Oil Spill Environmental Forensics Case Studies

1. Critical Review of an inter-laboratory forensic dataset: Effects on data interpretation in oil spill studies
2. Fifty years of petroleum geochemistry: A valuable asset in petroleum environmental forensics
3. Fingerprinting Analysis and Source Differentiation of Petroleum-Contaminated Environmental Samples
4. Complexities in the application of isotope geochemistry to determine the origin of stray gases in the subsurface – case studies
5. Forensic aspects of airborne constituents following releases of crude oil into the environment
6. Combined Gas and Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Applications for Forensic Lubricant and Vegetable Oil Spill Identification
7. Environmental forensics study of crude oil and petroleum product spills in coastal and oilfield settings: Combined insights from conventional GC-MS, thermodesorption-GC-MS and pyrolysis-GC-MS
8. Paraffin Wax Spill Identification by GC-FID and GC-MS
9. Challenges and Mysteries in Oil Spill Fate and Transport
10. Unraveling the complexities of upland spilled fuels: Selected case studies
11. Advantages of Multi-dimensional Chemical Fingerprinting in Identifying the Source of Marine Oil Spills in Bohai Bay, China
12. Distinguishing genetically-similar diesel fuels in Taiwan using Principal Component Analysis of diagnostic ratios
13. Application of CEN Methodology in Evaluating Sources of Multiple Land-Based Fuel Spills in Alberta, Canada
14. Development and Application of Phase-Specific Methods in Oiled-Water Forensic Studies
15. Applications of the CEN Methodology in Multiple Oil Spills in Spanish Waters
16. Fingerprinting of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Malaysia using Environmental Forensic Techniques: A 20-Year Field Data Review
17. Long-term monitoring study of beached oils around the Shetland Isles, United Kingdom
18. The Erika oil spill: 10 years monitoring program and effects of the weathering processes
19. Environmental Assessment of Spills Related to Oil Exploitation in Canada’s Oil Sands Region
20. Chemical Fingerprinting Assessment of the Impact to River Sediments following the Bakken Crude Oil Train Derailment and Fire, Mount Carbon, West Virginia
21. The pixel based chemometric approach for source identification: Two case studies from the Persian Gulf
22. Use of Passive Samplers for PAH Forensics in Water from the Ottawa River, Ohio
23. Fingerprint and weathering characteristics of petroleum hydrocarbon in coastal zone after the “7-16” Dalian oil spill accident, China
24. Case study in the use of forensic history in matters involving pipeline ruptures
25. Comparison of quantitative and semi-quantitative methods in source identification following the OSPAR oil spill, in Parana, Brazil
26. Different forensic approaches for hydrocarbon source identification in an urban cluster environment: Guanabara Bay
27. Investigation of Hydrocarbon Sources and Biotechnologies Applications in Todos os Santos Bay, Brazil
28. Assessing the role of environmental conditions on the fate of oil following the Deepwater Horizon Spill
29. Using stable and radiocarbon analyses as a forensic tool to find evidence of oil in the particulates of the water column and on the seafloor following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
30. Red Crabs as Sentinel Organisms of Deepwater Horizon Oil in Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Sediments
31. Modeling Distribution, Fate, and Concentrations of Deepwater Horizon Oil in the Gulf of Mexico in Subsurface Waters
32. Lousiana coastal marsh environments and MC252 oil biomarker chemistry
33. Novel biological exposures following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill revealed by chemical fingerprinting
34. Characterization of petroleum associated with manufactured gas plant residues and tars in sediments