PLATFORM: Platform grant Renewal: Environmental Forensics

此次EPSRC平台资助更新的目的是利用过去研究委员会支持（包括EPSRC平台资助）对土壤和地下水污染和修复的理解，并将这些知识扩展到新的领域，在新兴的环境取证领域取得重大的科学进步。为此，将把对环境污染物的来源、运输和命运及其对自然环境和建筑/人类环境的影响的强有力的科学理解与从传统法医方法到科学的大量经验联系起来。平台补助金续期的目的是支持一个为期5年的研究计划，以满足这一需求，并为英国提供环境取证方面的良好科学基础，为调解或谈判交易或与环境事务有关的任何公共调查提供事实基础；并将这项工作与在该领域工作的其他英国和国际组织联系起来。环境法医试图回答的问题包括为以下问题提供“科学证据的法律份量”：谁造成了污染？污染是什么时候发生的？污染是怎么发生的？污染有多严重？测试结果是否有效？是否有欺诈的证据？人们暴露在何种程度的污染中？

The aim of this EPSRC Platform Grant Renewal is to use the understanding of soil and groundwater contamination and remediation gained with past Research Council support including an EPSRC Platform Grant, and expand this knowledge into new areas to make a significant scientific advancement in the emerging field of Environmental Forensics. This will be done by linking a strong scientific understanding of the sources, transport and fate of environmental pollutants, their effect on the natural environment and on the built/human environment, with the vast experiences available from traditional forensic approaches to science.The purpose of the Platform Grant renewal is to underpin a 5 year research programme to fill this need and to provide to the UK a sound scientific grounding in environmental forensics which can provide the factual basis for mediated or negotiated transactions or for any public inquiry related to environmental matters; and to link this effort with other UK and International groups working in the field.Questions that environmental forensics seeks to answer includes providing a 'Legal Weight of Scientific Evidence' for: Who caused the contamination? When did the contamination occur? How did the contamination occur? How extensive is the contamination?Are the test results valid? Is there evidence of fraud? What levels of contamination have people been exposed to?