Microbes & Field Equipment

2.0 PDHs 

The great news about the environmental industry is that there is a plethora of options when it comes to equipment and technology to meet your site needs. We will begin this course by looking at Bio-Trap samplers in order to get an integrated view of what is happening at a given site. We will close this class out by gaining an understanding of the use of telemetry for InSitu groundwater monitoring.

Presenters:

Dora Taggart, President, Microbial Insights

Ted Wittemann, Director of Commercial Operations/Sr. Account Manager, Pine Environmental

Dora Taggart is the President of Microbial Insights, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received a Biomedical Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University and has focused on the optimization and implementation of molecular tools for environmental remediation, microbiologically influenced corrosion and microbial source tracking. Under Dora’s direction, MI has become the leading molecular environmental laboratory with locations in the US, Australia and Europe specializing in DNA, RNA, and isotope testing that aids consulting firms, government agencies and academia in environmental restoration and corrosion mitigation. Over the course of her career, Dora has become a global ambassador for the environmental restoration industry, regularly presenting as an invited/keynote speaker at environmental and corrosion conferences, leading hundreds of technical workshops worldwide, and co-authoring guidance documents with advisory groups like the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC) and Environmental Remediation Wiki (Remediapedia) to support appropriate use and interpretation of molecular tools. In 2016, MI received the Woman Owned Business Excellence Award and Dora received the Business Person of the Year for Scott County in 2017. She serves on the Board of Directors of Bottle Rocket Productions, the Boys and Girls Club of the Cumberland Plateau and Environmental Workshops, LLC. She is also a member of the Board of Visitors for the department of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Contact: [email protected] // (609) 712-6039

Laurie Chilcote is an owner, Managing Director and Vice President of Vapor Pin Enterprises, Inc. and Vapor Pin Brazil, where she provides managerial and technical oversight on all marketing and sales for the Vapor Pin® both within the USA and Internationally. Ms. Chilcote is also responsible for website development, webinar training, product development, distributor management, and most importantly, customer relations.

Contact: [email protected]  //  (614) 504–6915