Environmental Quality Program

The BIOS Environmental Quality Program (EQP) includes facilities for both atmospheric sampling and environmental analytic chemistry.

Atmospheric Sampling

• Custom-built field laboratory at Fort Prospect, Bermuda
• High volume total suspended particle (TSP) samplers - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
• High volume PM₁₀ samplers - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
• High volume PUF samplers for semi-volatile organic compounds - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
• Continuous TSP monitor - DustScan Sentinel Model 3030 Aerosol Monitor, Rupprecht and Patashnick
• Continuous PM_2.5 monitor - TEOM (Tapered Element Oscillating Micro-balance), Rupprecht and Patashnik
• Continuous NO_x monitor - Model 200E Chemiluminescence NO_x Analyzer, Teledyne-API
• Continuous SO₂ monitor - Model 100E UV Fluorescence SO₂ Analyzer, Teledyne-API
• Model 8832 Data System Controller - ESC
• Meteorological Instrumentation - RM Young
• Aerosol filter sampling (custom built)
• Automatic Wet/Dry Precipitation Samples - Loda/Aerochem Metrics
• 23m walk-up sampling tower at Tudor Hill, Bermuda

Environmental Analytical Chemistry

• Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer - Agilent 6890GC/5973MSD + autosampler
• Accelerated solvent extractor - Dionex ASE300
• Soxhlet extraction system
• Solid phase micro-extraction (SPME)
• Solid phase extraction (SPE)
• Atomic absorption/emission spectrometer - Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 800 (flame and graphite furnace)
• Ion chromatograph - Dionex DX100 + autosampler
• Large volume solvent concentrator - Zymark TurboVap II
• Small volume solvent concentrator - Techne Sample Concentrator
• Constant temperature/humidity chamber for conditioning filters for gravitmetric determination
• 4- and 5-place analytical balances
• Reverse osmosis and Milli-Q water systems