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 Five of Geotech’s long-time clients once again renewed their Enviro Software maintenance agreements this month.  Some of these clients have been using our software for over seven years!  We believe that this kind of loyalty is a testimony to Geotech’s technical achievements and customer satisfaction, and the staff at Geotech plan to continue this tradition of enhancing our software and keeping our clients happy.  Thank you to all of our clients for your ongoing business!

Another environmental engineering company has joined the ranks of satisfied Enviro Software users.  This company was founded in 1977, has 120 employees and offices in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Florida and California.  They’ve successfully completed over 8,000 projects, which included inspection, design, and management, and they have worked in locations across the United States and also in Cancun and Macau.  Russ Wendell, Geotech’s primary developer, visited their New York office this Fall and trained a group of their employees on the Enviro Software products.  Geotech is pleased to have this company using Enviro Data and Enviro Spase to help them manage the database management aspects of their projects more efficiently and accurately. Also new to the Geotech client list this month is a California Public Utilities Commission.  This organization provides drinking water and wastewater services to a major city in the state.  They will be using our Enviro Software to continue bringing high quality, efficient and reliable water services to their residents, while maintaining a high standard of environmental, community and natural resource interests.  Geotech welcomes them to our growing list of governmental clients.

One of Geotech’s newest Enviro Data users, Powertech, a uranium mining company headquartered in Denver, sent us the following email after we followed up with them to see how things were going:  “The 2010C version, and especially the Crosstab Wizard, is working well for me.  I generated tables for every station in our database in 19 minutes, 41 seconds.  This is a big improvement over the months of time it used to take using Excel.  Give me a few months to finish this phase of data organization, and then we will need to discuss buying additional Viewer licenses and training.”  Geotech is continuously improving our Enviro software to make data management faster and easier for our clients.

The Pueblo of Laguna, one of Geotech’s many Indian Tribe clients, called our technical support team recently saying that the EPA requested to see the Tribe’s data in a graphical format and could we show them how to do this.  With a small amount of instruction, the Tribe created 1,000 graphs in fifteen minutes.  Prior to their purchase of Enviro Data in 2008, the Tribe was making graphs of their data in Excel and it took them months to create 1,000 graphs.  Contrary to this tedious process, the Tribe was able to send graphs of their data to the EPA within a day of their request.  Another happy client and another testimony to the speed and accuracy of Enviro Data.

Once again this year, Geotech will attend and give a presentation at the AEHS Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy conference in Amherst, MA.  The dates for this year’s show are October 17 – 20, 2011.  Dr. Dave Rich, Geotech’s President, will be giving a presentation titled, “Soil Chemistry Data from the Field to the Map – Saving Time and Improving Quality”.  Dave’s presentation is part of an afternoon session held on Tuesday, Oct. 17, and moderated by Richard Cartwright of MEC^X  .  Some of the other talks of this session are: “Tapping into Global Site Characterization Opportunities and Challenges using Proven, Rapid, Innovative Solutions” and “Innovative Soils/Sediments Treatment Processing Technologies”.    Geotech will also be sharing a booth with MEC^X  , and will demonstrating  the latest  technologies in its Enviro software family of products.

“Remediation Partners Consortium” (MECX , Terra Systems, Geotech Computer Systems, & Metals Treatment Technologies) and Rocky Mountain Chapter of Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals are con-sponsoring a one-day FREE training course on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at the University of Colorado, Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado.  This course can be applied toward certification maintenance points for Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (CHMM) and Certified Hazardous Materials Professionals (CHMP).  The course is limited to 30 pre-qualified attendees.  The course is free, but a Student Workbook containing  the course PowerPoint Training Slides, and the CHMM\CHMP exam preparation materials, can be purchased for $100.  The lead instructor is Richard Cartwright (MEC^X  ), and additional guest instructors are Dr. Patti Meeks (MEC^X  ), Dr. Dave Rich (Geotech Computer Systems), and Jim Barthel (Metals Treatment Technologies).  For additional information about this course, or a registration form, send an email to: Richard.cartwright@mecx.net.

