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In late 2014, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discovered an issue in its Energy Resources Program’s (ERP) Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, CO, that had been ongoing since 2008. Specifically, a mass spectrometer operator assigned to ERP’s Inorganic Section had been accused of scientific misconduct and data manipulation. Since the Inorganic Section’s work had implications for ERP’s national and international coal and water quality assessments, USGS began to assess the full impact of this incident on the research and assessment projects conducted between 2008 and 2014. It also notified OIG. We subsequently initiated an inspection to determine the impact of the incident on USGS customers, products, and organizational integrity. https://www.doioig.gov/reports/inspe...try-laboratory
USGS finds data fraud, closes chemistry lab
Misconduct has led to delays and 1 retraction in environmental quality measurements reports
Alleged misconduct and data manipulation at a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) laboratory may have affected thousands of environmental quality measurements processed between 2008 and 2014, according to the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
As many as 24 research projects, representing some $108 million in funding for the laboratory, may have been impacted, OIG said earlier this month. “At least seven reports have been delayed, and to date, one report has been retracted.”
The misconduct, which was discovered by USGS management in 2014, involves analyses performed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry by the Inorganic Section of the USGS Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i26/U...ud-closes.html
Misconduct has led to delays and 1 retraction in environmental quality measurements reports
Alleged misconduct and data manipulation at a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) laboratory may have affected thousands of environmental quality measurements processed between 2008 and 2014, according to the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
As many as 24 research projects, representing some $108 million in funding for the laboratory, may have been impacted, OIG said earlier this month. “At least seven reports have been delayed, and to date, one report has been retracted.”
The misconduct, which was discovered by USGS management in 2014, involves analyses performed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry by the Inorganic Section of the USGS Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i26/U...ud-closes.html
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