Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics

'Soils ain't soils'': context and issues facing soil scientists in a forensic world / J. Robertson -- Expert scientific evidence in court: the legal considerations / D.P. Auchie -- Some thoughts on the role of probabilistic reasoning in the evaluation of evidence / C.G.G. Aitken -- Microbial community profiling for the characterisation of soil evidence: forensic considerations / G.F. Sensabaugh -- The current status of forensic soil examination in the Russian Federation / O. Gradusova and E. Nesterina -- Characterisation and discrimination of urban soils: preliminary results from the Soil Forensics University Network / A. Morrisson, S. McColl, L.A. Dawson, M. Brewer -- Environmental considerations for common burial site selection after pandemic events / A. Williams, T. Temple, S.J. Pollard, R.J.A. Jones, K. Ritz -- A systematic approach to soil forensics: criminal case studies involving transference from crime scene to forensic evidence / R.W. Fitzpatrick, M.D. Raven, S.T. Forrester -- Forensic ecology, botany and palynology: some aspects of their role in criminal investigation / P.E.J. Wiltshire -- Sediment and soil environmental forensics: what do we know? / S.M. Mudge -- Petrography and geochemical analysis for the forensic assessment of concrete damage / I. Fernandes, M.A.T.M. Broekmans, F. Noronha -- Tracing soil and groundwater pollution with electromagnetic profiling and geo-electrical investigations / K. Martens, K. Walraevens -- Locating concealed homicide victims: developing the role of geoforensics / M. Harrison, L.J. Donnelly -- Geological trace evidence: forensic and legal perspectives / A. Keaney, A. Ruffell, J. McKinley -- New observations on the interactions between evidence and the upper horizons of the soil / I. Hanson, J. Djohari, J. Orr, P. Furphy, C. Hodgson, G. Cox, G. Broadbridge -- The forensic analysis of sediments recovered from footwear / R.M. Morgan, J. Freudiger-Bonzon, K.H. Nichols, T. Jellis, S. Dunkerley, P. Zelazowski, P.A. Bull -- Using soil and groundwater data to understand resistivity surveys over a simulated clandestine grave / J.R. Jervis, J.K. Pringle, J.P. Cassella, G. Tuckwell -- Spatial thinking in search methodology: a case study of the ''no body murder enquiry,'' west of Ireland / J. McKinley, A. Ruffell, M. Harrison, W. Meier-Augenstein, H. Kemp, C. Graham, L. Barry -- Localisation of a mass grave from the Nazi era: a case study / S. Fiedler, J. Berger, K. Stahr, M. Graw -- Research in forensic taphonomy: a soil-based perspective / M. Tibbett, D.O. Carter -- Can temperature affect the release of ninhydrin-reactive nitrogen in gravesoil following the burial of a mammalian