Environmental forensics is a fast growing field of science which incorporates interdisciplinary knowledge to assess the source, fate, and potential consequences of environmental impacts. Some of the interdisciplinary requirements of environmental forensics include field sampling experts, fate and transport modellers, analytical chemists and statisticians.

Environmental forensic studies can range in complexity. The simplest form may involve the identification of source of contamination based on the presence or absence of chemical markers which supply a “yes” or “no” to the questions of interest. The other extreme comes from the complex mixing that can occur in the environment or between similar contaminant formulations that requires advanced statistical interpretation to tease apart distinctive “signals”. The featured topics below detail a selection of forensic experience:

Featured Topics:

• Petroleum Hydrocarbons
o Methane
o CBM
o Biomarkers
o Isotopes
o Fingerprinting
o Patterns 2-D GC
• PCBs
• Dioxins and Furans
• Creosote
• Human Health
• Bio-monitoring
o NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey)
o Blood / Urine Measurements
o Wildlife tissues (adipose, liver, blood)
• Toxicology
• QA/QC
o Validating
o Proofing
• Legal Support