Monitoring Environmental Contaminants

While existing approaches to monitoring environmental contaminants tend to focus on a small suite of contaminant types and often involve monitoring at fixed points and at fixed times, Monitoring Environmental Contaminants focuses on a wide range of new technologies and approaches available for monitoring chemical and biological contaminants in air, water, soil and food. These new methods allow the ability to monitor a wider range of contaminants at much greater and temporal resolutions. Adoption of these methods could result in a change in our understanding of how humans and ecosystems are exposed to contaminants in different environmental media.

This volume in the Environmental Contaminants Series provides an overview of a wide range of monitoring approaches ranging from citizen science networks to the use of robotics and sensor networks. Monitoring Environmental Contaminants describes challenges in the adoption of some of these new approaches and methods for dealing with these challenges such as the use of mining techniques for large data. The case studies within will provide a thorough illustration for researchers, academics, and scientists involved in ecology and environmental sciences.

Brings together chapters from a wide range of research in ecology and the environmental sciencesUtilizes an easily understandable style that can be absorbed by a wide audienceUses case studies to illuminate the application of selected novel contamination monitoring approaches

1. Advances in Traditional Technologies – Current Approaches to Mass Spectrometry Analysis 2. Emerging Sensor Technologies: Autonomous Environmental Chemical 3. Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

4.Challenges and current approaches towards environmental monitoring of nanomaterials 5. Citizen science monitoring of air pollution: challenges and experiences from the 6 iSCAPE Living Labs 6. The role of environmental specimen banks in monitoring environmental contamination