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The Manual for Environmental Forensics is a complete course in a single book. Aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as more experienced practitioners, it sets out the approach and techniques that constitute best practice in environmental forensics investigations. The book starts with pre-sampling investigations before showing the reader what to sample, where to sample from and how to treat and interpret the results. Example cases are used to provide justification for the best approaches and references facilitate further reading. The book avoids focusing on a single aspect of the subject and provides a broad overview on what to consider from the outset (aerial photographs and maps for example). It describes how to design cost-effective sampling programmes by taking variability and spatial considerations into account and shows how data can be presented in environmental forensics cases.

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Stephen M Mudge is currently at Bangor University, UK. After nearly six years of investigating radionuclides in the environment at Lancaster University, Stephen Mudge moved to Bangor University and began work on lipid biomarkers in the environment. In the past 20 years he has investigated the sources and dispersal of many contaminants, especially sewage derived materials, in marine and terrestrial environments. In 2003 he started the world's first degree on Environmental Forensics that utilises many of the chemical and statistical approaches developed over the years of investigation. Fatty alcohols have formed part of these analyses and while these compounds may be frequently measured, they are rarely reported. Scott Belanger is a Research Fellow in The Procter & Gamble Company corporate environmental safety organization. His research spans a wide range of topics including understanding the effects of consumer product chemicals in the environment at the levels of the organism to the ecosystem. He has assisted in several efforts to assess the environmental risk of alcohols and alcohol-derived surfactants in recent years frequently working with trade associations, academic partnerships, and the regulatory community on these affairs. Allen Nielsen is a recently retired microbiologist from the Research and Development Department of Sasol North America, Inc. His main focus during his thirty-one year career has been the environmental safety of petrochemical -derived surfactants which are used in consumer and industrial applications. In recent years he was focused on the environmental safety of alcohols and alcohol-derived surfactants.

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