Technical Support Center for Monitoring and Site Characterization

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Issue Papers

	"Soil Sampling and Analysis for Volatile Organic Compounds (PDF)," (24 pp, 2MB) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 30:213-246, 1994.		Groundwater sampling using a bladder pump
	"Characterizing Soils for Hazardous Waste Assessments (PDF)," (32 pp, 2MB) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 30:113-138, 1994.
	Determination of Background Concentrations of Inorganics in Soils and Sediments at Hazardous Waste Sites (PDF) (32 pp, 210KB)
	Field Sampling and Selecting On-Site Analytical Methods for Explosives in Soil (PDF) (9 pp, 92KB)
	The Lognormal Distribution in Environmental Applications (PDF) (20 pp, 605KB)
	Field Sampling and Selecting On-Site Analytical Methods for Explosives in Water (PDF) (47 pp, 245KB)
	Some Practical Aspects of Sample Size and Power Computations for Estimating the Mean of Positively Skewed Distributions in Environmental Applications (PDF) (37 pp, 1.2MB)
	Estimation of the Exposure Point Concentration Term Using a Gamma Distribution (PDF) (25 pp, 759KB)
	Fingerprint Analysis of Contaminant Data: A Forensic Tool for Evaluating Environmental Contamination (PDF) (27 pp, 447KB)
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Publications and Presentations of Interest
	On the Computation of a 95% Upper Confidence Limit of the Unknown Population Mean Based Upon Data Sets with Below Detection Limit Observations [PDF, 137 pp., 803 KB]
		(Word document, 27pp, 2.2MB) Appendix A (73 pp, 719KB) Appendix B (73 pp, 724KB) Appendix C (581 pp, 1MB) Appendix D (50 pp, 576KB) Appendix E (50 pp, 675KB)
	Robust Estimation of Mean and Variance Using Environmental Data Sets with Below Detection Limit Observations (39 pp, 425KB) Also available in: Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 60:69-86, 2002.
	Guidance for Obtaining Representative Laboratory Analytical Subsamples from Particulate Laboratory Samples (156 pp, 2.8MB)
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	Computation of an Upper Confidence Limit (UCL) of the Unknown Population mean using software ProUCL, Version 3.0 Part 1. (130 pp, 861KB)

			Acquiring field locational data using a global position system
	Software