"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein-


Coordination of Initial Health Effects Screening:
3TM International coordinates initial health effects screening of potentially impacted communities. Working with toxicologists and medical experts, we prepare health surveys, assist in the conduct of the surveys, and provide the client with a summary so that they can readily assess the medical merits of the case. Health effects screening, when used in conjunction with environmental multi-media data, is critical to defining the case.

Laboratory Analytical Testing:
3TM International works with several commercial analytical testing and forensic laboratories to design and implement testing programs for the collected field samples. We ensure that the appropriate testing protocols are selected and used for the testing, and that the laboratories are certified by the proper government agencies and other entities, so that the results are defensible in court.

Data Validation:
The validation of environmental data goes hand in hand with both data acquisition and technical assessment. Analytical reports are scrutinized to make certain that the data is reasonable and not associated with internal laboratory or reporting errors, and meets the project’s quality assurance objectives.

Forensic Chemical Identification:
3TM International works with forensic laboratories and chemists to “fingerprint” contaminants, and to identify the source of their release to the environment. We have fingerprinted PCBs, Dioxins, PAHs, Agent Orange, pesticides, creosote, hydrocarbons, and other chemicals in cases to correlate contamination with specific sources, and to track their transport throughout various environmental media to the ultimate receptors.

Fate and Transport of Contamination:
3TM International can evaluate the nature and extent of contamination with the help of computer simulation models, which provide such key data as the extent of current contamination, contamination gradients, the movement dynamics of groundwater plumes, air dispersion, and other information. We have also calculated historical contaminant mass and concentrations based on contaminant half-life and other data in order to retro-calculate the magnitude of exposure at some historical point in time.