This uncopyrighted, heavily documented (about 50 peer reviewed
scientific references) and three dozen relevant help links, enhanced web
brochure (see References in `Contact Us') is not copyrighted. One may 'cut
and paste' - we ask only for reference credit. It describes small scale
affordable, professional, scientific services in the diverse fields of
Exposure Science, Environmental Optimization, and Contamination Assessment
(process control) all of which, strangely, implement the same
technologies. "If you can buy or find it, we can analyze it" with full
interpretation of the independent laboratory findings. This includes fracking
substances.
We are a dynamic team of older, experienced, discreet
Scientists, Professors, and Engineers, with serious degrees from real
universities, long before grade and course inflation prostituted the
bachelor's degree. We provide quality trouble shooting of complex problems
with forensic, evidential grade data, following published Scientific methods
and data from laboratories we have known and trusted for over 30 years. Some
of our services reveal missing Quality Control, that designers, builders,
and manufacturers do not want you to know. Frequently, our data is predictive
and/or definitive of things to come, including broken appliances &
leaking plumbing, lost health, causes of 'idiopathic' diseases, lost property
values from impending danger, litigation outcome, and lost retirement(s).
These benefits usually apply to all folks under the same roof, all the time.
Our reports are the tool to 'nip problems in the bud' with big cost savings
for needed solutions at the optimum time, thus preventing disasters. From
our first Report of Findings and Recommendations, we make responsible parties
'shine', maximize ambiance & R.O.I., are cost effective even in societies
with universal health care, and can recover much of your lost retirement.
We serve industry, government, attorneys, and private property
owners in many ways centered around scientific understanding of all sorts of
diverse things. Over decades, we have traveled far and wide to provide
discreet services from Waterloo, Belgium, to Kona, Hawaii. When needed, we
select other professional Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians with
complementary expertise. This applies to engineering Pilot Plants for
industry and research. We provide services for small, residential projects
at the same rate as large. No job is too small. Often we provide free advice
to get leaders and technocrats pointed in the right direction so they can
pursue their goals cost effectively.
Our clientele are seemingly diverse business categories with fundamental
scientific similarities that may not be obvious to the layman. These include:
Attorneys needing EXPERT WITNESSES FOR LITIGATION SUPPORT addressing
issues & risks of TOXIC BUILDINGS. Engineers needing Chemistry
to address contaminants in Engineering processes, PILOT and POWER
PLANTS, sometimes called (PROCESS CONTROL) to maximize profits
& efficiency. Physicians, property owners, and building managers and
owners (BOMAs) who may have a building that's damaging health or way out of
specs. (not 'Green', healthy, nor clean); or that may have a drug
manufacturing/user/history whose presence that need not be revealed to the
government (call us first for our guidance to save huge $$$!). Cruise
ships: (SPEAKING AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS) on fascinating, emerging
science and technologies you can select from our list. We present such knowledge in easy
to understand terms, with follow up support, for the layman and those in
charge.
We routinely monitor environments, etc., with methods that quantify
and identify levels of toxic substances that are below that which is known
to be harmful, which are far below human perception, and far, far below
'Below Regulatory Concern' (BRC)-that which our corporate serving government
thinks you will accept being hammered with. Click on the 'Definitions' tab
at the top of this web page. All must contend with the myriad of toxics we
have poisoned our world with include indoor contaminants that damage health,
productivity, academic & athletic achievement, morale, & ambiance,
abound as they minimize retirement, energy consumption & income.
One must not accept or trust the well understood, grand illusions
& limitations that fool the human body. Human perception is easily
transcended by today's laboratory instruments, techniques, and powerful
sampling methods. It's not just asbestos & radon anymore. Scientists and
colleagues in the laboratories we know and trust provide precious support
in the form of what they are discovering from their other similar clients'
samples and are thus part of our team serving you. All Exposure Science
solutions are 100% free of all side effects, pain & suffering, 100% of
the time, and last the life of the unchanged environment! In the U.S. we
have never found an environment that did not have a myriad of easily
identified insults.
Additional services include: Environmental optimization (looking
for insults at levels that are rejected by regulators, or no one else cares
about and are hence unregulated-BRC); contamination assessment, field work
(monitoring), very discreet meth lab prediction & assessment of public
places that precludes government knowledge and intervention and saves big
money, process control & testing, including quality control & quality
assurance (QC/QA), and arson investigation review, usually in marginally
served rural settings. In the U.S., the incidence of diseases linked to
chronic, low level exposure to environmental insults, is far too high to
ignore. Our Industrial Hygiene (I.H.), anti-aging, optimization services,
driven by Exposure Science; for homes, schools, and work places; are for
astute folks who prefer to die of natural causes (old age), with peace and
dignity in their own beds.
