Incremental Sampling: Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Forensics

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-120

  Hadley, Paul W ^a   Petrisor, Ioana G ^b  

^a California Department of Toxic Substances Control   (United States)

^b Cardno ENTRIX   (United States)

Author keywords

composite sampling; discrete soil samples; environmental forensics; hot spots; incremental sampling; laboratory subsampling; representativeness; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879542446     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2013.790859     Document Type: Article

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