Get to know your sampling equipment
In this video, you’ll become familiar with the equipment you’ll be using in the field including safety equipment and sample collection materials.
To follow along with this training segment, you’ll want to edit the ‘equipment checklist’ section of your ‘into the field guide’. To download the guide, visit this page.
2. How to label whirlpaks
In this video, you’ll learn how to label your whirlpaks for the field. We label whirlpaks to correspond to each sampling location at a given site (there are at least 5 samples taken at each site). Every sample taken has a different label corresponding to the project code, the sampling site, the sample trip, and any modifier (duplicates, Field blanks, and tempurature blanks).
To follow along with this training segment, you’ll want to edit the ‘How to label a whirlpak’ section of your ‘into the field guide’. To download the guide, visit this page.
3. How to Prepare a Field Blank
In this video, you’ll learn how to prepare your field blank. Field blanks should be filled in the lab and brought into the field with your sampling kit. Field blanks are processed in the lab and are an important quality assurance measure.
3. How to pack your kit, how to pack your cooler
While your kit may vary from the equipment in this video, the general guidelines should be the same. You’ll want to remember to bring your field datasheets, ‘into the field guide’, your safety equipment, sampling equipment, and a cell phone.
You can follow the equipment checklist you’ve already created to compliment this packing video.