We also provide industrial & environmental services for
starting up manufacturing operations here and abroad. These include:
drinking and process water quality; industrial process monitoring; and
energy recovery, generation, & efficiency. Technologies include:
Latest solar & renewable energy applications; `green' chemistry
solutions for fundamentally safe, clean, 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'.
When working outdoors Marsh & Co. are called Forensic Chemists;
when working indoors, Exposure Scientist/Professional Industrial Hygienists
(P.I.H.)*; and forensic analytical, quality control, instrumental Chemists
when trouble shooting industrial process problems. In his early career
years he practiced instrumental, analytical chemical analyses and wrote
methods of instrumental analyses by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, etc.,
for the U.S. E.P.A., adopted by industry and regulatory agencies still
found in the Clean Water Act).
Our discreet services require application of the 'Precautionary
Principle', (click on 'Definitions' at the top). These follow safety rules
for manufacture of drinking water, drugs, and foods. This parallels legal
& engineering needs for process control services too.
Nothing on this web site is copyrighted so others may 'cut &
paste' for any other reason. Permission to copy, print, reproduce, transfer
& distribute, in whole or in part, without profit, with our reference,
is hereby granted. We feel this will promote understanding and acceptance
of complementary solutions (real preventive medicine) from the fields of
Exposure Science and Industrial Hygiene, that will be new to many - including
most American Physicians! In a private conversation, Dr. Jill Stein, an
Environmental Pediatrician, stated about 75% of the $ 2.25 TRILLION national,
annual health care bill could be saved from full implementation of real
preventive medicine!
Gregory K. Marsh, Exposure
Scientist, Forensic Chemist, P.I.H.* Greg Marsh has a Bachelor
of Science degree 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. Since finishing school, he has attended technical
presentations, training in new scientific developments from academic
institutions, e.g., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; U. of Colorado,
Boulder (Camelot), CO; Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (www.nrel.gov), Golden, CO; World Affairs
Conference, Boulder, CO. (www.colorado.edu/CWA), etc., for decades. On
a practical basis, this is substantially more than required in most Doctors'
(Ph.D.) degree programs. He encourages clients to think `outside the box' -
way outside the box, with all of today's tools to create the best solutions!
Marsh has additionally practiced over 30 years as a professional
in forensic, environmental, instrumental, analytical chemistry, including
major QC/QA support in a biological toxicology research lab for Clean Water
Act discharge standards development; was a major contributor for a very
large, peer reviewed study of 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 & laboratory safety officer in the government lab mentioned
above. This was perfect training and experience for optimization &
trouble shooting built environments (Exposure Science); Later monitoring
laboratory implementation & management (the first Chemist hired in 137
years) in a 2.2 Giga Watt, major coal and oil fired Ohio River power plant
complex.
Marsh moved to Colorado in 1978 for good. Engineering support/process
control, field lab design, implementation & oversight of a small scale,
exotic, geothermal pilot power plant in a pristine area; This was followed
by many different positions of cleanup oversight operations at the Rocky
Mountain Arsenal in the field of ultra deadly chemical weapons/agent
monitoring & destruction, and neutralization of their metabolites,
including development of a safe & non polluting method of destroying
chemical weapons without a smoke stack, ignored by the U.S. Army; (more
perfect preparation for environmental optimization and Exposure Science).
Was site safety officer on really big radiotoxic waste sites, for the
world's largest private construction company, in some of New Jersey's
most expensive neighborhoods (WISS & MISS); greatly enhanced a fast,
cheap, evidential quality, breath alcohol detector; wrote a major proposal
and outline as an impetus for a 'Clean Soils Act', to complement the Clean
Water Act & Clear Air Act, for the U.S. E.P.A.; and prevailing litigation
support with smashing victories over lies, duplicity, and deceit by the
guy who literally 'wrote the book on arson residue analyses for A.S.T.M.
The above positions/projects required extensive experience in instrument
selection, health & safety management, data evaluation & reduction,
risk minimization, toxicology & epidemiology, pollution laws application,
forensics, public speaking and teaching in science & computer technology,
and public relations.
*=Compliant with Tennessee Code 62-40-101.
Marsh started building the firm to its present form in 1985, on
research services he started providing in 1968 as a chemist at a forerunner
agency (a distant arm of the U.S. Public Health Service) 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 computers25.
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
disaster10
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.