Last month, a major U.S. uranium mining company purchased Geotech’s Enviro software, and this month we hosted their training in our Centennial office.  Employees from our client’s Colorado and South Dakota offices attended the one-day training.  Dave Rich, Geotech’s president showed them how to use the software, load their data, and many other features.  Muffins and coffee were well received during the morning break, and hearty sub sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies made for a perfect lunch.  These new users are now very pleased with their new database management system, and are asking for our help with their specific reporting needs.  Geotech is very happy to add another satisfied client to its Enviro software family.

Geotech is pleased to announce its participation in The Nielsen Environmental School 2012 Conferences.  The first conference will be in San Diego, CA, February 7 – 10, and the second conference of the year will be in Tampa, FL, March 13 – 16.  The theme of the 2012 conferences is “Advances & Innovations in Environmental Site Characterization, Sampling, Monitoring and Remediation”.  Each conference will feature one and two hour indoor and outdoor workshops arranged in a short-course format, and will also feature indoor and outdoor exhibits.  The positive response to these conferences has been overwhelming, with many exhibitors and presenters vying for spots well in advance of the scheduled dates.  Some of the presentation titles are: “Sources of and Methods to Reduce Sampling Variability”, “Continuous Monitoring for Benzene at Contaminated Sites”, and “Vapor-Phase Remediation Technologies”.  Dave Rich, Geotech’s President, will be giving a presentation titled, “Managing Environmental Data From the Field to the Map”.

We invite you to join us at The Nielsen Environmental School 2012 Conferences.  We are confident they will be innovative, educational, and enjoyable (can’t beat being in San Diego and Tampa in the middle of the winter!).  We hope to see you there.

Maggie Smith’s Irish Pub and Restaurant was the location of a delicious and high-spirited dinner for Geotech’s employees, families and friends.  A relatively new restaurant, located just down the street from Geotech, they regaled us with free appetizers like Curry Chips and Irish sliders, two-for-one drinks such as Guinness Stout and Irish whiskey, and Irish delicacies like Bangers and Mash, and Fish and Chips.  The children enjoyed the digital juke box, while the adults relaxed and enjoyed chatting.    Everyone enjoyed eating.  A great time was had by all, and all agreed to do it again next year.

Again in August, Geotech provided many of its clients with additional technical support and training.  Geotech excels over its competitors by always being available to walk a new client through a software feature they’ve never used before, or help an established client train a new employee on our Enviro software.  This month, we provided Enviro software support and training to three of the largest environmental consulting and data quality companies in the U.S.  One of these companies is setting up our software system for 200 of their employees.  Two of Geotech’s Indian tribe clients, one in New Mexico and one in New York, received software support and data loading assistance.  All of these clients were thrilled with the depth of knowledge, availability, and quick response of the Geotech technical team.

Earlier this month while on a road trip to Wyoming, Dave Rich, Geotech’s president paid a visit to an up-and-coming uranium company that was looking for a software solution to help them manage their data.  After Dave’s visit, this company looked at several software options, including Geotech’s, for handling their data and decided that the Enviro software would best suit their specific technical needs.  Technical training for this new client will be held at Geotech’s office later this month. We are proud to welcome this company to the Enviro family of users.

It is with great sadness that we relay to you that our dear friend and co-worker, Mike Wiley, lost his battle with COPD last night.  Geotech first met Mike in 1987, when both were dealers for the CPS/PC software from Radian Corp., headquartered in Austin.  Mike then became a dealer for Geotech’s Petro Spase product, a tool for data management and mapping for oil exploration.  Mike took over the development of this product.  In 2000, Geotech switched its focus from petroleum to environmental, and created our Enviro Spase product.  Mike was responsible for development and support of this product, and did the programming for the majority of the software functionality for the last eleven years.  Enviro Spase is Geotech’s second best selling product.  We visited with Mike as often as possible, both in Texas and Colorado, for both business and personal interaction.  We looked forward to our standing Friday afternoon phone calls with Mike.  He had a great sense of humor and a deep knowledge of the earth sciences.  We will miss him greatly.  Vaya con Dios, Mike.

