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Welcome/Opening Remarks/Keynote Presentation, Day One
Wednesday, April 08, 2015 • 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Dr. Ioana G. Petrisor, Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Forensics Journal and the author of the recently published book “Environmental Forensics Fundamentals – A Practical Guide”, will present the state-of-the-art of fingerprinting techniques, illustrating their use in spilled oil source identification and age-dating. The typical tiered fingerprinting approach (including chemical and isotopic fingerprinting) will be overviewed, along with emerging techniques such as tree-ring fingerprinting (dendroecology). Innovative approaches used in real cases will be discussed. These techniques provide evidence used in the Court of Law to track and elucidate “environmental crimes” and to allocate between responsible parties. Beyond the legal application, the presented techniques provide powerful tools for sustainable site characterization and remediation.

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Ioana Petrisor, Senior Biochemist, Great Ecology

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Dr. Ioana Petrisor in an environmental biochemist with over 20 years of experience (both in academia and industry). Dr. Petrisor specializes in environmental forensics/litigation support using up-to-date fingerprinting methods to track the source and age of contaminants (including crude oil and petroleum products, chlorinated solvents, metals, PCBs, nutrients, perchlorate). Dr. Petrisor has helped national and international clients to recover costs related to a large variety of environmental issues in both litigated and non-litigated cases. She has been accepted as Expert Witness in California Court testifying of fate & transport and sources of chlorinated solvents and metals. She has recently authored an Environmental Forensics text book. She is co-author at 1 invention patent, 4 book chapters, and more than 70 scientific publications and 12 editorials.

Presentations/Handouts

PowerPoint Presentation - Fingerprinting Methods for “CSI” Investigations of Spilled Oil

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