Congratulations to Steven Brecher, our program manager on our National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) contract. Steven recently served on a validation team, which was responsible for operational testing following a major software installation. The installment is a fully integrated Windows-based database for non-clinical evaluation studies. The validation team’s operational testing helped ensure the database functioned properly prior to client use. The team was nominated for a NIEHS merit award for their effort!

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Astronauts Conduct Latest Plant Water Management on the International Space Station

NASA recently performed the sixth iteration of the CSS-supported Plant Water Management experiment on the International Space Station (ISS).

Ongoing Support for the Huntington Beach Oil Spill

Oil spills are disastrous and the clean-up is ongoing. Following the Huntington Beach, California oil spill in October 2021, our staff supported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Response and Restoration with communications, data collection, and damage assessments. As various agencies collected data, our staff assisted the client in developing this map to…

Large-Scale Decontamination Proves Successful

In the spring of 2022, we worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard on a project called Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency-Wide Area Demonstration (WAD) which tests large scale decontamination following the release of surrogate bioagents. The team conducted a WAD at a military base in Virginia to test decontamination…