An Enviro Data user that purchased our software back in 2002, called Geotech today saying he had just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and needed to upgrade his Enviro software.  He had been successfully using version 1.5c for nine years!  Geotech told him that for the cost of a reinstatement fee plus maintenance, we would update his two databases to Enviro Data 2010, send him the latest version of the software, and provide him with technical support and software upgrades.  Needless to say, he agreed.  A glowing testimony to the ease of use and reliability of our software, and the outstanding support of the Geotech team!

One of the largest Indian reservations in the United States purchased Geotech's Enviro software this month. After attending a presentation given by Dr. Rich at the Field Days hosted by our friends Geotech Environmental Equipment, one of the tribal members was very interested in using our software to help the tribe manage their environmetal issues, which include rural, urban and industrial impacts. Geotech did an on-site presentation and they bought a multi-user system on the spot! Their technical users will attend a software training next month at Geotech's Denver office.

Dave Rich, Geotech’s president, made a road trip to Wyoming this month, to visit current and prospective clients.  His first stop was Gillette, WY, where he did Enviro software training for a client that produces subbituminous coal.  Dave did a two-day training for six employees at this location.  With over 1,500 employees, this company is widely recognized for exemplary performance in its safety and environmental programs.  Geotech is proud that they have chosen the Enviro software to help them maintain their excellent reputation.  Dave’s second stop of his trip was a visit to a Lab to discuss possible cooperation in helping each other’s clients.  Dave’s final stop on this trip was a visit to a rapidly growing uranium company that was interested in using the Enviro software.  Dave did a demo of the software for their technical team, and impressed them with how well the Enviro software would work with the data they produced for the U.S. nuclear power industry.

As Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee proceeds with their Enviro Data implementation, they are finding additional ways that it can help them manage their biological data, including morphological, blood, and chemical information on biological specimens, as well as species population census data. Geotech is working with ORNL staff to provide technology to streamline their data capture and entry process prior to importing the data into Enviro Data.

Once again this month, a large number of our Enviro software clients showed their satisfaction with our software by renewing their maintenance.  Some renewals are from new clients, but many are from clients of ten or more years.  We get comments like, “Thank you for always being there when we call, and for helping us when we’re stuck”, and “We appreciate that you let us use some of our support hours for technical training over the phone”.  At Geotech, our mission is to help our clients manage their data more efficiently and profitably.

Mike Rich traveled to Tulsa, OK, June 27 – 29 to attend the Inter-Tribal Environmental Conference again this year.  Mike has met many wonderful people at this show over the years, and was glad to visit with them again to let them know about all the new features in the Enviro software.  Many attendees were tribal members, and were very interested in Geotech’s new WQX format, new to the software this year.  The WQX format will greatly help these folks satisfy their contractual requirement to provide their data to the USEPA.

Once again this year, Geotech attended Geotech Environmental Equipment’s “Field Days” trade show.  Geotech’s Sales Director, Mike Rich, manned the booth for the two day show, and talked to many local and regional environmental folks.  Dave Rich, President, gave a talk on Friday morning titled, “Managing Environmental Data from the Field to the Map.”  One attendee of his talk was a member of a large Indian tribe, and is now in the process of purchasing our Enviro software.

During the 25 years of Geotech’s history, most of our clients have been companies that buy the Enviro software for their employees to use on company projects.  This month we learned that individuals within companies are realizing that the Enviro software is more than just a company solution.  This month we sold our software to someone who works for a large company that was not ready to purchase our software, so the individual bought the software with his own money and will use it on his company’s project.   After seeing how our software works, and trying it for himself, he realized that he, and his project, would be far more successful if he used Enviro Data, than if he didn’t.  He hopes his company will see the excellent results of his work and reimburse him for the software or buy the software themselves, but if not, he says his final work product will always be better because of the software, and that’s enough for him.

