About this journal

Environmental Forensics provides a forum for scientific investigations that address environment contamination, its sources, and the historical reconstruction of its release into the environment. The context for investigations that form the published papers in the journal are often subjects to regulatory or legal proceedings, public scrutiny, and debate. In all contexts, rigorous scientific underpinnings guide the subject investigations.

Specifically, the journal is an international, quarterly, peer-reviewed publication offering scientific studies that explore or are relevant to the source, age, fate, transport, as well as human health and ecological effects of environmental contamination. Journal subject matter encompasses all aspects of contamination mentioned above within the environmental media of air, water, soil, sediments and biota. Data evaluation and analysis approaches are highlighted as well including multivariate statistical methods. Journal focus is on scientific and technical information, data, and critical analysis in the following areas:

• Contaminant Fingerprinting for source identification and/or age-dating, including (but not limited to) chemical, isotopic, chiral, mineralogical/microscopy techniques, DNA and tree-ring fingerprinting
• Specific Evaluative Techniques for source identification and/or age-dating including (but not limited to) historical document and aerial photography review, signature chemicals, atmospheric tracers and markets forensics, background concentration evaluations.
• Statistical Evaluation, Contaminant Modeling and Data Visualization
• Vapor Intrusion including delineating the source and background values of indoor air contamination
• Integrated Case Studies, employing environmental fate techniques
• Legal Considerations, including strategic considerations for environmental fate in litigation and arbitration, and regulatory statutes and actions
  
  

This journal addresses a large audience, including: environmental consultants and other environmental professionals, attorneys, owners/operators and environmental managers at industrial sites, regulators, laboratory professionals, environmental scientists, and academia personnel (e.g., involved in environmental studies).

Peer Review Policy: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by at leasttwo independent, anonymous expert referees. Peer review is typically double anonymized (unless authors include their names/affiliation in the text submitted for reviewers want to disclose their names) and submission is online via Submission Portal.

Editor-in-Chief:
Ioana G. Petrisor, PhD - EnSafe, San Diego, CA, USA

Associate Editors:
Guor-Cheng Fang, PhD - HungKuang University, Taichung, Taiwan
A. Mohamad Ghazi, PhD - Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD), Atlanta, GA, USA
Habib Muhammetoglu, PhD - Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
Gil Oudijk - Triassic Technology, Inc., Hopewell, NJ, USA
Yue Rong, PhD - California Environmental Protection Agency, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paul D. Boehm, PhD - Exponent Engineering and Scientific Consulting, USA

Editorial Board:

Farid Achour, PhD. - GSI Environmental Inc., Irvine, CA
Brian Anderson, P.G. - Vulcan Materials Company, Western Division, Los Angeles, CA
Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou, PhD - University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Cristina Barazzetti Barbieri, PhD - Instituto-Geral de Perecias, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Jeff Caufield - Caufield & James, LLP, San Diego, CA, USA
Mark Cejas - PACE Analytical Energy Services, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Guy Chammas - U.S. Department of the Navy, San Diego, CA, USA
Brooks Chandler, Esq. - Boyd, Chandler & Falconer, Anchorage, AK, USA
Jyh-Cherng Chen, PhD - Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan
Shiao-Shing Chen, PhD - National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Helder J. Costa - Haley & Aldrich, Inc., Boston, MA, USA

Robert Crowder - Tressler, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andy Davis, PhD - Geomega, Boulder, CO, USA
Winnie Dejonghe, PhD - Vito-nv, Geel Belgium
Manuel Dekermenjian, PhD, PE - ToxStrategies, San Francisco, CA, USA
Richard Doherty, P.E., L.S.P. - Engineering & Consulting Resources, Inc., Westford, MA, USA
Brent Duncan, PhD - University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
Margaret R. Eggers, Ph.D., RG, CHG - Eggers Environmental, Inc. Oceanside, CA, USA
Stephen D. Emsbo-Mattingly, M.S. - NewFields Environmental Forensics Practice, LLC, Rockland, MA, USA
Warren N. Fox, P.G. - XL Specialty Claims Administrators, Exton, PA, USA
Yakov Galperin, PhD - Environmental Geochemistry Consulting, Moorpark, CA
Hakan Gürleyük, PhD - Applied Speciation and Consulting, LLC, Tukwila, WA, USA
Alan Jeffrey - Zymax Forensics, Escondido, CA, USA
Thomas Jenkins, PhD - United States Army, CRREL, Hanover, NH, USA
Glenn W. Johnson, PhD - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Allan Kanner - Kanner and Whiteley, P.L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, USA
Ashok K. Katyal, PhD - Resources & Systems International, Inc., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Anna Sophia Knox, PhD - Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC, USA
Kostas Komnitsas, PhD - Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Massimiliano Lega, Ph.D. - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Adam H. Love, PhD - Roux Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
Jun Lu, Ph.D. - Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China.
Steve Luis - ENVIRON, Irvine, CA, USA
Steve Machemer, PhD - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Denver, CO, USA
Peter M. Mesard, P.E., C.E.G. - Exponent-Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., Oakland, CA, USA
Robert Morrison, PhD - DPRA Inc., San Marcos, CA, USA
William Motzer, Ph.D., R.G. - Todd Engineers, Emeryville, CA, USA
Stephen M. Mudge - University of Wales, Bangor, Anglesey, UK
Brian Murphy, Ph.D. - Exponent, Sarasota, FL, USA
R. Paul Philp, Ph.D. - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Min Pu, Ph.D. - ERIA, Crawfordville, FL, USA
Yvan Razafindratandra - Avocat au Barreau de Paris, Paris, France

Christopher M. Reddy - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Danny D. Reible - University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Ileana Rhodes, Ph.D. - Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc., Houston, TX, USA
David G. Ries, Esq. - Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shahrokh Rouhani, Ph.D. - New Fields, Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA
Alastair Ruffell - Queen's University, Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Theodor Sauer, Ph.D. - ARCADIS, New Bedford, MA, USA
Ken Scally - Chemtest Ltd, Newmarket, UK
Robert S. Schuda - Dentins, Los Angeles, CA
Walter J. Shields, Ph.D. - Exponent Health and Environmental, Bellevue, WA, USA
Matthew Small, R.G., M. Eng. - US EPA, Region 9, San Francisco, CA, USA
Neil Sturchio, Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Julie Sueker, Ph.D. - ARCADIS, Lakewood, CO, USA

Christopher M. Teaf - Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Allen Uhler, Ph.D. - NewFields Environmental Forensics Practice, LLC, Rockland, MA, USA
Curtis J. Varnell, Ph.D. - WAESC, Branch, AR, USA

Michael J. Wade, Ph.D. - Wade Research, Inc., Marshfield, MA, USA

Zhendi Wang, Ph.D. - ESTD, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
A. Dallas Wait, Ph.D. - Gradient Corporation, Cambridge, MA, USA
James Wells, Ph.D., P.G. - L. Everett & Associates, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Dawn A. Zemo, P.G., C.E.G. - Zemo & Associates, LLC, Incline Village, NV, USA

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Read the editor’s newly published book, Environmental Forensics Fundamentals: A Practical Guide