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Terry Burk

Title: Director, Wisconsin Occupational Health Laboratory

Phone Number: (608) 224-6215

E-mail: tb@mail.slh.wisc.edu

Education

  • BS in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fields of Interest

Industrial Hygiene chemistry Method development and field validation of new sampling and analysis techniques for monitoring of air for chemical and microbiological contaminants.

Selected Awards, Honors, and Societies

Certified Industrial Hygienist-Chemical Aspects, Certificate Number 4607 Member National and Wisconsin Section American Industrial Hygiene Association Member American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Member American Academy of Industrial Hygiene

Grants Received in Past 3 Years

  • Analysis of soluble metals in air-National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
  • Method development for metals analysis w/o perchloric acid - NIOSH
  • Method development for Sulfur compounds-NIOSH

    Summary

    The Wisconsin Occupational Health Laboratory is interested in developing and validating methods for air monitoring of chemical and microbiological air contaminants. The laboratory is fully equipped to develop methods utilizing state of the art equipment and techniques including: ICP's, AA's, GC's with multiple detector types, GC/MS, IC, HPLC, S/TEM, Xray diffraction, microscopy, elemental carbon analyzers, FTIR and microbiological culturing.

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