Analytical Capabilities
ILS operates one of 17 national laboratories certified by USGS for suspended sediment concentration analysis. ILS provides in-house analytical support to the EPA, including day-to-day operation of the organic extraction and inorganic sample preparation laboratories. The laboratory is NELAC accredited and our analytical chemists work under the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC) standards.
Organic Analytical Expertise
- Organic extractions ( SOIL/solids, water, waste, oil, tissue, air sampling media)
- TCLP extractions
- VOA (Encore® Prep and Analysis)
- Soil and water VOA analysis
- Pesticides analysis (GC/ECD, GC/NPD)
- PCB and PCB congeners analysis
- Semivolatiles, Herbicides, Pesticides, and PCB extractions
- Natural Attenuation Analysis (ethene, ethane, methane )
- Percent lipids
Inorganic and Classical Chemistry Expertise
- Metals digestion (water, soil, tissue, filter media)
- TCLP extractions
- ICP
- Mercury and Cyanide analysis
- Percent moisture
- Solids and volatile solids (TSS/TDS, TVSS, etc.)
- Suspended Sediment Concentration
- Soil Particle Size analysis
- Total and Dissolved Organic Carbon
- Total and Dissolved Phosphorus
- Flash Point
- Nutrients analysis (TKN, Nitrate-Nitrite, Ammonia)
- Anions (chlorides, sulfates, sulfides)
Lead Scientist
Nancy Seabolt, MS
Phone: 706 355-8687
Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Ms Seabolt is Project Manager/Senior Organic Chemist for Region 4 Environmental Services Assistance Team (ESAT) Analytical Group. Ms. Seabolt brings more than 30 years of experience in organic analytical chemistry to ESAT. She has 30 years of environmental laboratory experience performing and supervising analyses for organic parameters in a variety of sample matrices and has eight years of experience performing and supervising analyses for inorganic constituents.This includes 14 years directly supervising the preparation and analysis of samples for organic constituents and seven years of related technical support. Ms. Seabolt received her B.S. Chemistry with a Physics Minor from North Georgia College. She also received her M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia.