At one point in the not too distant past the environmental industry relied on film cameras, usually disposable, to document site conditions. If site conditions were changing and it was beyond the scope of the people onsite to address it, someone needed to run to a payphone to update the project manager. The project manager may not have been at their desk and so you would have to leave a message and the number of the payphone for the manager to make a return call.

Now, we have smart phones and we can take a picture and text it to the manager to keep them in the loop up to the minute. In the past, changes in site conditions might have forced work to stop and require the project manager to reevaluate the plan. Now this can be done on the fly in the field with smart phones.

What else can we do with modern technology that we didn't do before? And what else can we do with modern technology that is not standard practice today? What sort of threats does the technology we use pose now? Is your data safe when you upload it from your hotel at night?

How can you prevent proprietary data from being stolen by a competitor? What sort of data management practices should become standard procedure at your company? Are your passwords that protect your data any good?

Technology has influenced every aspect of the environmental industry and its poised to hasten as time moves forward.

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