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 SimSITE: A GIS-Based Environmental Sampling Design Training Tool
Track:  Environmental Management
Author:   Malcolm J. Bertoni
Bernadette Chasteen
Mark Bruhn
The Simulated Site Investigation Training Environment (SimSITE) is an Avenue-based tool used to teach hazardous waste site managers about quality assurance planning and assessment concepts such as the data quality objectives (DQO) planning process and data quality assessment (DQA). The SimSITE program provides tools that · Allow the user to develop multiple sampling strategies. · Determine sample collection and analysis costs. · Return actual soil contamination data based on sample design. · Perform statistical analysis of results to support user decisions about cleanup. · Evaluate user decisions based on knowledge of the true contamination.

Malcolm J. Bertoni
Research Triangle Institute
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