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Welcome a new member of the W. A. Callegari Environmental Center

 

 

 

 

David Schellinger named expert by a European Union commission

 

 

 

Callegari Center receives Governor's Environmental Award
 

The W.A. Callegari Environmental Research and Training Center received the Governor’s Environmental Leadership Award in Waste Minimization Achievement March 31 at the state Capitol. The center was cited for making Louisiana a world leader in compost training and research through the establishment of a complete laboratory research facility for invessel, large-scale windrow composting, field and greenhouse trials and sample analysis.




The Callegari Environmental Center is located on an 8-acre site at the LSU AgCenter’s Central Research Station south of Baton Rouge. The facility includes an 8,500 square foot building that houses the Organic Degradation Research Laboratory, offices, a meeting room and storage area. Next to the building is a 3-acre composting pad.

The mission of the Callegari Environmental Center s to perform applied research and education in response to expressed needs and concerns relating to the environment.

Services of the Callegari Center include:

Complete laboratory research facilities for invessel, large-scale windrow composting, field and greenhouse trials and sample analysis.

Organic byproduct recycling and beneficial use research.

Solid waste management and training for municipalities, agriculture and industrial organic waste generators.

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Javed Iqbal as the Quality Assurance Officer for the new Water Quality Laboratory at the Callegari Center.  Javed is a former Associate from  School of the Coast & Environment at LSU and has a strong background in QA/QC lab operations.  With Javed's assistance, we plan to have a an ISO 17025 laboratory operational at the Callegari Center early next year. 


The Callegari Center is receiving a face lift with construction of the new accredited water quality laboratory.  Once completed in November, 2004, the lab will allow water analyses for a wide range of purposes including the Master Farmer Program model farm water samples, well water samples from Louisiana Farmers, and water quality research samples from local investigators.  The added instrumentation will also allow the expansion of analyses available in the Organic Degradation Research and Analytical Laboratory.
 

A EU commission to develop "Horizontal Standards" (analytical methods) within the field of sludge, biowaste and soil has accepted two Americans as foreign experts in the areas of compost stability and phytotoxicity.  Mr. Schellinger shares the distinction with Dr. William Brinton of the Woods End Laboratory.  Mr. Schellinger and Dr. Brinton will review the standards and communicate with three panel members from the United Kingdom to assess the standard methods recommended to the commission by private consultants. 
 

 



Ken Roberts, associate vice chancellor for the LSU AgCenter, left, Bill Carney, director of the W.A. Callegari Environmental Center, right, Governor Kathleen Blanco, center. The others in the photo are Department of Environmental Quality secretary Mike D. McDaniel, next to Roberts, and W.A. Callegari, for whom the center was named.


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