Ambient Monitoring & Service Integration

Our professionals provide a full range of monitoring services from design and setup to routine operations, data validation and reporting. Our goal is to offer you technically excellent, cost-effective monitoring systems designed to meet your specific requirements. We recommend and install only proven and reliable instrumentation and offer customized software for automated data evaluation and validation to identify monitoring problems quickly and reduce data loss.

Trinity offers comprehensive fenceline monitoring services that can help you comply with real-time monitoring requirements. These services can be used for required regulatory monitoring, defensive monitoring, or both. We have a collaborative team of experts, including engineers, scientists, and other professionals within various environmental fields, to help you select and implement the best approaches to achieve your monitoring objectives.

Trinity helps facilities evaluate background concentrations, design monitoring programs, and meet tightened PM2.5 NAAQS requirements under EPA’s new standards.

Our team provides software integration, data management, and reporting solutions, making monitoring networks efficient, reliable, and easy to use.

From site selection and equipment installation to long-term operations and reporting, we provide end-to-end monitoring solutions.

Beyond the scope of traditional monitoring services, Trinity offers extensive experience in special monitoring, including community monitoring, indoor air quality, mobile monitoring platforms, ambient air corrosion testing, equipment testing and certification, as well as air quality studies.

Trinity has successfully designed and implemented several community-based monitoring projects for tracking and quantifying criteria pollutant impacts, photochemical and secondary formation pollutant, odor identification, and source culpability studies. Many community-based monitoring programs include the use of low-cost sensors or near-reference monitors to supplement the existing agency networks or saturate an area for hot spot identification. The successful implementation of a community-based monitoring program is based on a well-defined scope and plan, a realistic expectation of sensor performance and data usability, and a thorough understanding of sensor limitations and comparability with reference methods.

Trinity Consultants has a fleet of fully equipped trucks for conducting audits, site maintenance or network installations. We have complete inventory of auditing equipment for all major brands of meteorological and air quality equipment including particulate samplers. We stock replacement parts for most meteorological sensors allowing for in-field maintenance. Our experienced auditors conduct meteorological performance and system audits using the latest EPA guideline methods and NIST-traceable reference standards.

Trinity Consultants staff has extensive experience in installing meteorological towers and sensors. Our staff can assess your need make recommendations for installing the right meteorological tower, from a tripod to 10-meter tower to a tall tower. We can also provide the datalogger and telemetry package to work at any location even remote areas using solar panels and cellular phone communications. If you have an existing tower that needs to be upgraded to accommodate the required inputs for the AERMOD model or need a new tower, we can assist you.

Data collection is only the beginning of a good air quality monitoring program. Trinity experts assist clients in using diverse analytical methods to review and interpret data to make meaningful and relevant conclusions. Part of the service offering includes real-time data dashboards (accessed at MyTrinityData.com) to aid in the understanding of measured observation data in real-time. Furthermore, the MyTrinityData dashboard can notify stakeholders of conditions that require action to be taken in real time.

Trinity offers a cloud-based data-hosting website accessible at mytrinitydata.com. This site is password-protected and provides those with access a simple, user-friendly interface to visualize and inspect data in near real-time and can be customized to show current values of pertinent parameters as well as historical trends. Historical data can be downloaded into user-defined formats or custom charts (such as wind roses or trend charts) for instant analysis.

Meteorological and air quality data can be combined to create pollutant roses to better understand pollutant origin. To compliment meteorological and air quality data collected by the project, publicly available data can also be uploaded to the site to enhance analysis. The site is also capable of alarming and notifying stakeholders on parameters of interest. Alarm thresholds can be tailored to requirements of the project and provide instant feedback to the user’s phone or desktop with visual, audible, email, or SMS message notifications.

Trinity Consultants meteorologists have considerable experience in investigating, compiling, and presenting historical weather and climatological information in graphical and tabular displays that can be quickly utilized by the client. Site-specific climatological analyses are our specialty and include services such as wind loading, snow loading, extreme precipitation amounts and mean recurrence interval (MRI) return periods for severe weather phenomena.

Dispersion models require specific formatted meteorological data, both surface and upper-air measurements. These files are developed using the appropriate locations and time periods as required by the client, state or federal agency. Trinity Consultants performs quality assurances data checks and fills missing data using data substitution techniques as outlined in the document, “Procedures for Substituting Values for Missing NWS Meteorological Data for Use in Regulatory Air Quality Models”.