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The International Society of Environmental Forensics
has grown out of the need for a platform to present
scientific investigations that address environmental
contamination subjected to law, public debate, or formal
argumentation as well as the evaluation of the basic
science that serves as underpinnings to those activities.
The goal of the ISEF is to regularly provide workshops,
and training on subject matter encompassing all aspects of
contamination within the environmental media of air,
water, soil, and biota. The society also serves to promote
the publication, and dissemination of relevant technical
material in the journal
Environmental Forensics, the official
journal of the International Society of Environmental
Forensics.
The society is an
international consortium of expert faculty from a wide
range of affiliations dedicated to the scholarly
presentation of scientific material exploring the source,
fate, transport, and identification of environmental
contaminants. Contamination is delineated in terms of
chemical characterization, biological influence,
responsible parties and legal consequences. The society
encourages the development of technical courses that focus
on scientific and technical information, data, and
critical analysis in the following areas:
Analytical Chemistry,
including analytical techniques that provide
definitive, quality results for analyses that are
conducted to answer litigious environmental
contamination questions
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Geochemistry,
including chemistry and physics of soil, water and
air with respect to potential interactions with
contamination
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Atmospheric Chemistry,
including occurrence, alteration, fate, transport
and modeling of chemicals in the atmosphere
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Environmental Fate
Assessment, including partitioning and
transformation of contaminant components between and
within environmental media
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Environmental Transport
Assessment, including geologic,
hydrogeologic, oceanographic and meteorological
controls on the migration or movement of
contamination
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Integrated Case Studies,
employing environmental fate techniques described
herein
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Legal Considerations,
including strategic considerations for environmental
fate in litigation and arbitration, and regulatory
statutes and actions
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Other Environmental Forensics Organizations of Interest
Center
for Australian Forensic Soil Science (CAFSS) (http://www.clw.csiro.au/cafss).
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