Fields of Expertise

Quality Assurance
Advanced Volatile Fingerprinting
Volatile Organic Compound Analysis
Semi-Volatile Organic Compound Analysis

Higher Education

B.S., Marine Biology-Roger Williams University (1987)
Analytical Chemistry-Northeastern University, Continued Studies
Quality Management in the Lab – Clemson University 

Employment History

1997-Present   Woods Hole Group
                        Environmental Laboratories
1996-1997       Inchcape Testing Services
1994-1996       Aqua Air Analytical, Inc.
1994-1994       Siteworks, Inc.
1993-1994       Coast-to-Coast Analytical
                         Services, Inc.
1987-1993       ENSECO ERCO Laboratory

DAMOS Program Sediment Characterization, Long Island Sound, New York, Confidential Client, Quality Assurance Data Review.
Analyses included low-level PAHs by GC / MS-SIM, organochloride pesticides, PCB Aroclors, metals and TOC.  Results were reported on a 28-day turnaround time in hard copy and an electronic data deliverable. 

Naval Air Station, South Weymouth, Massachusetts, Confidential Client, Quality Assurance Data Review and Analyst.
Analyses included TCL VOC, SVOC and Pesticide / PCB, TAL Metals and waste characterization.  In addition, MADEP Methods for VPH/EPH, lead, copper and PCB results with 72-hour turnaround time were required.  Full Level IV, CLP-like data package suitable for data validation was needed for most analyses.

Gloucester Harbor Monitoring Program, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Confidential Client, Analyst.
Analyses provided low level measurements of volatiles (Method 8260B modified), semi-volatiles (Method 8270C modified), pesticides/PCBs (Methods 8081/8082 modified), phenols, metals, cyanide, grain size and TOC in marine sediments.

Tetraethyllead Analyses, South America, Confidential Client, Quality Assurance Data Review and Analyst.
Analytical methods were developed to quantitate tetraethyllead (TEL) and its degradation products, triethyllead chloride (TREL) and inorganic lead in marine sediments, pore waters and sea water.  Low reporting limits, i.e. ppb in sediments and sub-ppb in aqueous samples, were required for use in human and ecosystem risk assessment studies.

Ten Harbors Program, New England Coastal Harbors.  Quality Assurance Data Review and Analyst.
Woods Hole Group has analyzed sediment and tissues in support of the Ten Harbors Program implemented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District.  More than 90 sediment samples have been analyzed in seven sample delivery groups for PAH (NS&T/EMAP list), PCB congeners (NS&T/EMAP list), pesticides, metals, and TOC.  Results have been reported on a 28-day turnaround time in Level IV data packages, suitable for full data validation and with an electronic data deliverable.  As part of this program, more than 100 tissue samples (bivalves and amphipods) have been analyzed and reported for PAHs and selected metals. 

Waste Oil CERCLA Site, New Hampshire.  Quality Assurance Data Review.
In support of an EPA Superfund site remedial investigation, Woods Hole Group analyzed more than 300 soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment samples.  Sediments were analyzed for ultra-trace level PAHs, pesticides, metals and acid volatile sulfide/simultaneously extractable metals (AVS/SEM).  Required analyses for the other matrices included volatile petroleum hydrocarbons (VPH), extractable petroleum hydrocarbons (EPH), TAL metals, pesticides, PCB Aroclors and TOC.  Level IV data packages were reported and validated, by a third party, along with project-specific electronic data deliverables.

Publications and Presentations

Kane, P.J., T.C. Sauer, N. Laurianno, Jr., E.M. Hynes, C. Gauthier, J. Hart, N.A. Rose, and A.J. Laurila.  “Hydrocarbon Characterization of Petroleum Products & Coal Tar, EPH/VPH and Beyond.”  Poster Presentation at 14^th Annual Conference on Contaminated Soils, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1998.