Analytical Techniques for Studying Environmental and Geologic Samples

Readings

TOPICS	READINGS
Thoreau’s bog	Whitney, Gordon G., and William C. Davis. “From Primitive Woods to Cultivated Woodlots: Thoreau and the Forest History of Concord, Massachusetts.” Journal of Forest History 30, no. 2 (1986): 70-81. Hemond, Harold F. “Biogeochemistry of Thoreau’s Bog, Concord, Massachusetts.” Ecological Monographs 50, no. 4 (1980): 507-26. Schofield, Edmund A. “The Walden Ecosystem: ‘A Perennial Spring in the Midst of Pine and Oak Woods’.” Hemond, Harold F. Biogeochemistry of a New England Sphagnum Bog. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1977. Corey, Cherrie. “Gowing’s Swamp and Thoreau’s Bog.” Sudbury Valley Trustees.
Isotopes	West, Jason B., Janet M. Hurley, et al. “The Stable Isotope Ratios of Marijuana. II. Strontium Isotopes Relate to Geographic Origin.” Journal of Forensic Sciences 54, no. 6 (2009): 1261-9. Norton, S. A., G. C. Evans, et al. “Comparison of Hg and Pb Fluxes to Hummocks and Hollows of Ombrotrophic Big Heath Bog and to Nearby Sargent Mt. Pond, Maine, USA.” Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 100 (1997): 271-86. Shotyk, W., A. K. Cheburkin, et al. “Lead in Three Peat Bog Profiles, Jura Mountains, Switzerland: Enrichment Factors, Isotopic Composition, and Chronology of Atmospheric Deposition.” Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 100 (1997): 297-310. Weiss, D., W. Shotyk, et al. “Atmospheric Lead Deposition from 12,400 to ca. 2,000 yrs BP in a Peat Bog Profile, Jura Mountains, Switzerland.” Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 100 (1997): 311-24.