Water Analysis – News and Features

Abtech Holdings Inc. is pleased to announce that distinguished environmental advocate and attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has joined AbTech Industries as an Advisory Board member.

A newly developed method that can fully recover low concentrations (< 1 µg/L) of three microcystins (-RR, -YR, and -LR) when added to water samples has been announced by Dionex.

It’s not uncommon for swimmers and boaters in Mid-West America to find their freshwater beaches covered with musty scums of cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microbes formerly known as blue-green algae. Sometimes cyanobacteria produce toxins, an event called a harmful algal bloom (HAB). A survey of cyanobacterial blooms in 23 Midwestern lakes by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) suggests the odoriferous compounds that often accompany HABs may indicate risk in recreational waters.

“From Sample to Assay – From R&D to IVD” was the title of a two-day workshop Scienion AG hosted in Berlin recently. Almost 100 participants from 12 countries benefited from an outstanding program.

Miscanthus, a potential feedstock for biofuel, could pull double duty in the fight against climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil for thousands of years.

ITT Corporation have announced that its Global Water Instrumentation brand is introducing two new water quality sensors, the WQ-FDO Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor and the WQ-Cond Conductivity Sensor.

Total Phosphorus in water is determined using Caro's Reagent and Ion Chromatography.

The extended relationship strengthens Company's informatics offerings for environmental laboratories.

Prof. Marc Van Montagu's commentary on current Current agriculture faces the challenge of doubling food production to meet the food needs of a population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century

Researchers develop a device that acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using human lung and blood vessel cells.