History
Jones Environmental was started by a nice young couple, Steve and Jane Jones, in 1991. Dr. Jones is a qualified Analytical Chemist with over 32 years experience. Since 1984, he has been active in environmental chemistry. Over the past 31 years he has testified several hundred times in court and for depositions as an Expert in various states. Because of his forensic background, his expertise is widely used by environmental consulting firms, attorneys and engineering firms.
Throughout his career, Dr. Jones has been active both in the laboratory and in the laboratory management. He spent 2-1/2 years as the technical director of IT Corporation’s environmental testing laboratory in Cerritos, California, obtaining approvals for that lab for Contract Laboratory Program (CLP-Superfund), and for two additional labs for OEHL (Air Force) and NACIP (Navy) work. He has spent more than 18 years as a bench chemist and is well versed in GC/MS, GC, IR, AA, ICP, wet chemistry methods, as well as extraction techniques.
Currently, Dr. Jones manages his own analytical testing firm which provides consultation, lectures, fuel fingerprinting, simulated distillation, fuel aging and many other chemistry-related services. He has also headed the building, setup, and operation of four analytical testing laboratories. For the past 18 years he has served as a reference for lab personnel and customers who have questions about testing procedures related to environmental and analytical chemistry areas.