What questions do you have for a biogeochemical lab technician?
Added 2019-07-01 22:33:49 +0000 UTCThe next episode of our eonites-only podcast will be wit Matt Young, a lab technician at the Environmental Biogeochemical Laboratory in the geosciences department at the University of Montana. Matt tests all sorts of things, including water, sediment, and plant and animal tissues for metals contamination. The main ones are arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, selenium, zinc, and mercury.
What would you like Kallie and Matt to discuss on the pod? Let us know in the comments!
Comments
What do your tests tell you about human presence over time, both specifically in the location and more broadly in the world? What do the tests tell you about the movement of rocks and soils?
Charles Bosse
2019-08-07 15:12:45 +0000 UTCHow does Matt's research influence policy, and how does his profession spread the word to the voting public?
Jonathan Clark
2019-07-05 04:14:01 +0000 UTCAre most of your samples collected locally, or farther afield? Is the quantification done by mass spec, or chemical assays?
J Squeezy
2019-07-03 08:57:37 +0000 UTCHow often do you find the dangerous ones (lead, arsenic, etc.) in extreme quantities? Is there one we should be most worried about?
Jacob O'Neill
2019-07-02 17:52:32 +0000 UTCIn your field, are there any trends over time that are interesting or valuable to know about? I.e. do we have records to show increased or decreased amounts of metals in water or fish after a major environmental law was put in place? Or after a certain product became widespread we began to see metals in the water or soil. Anything like this to show us trends over time?
Nick Rodriguez
2019-07-02 15:47:39 +0000 UTCAlso, are there self tests that are interesting or valuable we can do on ourselves? I eat a lot of canned / pouched tuna, should i be checking my mercury levels? What sorts of contaminants are common in people today that the general public may not know about, and are things we should do to prevent these?
Nick Rodriguez
2019-07-02 15:46:31 +0000 UTCAs a home owner i would love to know the different types of tests i could do which may help me out. Water tests: which ones are valuable tests and which ones are junk? Is there an easy way to tell the legit ones apart? Water hardness, metals, other contaminates- what can we test for and what SHOULD we test for. How about ither things like soil tests perhaps? Are there valuable or interesting ones we should know about?
Nick Rodriguez
2019-07-02 15:41:58 +0000 UTCAre home gardeners/growers hurting the ecosystem with their nutrient usage, or is it mainly big agriculture that's polluting our water with nutrients?
Kelly O'Neal
2019-07-02 03:21:42 +0000 UTCWhat is the most common tasks you would say you do in your career? What is your most favorite career memory? Have you ever gotten results for a test that for the situation was a sigh of relief? What are you most excited to bring up that no one would think to ask?
Codeaholic
2019-07-01 22:41:18 +0000 UTC
