Agriculture and Environment

LECO instruments support sustainable agriculture by analyzing soil health, fertilizer efficiency, and crop composition—while also monitoring environmental factors such as carbon emissions, runoff, and land-use impact.

Peter Haglund [Umeå University] explores two-dimensional gas chromatography techniques in various environmental samples, including house dust, garbage dump leachate, biota (flora and fauna of a given region), and municipal sewage treatment plants.
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This application note describes an analytical workflow that utilizes solid-phase extraction (SPE) for the cleanup and enrichment of sediment samples prior to analysis by GCxGC-TOFMS using the LECO Pegasus BTX 4D system. The protocol focuses on the...
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Determination of Total Organic Carbon in Soil, Rock, and Shale by Acid Digestion and Combustion'' using our C832/SC832 instrument, with the new non porous ceramic boats
Peter Gorst-Allman [LECO] discusses the usage of GCxGC TOF-MS (with the Pegasus BT 4D) to analyze dioxins in samples, in accordance to EPA 1613.
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When you don't know what you're looking for, as is often the case with environmental contaminants and pollutants, the task can seem daunting, but high-resolution TOFMS and GCxGC is a powerful combination for non-target searches. With the tools inc...
How do we find what we don't specifically look for? This presentation will look at non-target GCxGC for environmental forensics, or exposomic analysis, of wastewater, specifically the semivolatile organic fraction, and what can be done when discov...
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Joining us from Imperial College London, Dr. Joseph Levermore present his research on 'What is in Our Air? High-Resolution and Comprehensive Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Ambient Particulate Matter in Occupational Environments Across the United Ki...
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Non-Targeted Analysis of Complex Environmental Samples Using Thermal Desorption, Multidimensional Gas Chromatography, Multi-Mode Ionization Methods, and High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
Jonathan Byer [LECO] discusses targeted and non-targeted analysis processes, comparing findings against Environmental Protection Agency standardized methods.