DOE EH-31 DQO/DQA Training
Course Evaluations and Commendations
Evaluation from Juan Ibarra,
EPA Region 6, Environmental Scientist
January 12, 2004
Dear Larry and Ken,
I attended the DOE
Training for Managing Uncertainty and Systematic
Planning for Environmental Decision-Making course offered at EPA Region
6 during the week of December 9-12, 2003. I want to thank you for
offering this most exceptional course to the EPA and the Region 6 States
staff. As a senior EPA inspector, I have participated in the
development and implementation of QAPPs for both NPDES and RCRA sampling
work. I found the information presented within your course to be of
critical importance to the work that EPA performs, and am now fully
prepared to perform these duties according to the required protocols
and
statistical principles necessary to ensure that the Data Quality
Objectives are fully met. Per EPA regulations, I will use the materials
presented in the workbook, and the visual sampling plan (VSP) available
on the DOE/Hanford web site whenever environmental data is gathered.
The workbook alone is sufficient to perform EPA's sampling duties, but
the VSP provides an additional measure of training and operational
support.
I also have to offer
my gratitude and appreciation for the course
instructor, Sebastian Tindall. The course had the potential to be
extremely cumbersome, onerous and confusing. However, the materials
were extremely well organized, coordinated with real world examples
that
facilitated the student's understanding, and deftly presented by Mr.
Tindall. Mr. Tindall was impeccably prepared to teach the subject
material, knew exactly where specific materials were located on his
computer, and he patiently worked with the students thru repetition
and
examples to help us grasp the material. He was also was very
challenging, and rather than spoon feeding us, he compelled us to see
beyond our paradigms and grasp the procedures that will help us control
uncertainty in our sampling work. Additionally, he sequenced the
presentation of material and concepts in an exceptional manner. I can't
thank Mr. Tindall enough for the foresight, thought and preparation
that
he put into the training.
I have always remembered
the best professors that I had at the
University of Texas, where I obtained my BS in Aquatic Biology. Also
at
the University of Texas at Arlington where I did research and attended
graduate school. Mr. Tindall is among the very best instructors under
whom I have ever had the pleasure of studying. He is gifted in
knowledge, and more importantly, the ability to organize and teach
complex subject matter. I thoroughly enjoyed the class, and the
opportunity to augment my expertise. This is unequivocally, the best
course I have attended in the past 25 years.
Sincerely,
Juan Ibarra
EPA Region 6, Environmental Scientist
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