GeoPro Talks: Upcoming Risk Workshops and Training at GeoEnviroPro
GeoPro Talks Panel – Best Practices in Excess Soil Management across Canada: Comparative Analysis of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec
GeoPro Talks: Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA) to Assess Remediation Performance at Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites
GeoPro Talks: Understanding Your Lab Report
This presentation will walk consultants and industry professionals through how to read and interpret environmental laboratory reports with confidence. Using realworld examples, it will highlight common pitfalls, key data quality considerations, and how analytical results—particularly for complex contaminants—can directly influence site interpretation and decision-making. The goal is to help attendees move beyond the numbers and […]
GeoPro Talks: BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE – A case study of how bedrock was investigated at a petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated site
GeoPro Talks – Technical Writing for Experienced Professionals: Getting to the Point Faster
Designed for seasoned professionals who already know the basics. This session focuses on high-efficiency communication, prioritizing actionable information, structuring documents for readers who skim, and writing executive-ready summaries that reduce back-and-forth. Covers advanced sentence construction, eliminating hidden ambiguity, and using structural cues to guide expert readers through dense material.
GeoPro Talks – Clarity First: Technical Writing Essentials for Early-Career Scientists and Engineers
A practical introduction to clear technical writing. The workshop begins with a focus on the essentials of clear technical writing: defining audience, context, and purpose. Then we discuss the habits that make technical writing effective: foregrounding key results, using consistent structure, tightening sentences, avoiding ambiguity, and eliminating filler. Participants learn how to define the purpose […]
GeoPro Talks — From Source to Fate and Transport: The forensic chemistry perspective
Join us on Wednesday, January 14 at 10:00 AM PT for our first GeoEnviroPro Talk of 2026, From Source to Fate and Transport: A Forensic Chemistry Perspective, with Dr. Phil Richards. Why does identifying the source of detected COCs matter? What do we really mean by “background”? This talk explores these questions through both a […]
GeoPro Talks – Introduction to Environmental Risk Assessment
Join us on Wednesday December 10th at 10am PT for our next GeoEnviroPro Talk with Scott Steer on an Introduction to Environmental Risk Assessment. In this recorded Talk from January 2023, Scott provides a high level summary of the fundamentals of human health and ecological risk assessment, including its position in the contaminated sites remediation […]
GeoPro Talks: The Seductive Appeal of PFAS Fingerprinting: Persuasion and Deception
Much like the narrative arc of a crime mystery, PFAS “fingerprinting” promises a dramatic resolution to the question “Who did it?” Fingerprinting is often used in the context of contamination “source tracking” and “source attribution.” Fingerprinting analyses include an array of visualization and statistical tools applied to chemical concentration data. These include pie charts, bar […]