Environmental Response Laboratory Network (ERLN)
Training, Exercises & Activities
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Environmental Response Laboratory Network (ERLN) training, exercises and activities enable your laboratory to network with professionals from other laboratories across the nation. Hands-on experience will increase your laboratory's capabilities and ensure that your laboratory personnel are familiar with ERLN procedures. The ERLN also offers opportunities to participate in method development studies.
Training
- Water Focus Area
- Arsenic Treatment Technology
- Biosafety and Biosecurity: Minimizing the Risks in the Laboratory

- Bioterrorism Preparedness Training for Sentinel Laboratories Online Courses

- Cryptosporidium and E. coli Source Water Sample Collection for the LT2ESWTR Rule
- Demonstration of NEMI-CBR Methods

- Phase II and V Chemicals and Radiological Rules
- Public Notification and Consumer Confidence Report Rules
- QC Principles for the Small Laboratory Performing Quantitative Tests

- Radionuclides Rule
- Surface Water Rules Training
- Surface Water Treatment Rule and Total Coliform Rule
- Water Sector Incident Command System Training
- Chain of Custody – WLA

- Rapid Multiplexed Detection of Infectious Disease

- Regional Lab Response Plan Functional Exercises

- Water Laboratory Alliance Web Cast

- Water laboratory Alliance: Benefits to the Water Sector

- Radiation Focus Area
- Multi-Agency Radiological Laboratory Analytical Protocols Manual (MARLAP) Training (PDF) (6 pp, 57K)

Three-day course intended for project planners and managers offered twice each year at EPA Regional Offices. The registration link will be provided when courses are scheduled. - Multi-Agency Radiological
Laboratory Analytical Protocols Manual (MARLAP) Training (PDF)
(1 pg, 22K)
Three-day course intended for project planners and managers offered twice each year at EPA regional offices. The registration link will be provided when courses are scheduled.
- Multi-Agency Radiological Laboratory Analytical Protocols Manual (MARLAP) Training (PDF) (6 pp, 57K)
Exercises
- Liberty RadEx, April 2010
Activities
- Water Focus Area
- Regional Support
- Water Lab Alliance Response Plan
- All Hazard Receipt Facility
- Chemical Warfare Agent Fixed Laboratory Pilot Project
- Regional Mobile Labs
- Analysis of toxic industrial chemicals
- Sample brokerage during an event as requested under the Incident Command System (ICS).
