Welcome 2018, SME Response Inc.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2018! I am back after a stay at home and cold (really cold, even for Canadian standards) holiday break. I was able to get some nice time with the family and even got some ski days in. It was quiet on the family front…

Dr. Court Sandau at a site visit with client and Alberta regulators

2017 Round Up

Thank you for a wonderful 2017! 2017 has been another busy and exciting year for the Chemistry Matters team. We continued tackling new challenges like source allocating PAHs from oil spills in rivers or superfund sites in the US, we continued our exploration on natural Toluene with a peer reviewed…

Biogenic Toluene – Where does it come from?

In the first post of this series, I described the basis for how we became involved in determining a method for the detection of a natural, biogenic source of toluene. In this post, I describe how the process works and provide some thoughts on how to conduct an investigation. The…

Advice from your chemist – top four things when dealing with your spill into a river

You have had a spill… don’t panic, everything will be fine. Accidents happen. It is what you do next that is important. I have worked on many spills and here are what I believe are four of the most important things from a chemist’s perspective. 1. Get lots of source…

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