ABSTRACT
This chapter relates the importance of the toxicological exposure potential of recalcitrant compounds in sediments and dredged material to implementation of public laws and regulations governing environmental risk assessment; summarizes recent peer-reviewed literature on sediment recalcitrant
the sorbant quality of sediment organic carbon; and introduces the practical utility of thermal desorption mass spectrometry with respect to identification and quantification of recalcitrant compounds, measuring recalcitrant compounds’ release energy, and the compatibility of the development of field-portable direct-sampling analytical technologies.
