develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.Microbiology Expert Committee
The Microbiology Expert Committee develops and maintains consensus standards for microbiology that support TNI programs.
Conference Calls: Second Tuesday of the month at 1:30pm ET.
Contact the Committee Chair or Program Administrator to request to participate for these calls.
| Cody Danielson, Chair Yukon, Oklahoma cody.danielson129@gmail.com | Robin Cook, Vice Chair City of Daytona Beach Daytona Beach, Florida cookr@codb.us |
| Ilona Taunton, Program Administrator The NELAC Institute Mill Spring, North Carolina Ilona.taunton@nelac-institute.org | Hunter Adams City of Wichita Falls Wichita Falls, Texas hunter.adams@wichitafallstx.gov |
| Nigel Allison Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts Whittier, California nallison@lacsd.org | Tina Buttermore Pace Analytical Services - Ormond Beach Flagler Beach, Florida tina.buttermore@pacelabs.com |
| Maria Fayard ORELAP Hillsboro, Oregon maria.j.fayard@oha.oregon.gov | Maria Friedman California ELAP Glendale, California qamfriedman@gmail.com |
| Matt Graves ERA Golden, Colorado matt_graves@waters.com | Silky Labie ELCAT Tallahassee, Florida elcatllc@centurylink.net |
| Ashley Larssen Pace Analytical Lenexa, Kansas ashley.larssen@pacelabs.com | Elizabeth Lesold NYSDOH ELAP Albany, New York elizabeth.lesold@health.ny.gov |
| Brian Mercer Brian Mercer Plantation, Florida bmercer@plantation.org | Patsy Root IDEXX Water Scarborough, Maine patsy-root@idexx.com |
| Robert Royce New Jersey DEP Trenton, New Jersey Robert.Royce@dep.nj.gov | Elisa Snyder City of Austin - Austin Water Austin, Texas elisa.snyder@austintexas.gov |