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Researcher-Focused:
CEMS provides researchers with advanced mass spectrometry services for water and soil analysis, focusing on emerging contaminants, pesticides, and industrial chemicals. Services include targeted and non-targeted high-resolution analysis, retrospective QTOF evaluation, and method development. Faculty support experimental design and data interpretation is also one of the top goals. The lab combines high-resolution analysis with method development, making it a nationally competitive resource.

Industry/External-Focused:
CEMS offers industry partners specialized services for water and soil contamination analysis, including emerging contaminant detection, non-targeted screening, and method development. Services provide high-resolution, reproducible data to support regulatory compliance, monitoring, and product evaluation. The lab integrates analytical expertise with faculty consultation for cost-effective, actionable results.

CEMS collaborates with Agilent Technologies, Inc. doing mass spectrometry research on state-of-the-art instrumentation, software development and testing, and application of the latest mass spectrometry instrumentation dealing with environmental topics.  This collaboration is ongoing for nearly 25 years.

Some of the current areas of Research are:

• Ultrasensitive LC/MS-MS Analytical Method Development for low ng/L level quantitation of pesticides and pharmaceuticals.
• Screening of Environmental Contaminants in water and soils.
• Analysis of groundwater, drinking water and wastewater.
• Identification of unknowns in environmental samples by LC/Q-TOF-MS.
• Analysis of UV degradation products in water and wastewater.
• Wildfire/urban fire related compounds.
• Expertise: interpretation of mass spectra data in LC/MS-MS and LC/Q-TOF-MS techniques.
• Analyses of Hydraulic Fracturing ("fracking") waters, including fracking fluids, flowback waters and produced waters.
• Food Analysis (soy milk, fruits and vegetables, soft drinks, etc.).
• Hemp/cannabis analysis.