Oak Ridge National Lab has once again contracted with Geotech to make more significant enhancements in our Enviro software to accommodate their biological data.  ORNL has a long and proud history of managing their environmental data, and a combination of the robust Enviro Data structure with their previously designed structure for taxonomy, tissue samples, and biocensus data, will make a very strong solution for anyone needing to work with biological data.

The “Coyote”, as many of Mike’s friends refer to him, has been working very hard the last few months, on gaining his strength back, in preparation for moving back into his own home at the end of July.  He’s enjoying all the cards, calls and visits he’s receiving from his friends and work associates, and is looking forward to using his GIS skills to continue improving Geotech’s Enviro Spase product.  It certainly beats blood pressure cuffs, midnight meds, and doctor’s visits.  We’re pulling for you, Mike!

Geotech’s Enviro software maintenance renewals are increasing every year, with nine renewals this month alone, many for multiple licenses.  At Geotech, we not only want you to have the best environmental data management software on the market, but we develop a working relationship with all of our clients by providing them with individualized technical support, frequent software upgrades, and enhancements customized to their individual needs.   All of this personalized service is included in every maintenance renewal we sell.  It’s no wonder our Enviro maintenance renewals grow larger every year.

We have found that in the process of helping some of our clients get Enviro Data going, that they often face difficult challenges in working with their existing data, and may have other problems as well. They may be moving data from a competing product like Terrabase or EQuIS, an outdated in-house system, or have data in spreadsheets with challenging layouts. While having Geotech provide training on the use of the Enviro software can be a big help, we have found an additional method that has really helped. We arrange with the client to have regular meetings, usually every week or two for a while, and we move them along in the process in each meeting. One client, a big-city office of a large consulting company, had a combination of data conversion problems, staff turnover, and a very complicated project. Over a period of several months we met regularly via phone and WebEx, and they now have most of their data converted and the software configured to suit their project needs.

At Geotech, we are always listening to our clients’ needs, and adding features that make their data management projects easier, faster and more accurate.  This month, we added three new features to Enviro Data: Florida ADaPT, and EPA WQX imports and exports, and an EQuIS export format.  If you have any features that you would like to see added to the Enviro software, please email us at support@geotech.com, and let us know what they are.  We’re building our software to better fit your needs!

6/6/11 – Geotech trains another new client on Enviro Data

Geotech’s senior programmer, Russ Wendell, traveled to Virginia in June to train one of our new clients.  This client is an environmental consulting company with three offices on the east coast.  They specialize in environmental quality assurance, chemistry, geosciences, environmental data management, risk assessment, and recently joined the Marcellus Shale Coalition.  Geotech is thrilled to welcome this client into the Enviro Data users family.

5/30/11 – Geotech releases more “New Features” in Enviro Data

Geotech has been staying very busy adding functionality and making the Enviro Data software even more efficient.  In the last few months, we have been working hard on creating imports/exports, reports, enhancements to the field tool, validation and more.  Here are some things you can expect to see in our next release:

New ERPIMS Group 1 and 2 Exports

New ProUCL Excel Exports

Spanish Language headers and notes on Standard Output Excel reports

Enhanced grouping and labeling options on Standard Output Excel reports

SCRIBE imports and exports

Enhanced handling of containers and methods in the Field Tool

New database statistics report by parameter

Data validation enhancements for checking initial and continuing calibration standards

Bulk Data Module – Better handling of large data volumes like water levels, downhole data, and air monitoring 

We would be happy to show a web presentation on how these features can be used for your specific project types.  For additional information, contact mrich@geotech.com.  Let us know if you have any questions.

The month of May has been filled with requests for Enviro software demonstrations and purchase quotations.  Some of the upcoming purchases include the following: several environmental engineering and consulting companies in Colorado and elsewhere; a Canadian environmental consulting company doing chemical and biological studies; a disabled veteran-owned environmental engineering company; a Florida water district; a regional laboratory in New Jersey using Enviro Data to check lab files and generate output in various formats; a company that has expertise in radiation remediation, using Enviro Data to manage a large excavation project; and a large national engineering company that will be using Enviro Data and Enviro Spase to manage geotechnical data on several construction projects.  Geotech is pleased to be partnering with so many new companies this year!

