Video by Jeff Chao, Marisa Gaona and Desiree Kapler | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.03.2023
The Program for Advanced Materials and Substances of Emerging Environmental Concern (AMSEEC) is a multi-laboratory collaborative of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) that is focused on developing timely, proactive responses to emerging environmental issues related to the development and application of advanced materials or other substances and delivery of......
Video by Jeff Chao, Marisa Gaona and Desiree Kapler | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.03.2023
ERDC’s expertise and capabilities in detecting and measuring substances in the environment are foundational to the Program for Advanced Materials and Substances of Emerging Environmental Concern (AMSEEC). A thorough understanding of the presence, form and amount of substances in the environment is critical to effects assessment, exposure assessment, and risk assessment and management. ERDC......
Video by Jeff Chao, Marisa Gaona and Desiree Kapler | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.03.2023
ERDC has critical expertise, facilities and capabilities to characterize the potential effects of chemicals and other materials on the environment. The Program for Advanced Materials and Substances of Emerging Environmental Concern (AMSEEC) has pillars for Analysis and Exposure Assessment that inform how, and in what form, organisms are likely to come in contact with a chemical. Researchers......
Video by Jeff Chao, Marisa Gaona and Desiree Kapler | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.03.2023
The Program for Advanced Materials and Substances of Emerging Environmental Concern (AMSEEC) is actively engaged in research to better characterize the presence and potential effects of substances in the environment. Understanding how substances are transformed and move through the environment and how these substances interact with and affect organisms provides the basis for characterizing......
Video by Jeff Chao, Marisa Gaona and Desiree Kapler | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.03.2023
The Program for Advanced Materials and Substances of Emerging Environmental Concern (AMSEEC) has a dedicated pillar for exposure assessment that characterizes how substances move and are transformed in the environment. Having an accurate understanding of exposure is critical to characterizing risk, the likelihood that a substance will cause harm, as well as informing decisions on to how to......
Video by Jeff Chao and Christopher Kieffer | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.12.2020
A challenging problem facing our military is the impact caused by aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) that has been used to control aviation fires at military bases since the 1970s. It contains a substance called PFAS, which has been discovered at hundreds of installations around the world, and Department of Defense leadership has committed to further studying the issue. In support of the......
Video by James Truitt | Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center | 02.15.2018
The Air Force hosted a public meeting Feb. 15, 2017 in Lubbock, Texas, to discuss the United States Air Force's response to potential perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid contamination of community drinking water as a result of past firefighting activities on the base....
Video by Senior Airman Nicolo Daniello and Tech. Sgt. Monique Jose Duvall | 92nd Air Refueling Wing | 05.23.2017
Colonel Ryan Samuelson, the 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander at Fairchild Air Force Base, gave opening remarks and addressed concerns about emerging contaminants to an audience at the Medical Lake High School Gymnasium on May 23, 2017. Contaminates perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooclanoic acid (PFOA) were discovered during preliminary groundwater sampling of two water wells used......
