Environmental Health Labs

The Environmental Health Program maintains four lab facilities.

Environmental Health Teaching Lab

This lab is where the instruction for the required environmental lab courses takes place. Water Quality, Air Quality, and Industrial Hygiene Labs are conducted here. The lab equipment includes: spectrophotometers, ion probes, microbial assay equipment, an immunoanalyzer, air sampling devices for particulates and gases, just to name some of the equipment ENVH students work with.

Additionally, this lab is used for research projects by both faculty and students.

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Environmental Gas Chromatography Lab

This lab contains a Hewlett-Packard 5880 series II gas chromatograph with integrated computer control, data aquisition, and data analysis. The equipment is used for analyzing organic pollutants in a variety of environmental media. For example, analysis has been performed for organic vapors in the air, chlorinated hydrocarbons in water and pesticides in water and plants. A portion of the Industrial Hygiene lab is conducted here and a number of research projects have been conducted in this lab.

Photos: GC lab GC lab

Industrial Ventilation Lab

This lab contains the program's wind tunnel. The wind tunnel is used to calibrate the program's airflow measuring equipment and conducting experiments in the Industrial Ventilation and Air Quality classes.

Photo: Ventilation lab

Environmental Labs Annex

This facility is where equipment is stored, maintained, and repaired. Space in the annex has also been used for research activities.

Blue Creek Wetland

In addition to the laboratories at the University, the Environmental Health Program also is part of a nine agency collective that developed an outdoor laboratory. The Blue Creek Wetland was developed to explore the potential of wetlands systems to treat agricultural drainage and to investigate the environmental fate of pollutants. The facility is used as part of the Water Quality Class and is available for individual research projects.