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Tobin, shown counting filaments, received the 2020 Laboratory Analyst Excellence Award from the Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association.
“Once you get into wastewater, you don’t leave.”
That’s Amanda Tobin’s observation after nearly 18 years in laboratories, 16 of them devoted to wastewater. “It’s a live biomass, so it’s never the same from day to day,” Tobin says. “You’re constantly learning,...