Water Quality and Chemistry

SAIC is a leader in conducting studies in water and sediment quality in marine, coastal, and wetland environments. SAIC's capabilities cross a range of issue areas from applied research, aquatic life protection, oceanographic monitoring, and coastal protection. Areas of expertise include sampling design; sample collection using techniques and equipment tailored to the specific study objectives; oversight of analytical chemistry laboratories; in situ water column profiling systems; database management; and statistical, spatial, and temporal analyses of physical and chemical data.

SAIC offers extensive expertise in aquatic chemistry, including fate and effects of trace metal and organic contaminants in sediments, organisms, and water, contaminant fingerprinting, and source apportionment. SAIC uses Geographic Information System (GIS) plotting and analysis, and applies results to compliance assessments, ecological risk assessments, and environmental studies and documentation in accordance with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) State environmental quality acts to prepare corresponding Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), Environmental Impact Reports (EIR), and Environmental Assessments (EA), and related regulatory and permitting documents.

Experience and Capability Highlights

• Program experience in a range of freshwater, estuarine, coastal, and deep ocean environments;
  
  
• Extensive experience conducting a full range of sampling and analysis studies, including compliance monitoring, plume mapping, and integrated multidisciplinary approaches using a variety of standard oceanographic sampling equipment, innovative and unique tools, and remote sensing; and
  
  
• Extensive experience preparing data quality objectives, sampling and analysis plans, quality assurance project plans, and field sampling and health and safety plans for a variety of compliance monitoring, sediment testing, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) sediment characterizations

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