Environmental forensics

Watson, J. T. Introduction to Mass Spectrometry Biomedical, Environmental Forensic Application. New York Raven Press, 1975. 

Spot Test Analysis Clinical, Environmental, Forensic and Geochemical Applications. By Ervin Jungreis... 

Morrison, R. D., 2000, Environmental Forensics — Principles and Applications. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 351 pp. 

Fitzpatrick R. W Raven M and McLaughlin M. J. (2006, May). Forensic soil science An overview with reference to case investigations and challenges, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Criminal and Environmental Forensics (R. W. Fitzpatrick, Ed.). Perth, http //www.clw.csiro.au/cafss/. 

Small, I. F., Rowan, J. S., Franks, S. W Wyatt, A., and Duck, R. W. (2004). Bayesian sediment fingerprinting provides a robust tool for environmental forensic geoscience applications, in Forensic Geoscience Principles, Techniques and Applications (K. Pye and D. J. Croft, Eds.). London Geological Society Special Publication 232, 207-213. 

Many other important application areas of chemometrics have been the subject of reviews and are too numerous to list here. A sampling of reviews in this category illustrates the breadth and diversity of chemometrics application areas. A review of applications in smart sensors [54] describes how chemometrics is an important enabling technology for the development of smart and reliable sensor systems. A review of environmental forensics [55] describes how numerical methods are critical in the process of identifying the chemical fingerprints of complex contaminant sources in environmental systems. Often, multiple sources are present at different geographic sites. By use of appropriate chemometric methods, these mixtures of different sources can be mathematically resolved to identify them and map their temporal and spatial distributions. 

Johnson, G.W. and Ehrlich, R., State of the art report on multivariate chemometric methods in environmental forensics, Environ. Foren., 3, 59-79, 2002. 

Morrison RD (2000) Critical review of environmental forensics techniques. I. Environ Forensics 1 157-173... 

Stout SA, Uhler AD, Naymik TG, McCarthy KJ (1998) Environmental forensics unraveling site liability. Environ Sci Technol 32 260A-264A... 

Applications of HPLC Of the bioanalytical separation technologies described in this book, arguably HPLC has the widest range of applications, being adopted for the purpose of clinical, environmental, forensic, industrial, pharmaceutical and research analyses. While there are literally thousands of different applications, a few indicators of how HPLC has been used are as follows (i) Clinical quantification of drugs in body fluids (ii) Environmental identification of chemicals in drinking water (iii) Forensic analysis of textile dyes (iv) Industrial stability of compounds in food products (v) Pharmaceutical quality control and shelf-life of a synthetic drug product (vi) Research separation and isolation of components from natural samples from animals and plants. 

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