Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical review of an inter-laboratory forensic dataset : effects on data interpretation in oil spill studies -- Fifty years of petroleum geochemistry : a valuable asset in petroleum environmental forensics -- Fingerprinting analysis and source differentiation of petroleum-contaminated environmental samples -- Complexities in the application of isotope geochemistry to determine the origin of stray gases in the subsurface : case studies -- Forensic aspects of airborne constituents following releases of crude oil into the environment -- Combined gas and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry applications for forensic lubricant and vegetable oil spill identification -- Environmental forensics study of crude oil and petroleum product spills in coastal and oilfield settings : combined insights from conventional GC-MS, thermodesorption-GC-MS and pyrolysis-GC-MS -- Paraffin wax spill identification by GC-FID and GC-MS -- Challenges and mysteries in oil spill fate and transport -- Unraveling the complexities of upland spilled fuels : selected case studies -- Advantages of multi-dimensional chemical fingerprinting in identifying the source of marine oil spills in Bohai Bay, China -- Distinguishing genetically-similar diesel fuels in Taiwan using principal component analysis of diagnostic ratios -- Application of CEN methodology in evaluating sources of multiple land-based fuel spills in Alberta, Canada -- Development and application of phase-specific methods in oiled-water forensic studies -- Applications of the CEN methodology in multiple oil spills in Spanish Waters -- Fingerprinting of petroleum hydrocarbons in Malaysia using environmental forensic techniques : a 20-Year field data review -- Long-term monitoring study of beached oils around the Shetland Isles, United Kingdom -- The Erika oil spill : 10 years monitoring program and effects of the weathering processes -- Environmental assessment of spills related to oil exploitation in Canada's Oil Sands Region -- Chemical fingerprinting assessment of the impact to river sediments following the Bakken Crude Oil Train Derailment and Fire, Mount Carbon, West Virginia -- The pixel based chemometric approach for source identification : two case studies from the Persian Gulf -- Use of passive samplers for PAH forensics in water from the Ottawa River, Ohio -- Fingerprint and weathering characteristics of petroleum hydrocarbon in coastal zone after the 7-16 Dalian oil spill accident, China -- Case study in the use of forensic history in matters involving pipeline ruptures -- Comparison of quantitative and semi-quantitative methods in source identification following the OSPAR oil spill, in Parana, Brazil -- Different forensic approaches for hydrocarbon source identification in an urban cluster environment : Guanabara Bay -- Investigation of Hhdrocarbon sources and biotechnologies applications in Todos os Santos Bay, Brazil -- Assessing the role of environmental conditions on the fate of oil following the Deepwater Horizon Spill -- Using stable and radiocarbon analyses as a forensic tool to find evidence of oil in the particulates of the water column and on the seafloor following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill -- Red Crabs as sentinel organisms of Deepwater Horizon Oil in Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Sediments -- Modeling distribution, fate, and concentrations of Deepwater Horizon Oil in the Gulf of Mexico in Subsurface Waters -- 32. Lousiana coastal marsh environments and MC252 oil biomarker chemistry -- Novel biological exposures following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill revealed by chemical fingerprinting -- Forensic identification of historical and ongoing tar oil.

This volume includes 34 chapters that serve to present various aspects of environmental forensics in relation to real-world oil spill case studies from around the globe. Authors representing academic, government and private researcher groups from 14 countries bring a diverse and global perspective to this volume.