Last month Geotech joined with some of Denver University’s most talented marketing students to assist them with creating an International Market Assessment for our company.  These students did a formal presentation for Geotech this month, which included such topics as: best countries to export to, regulatory approvals, sources of financing, trade barriers, pricing export licenses, logistics, and an implementation plan.  Geotech looks forward to using the findings of these future MBA students to move our international sales plan forward.

The number of Enviro software maintenance renewals is the largest in Geotech’s 25-year history!  In just the first five months of this year, Geotech has renewed Enviro Data and Enviro Spase maintenances for: major metals mining companies, several regional environmental consulting companies, a large regional petroleum refinery, state and county governments, several national and regional analytical laboratories, several national environmental companies, and a multi-national petroleum exploration and production company.  Geotech believes that these maintenance renewals are a testimony to the power, flexibility and ease of use of our software and services, and prove that our clients are improving the quality of their work while saving time and money.  A number of these clients have been using our software for over ten years!

Geotech continues to conduct many client-site training sessions for our Enviro software clients.  A few of these trainings include: an environmental engineering company in Colorado, an environmental consulting and chemistry company in Virginia, a national laboratory in Tennessee, and a coal mining company in Wyoming.  Geotech believes that good technical training and ongoing support make for very satisfied clients.

Geotech is proud to announce that a major environmental and engineering company, and their technical spin-off, have acquired Geotech’s Enviro Data and Enviro Spase products.  This software will be used to help them manage the remediation data from a major Superfund site which they are actively working on.  This company is in discussions with Geotech for a broader implementation of Enviro Data and Enviro Spase throughout their company.  Geotech welcomes this new client to the Enviro software family.

Geotech strives to have one of the most active development programs in the industry, and so we are pleased to let you know about some of the new features in our latest release, Enviro Data 2010B1.  We are always continuing to grow the software to help facilitate and streamline the data management process.  Some of these new features include: ERPIMS Group 3 Data upgrade to version 5, significant enhancements to the User-Defined Import and a new User-Defined Export that shares the format definitions from the import, more advanced handling of very large and very small numbers, and different formatting options for specific regions.  Some of the new export formats are: USEPA WQX, NYDEP, Florida ADaPT, Site Statistic Export, and the addition of spatial coordinates to the One-Line Excel Export.  We have also added a global setting file for sharing between projects, along with better handling of site constituents of concern for samples & detects.

Professor Roy Becker of the business department of Denver University has developed a course titled, “Managing Exports Project”.  Several of Professor Becker’s students will be working with Geotech this spring to enhance our international market research and exporting plan.  Geotech will meet with these students to discuss our products and services, and collaborate on how we can increase our international presence.  We look forward to working with Professor Becker and his students, and providing a win-win situation for all involved.

A coal company is the latest addition to Geotech’s growing list of happy Enviro software users.  Located in Wyoming, this client operates coal mines in Wyoming and Montana, and is one of the safest coal producers in the nation.  With approximately 1,500 employees, this company is recognized for its exemplary performance in its safety and environmental programs.  Geotech’s Enviro software will be used by this client to manage their soil and groundwater data, and for their regulatory reporting requirements.

On March 22 - 24, Geotech attended Americana 2011, the International Environmental Technology Trade Show and Conference, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Over 50 countries were represented in the 8,000 participants and 350 exhibitors.  Besides meeting many new folks on the trade show floor, Mike Rich, Geotech’s Sales Director attended the Saskatchewan Businesses Networking Meeting, and had thirteen one-on-one meetings with environmental companies and government agencies.  Many new leads and possible partnerships were generated from these meetings.  This is the second International Trade Show that was organized by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, and which Geotech participated in.

