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River PAHs Characterization Part 2: 2016 – Foothills to Prairies

In the first post of this series on River PAHs characterization, I described the background to why Court and I have spent many hours driving across Alberta from border to border to collect sediment samples from the rivers of southern Alberta. We knew that if we were going to answer…
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BY Chemistry Matters Personnel December 14, 2017Environmental Forensics

Weatherproof Paper for your Legal Field Notes

River PAHs Characterization Part 1: An Introduction

For the last few years we have spent a lot of our free time collecting sediment samples from rivers across southern Alberta and characterizing these for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). Often driving many hours across prairie gravel roads for a single good sample, it quickly became a passion of quality…
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BY Chemistry Matters Personnel November 30, 2017Environmental Forensics

Biogenic Toluene – Where does it come from?

In the first post of this series, I described the basis for how we became involved in determining a method for the detection of a natural, biogenic source of toluene. In this post, I describe how the process works and provide some thoughts on how to conduct an investigation. The…
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BY Chemistry Matters Personnel November 23, 2017Environmental Forensics, Expert Witness Services, Geoforensics

Advice from your chemist – top four things when dealing with your spill into a river

You have had a spill… don’t panic, everything will be fine. Accidents happen. It is what you do next that is important. I have worked on many spills and here are what I believe are four of the most important things from a chemist’s perspective. 1. Get lots of source…
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BY Court Sandau November 17, 2017Environmental Forensics, Expert Witness Services

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