Water Quality Microbiology
We have designed, managed and monitored many projects related to the microbiology of rivers, lakes, and soils as part of baseline studies or in remediation efforts. Water quality issues are a specialty. We have specific application interests in public health, organics, and metals/mining issues. In addition, we have an emerging program in bacterial source tracking (BST) and have a current project in Glacier National Park using DNA fingerprinting to track the source of E. coli in Park waters.

Natural resource damage assessments
We have worked with natural resource damage claims in the Clark Fork River Superfund site for a decade and have developed sensitive methods of using microbial communities to detect damages in both soil and river sediment.

We specialize in generating the information that bests addresses the clients needs. For example, the data below was was used to determine whether it was heavy metals or the associated lowering of soil pH that was most responsible for the observed lowering of soil respiration and therefore soil productivity.