 Alternative energy sources can be a great contributor to the energy economy. Geotech has been involved in one aspect of this, coalbed methane. With this energy source, wells are drilled into subsurface coal seams, and the natural gas is produced. With the gas production often comes a lot of water, and there is a concern whether the drilling might impact nearby water supply wells. For one client, a major multinational oil and gas company operating in Southwest Colorado, Geotech provided our Enviro Data and Enviro Spase software to manage the water quality data from the neighbor’s water wells, both before and after the gas wells were drilled. Geotech then worked with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to make it easy for the client to submit their data to the state.   In another coalbed methane area, the Power River Basin of northeastern Wyoming, clients use Enviro Data to manage and map their data and create reports for the state. One well-known coalbed methane consulting company has been using Enviro Data with a SQL Server back-end to manage their clients’ water data for over ten years, and two of the largest operators in the basin depend on Enviro Data to manage their lab and flow data and create files in the specialized format, called eDMR2, required by the state.

Geotech is continuing its ongoing partnership with CO-EXist, a Colorado organization for the Export of Innovative and Sustainable Technologies in the environmental industry.  In the next few months, CO-EXist will be hosting meetings in Colorado between environmental companies from Mexico and Colorado.  Geotech’s software was well-received at the Green Expo in Mexico last fall, and plans to attend this CO-EXist winter meeting to further expand our product into the Mexican market.  Geotech is also discussing plans to attend the CIEPEC 2011 Expo and Conference in China this summer, sponsored by CO-EXist. 

Geotech is pleased to announce a new version of Enviro Data, called 2010 A. It has many new features relative to previous releases. Some of the big ones are a greatly expanded Field Tool that can create container labels and chains of custody, revised Validation that can now obtain and use control limits from our updated lab file format, a system for managing permit data, greatly expanded user-defined imports and exports, better tools for cleaning up problem data, several new and enhanced reports and exports, additional data formatting options for special situations such as very small and very large numbers, new or updated interfaces to RockWorks, ERPIMS, ADR, ADaPT, eDMR2, Excel, and much more. Please contact us if you would like more information, or a presentation on the new features.

For years now, Geotech has been helping countries around the world increase efficiency and save costs on their data management projects.  With businesses ranging from consulting firms to paper mills, Enviro Data has been able to overcome international variances with ease.  This can prove tricky sometimes, as other countries do not necessarily manage or display their data in the same way as the US does.   The most recent addition to our international clients is an environmental consulting company in Argentina.  We have been working with them integrating Spanish changes into our software and might soon begin converting Enviro Data to a “user friendly” Spanish version.  We are also talking with companies in Mexico City about setting up resellers there, and the usage of Enviro Data in the Mexican market. We also hope to attend the CIEPEC Trade Show this year in Beijing, to learn more about the Asian market and possibly help them with their water remediation problems.   With an ever expanding effort to reach companies around the world, Geotech is committed to cleaning up the environment one project at a time.

Geotech Computer Systems, Inc. once again attended the Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy conference from October 18th – 21st at the University of Massachusetts. Mike Rich, Geotech’s Sales Director, shared a booth with Geotech Environmental Equipment. A few of the exciting Presentation and Workshop titles this year included: “Sustainable Remediation: What is it and how is it applied?” and “In Situ Chemical Reduction for Groundwater Chromium Stabilization”. Mike met with many great people at the conference, which opened doors to many opportunities for Enviro software implementations and strategic partnerships. We are pleased that many of the attendees have a need for Enviro Data, and we are working with them to get it going.

For the first time, Geotech Computer Systems, Inc. attended the Renewable Energy Conference in Mexico City, Mexico. Organized by CO-EXist, Colorado Export of Innovative & Sustainable Technologies, this trade show and private meetings with Mexican technology companies, was an excellent way to introduce our Enviro software and services to them. Held at the World Trade Center, this conference had over 6,000 attendees of private sector, public sector, consulting companies, and government agencies. The Green Expo provided much information on the Mexican market and allowed Geotech to emerge as one of the top database companies to enter the environmental market in Mexico. Geotech had many discussions with potential distributors as they recognize that their environmental industry needs fresh tools, and Geotech can fill this technology need. We are excited that the ongoing conversations with the five technology companies Geotech did presentations for, will allow us to establish our presence in the emerging Mexican environmental market.

