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Soil
& Sediment Contamination: an
International Journal
Aims and Scope
Soil & Sediment Contamination:
an International Journal provides a direct link between the association's membership
and those disciplines concerned with the technical,
regulatory, and legal challenges of contaminated soils. The
journal is a bi-monthly, international, peer-reviewed
publication focusing on scientific and technical
information, data, and critical analysis in the following
areas:
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Analytical
chemistry,
including basic analytical problems with soil and/or
sediment, product
identification, development and evaluation of laboratory
analytical techniques, and development and evaluation of
laboratory analytical techniques and standards.
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Site
assessment ,
including field sampling techniques and statistical
design, sample handling and preparation, and assessment
methodologies.
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Risk
assessment issues ,
including health effects and hazards, exposure
assessment, and risk characterization of sites and
actions (remediation).
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Environmental
fate , including
the chemistry and physics influencing the movement and
partitioning of contaminants in the soil and/or
sediment.
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Risk
management or the
application of risk assessment information, especially
during remediation.
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Environmental
modeling ,
including the mathematical representation of contaminant
movement and its relationship to real world utility.
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Regulatory
programs and policies ,
especially numerical standards of cleanups (action
levels, maximum concentration levels, and cleanup
levels) and approaches/methodologies utilized by the
regulatory community.
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Remediation
technologies/corrective actions ,
including both offsite and in situ techniques,
such as vacuum extraction, bioremediation, low and high
thermal treatment, land treatment, solidification and
encapsulation, asphalt incorporation, chemical
treatment, soil washing, and vitrification.
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Legal
considerations
pertaining to regulatory statutes or actions, as well as
those pertaining to the private sector, such as banking
and real estate transactions.
Manuscripts will be
considered that address any of the wide range of issues
associated with soil contamination. Examples of the types of
manuscripts encouraged for submittal include:
- Original data on relevant
topics (e.g. related in some manner to soil and/or
sediment contamination)
- Case studies
- Commentaries
- Technical debates
- Editorials
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