Corp., 940 Garrison Ave., the Bronx.

The State Environmental Conservation Department is currently running air tests at the bridge to see how bad the air quality is when it arrives at the bridge and how bad it is after passing over the bridge and its trucks.

Newburgh's municipal water supply has tested at twice the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended safety level of PFOS, or perfluorooctanesulfonic acid.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Proteenvironmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental ProteEnvironmental Protection Agency.

The nonprofit Center for Environmental Health found that about 10 percent of the reusable bags it tested last year contained at least minute levels of lead

Under the current system, chemical companies perform safety tests or farm them out to contractors, then submit data for review at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies.

«The problem is that there is not really any good, objective water quality test» that can easily be performed in remote areas of developing countries, says Stephen Gundry, professor of environmental engineering at the University of Bristol who co-authored the WHO Bulletin paper.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

Bloch's colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences tested the oils in gene expression studies on lab - grown human breast cancer cells and found that they could mimic estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, and inhibit androgens, the primary male sex hormones.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

A team from Stirling's Biological and Environmental Sciences, working with Dr James Higgins at the University of Leicester, carried out tests after a «chance encounter» with the plant while conducting fieldwork near Quarff, Shetland.

At the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, researchers Nathalie Schaller and Friederike Otto analysed results from almost 40,000 climate model calculations to test the impact of climate change on Britain's winter rains.

MacDonald, Christopher Clack of NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and other colleagues wanted to test this idea.

Environmental groups are still fighting the battle against the sonar, lobbying the government to curtail testing, at least during peacetime, or to at least ramp up testing gradually to give marine wildlife a better chance to flee affected areas.

«There are some who accuse the news media of being «doom and gloom» when it comes to the oceans, so we set out to test whether this was empirically true,» adds Jennifer Jacquet, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU and co-author on the study.

Assif works with industry to help make the same sort of environmental improvements that White tested at Agilent.

Imagine a hand - held environmental sensor that can instantly test water for lead, E. coli, and pesticides all at the same time, or a biosensor that can perform a complete blood workup from just a single drop.

These are some of the highest - ever recorded levels in wild birds,» said Matt Zwiernik, an assistant professor of environmental toxicology at Michigan State University who led the testing.

At the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, primary author Ulrich Rabl measured the volume of the test subjects» hippocampi using computer - assisted techniques and analysed the results in the context of the genetic and environmental data.

I confess, I don't normally keep an eye out for the latest publications in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, but one recent paper on radioxenon measurements is of particular interest.This paper, as it turns out, is by one of the leading researchers in radioxenon testing, who happens to be a former professor and advisor of mine at The University of Texas at Austin.

Earlier this year at a testing laboratory recognised by the US Environmental Protection Agency, a car fitted with the system emitted significantly less pollution than the standards the US intends to impose in 2004.

The company collaborated with Taisen Iguchi, a professor of environmental endocrinology at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Japan, and Masato Kinoshita, assistant professor of applied biosciences at Kyoto University, who had created a adult medaka laboratory test.

«The general feeling is that we need to move beyond mortality testing to sublethal testing that looks at the shortening of life span, disorientation, reduced vigor, and other things,» says Pettis, who has been in discussions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about developing newer, more sensitive pesticide tests.

«Going forward we will need much more precise constraints on the magnitude of oxygenation and the physiological requirements of early animals to continue testing the impact of oxygenation on Cambrian animal life,» said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, and first author on the paper.

Biologists need to conduct more tests looking at how the urchins respond to other environmental conditions — such as warmer water — in addition to higher acidity, she says.

Using a unique environmental testing chamber located at PNNL, the team was able to watch vapors and particles mix in real time.

EMSL offers — at one location — a comprehensive array of cutting - edge resources including those associated with synthesis, characterization, theory and modeling, dynamical properties and environmental testing relevant to a wide range of environmentally related issues and topics at the molecular level.

MAVEN spacecraft enters environmental testing phase at Lockheed Martin denverpost.com, Fri., Feb. 8, 2013

On Monday, Nov. 6, NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for environmental tests.