Southwest Hydrology, the trade magazine published bi-monthly by the University of Arizona's SAHRA (Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas) Program, features "Forensic Hydrology" in its current (July-August 2007; volume 6, number 4) issue. As Publisher Betsy Woodhouse indicates, "forensic hydrology" has traditionally dealt with investigations of water contamination and the need to identify the causes, sources, and perpetrators. But the term can be more loosely defined to include any investigation of the history of a parcel of water.
It's the broader definition that is employed in the current issue. I've listed the contents below.
- Overview article by Richard W. Hurst;
- Three articles about using environmental isotopes to track ground water sources, perchlorate origins, and salinity sources;
- Randy Bassett's article about when forensic isotope analyses go bad;
- Tools for petroleum hydrocarbon releases;
- Environmental forensics; and
- Microbial source tracking (MST) to identify sources of fecal coliform.
The last article also provides a link to the 331-page report done for the New Mexico Environment Department. Largest sources of E. coli in the Middle Rio Grande basin: avian (33.5%) and canine (21.9%).
You can download the entire issue below or clink on the link at the beginning of this post.
Subscriptions to Southwest Hydrology are free; just go to the magazine's page WWW page or email them at [email protected]. Don't let the name fool you; it covers far more than just the Southwest USA. Betsy Woodhouse, who also founded it, has done an excellent job with this magazine.
"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand but in what direction you are moving." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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