Handbook of Environmental Analysis Standard and Emerging Strategies in Water, Sludge and Sediment Probing

With its coverage of both inorganic and organic analytes, this book is a truly comprehensive guide and likely to set the standard. As such, it describes the basic principles and peculiarities of established and emerging applications, providing readers with a greater understanding of complex methods. The best ready reference available for analytical, water, soil and environmental chemists, as well as those working in trace and micro analysis.

Rolf-Alexander Düring is Assistant Professor for Resources Management and Environmental Chemistry at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. He studied agricultural and environmental sciences at the universities of Bonn and Giessen, Germany. In 1996 he obtained his PhD with a thesis on the behavior of herbicides in soils. He finished his habilitation in 2003 with a thesis on the sustainable use of organic wastes in agriculture. His main interest is in the field of environmental chemistry and analysis with a focus on the fate of organic contaminants in soils and waters.
Hans E. Hummel is retired Professor of Biological and Biotechnical Plant Protection at Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where he served as one of the division heads in environmental analytics.

Prof. Hummel authored some 160+ publications on insect hormones, pheromones, kairomones and the chemical ecology of insect-plant interactions. He is a member of the editorial board of "Biopesticides International". Among his publications there are numerous contributions to chromatographic and spectrometric microanalysis of environmental pollutants.

Stefan Gäth is Professor for Waste Management and Resources Management at Justus-Liebig University Giessen and is head of the Division of Waste Management and Environmental Research since 1995. He studied agricultural sciences at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and there obtained his PhD with a thesis in the area of soil physics and chemistry in 1987. In 1994 he finished his habilitation dealing with soil physical phenomena. Main interests are in the field of materials flow management and substance behavior in the waste-soil-plant system.

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
Environment and Society
Environmental Policy and Regulations
Statistics, Validation and Quality Assurance
Method Validation and Quality Assurance in Organic Analytical Chemistry
Standard Methods
Determination of Sum Parameters
SPECIFIC ANALYTICAL METHODS
Sampling, Sample Preparation and Storage
Sample Enrichment and Purification
Sample Preparation Methods for the Determination of Organic Contaminants in Liquid Samples
Sample Preparation Methods for the Determination of Orgcani Contaminants in Sediments
Compound Isolation by Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
PCB and PAH in Waters and Sediments
Application of Parallel Column Capillary Gas Cromatography with ECD for the Environmental Analysis of Organohalogen Compounds
Application of Countercurrent Chromatography to Pesticide Analysis
Identification and Quantification
Hybrid Tandem Mass Spectrometry and High Resolution MS
Confirmation of the Molecular Structure for Novel Compounds Using Exact Mass Measurement hy HR-MS
Coupled Methods
Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis
Advance in Environmental Analysis Using Elemental Mass Spectrometry Hyphenated to Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Separation Techniques
EMERGING STRATEGIES
Extraction Methods -
Green Chemistry
Extraction Methods in Environmental Chemistry in the Light of Green Chemistry
Anthropogenic and Biogenic Markers/Tracers
Elucidation of Transformation of Pharmaceuticals
Immunological Methods
Monitoring Pesticides and Personal Care Products by Immunoassay
Magnetic Techniques for Preconcentration and Assay of Xenobiotics
In-Situ Analysis/Miniaturized Methods