Environmental Forensics: Proceedings of the 2011 INEF Conference

This publication includes peer-reviewed manuscripts from the 2011 International Network of Environmental Forensics (INEF) Conference held at St. John's College in Cambridge, UK. INEF is an organization founded by environmental forensic scientists for the express purpose of sharing and disseminating environmental forensic information to the international scientific community. Environmental forensic information presented at this conference included topics on contaminant age dating, the use of chemical and biological diagnostic markers for contaminant source identification, advancements in the use of petroleum hydrocarbon pattern recognition techniques, the availability of surrogate chemicals to identify the age of a contaminant release, the identification and application of chemical impurities for source identification and advancements in compound specific isotopic analysis, especially related to chlorinated solvent releases. All of these topics were presented in terms of their applications in contaminant releases throughout the world in terrestrial and marine environments. This professionally edited book is the second of a series of INEF conference publications chronicling the current state of the art in environmental forensics. The intent of this publication and subsequent INEF conference volumes is to capture the evolution of environmental forensic topics as a scientific discipline.

Table of Contents:
Forensics and Natural Resource Damages; Environmental Forensic Approach in Malaysia: An Analysis of Environmental Legislation; Effectiveness of Forensic Investigation of Wildlife Crimes; A Forensic History of Dry Cleaning Equipment and Solvents; High Resolution Site Characterization and Integration with Environmental Forensics; An Objective Method for Comparing Unresolved Complex Mixture (UCM) 'Humps' In Gas Chromatograms; New Dimension of Pentacyclie Teriterpanes: Does Combustion Change the Chemical Structures of Compounds?; Advanced Site Investigations with 3D-CSIA Approach Reveal Multiple Sources; Fingerprinting of Gas Contaminating Groundwater and Soil in a Petroliferous Region, Alberta, Canada; Tracing Higher Plant Inputs to Coastal Sediments: An Integrated Isotopic and Molecular Approach for Forensic Investigation; Isoscaping Soil Carbonate Across Northern Ireland; Linking Distribution of Soil PAHs to Location as a Forensic Tool; Significant Depletion in 13C/12C of the Methoxyl Group in Methyl Tert Butyl Ether (MTBE) and the Implications for the Application of Stable Carbon Isotope Studies; Mass Balance Calculations for Retail Petroleum Tanks; Resolution of a Comingled LNAPL Plume to Address Concerns of a Potential MTBE Release; Gasoline Differentiation in Water Table Free Product in a Neighborhood of Mexico City; Carbon Disulphide - Contaminant or Biogenic Compound? A New Perspective; Prediction of Turbulent Transport using Variable Effective Diffusivities of VOC Vapor in Indoor Air; Change of Atmospheric Concentrations and Source of Benzo(a)Pyrene and 7-Nitrobenzene(a)Pyrene in Kanwa, a Typical Local City in Japan during 1999 And 2000; Volcanic Ash Deposition Across the UK: Evidence from Environmental Change Network Sites; Visualization and Analysis of Environmental Forensic Data; Assessing Changes to the Congener Profile of PCDD and PCDF during Bioaccumulation in Chicken and Duck Eggs; Prediction of the Environmental Fate of Methylamphetamine Waste; Subject Index