Introduction to environmental forensics /

Helping to answer the Who, What, When and How of environmental contamination.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Murphy, Brian, 1939- (Editor); Morrison, Robert D. (Editor)
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123695222
Summary: Helping to answer the Who, What, When and How of environmental contamination.
Item Description: Errata sheet inserted.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxv, 747 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080478678
0080478670
9780123695222
0123695228
Index Number: TD193
CLC: X50
Contents: Applications of environmental forensics -- Site history: the first tool of the environmental forensics team -- Photogrammetry, photointerpretation, and digital imaging and mapping in environmental forensics -- The measurement process -- Statistical methods -- Statistical tools for ratio data -- Principal components analysis and receptor models in environmental forensics -- Receptor models for source apportionment of suspended particles -- Chemical fingerprinting methods -- Application of stable isotopes and radioisotopes in environmental forensics -- Forensic applications of contaminant transport models in the subsurface -- Forensic air dispersion modeling and analysis -- Environmental forensic microscopy -- Applications of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in environmental forensic studies -- Emerging forensic techniques.