Environmental Compliance Inspectors

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Ladders (Aluminum ladders)
• Air samplers or collectors (Atmosphere monitors)
• Sample preparation bombs (Bacon bomb samplers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Benthic grab samplers)
• Sampling pumps (Bladder pumps)
• Laboratory bailers (Bottom fill bailers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Box corers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Bucket augers)
• Sampling pumps (Centrifugal water sampling pumps)
• Single gas monitors (Chlorine samplers)
• Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers (Chlorophyll-a probes)
• Colorimeters (Colorimetric field sampling devices)
• Coliwasas (Composite liquid waste samplers COLIWASA)
• Conductivity meters (Conductance meters)
• Flame ionization analyzers (Continuous flame ionization detectors FID)
• Water analyzers (Continuous water quality monitors)
• Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
• Desktop computers
• Photometers (Differential photometers)
• Dissolved oxygen meters (Dissolved oxygen probes)
• Laboratory bailers (Double check valve bailers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Ekman grab samplers)
• Enzyme analyzers (Enzyme immunoassay kits)
• Infrared spectrometers (Extractive Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Flowmeters
• Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Fuel fluorescence detectors FFD)
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers (Graphite furnace atomic absorption GFAA spectrometers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Gravity corers)
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Ground penetrating radar GPR)
• Peristaltic pumps (Groundwater sampling peristaltic pumps)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Hand corers)
• Hand pumps (Hand sampling pumps)
• Laboratory vials (Headspace vials)
• Lasers (Helium-neon lasers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Hydraulic vibracorers)
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers (Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrophotometers)
• Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectrometers)
• Interferometers
• Ion selective electrode ISE meters (Ion selective electrode ISE testers)
• Water samplers (Kemmerer depth samplers)
• Analytical balances (Laboratory analytical balances)
• Dropping pipettes (Laboratory dropping pipettes)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Spectrometers (Laser-induced breakdown spectrometers LIBS)
• Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Laser-induced fluorescence LIF instruments)
• Liquid chromatographs (Liquid chromatographs LC)
• Water samplers (Liquid grab samplers)
• Magnetometer geophysical instruments (Magnetic locators)
• Mass spectrometers
• Laboratory graduated cylinders (Measuring cylinders)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Membrane interface probes MIP)
• Single gas monitors (Mercury vapor analyzers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Mobile cone penetrometer MCP systems)
• Optical beamsplitters (Optical beamsplitting devices)
• Water samplers (Passive diffusion bag PDB samplers)
• pH meters (pH indicators)
• Ion analyzers (Photoionization detectors PID)
• Piezo electric crystals (Piezoelectric sensors)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Ponar dredge samplers)
• Water samplers (Pond samplers)
• Gas chromatographs (Portable gas chromatographs GC)
• Mass spectrometers (Portable mass spectrometers MS)
• Two way radios (Portable two way radios)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Power augers)
• Progressive cavity pumps (Progressive cavity sampling pumps)
• Rotating piston pumps (Reciprocating piston sampling pumps)
• Striking hammers (Rotary hammer systems)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Russian peat borers)
• Sample holders (Sample bottles)
• Sample holders (Sample collection chambers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Sampling triers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Sand corers)
• Scaffolding
• Test sieves (Sediment sieves)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Shelby tube samplers)
• Conductivity meters (Specific conductance probes)
• Spectrophotometers
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Split core samplers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Split spoon samplers)
• Peristaltic pumps (Suction-lift pumps)
• Acoustic sensors (Surface acoustic wave sensors SAWS)
• Syringe pumps
• Laboratory bailers (Thief samplers)
• Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Total petroleum hydrocarbon TPH analyzers)
• Turbidimeters (Turbidity probes)
• Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Ultraviolet fluorescence UVF test kits)
• Water samplers (Van Dorn samplers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Van Veen grab samplers)
• Organic carbon analyzers (Volatile organic compound VOC measurement devices)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Waste pile samplers)
• Water samplers (Wastewater samplers)
• Water analyzers (Water quality data sondes)
• Gear pumps (Water sampling gear pumps)
• Water samplers (Weighted bottle samplers)
• Water samplers (Wheaton dip samplers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Wireline samplers)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• DQO-PRO
• Environmental Knowledge and Assessment Tool EKAT
• Field Operations and Records Management System (FORMS) II Lite
• Fully Integrated Environmental Location Decision Support FIELDS
• HRS Quickscore
• Mass Flux Toolkit
• Monitoring and Remediation Optimization System MAROS
• Rapid Assessment Tools R.A.T.
• Scribe
• Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance SADA
• Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools SMARTe

• Data base user interface and query software

• Database software

• Document management software

• Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat software

• Map creation software

• Geographic information system GIS software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)