Pro Bono: Exposure Science, Forensic Chemistry, &
Industrial Hygiene
Marsh was one of about three dozen citizen activists who shut down
the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant SuperFund Mega-Site - forever!
This site was not moved or resurrected elsewhere. He sat on the
Citizens' Soil Sampling Committee established by citizen demand on the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, from the beginning.
We were led to believe citizens were being protect from that menace by
the Radiation Control Division - that never controlled anything - that we
later learned was managed by a totally ignorant, uneducated, corporate lap
dog and fool! And starting in 1987, was a charter, founding member and last
elected president of the Rocky Flats Cleanup Commission to administer the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Technical Assistance Grant on that
site. This was more than equivalent to a degree in Corporate Psychology &
public relations - how big corporations really work when they control
most everything including the media! He never took a bribe. The third
and last time he was thanked for these services was by Richard Lamm,
Governor of Colorado.
The big issues now? A Colorado State health department initiative
to create missing OSHA regulations that all but disappeared in the
middle 1990s that now fail to address the 700,000 Americans who die
prematurely each year of preventable workplace injuries plus those who
die prematurely downwind of regulated workplaces. Replacement of a new,
totally ignorant fool now managing the Radiation Control Division who
has publicly stated that "plutonium is no more toxic than dry cleaning
fluid"! Folks who still think the government protects them must stop eating
cantaloupe and call us for details!
Exposure Science Today?
Exposure Science is growing today but Professional Scientists are
dying off: Students of Science have difficult educational requirements and
other concerns including: the specter of a very poor return on their
educational investment; off shoring-huge job losses; emasculated health,
safety & environmental regulations; and the defunding of regulatory
agencies that started big time in the early 1980s when they were labeled
'socialist'. These are some of today's reality. When needed, we tap into
a dwindling supply of difficult to find complementary services from other
mature Scientists, Engineers, and Professionals including SCUBA divers and
translators in German, Spanish, and Arabic. We implement Geologists when
knowledge of soils and rocks is needed. Be very wary when folks claim the
title of 'Certified Industrial Hygienist'. We all worked for big industry,
government, academia and commerce over the years and found they and
certification in I.H. wasn't for us. To make your situation even more
difficult, the vast majority of Scientists do not like to travel and have
regular jobs with the military-industrial complex and are perfectly willing
to 'turn a blind eye' to duplicity and conflicts. 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!
Two of our few real competitors are National Jewish Health in
Denver, and the Harvard School of Public Health. We all use the same
independent labs, that we know and trust. As you suspect, our fees are
far less!
Our biggest competitors are big firms, with their expensive
ads you pay for, and who pay big money to their legal staff to defend their
very young employees' work. They routinely hire these low cost, inexperienced
folks (recent graduates who look good on paper) because they maximize
CEOs' compensations. Their huge ethical problems from mixing assessment with
remediation will cause you problems and greatly increased your costs. Those
who only assess have no motive to maximize remediation. Beware of youth with
check sheets! We condemn them not for their youth but their lack of
experience and their reports of findings after their lawyers remove anything
that could cause culpability for oversights and fraud. Fortunately,
many of these big time firms have disappeared by the score, leaving clients
high and dry: See the partial list under the 'Advantages' tab above.
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, in Arvada, Colorado, offering
thermal analyses and ion chromatography for a variety of clients in
industry, commerce, and government.
Dr. Clough was the one to choose when it seemed a problem in
Chemistry was too difficult to solve. He was never too busy to assist or
answer difficult questions. He was an avid, long term birder, the pesticide
chair of the National Audubon Society, a promoter of the Rocky Mountain
Chromatography Discussion Group, and deeply involved in 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 Legislators, who were deep in the pockets of
the pesticide industry, the polluters, and the military, industrial,
religious complex; to regulate pesticide applicators. After many years he
succeeded very well indeed.
Very, very, sadly he passed away in his sleep, undiscovered,
Memorial Day weekend, 2000, surrounded by his bird books. We just don't have
the heart to remove him from this site. This friend and colleague was our
forth great loss in our first 20 years.
Why You Need Us
Simply put: Our discreet, proactive, cost effective, flat
rate assessments, trouble shooting, and monitoring services; extend life,
provide doable solutions, and reduce expensive litigation risks, illness
& aging. We treat the 25 kilograms air you breathe every day the same
as the food, drugs and water you consume taking their quality for granted.
Engineers realize increased efficiency & profits, convenience, and
training at times and places that may be difficult to fulfill. They are
tailored to meet your needs. We travel to your safe job site world wide.
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