Emergency Response work on the oil spill monitoring project continued throughout the month of September. All three of Geotech’s consultants worked many late nights during this month, creating reports and maps for the EPA. Despite the three-week-on, one-week-off rotation, the close quarters and rigorous schedule is challenging for all the consultants involved. Despite this, Geotech’s consultants are grateful to have gained the first-hand knowledge of working on an Emergency Response project. While on-site clean-up of this spill is still going on, the project manager is hopeful that work will be completed in October.

A National Laboratory recently purchased Enviro Data, and is working with Geotech to expand the software to more comprehensively handle biological data. While Enviro Data has always satisfactorily handled tissue and other related data, the scientists at the lab want to better associate samples with a structured taxonomic system that they have developed over the years. Once this capability is integrated into Enviro Data, users will be able to select data using genus, species, and other taxonomic data.

In August, Geotech received a call from an Emergency Response company project manager, who said that he had read Dr. Dave’s book on Environmental Database Management, and thought of Geotech when he needed to hire consultants for his oil spill monitoring project. Geotech subcontracted out three of its top consultants to help with the database management and mapping pieces of this project. Two of our consultants worked on entering data, writing reports, and creating presentations for the EPA, while the third consultant, a GIS specialist, created maps. The Emergency Response company was thrilled with the level of technical expertise that our consultants provided to them, and was impressed with the professionalism and speed with which Geotech responded to their needs. Geotech looks forward to working with this, and other Emergency Response companies in the future.

Geotech has provided our Enviro Data and Enviro Spase software to EPA Region 8 to display data for the East Helena Superfund/RCRA site, formerly owned by ASARCO. The database was created by a long-time Enviro Data client, and is provided on a regular basis to EPA project managers, a regulator with the State of Montana, and other interested parties. The EPA PMs and others can then retrieve data and create displays as they need. They are making reports, graphs, and GIS maps to better understand the project, make better informed decisions, and provide key information to the public.

Geotech Computer Systems, Inc. attended Geotech Environmental Equipment’s 2nd Annual Field Days on June 24 & 25, 2010 in Denver, CO. Once again this year, this event provided attendees with demos, training, networking and hands-on experience related to field equipment and the latest technologies. Dave Rich, President of Geotech Computer Systems, Inc., gave a well-received 1 ½ hour presentation entitled, “Managing Environmental Data from the Field to the Map”. Some of the other exhibitors and presenters included: GRUNDFOS, In-Situ, Inc., The Nielsen Environmental Field School, SonTek, and YSI. The two Field Days were followed by the 10th Annual Charity Golf Tournament for the Ronald McDonald House, on Saturday, June 26th.

As the popularity of Geotech's Enviro software continues to grow, our clients are expressing a growing need to convert data from other database systems into Enviro Data. To help with this, we have created a new tool to convert database files from the EQuIS format to Enviro Data format, similar to a Geotech tool written for GISKey conversions several years ago. Combined with special pricing for users switching to Enviro Data from a competing product (our "Amnesty Program"), this new tool makes it even easier to switch. By switching, you will put Enviro Data's powerful features, ease of use, and efficient workflow to work for you at a surprisingly reasonable cost.

Pace Analytical, the nation's second largest laboratory chain, and Hull Environmental, a well-respected Ohio-based development, engineering and environmental company and Enviro software client, recently documented the great benefits that can be obtained by implementing an efficient data management system, lowering the total cost of ownership of their environmental data from investigation to closure, with cost reductions of 20 to 50% versus Hull's old system. This success story was published in the May 2010 edition of Pace's newsletter. You can read this article on Pace's web site at http://www.pacelabs.com/about-us/newsletter/may-2010/5.html.

Geotech recently received this note from a happy customer. We wanted to share it with you.

