Laboratory Services

Unique for a smaller firm, GLEC owns and operates both laboratory and field resources to support water quality research and compliance projects.  This integrated capability often provides clients with a single contracting resource, assuring maximum responsiveness and consistent quality throughout project execution.  The aquatic toxicology laboratories at GLEC have conducted thousands of aquatic and sediment toxicity tests over GLEC’s 30+ year history and have earned a national reputation for excellence.  GLEC’s Traverse City laboratory is one of only a few in the U.S. that maintains NELAP accreditation for sediment toxicity testing.  GLEC’s environmental chemistry laboratory is also NELAP accredited for chlorophyll and nutrient chemistry.  Aquatic taxonomy capabilities include a full suite of equipment and expertise to sample, enumerate and identify periphyton, phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, and fish.  GLEC also operates a Molecular Ecology Laboratory capable of ddPCR DNA analysis of viruses and microbial source tracking in wastewater and surface waters.