Biomonitoring

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…
Structures of the 16 Priority Pollutant PAHs for Monitoring

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 participants. Two days seems like a long time but to cram everything we know about PAHs into that amount of time, it is not near enough. I think a entire university course could be taught on PAHs (maybe more). But, in these two days I cannot possibly cover it all.