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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Be able to find and interpret regulatory data sources in order to determine approved analytical methods and regulatory guidelines for environmental forensics applications.

2.

Be able to recommend a sampling regime and sample preparation methodology that is appropriate for the chemical analysis for an sample in an environmental forensics context.

3.

Be able to undertake a chemical analysis in a environmental forensics context that may include both a presumptive and confirmatory analysis technique

4.

Be able to communicate the context, methodology, results and interpretation of a chemical analysis in a forensic science context.

5.

Be able to use suitable computer based simulation or calculation tools to model a modification to an instrument based chemical analysis and test that experimentally

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Additional information

Unit content:

Electrochemical analysis

Elemental analysis techniques, e.g. ICP-MS/OES, isotope analysis

Requirements for validation of chemical analysis methods in a forensic context

Computational methods for monitoring the fate of chemical entities in air and water

Communication of chemical analysis results and methods in a forensic science context