Do you provide professional services for: Environmentally linked illnesses; Building design;  Engineering process control; Property development, sale or inspection; or Personal & product liability litigation?

  Are you a Doctor in need of ANALYSES of suspected TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS of your patients?

  Have PESTICIDE MISUSE suspicions?

  Need SCIENTIFIC FACTS and EXPERT WITNESS to handle a legal case?

  Do you have a need for a PILOT PLANT operator or designer assistance? 

  Want to know what a PROPERTY really is ENVIRONMENTALLY?

  Are you trying to sell or manage property with unknown or VILE looking substances?

Do you have: Environmentally linked illness & concerns for POOR INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ) & compliance of ASHRAE STANDARDS; Children with lost ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT or MADE SICK by a SCHOOL; PESTICIDE problems; School or private PROPERTY MANAGEMENT responsibilities?

  Are you an ORGAN TRANSPLANT recipient and need a home or work place found clean with SCIENTIFIC TESTS?

  Sick from a home's STRUCTURAL FLOOR?

  Want to know just how toxic a building or its location is and where to get a PLAN & DEFINING DATA to solve serious IAQ problems?

  Wonder if a finished building COMPLIES with the designer's or owner's plans?

  Did you recently realize Architects, builders, & building materials manufacturers sold us tight (sick) buildings, arsenic laced wood, asbestos, and lead paint & plumbing, while still ignoring mold & bacteria, radon and PRIOR to USE MONITORING?

  Need to MINIMIZE ALLERGIES and ILLNESSES in general without side effects?

Wish to REDUCE AGING by identifying & quantifying chronic, damaging environmental agents that are known to accelerate aging?

  Have tenant, teacher, or student IAQ COMPLAINTS or LITIGATION?

Do you: Own, manage, or insure CARGO in transit or write casualty insurance?

  Do you need to establish who's LIABLE & FROM WHAT with SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES of damaged cargo?

Would a `black box' to monitor SHIPPING DAMAGE LOSSES, as it happens, increase your PROFITS?

We provide quality solutions to complex problems with forensic grade data, plans, & solutions. We provide services for small, residential projects at the same rate as large. No job is too small. Over the years, we have traveled far and wide to provide diverse services from Waterloo, Belgium, to Kona, Hawaii, and many, many places in between. When needed, we select other professional Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians with complementary expertise. Often we provide free advice to get folks pointed in the right direction so they can reach their goals.

Our most appropriate competitors are the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, and the Harvard School of Public Health. We all use the same independent labs that we know and trust for analyses, but our costs are far less! Our biggest competitors are the big, expensive firms, with expensive ads in the yellow pages, that have to pay big money to their legal staff who are there to defend the indefensible: Their very young, inexperienced staffs of recent graduates (who look good on paper), their mistakes & oversights, and huge ethical problems from mixing assessment with remediation. Some have so little expertise they use check lists! Run for your lives! Fortunately, many of these big time firms have disappeared by the score leaving clients high and dry for on going problem management: See the partial list in the 'Advantages' tab above. We pass on these huge savings to our clients.

Mr. Greg Marsh, B.S. Chemistry, Forensic Chemist, is called Environmental Chemist when working outdoors; Professional Industrial Hygienist (P.I.H.)*, when working indoors; and an analytical, quality control, instrumental Chemist when solving industrial process problems. In his early career years he practiced wet chemical and instrumental analyses by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, etc., in industry, power plants, and government research for manufacturing, process efficiency, and the Clean Water Act. Today, we are a small team of traveling, Professional Scientists providing a broad range of discreet, affordable, quality, scientifically and statistically valid Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), environmental optimization, contamination assessment and process control services to individuals, companies, and organizations in commerce, government, industry, academia, medicine, and private sector folks. We sometimes encourage them to think `outside the box' - way outside the box!

*=Compliant with Tennessee Code 62-40-101.

This documented and referenced web brochure (see references in `Contact Us') describes small scale affordable, professional, scientific services from older, experienced discreet Scientists and Engineers, with serious degrees from real universities. Professionals of this caliber are vanishing due to aging; difficult educational requirements with the specter of a very poor return on investment (compensation); off shoring; emasculated health, safety & environmental regulations; and the defunding of regulatory agencies that started big time in the early 1980s. When needed, we can tap into a dwindling supply of complementary services from other Scientists, Engineers and Professionals. We implement Geologists when knowledge of soils and rocks is needed. We all worked for big industry, government, academia and commerce over the years and found this wasn't for us. In addition, the vast majority of other Scientists in these fields do not like to travel and have regular jobs with the military, industrial, religious complex because they are willing to sell out their moral responsibilities to victims. We completed our educations long before grade inflation, course level inflation, and when students who didn't measure up were expelled - no ifs, ands, or buts!

