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The Environmental Laboratory provides facilities, equipment, personnel, and expertise needed for measurement activities, data evaluations, and investigations conducted to support criminal environmental enforcement efforts.

Functions include:

• Maintaining an analytical laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment and skilled personnel
  
• Presenting scientific evidence in legal proceedings
  
• Providing scientific consultation to regulators
  
• Writing and presenting scientific and technical papers
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• Auditing and inspecting laboratories that conduct environmental analyses
  

• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
  
• Capillary Electrophoresis
  
• Gas Chromatography with specific detectors : AED, FID, ECD, HECD, NPD, TCD, TEA
  
• Gas Chromatography/Infrared Spectroscopy (GC/IR)
  
• Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)
  
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy/Microscopy (FTIR/Microscopy)
  
• High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
  
• HPLC/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS)
  
• Ion Chromatography(IC)
  
• Inductively Coupled Plasma/Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP/OES)
  
• Inductively Coupled Plasma /Mass Spectrometry (ICP/MS)
  
• Polarography
  
• Polarized Light Microscopy
  
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
  
• Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy
  
• X-ray Diffraction/Fluorescence