GeoPro Talks: Online portal for forensic fingerprinting and understanding your Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) data

Online

Court Sandau

Description

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous contaminants emanating from multiple sources in the environment. When conducting environmental monitoring of PAHs, it is imperative to examine sources of PAHs to know if they are coming from the source or sources you are investigating. This presentation will cover the fundamentals of what chemical fingerprinting of PAHs works, the basis of diagnostic ratios and a walk through of an online data portal that allows everyone to chemically fingerprint and determine sources of the PAHs in their environmental data.

About Instructor(s)

Court Sandau

PhD, PChem, FRSC

Court Sandau is a PhD chemist that has been conducting environmental forensics investigations for over 20 years. Dr. Sandau is a world expert and provides litigation support on cases involving the analysis and interpretation, fate and transport, source apportionment and chemical fingerprinting of organic compounds, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Today’s presentation relates to Dr. Sandau’s second company, Statvis, which provides online data interpretation tools, including chemical fingerprinting.