Environmental Monitoring and Characterization

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Elsevier, Jun 10, 2004 - Science - 410 pages

Environmental Monitoring and Characterization is an integrated, hands-on resource for monitoring all aspects of the environment. Sample collection methods and relevant physical, chemical and biological processes necessary to characterize the environment are brought together in twenty chapters which cover: sample collection methods, monitoring terrestrial, aquatic and air environments, and relevant chemical, physical and biological processes and contaminants.

This book will serve as an authoritative reference for advanced students and environmental professionals.

  • Examines the integration of physical, chemical, and biological processes
  • Emphasizes field methods and real-time data acquisition, made more accessible with case studies, problems, calculations, and questions
  • Includes four color illustrations throughout the text
  • Brings together the concepts of environmental monitoring and site characterization
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Monitoring and Characterization of the Environment
1
Chapter 2 Sampling and Data Quality Objectives in Environmental Monitoring
11
Chapter 3 Statistics and Geostatistics in Environmental Monitoring
29
Chapter 4 Automated Data Acquisition and Processing
49
Chapter 5 Maps in Environmental Monitoring
69
Chapter 6 Geographic Information Systems and Their Use for Environmental Monitoring
85
Chapter 7 Soil and Vadose Zone Sampling
101
Chapter 8 Groundwater Sampling
121
Chapter 12 Environmental Physical Properties and Processes
207
Chapter 13 Chemical Properties and Processes
241
Chapter 14 Environmental Microbial Properties and Processes
263
Chapter 15 Physical Contiaminants
281
Chapter 16 Chemical Contaminants
299
Chapter 17 Microbial Contaminants
313
Chapter 18 Soil and Groundwater Remediation
335
Chapter 19 Ecological Restoration
357

Chapter 9 Monitoring Surface Waters
141
Chapter 10 Monitoring NearSurface Air Quality
163
Chapter 11 Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring
183
Chapter 20 Risk Assessment and Environmental Regulations
377
Index
393
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About the author (2004)

Dr. Ian Pepper is a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona and also the Director of the University of Arizona Water and Energy Sustainable Technology Center (WEST). He is an environmental microbiologist whose research has focused on the fate and transport of microbial pathogens in air, water, soils and municipal wastes. His expertise has been recognized by membership on six National Academy of Sciences Committees. Dr. Pepper is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Soil Science Society of America, and the American Society of Agronomy. He is the author or co-author of seven textbooks and over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Dr Mark Brusseau’s work is focused on developing a fundamental understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological factors and processes influencing the transport and fate of contaminants in the subsurface environment. At the university he also teaches courses on Contaminant Transport in Porous Media as well as Soil and Groundwater Remediation. He has published over 250 works, and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Soil Science Society of America.