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Stations are used to represent the physical location of where one or more samples are collected. These samples can be collected during a singular event, continuously, of on re-occurring events. Multiple station types are supported and can be customized within the program. In addition, the station's purpose, elevation, construction, survey methodology, and decommissioning can be stored. The sampling defaults for a station can be specified; including the media type, collection method, analysis laboratory, lab analyses to be performed, sampling personnel, and equipment required. These sampling defaults will automatically be populated for any samples created at the station.
Stations can be associated with one or more tasks. If a station is created from a task, the default sample information and access rights will be inherited from the task.
If the sample is collected during from a boring or well, the boring or well can be linked to the sample. When the sample is linked to a boring or well any relevant sample data will be displayed as part of the boring or well within the WinLoG module. This includes concentration data, water levels, and soil or groundwater sample information.
In general it is recommended that most samples be collected from stations, so that more information is stored about the sample location and sample labels and a COC can be printed. Samples should be entered manually without stations only if they have been already been collected without the entry of any station information.
The information for stations and samples can either be entered directly or uploaded from EDMS Field. If the data is uploaded from EDMS Field it can be sent by either email or FTP and will be automatically imported the next time the application is started.
Sample Labels
If collected at a station, sample labels can be printed or saved to a PDF file. These sample labels can contain barcodes that can be scanned by analysis labs instead of manually entering the sample information.
Chain of Custody
In addition, for stations a Chain of Custody (COC) can be printed or saved to an Excel file. The COC is in a specific formats for each lab.GAEA will be updating these forms as more labs are added. If your lab or their COC format is not listed please contact GAEA to arrange for them to be added.
EDMS Field
When a station is received from EDMS Field it will automatically be imported into GaeaSynergy and associated with a task if possible. If the station does not specify a proper task it will still be imported, but will not be associated with a task. This association can later be performed manually using the link feature as described on the Stations and Samples tab for a task. If the station received from EDMS Field does not contain a valid station it will not be imported and the station file will be placed in the errors folder in the datastore, "Datastore\EDMS\Stations\Errors". This file can then be examined to determine why it can not be imported.