This is part 3 of the blog series on the 5 outlooks of Environmental Forensics.
5 Outlooks for Environmental Forensics - Part Two: Regulatory Compounds
This is part 2 of the blog series on the 5 outlooks of Environmental Forensics.
5 Outlooks for Environmental Forensics - Part One: The Use & Origin of Environmental Forensics
During the months before the INEF 2016 conference, I was thinking about my talk on environmental forensics. I feel like I “do” environmental forensics on most of my projects, even the ones that are not litigation based, so I was asking myself “What is environmental forensics?”.
International Network of Environmental Forensics (INEF) 2016 - Overview
It was a great conference in Örebro, Sweden this year. The group had a very good line up of talks covering many different aspects of environmental forensics. The location of the conference was Örebro Castle, providing the conference with a majestic atmosphere.
Weatherproof Paper for your Legal Field Notes and Forms
New paper, how exciting!
The picture for this blog looks pretty boring. Just another picture of a chain of custody form.
Nope, these are special paper chain of custody forms. Printed them up myself on my inkjet printer... What makes them special? One is water resistant, one is water proof, and the last one is water...
More science needed for oil spills
This morning I attended a presentation on the release of the report by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) on "The Behaviour and Environmental Impacts of Crude Oil Released into Aqueous Environments”. The full report can be found here. This was an important talk for me and my work as I have dealt with several of these...
Losing money on inconclusive soil gas migration testing?
Have you ever had a site where several gas migration tests were completed but received no clear answer as to whether or not the well was leaking. Then, when you exposed the wellhead, the gas migration (GM) was blatantly obvious. Maybe it looked something like this…
Sweet 16 - The Original PAHs
I am deep into preparing materials to teach for a 2 day seminar on polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that is coming up in November. I am gathering the information for the seminar, scouring the latest literature to find good support material. It is a very big task to get done to have something of real value for the...
Arson sample collection - Any old paint can will do? Part 2
The training seminar presentation on Forensics Laboratory Analysis and Process which was delivered at Life of a Fire Investigator seminar being hosted by the Fire Investigation Association of Alberta (FIAA) went very well. It was nice to meet those involved in FIAA and have the opportunity to talk with them. I thought...
Arson sample collection - Any old paint can will do? Part 1
As I was preparing my training seminar for a presentation on Forensics Laboratory Analysis and Process to be delivered at Life of a Fire Investigator seminar being hosted by the Fire Investigation Association of Alberta (FIAA), I came across some information on cans for sample collection. I thought it would be good to...