"My agency is tasked with monitoring surface and ground water in our County.  Our monitoring results are required to be submitted to regulatory agencies and are made public via a web mapping site.  We have used Geotech Computer Systems' off-the-shelf environmental software to manage our data for almost 10 years.  I have found it essential for handling monitoring results and providing professional looking reports.  Their Enviro Data database and Enviro Spase GIS interface are tools that easily allow us to import new analytical results, prepare quick and readily understandable reports, prepare maps, and to upload these results to regulatory agencies.  Geotech’s programs integrate closely with other vendor’s programs including Surfer for preparing contour maps, ArcGIS for GIS applications and our laboratory’s information management system (LIMS).  Their programs are easy to understand and use, yet powerful.  It only takes a few minutes to teach new users to produce complex graphs and tables.  When issues arise, as they do with all software, Geotech’s technical support is always available and quick to help, going out of their way to provide solutions.  It would be difficult to manage our monitoring program without Geotech Computer Systems." 

Let Geotech turn you into our next Success Story. For more information on our eDMR feature, call us at (303) 740-1999.

Our folks are working hard on Enviro Spase as well as Enviro Data. One useful new feature builds on our very popular Callout and Crosstab Callout Wizards. Now for both, you can automatically color the background of the callout boxes to suit your project needs. The colors are based on the existing Station Groups feature in Enviro Data, that lets you create whatever groups you want and assign any stations to those groups. Groups can now have colors assigned, and Enviro Spase can use that to set the background color.  For more information on the latest Enviro Spase features, visit Geotech's website by clicking here or call us at (303) 740-1999.

The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe consists of approximately 10,000 people, and they are located in northern-most New York State, in the town of Akwesasne.  The Mohawk Territory is bisected by the United States-Canada border, and the reservation is situated next to a Superfund site highly contaminated with toxic chemicals.  Consequently, the tribe has one of the most advanced environment divisions of any tribe in the U.S.  The Mohawk tribe recently purchased Geotech’s Enviro Data software to help them manage and display the data retrieved from this Superfund site.  Dave Rich, President of Geotech Computer Systems, Inc., visited the tribe in early May and trained them on the use of Enviro Data.

Geotech attended two more trade shows at the end of this year’s first quarter: the first was the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., SME in Phoenix, AZ.  This year’s show theme was “Celebrating 100 years of Mining Research”, and had over 400 exhibitors.  Some of this year’s exhibitors were AMEC, ARCADIS, Inc., CH2M Hill, Inc., Newmont Mining Corp, and many others.  The second show was the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences, AEHS, in San Diego, CA. This was their 20^th Annual International Conference, and it drew 500-600 participants.  AEHS focuses on environmental issues related to soil, sediment, water, and energy, and attracts environmental professionals who are concerned with developing creative, cost-effective assessments and solutions that can withstand the demands of regulatory requirements. 

Many of our Enviro Data clients find the internal map display a useful way to see the spatial distribution of their data without the time and effort (and sometimes expense) of using an external mapping program. We've recently completed a major upgrade to the Map Display tool. We converted the display tool from MapObjects (ESRI) to GeoObjects (Blue Marble). This is already providing some big benefits, and opens up the potential for more map-based enhancements in the future. First, the new map form now works correctly in Vista and Windows 7. Second, we have added a feature to double click on a station on a map to bring up additional information about that station, including samples and analyses. And finally, we can now support a much longer list of vector map and image map formats. It will also be possible to add features down the road, including map-based selections, coordinate projections, display of contours for external applications like Surfer, and so on. If you have any questions call us at (303) 740-1999.

In January, Dave Rich, President of Geotech Computer Systems, Inc., conducted a training session for new environmental staff at Pueblo of Laguna, a current Geotech client.  Six staffers attended, and topics such as how to enter site names, analytic methods, and station locations were discussed.  It was reported to Dave by the attendees that the two-day session was very informative and useful and they were now ready to get up and running with Enviro Data.  In February, Geotech provided training to a new environmental engineering client, with an office in Seattle, WA, that manages and provides technical support for natural resource restoration, remediation, environmental protection, waste management, and regulatory compliance to its clients.  Geotech created an Enviro Data map display enhancement for this client, which has been incorporated into the latest version of Enviro Data (see above).