Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics

Dr. Stout has more than 20 years of petroleum and coal industry experience. He specializes in chemical compositions of fuel-derived sources of contamination in terrestrial and marine environments, which includes crude oil, coal, gasoline and other substances. His research has been used for decision making by the United States Departments of Justice and Defense, and by the forest products, utility, railroad, wood treatment, maritime shipping, port operations, and oil and gas industries. Dr. Stout has authored or co-authored nearly 120 scientific papers and edited a textbook on the environmental forensics aspects of maritime oil spills. Dr. Zhendi Wang is a senior research scientist and Head of Oil Spill Research of Environment Canada, working in the oil and toxic chemical spill research field. His specialties and research interests include: development of oil spill fingerprinting and tracing technology, environmental forensics of oil spill; oil properties, fate and behavior of oil and other hazardous organics in the environment; oil burn emission and products study; oil bioremediation; identification and characterization of oil hydrocarbons; and, spill treatment studies; applications of modern analytical techniques (such as GC, GC/MS, HPLC, LC/MS, SFE and SFC, and IC) to oil spill studies and other environmental science and technology.

Dr. Wang has continually and extensively led and been involved in various scientific projects, technology transfer, and national and international cooperative researches with the total funding over 3 million dollars. He has authored over 270 academic publications including 72 peer-reviewed articles and 4 invited reviews in the most respected journals in the environmental science and chemistry, and 8 books and book chapters. The productivity, excellence and achievements of Dr. Wang have established him as a national and international "leading authority on the topic. He has won a number of national and international scientific honours and awards. Wang is also a member of America Chemical Society (ACS), the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), and the International Society of Environmental Forensics.

1. Spill Site Characterization in Environmental Forensic Investigations2. Sampling Procedures for Securing Evidence for Waterborne Oil Spill Identifications3. Chemical Fingerprinting Methods and Factors Affecting Petroleum Fingerprints in the Environment4. Petroleum Biomarker Fingerprinting for Oil Spill Characterization and Source Identification5. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Homolog and Isomer Fingerprinting6. Polycyclic Aromatic Sulfur Heterocycles as Source Diagnostic of Petroleum Pollutants in the Marine Environment7. Forensic Studies of Naphthenic Acids Fraction Compounds in Oil Sands Environmental Samples and Crude Oil8. Applications of Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GCGC) in Studying the Source, Transport, and Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in the Environment9. Oil Fingerprinting Analysis using Gas Chromatography-Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (GC-QTOF) 10. Application of Isotopic Compositions in Fugitive Petroleum Product Identification and Correlation11. Chemical Fingerprinting of Gasoline and Distillate Fuels12. Forensic Fingerprinting of Biodiesel and Its Blends with Petroleum Oil13. Chemical Character of Marine Heavy Fuel Oils and Lubricants14. CEN Methodology for Oil Spill Identification15. Development and Application of On-Line Computerized Oil Spill Identification - COSIWeb16. A Multivariate Approach to Oil Hydrocarbon Fingerprinting and Spill Source Identification17. Advantages of Quantitative Chemical Fingerprinting in Oil Spill Identification and Allocation of Mixed Hydrocarbon Contaminants 18. Statistical Analysis of Oil Spill Chemical Composition Data19. Biodegradation of Oil Hydrocarbons and Its Implications for Source Identification20. Photochemical Effects on Oil Spill Fingerprinting21. Oil Spill Remote Sensing: A Forensics Approach22. Water Column Sampling for Forensics 23. Forensic Trajectory Modeling of Marine Oil Spills24. Identification of Hydrocarbons in Biological Samples for Source Determination