ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an increased emphasis on the field work necessary in an environmental forensics investigation. The international waste "trade" of electronic waste and shipbreaking creates hazards for humans and the environment and requires the attention of decision-makers worldwide. Interest in environmental forensics and developing regulations to define environmental crime and pursue the type of criminal investigation has continued to increase. An environmental crime investigation requires the efforts of a large number of people from the initial and continuous work of the criminal investigative agent to the closing remarks of the prosecuting attorney for the case. Many laboratory instruments have been reduced down to useful and desirable field-portable instrumentation. The vertical axis for the analysis matrix has the list of analytical instrumentation or techniques useful in analyses for volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, total petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, radionuclides, and explosives.
