Introduction to Environmental Forensics

Zusammenfassung One million people a month die from lack of clean water and sanitation! and millions more die every year from various forms of industrial pollution. This book outlines techniques for identifying the source of a contaminant release! when the release occurred! and the extent of human exposure.

List of contents

1. Applications of Environmental Forensics
2. Site History: The First Tool of the Environmental Forensics Team
3. Photogrammetry, photointerpretation, and Digital Imaging and Mapping in Environmental Forensics
4. The Measurement Process
5. Statistical Methods
6. Statistical Tools for Ratio Data
7. Principal Components Analysis and Receptor Models in Environmental Forensics
8. Recepter Models for Source Apportionment of Suspended Particles
9. Chemical Fingerprinting Methods
10. Application of Stable Isotopes and Radio Isotopes in Environmental Forensics
11. Forensic Applications of Contaminant Transport Models in the Subsurface
12. Forensic Air Dispersion Modeling and Analysis
13. Environmental Forensic Microscopy
14. Applications of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in Environmental Forensic Studies
15. Emerging Forensic Techniques

Product details

• Authors: Robert D. Morrison, Robert D. (DPRA Morrison, Morrison Robert D., Brian L. Murphy, Brian L. (Exponent Murphy, Murphy Brian L.
• Assisted by: Robert D. Morrison (Editor), Robert D. (DPRA Morrison (Editor), Brian L. Murphy (Editor), Brian L. (Exponent Murphy (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780123695222
• ISBN: 978-0-12-369522-2
• No. of pages: 776
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 248 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Forensic Science, Forensic Medicine, Environmental science, engineering and technology