What important process plays a key role in product stewardship and helps ensure that end user products are safe for consumer use as well as safe for the environment? How do scientists tease out answers from a mass of seemingly confusing data? Or develop actionable predictions that aid in business decisions? The answer to all of these questions, is, of course, Data Analytics. 

The process of examining raw data to find patterns, draw conclusions, and make informed decisions that involves the use of various tools, models and methodologies, Data Analytics help us gather meaningful project insights that support informed data driven decision-making. Both a project time and budget-saver, Data Analytics has helped Waterborne’s scientists’ strategy and decision making across a wide variety of industries and projects, particularly those involving consumer care products, veterinary medicine products, and agricultural chemical products. 

Identifying useful data conclusions and developing new steps requires a keen understanding of both the data in its original form and the end-goal one is trying to accomplish. Compounding the data chaos is determining which version of Data Analytics is best suited to the project at hand. While well-versed in many forms, our Waterborne scientists have found these three types particularly useful...

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Climate change and its impacts dominate our media headlines, and stories of a dystopian future are often accompanied by increasingly horrific imagery. In this case, sadly, the media's dire warnings and predictions for a scarier future have a basis in reality. By all accounts, climate change is hitting the world's population square in the jaw: food and water insecurity.

That extreme weather leading to drought and flooding impacts our food systems is not a new discovery. Farmers have been cursing out Mother Nature for spoiling crops with extreme weather since farming began. Unlike seasonal or random weather events, climate change's curse is its broad-reaching and snowballing power and influence on our weather. When coupled with our own societal needs in terms of resource use, it's easier to understand that climate change is stressing groundwater reservoirs and changing how and where we can farm.

Often thought to be a problem for another nation, climate change-induced food and water insecurity is rapidly becoming a USA concern. According to the USDA, "Climate change is likely to diminish continued progress on global food security through production disruptions that lead to local availability limitations and price increases, interrupted transport conduits, and diminished food safety, among other causes." Its Climate Change, Global Food Security, and U.S. Food System Assessment "represents a consensus of authors and includes contributors from 19 Federal, academic, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations in four countries, identifying climate-change effects on global food security through 2100, and analyzing the United States’ likely connections with that...

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ACS Fall 2024: Elevating Chemistry conference from August 18th-22nd in Denver, Colorado was a resounding success, and Waterborne Environmental, Inc.'s team of scientists, including Andy Jacobson and Nick Guth, were on hand throughout to present their respective papers, meet with colleagues, and soak in what's new in our industry. 

Nick Guth shared his impressions of this year's conference. "On Wednesday, August 21st, I presented my presentation, "Evaluation of Exposure Model Predictability Utilizing Field-sScale Estimates of Pesticide Application Timing Using Remote Sensing." Afterward, I attended AGRO sessions where I listened to several talks on topics ranging from exposure modeling, drone pesticide application/drift studies, risk assessments for pollinator species, and more."

Read our ACS Fall 2024 Abstracts

Waterborne's scientists presented a number of talks and studies at ACS Fall 2024. Read all about them here.

Waterborne's Amy Ritter, Principal and Manager, Environmental Modeling and Risk Assessent, is headed to Piacenza, Italy next week for SPC's XVII Symposium on Pesticide Chemistry "Advances and New Challenges," September 4th. She will presenting two posters and speaking at the half-day “Quantitative Mitigation of Runoff of Pesticides in Regulatory Assessments with VFSMOD” workshop prior to the conference.