Randy St. Germain

Randy St. Germain, President of Dakota Technologies, Inc., developed much of Dakota's underlying time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) technology while pursuing a M.S. Analytical Chemistry degree at North Dakota State University from 1987 to 1991.

Randy and his colleagues at Dakota have developed a continually improving series of direct push deployable site characterization systems for high-definition delineation of petroleum, coal tar, and creosote NAPL in the subsurface. From research field trials in 1992 at Tinker AFB, subsequent commercialization of the ROST, UVOST, TarGOST and tomorrow's Dye-LIF system for chlorinated DNAPL, Randy has spent the last 20 years "chasing NAPL" with LIF.