Abstract
Environmental forensic microscopy is used to study materials and particulate in efforts to classify and identify particles and often to assess the extent of a contamination situation. This chapter describes many of the methods used for microscopical studies of environmental contamination situations or materials of concern in industrial hygiene and environmental health studies. These methods include those promulgated by government agencies, consensus standard organizations such as ASTM-International and International Standards Organization (ISO), and methods traditionally used by forensic microscopists. The environmental forensic microscope investigations (case studies) described in this chapter involved product identification, indoor air quality concerns, outdoor darkening agents including various types of soot, lead particles, asbestos, and glass fibers, ceramic whiskers, corrosion debris, and particles from the World Trade Center disaster of September 11, 2001.
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