PLATFORM: Platform grant Renewal: Environmental Forensics

该EPSRC平台赠款更新的目的是利用过去研究理事会支持（包括EPSRC平台赠款）获得的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，以在新兴的环境法医学领域取得重大科学进步。这将通过将对环境污染物的来源、迁移和归宿及其对自然环境和建筑/人类环境的影响的深刻科学理解联系起来，从传统的法医学方法中获得了丰富的经验。平台资助更新的目的是支持一个5年的研究计划，以满足这一需求，并为英国提供一个良好的科学基础，环境法证可以为调解或谈判交易或任何与环境问题有关的公共调查提供事实依据;并将这一努力与该领域的其他英国和国际团体联系起来。环境法证试图回答的问题包括提供“科学证据的法律的分量”：谁造成了污染？污染是什么时候发生的？污染是如何发生的？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?