Our services fall into several broad categories that enhance health, productivity, & morale; save energy, money, & time; while minimizing litigation risks, and maximizing profits. Our services include: Environmental optimization; contamination assessment field work, including arson investigation review; and process control & testing, including quality control & quality assurance (QC/QA). Our Industrial Hygiene (I.H.) optimization services, for homes, schools and work places, are for folks who prefer to die of natural causes of old age, with peace and dignity in their own beds.

We also provide industrial services to parties here and abroad who are starting up manufacturing operations for new products and processes that involve environmental concerns such as drinking and process water quality; industrial process monitoring; and energy recovery, generation, & efficiency. Technologies include: Latest solar & renewable energy methods; `green' chemistry solutions for fundamentally safe, low cost manufacturing; laboratory rescue; and pollution prevention technologies that are a crucial part of ISO 14,000. We provide clients with shortcuts of U.S. technology from some of the worlds foremost research centers which are located in our neighborhood near Denver, which is also known as the `Second Silicon Valley'. We do not sell hardware nor remediation services as this is unethical, unprofessional and requires training professional Scientists do not have.

Marsh built the firm in its present form in 1985, on research services he started providing in 1968 thru 1973 as a research scientist of the U.S. E.P.A., formed in December, 1970. Later, as a `job shopper', he provided similar services near and far on very diverse projects. The use of our services is driven by annual losses of $ 60,000,000,000 (Sixty Thousand Million Dollars!) throughout the American business community from lost worker efficiency, sickness, and broken computers<sup>25</sup>. This study found that an expenditure of only $ 5,000,000,000 per year for the next 20 years would eliminate this colossal loss. Another major project source are American schools, which are a disaster<sup>10</sup> and one of our specialties. Implementation of our school building findings has greatly improved student academic and athletic performance, and added years to the lives of many teachers. For folks with `Multiple Chemical Sensitivities', we provide the two of 62 most effective solutions, and major elements of 4 of the top 7 solutions listed in a 1995 study of 305 folks with `Multiple Chemical Sensitivities' (MCS) ²¹.

Gregory K. Marsh, Forensic Chemist, P.I.H.* Greg Marsh has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and over six years of additional, relevant, formal education in: Monitoring methods development and instrumentation; quality control/quality assurance; Gas Chromatography; regulations and enforcement policies. On a practical matter, this is substantially more than required in a Masters degree program. He has additionally practiced over 30 years as a professional in forensic, environmental, instrumental, analytical chemistry, including major QC/QA support in a toxicology research lab for Clean Water Act discharge standards development; was a major contributor for a very large, peer reviewed study for the biological basis for metals standards in the Clean Water Act; co-developer of methods of analyses by atomic absorption spectroscopy: consultant in forensic chemistry; de facto industrial hygienist; lab management; the first Chemist in 137 years in a 2.2 Giga watt, coal and oil fired, Ohio River power plant complex; engineering support/process control; field lab design, implementation & oversight of a large scale, exotic, pilot, geothermal power plant; and litigation support with smashing victories. He also has extensive experience in instrument selection, health & safety monitoring, data evaluation & reduction, risk minimization, stationary source regulatory compliance monitoring, public speaking and teaching in science, and public relations. Feel free to ask for a professional profile, long or short.

Dr. Francis Clough, Physical Chemist. Dr. Clough, of Centennial, Wyoming, was a former Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic and consultant with more than 45 years experience as a physical, inorganic, environmental Chemist. In 1981, after a long career as an outstanding Professor of Chemistry, he established Chemical Criteria, offering thermal analyses and ion chromatography for a variety of clients in industry, commerce and government.

Dr. Clough was the one to choose when a problem in Chemistry was too difficult to solve. He was an avid, long term birder, the pesticide chairman of the National Audubon Society, and deeply involved in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal monitoring & clean up, without compensation nor appreciation from regulatory agencies. With very little help, for many, many years; he tirelessly hammered the State Legislature, who were deep in the pockets of the pesticide industry, the polluters, and the military, industrial, religious complex; to regulate pesticide applicators. In the end he succeeded very well indeed.

Very, very, sadly he passed away in his sleep, undiscovered, during a long holiday weekend, surrounded by his bird books. We just don't have the heart to remove him from this site. This friend and colleague is our forth great loss in 20 years, at times when labs are disappearing and few study Chemistry anymore, a fact made clear in 1973 by the American Chemical Society and continues to this day.

We employ many other professional and technical people with complementary expertise, when needed, including: Engineers; Nuclear and Health Physicists; computer applications developers and animation specialists; risk assessors; high resolution and underwater photographers, both digital and film; and much more. Call us when you need serious, technical assistance.

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