• About ERLN
• Membership and Benefits
• Who should join?
• ERLN Focus Areas
• Training and Exercises

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 Exit
  • Bioterrorism Preparedness Training for Sentinel Laboratories Online Courses Exit
  • Cryptosporidium and E. coli Source Water Sample Collection for the LT2ESWTR Rule
  • Demonstration of NEMI-CBR Methods Exit
  • Phase II and V Chemicals and Radiological Rules
  • Public Notification and Consumer Confidence Report Rules
  • QC Principles for the Small Laboratory Performing Quantitative Tests Exit
  • Radionuclides Rule
  • Surface Water Rules Training
  • Surface Water Treatment Rule and Total Coliform Rule
  • Water Sector Incident Command System Training (PDF)
  • Chain of Custody – WLA Exit
  • Rapid Multiplexed Detection of Infectious Disease Exit
  • Regional Lab Response Plan Functional Exercises Exit
  • Water laboratory Alliance: Benefits to the Water Sector Exit

• Radiation Focus Area
  • Multi-Agency Radiological Laboratory Analytical Protocols Manual (MARLAP) Training (PDF) (1 pg, 22K, About PDF)
    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.

• Regional Support: Please locate the Lab in your area for Regional Lab Training opportunities

Exercises

• Liberty RadEx, April 2010

Activities

• Water Focus Area
  • Microbial Efforts
  • Chemical Methods
  • Water Laboratory Alliance Security Summit
• Regional Support
  • Water Lab Alliance (WLA) 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).