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Celebrating 10 years of publishing
27 November 2008
A JEM 10th Anniversary focus on the tissue-residue approach for toxicity assessment has now been published. It was written by James Meador.
Focus Issue: Air- and Biomonitoring & Medical Geology
27 November 2008
Journal of Environmental Monitoring (JEM) issue 12, 2008, is focusing on the two areas Medical Geology & Air- and Biomonitoring.
IUPAC 2009 - Call for Abstracts
21 November 2008
Your chance to take part in 42nd IUPAC Congress (2-7 August 2009, Glasgow, UK). Oral abstract deadline - 16 January 2009
Interview: Lighting a billion lives
17 November 2008
Rajendra K Pachauri speaks to Leanne Marle about shedding light on climate change and giving light to humanity
Contents list for Journal of Environmental Monitoring, issue 12, 2008
Front cover
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1373
DOI: 10.1039/b820241a
Inside front cover
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1374
DOI: 10.1039/b820242g
Contents and Chemical Science
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1375
DOI: 10.1039/b820244n
News
News
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1383
DOI: 10.1039/b819422j
Mike Sharpe provides a summary of the latest environmental news, literature and legislation.
Editorials
Editorial—Introducing a special theme issue on medical geology
José A. CentenoPhDFRSC,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1391
DOI: 10.1039/b817552g
Critical Reviews
10th Anniversary Critical Review: Naturally occurring asbestos
Martin Harper,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1394
DOI: 10.1039/b810541n
Naturally occurring asbestos refers to asbestos and some other elongated mineral particles in rocks and soils that could be a risk for those living and working in the affected areas.
The utility of mosquito-borne disease as an environmental monitoring tool in tropical ecosystems
Andrew Jardine, Angus Cook and Philip Weinstein,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1409
DOI: 10.1039/b806520a
Mosquito-borne diseases are practical additional indicators of ecosystem disruption in tropical regions because the burden is high, the disease ecology has a strong environmental component and intensive health surveillance systems are well established.
Editorials
AIRMON 2008, the Sixth International Symposium on Modern Principles of Air Monitoring and Biomonitoring
Jan Olof Levin and Yngvar Thomassen,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1415
DOI: 10.1039/b818121g
Professors Jan Levin and Yngvar Thomassen introduce papers from the AIRMON Symposium on Modern Principles of Air Monitoring and Biomonitoring.
Papers
Three dimensional modeling of air flow, aerosol distribution and aerosol samplers for unsteady conditions
Albert Gilmutdinov and Ilya Zivilskii,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1417
DOI: 10.1039/b813784f
This model of air and aerosol flow around a breathing person allows computation of aspiration efficiency for any type of aerosol samplers operating at any unsteady conditions.
Experimental methods to determine inhalability and personal sampler performance for aerosols in ultra-low windspeed environments
Darrah K. Schmees, Yi-Hsuan Wu and James H. Vincent,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1426
DOI: 10.1039/b806431h
Facilities for studying workplace airborne aerosol and particle inhalation, including an ultralow-windspeed wind tunnel and a life-sized heated, breathing mannequin, and new experimental methods.
Aerosol sampling by annular aspiration slots
Peter Görner, Olivier Witschger, Florence Roger, Richard Wrobel and Jean-François Fabričs,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1437
DOI: 10.1039/b802881h
Two models of annular slot aspiration efficiency were developed and a prototype of a personal aerosol sampler for exposure assessment in occupational safety and health was designed.
A study of the bio-accessibility of welding fumes
Balázs Berlinger, Dag G. Ellingsen, Miklós Náray, Gyula Záray and Yngvar Thomassen,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1448
DOI: 10.1039/b806631k
The study investigates the bio-accessibility of metals present in welding fumes from three different welding techniques (MIG, TIG, MMA) as the function of: temperature, dissolution time and choice of the dissolving agent.
Production of test gases in the ppb range for round-robin tests and quality assurance measures during the measurement of VOCs
Andreas Moritz and Dietmar Breuer,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1454
DOI: 10.1039/b810557j
The paper summarises the efforts at BGIA
s test gas facility in diluting the vapour of organic compounds to low ppb levels. It highlights problems with pre-cleaned air, and first experiences with a round-robin test for VOCs.
ALASCA proficiency testing scheme for occupational hygiene laboratories
Eddy Langlois, Alain Boulet and Edmond Kauffer,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1460
DOI: 10.1039/b807652a
The 
Aptitude des Laboratoires pour l'Analyse des Substances Chimiques dans l'Air (ALASCA) programme allows industrial hygiene analytical laboratories to assess their competence, and to improve their practices.
Focus
10th Anniversary Focus: From mainstream environmental economics to sustainability economics. On the need for new thinking
Peter Söderbaum,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1467
DOI: 10.1039/b811379n
Considering the many unsustainable environmental trends that can be observed, it is time to scrutinize the mental maps in terms of economics and ideology that have dominated among influential actors in the past and look for alternatives.
Perspective
10th Anniversary Perspective: Reflections on endocrine disruption in the aquatic environment: from known knowns to unknown unknowns (and many things in between)
John P. Sumpter and Andrew C. Johnson,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1476
DOI: 10.1039/b815741n
How did the story of oestrogens in the aquatic environment emerge over the last 30 years? What do we know now, and what remains unknown?
Critical Reviews
10th Anniversary Critical Review: The tissue-residue approach for toxicity assessment: concepts, issues, application, and recommendations
James P. Meador, Lynn S. McCarty, Beate I. Escher and William J. Adams,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1486
DOI: 10.1039/b814041n
The concept of using tissue residues as the dose metric is presented in this review. We discuss many of the critical issues for this approach and explore its application for improving toxicity assessment.
Papers
Relations between and among contaminant concentrations and biomarkers in black bass (Micropterus spp.) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from large U.S. rivers, 1995–2004
Jo Ellen Hinck, Christopher J. Schmitt, Mark R. Ellersieck and Donald E. Tillitt,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1499
DOI: 10.1039/b811011e
Organochlorine chemical residues, elemental contaminants, and biomarker data for black bass and common carp from the largest monitoring program in the United States were summarized, and their relations analysed using multivariate analyses.
GC-MS determination of levoglucosan in atmospheric particulate matter collected over different filter materials
Daniele Fabbri, Stefano Modelli, Cristian Torri, Andrea Cemin, Marco Ragazzi and Patrizia Scaramuzza,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1519
DOI: 10.1039/b808976k
The marker of biomass combustion analysed with a simple GC-MS procedure verified for PM10 entrapped over teflon, quartz and glass fiber filters. An application to samples collected in Northern Italy.
Back matter
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1524
DOI: 10.1039/b820245c
Back cover
J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 1527
DOI: 10.1039/b820246j
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