Source Molecular Corporation, the nation's leader in the field of microbial source tracking, has earned its laboratory ISO accreditation from American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) for technical competence in the field of biological testing. A2LA granted accreditation to Source Molecular's laboratory in accordance with the recognized International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standards. This demonstrates that [...]
Source Molecular Corporation co-hosted a microbial source tracking or MST workshop with the California Water Board Region 5 on January 23 at the EPA headquarters in Sacramento. It was attended by regulators, environmental consultants and watershed managers throughout California as well as other interested parties across North America. Source Molecular's CEO Mauricio Larenas presented on [...]
Source Molecular Corporation was recently featured in a news report by WLRN Public Radio that explained how its genetic testing services is helping improve water quality. Chief Executive Officer Mauricio Larenas toured WLRN's Kate Stein around Source Molecular's laboratory and shared the innovative technologies used and being developed. Florida, like many states in the U.S, [...]
Source Molecular Corporation's Yiping Cao emphasized the importance of identifying fecal bacteria sources at a seminar in the University of California, Irvine, in December 2017. She discussed a study that identified sources of fecal contamination and a study to evaluate biofilter effectiveness in removing microbial pollution. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the [...]
Source Molecular Corporation is the only commercial laboratory in the United States providing Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (ddPCR or Digital PCR) service in the field of environmental water testing. It is also the world’s only ISO-accredited microbial source tracking (MST) laboratory. Routine water quality monitoring tests for fecal indicator bacteria such as enterococci, which [...]
Source Molecular Corporation provided microbial source tracking (MST) analysis for a study that won an award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA). The MST study is entitled “Utilizing DNA Markers for Identification of Human and Non-Human Fecal Sources in Urban Stormwater”. Geosyntec designed and led the MST study for the Boston Water [...]
Microbial source tracking was one of the topics discussed at the Great Lakes Beach Association Workshops held together with the 2017 State of Lake Michigan or SOLM Conference from November 7 to 10 at the Hyatt Regency in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dr. Shannon Briggs of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality coordinated the MST workshop. [...]
A paper detailing the development of a human fecal contamination score that allows for site prioritization and measurement of BMP effectiveness and […]
More than 300 stormwater professionals gathered at the 2017 Storm Water Solutions SWS Conference and Exhibition held November 7 to 9 at the Tinley Park Convention Center in Illinois. Source Molecular Corporation's Haley Gershon gave a presentation on "Evidence-Based Guidelines for Microbial Source Tracking (MST) Projects." Particularly, she noted, people often blame MS4 permittees for [...]
The Kentucky Division of Water shared their statewide approach to Pathogen Total Maximum Daily Loads at the 12th Annual Regional Stormwater Conference of the Southeast Stormwater Association (SESWA) held in Louisville from October 11 to 13, 2017. Source Molecular Corporation had an exhibit booth at the SESWA Conference, which focused on stormwater solutions in Region [...]
