A Versatile Tool for Environmental Research

The challenges faced by environmental scientists today are vast,
complex, and multi-faceted.  For instance, predicting the fate
of an environmental pollutant or understanding ecosystem responses
to climate change, necessitate a firm understanding of molecular
structure and dynamics of environmental media as well as the
components that exist and interact within this media. 
Furthermore, linking information obtained at the molecular-scale to
ecosystem-level processes is a major pursuit of modern
environmental research.  As such, NMR spectroscopy and its
scalability from the molecular-scale to the macroscopic-scale, is
facilitating rapid growth in environmental science. In addition,
the versatility of NMR spectroscopy has resulted in the development
and implementation of different types of NMR techniques to examine
the structure of various types of environmental samples, living and
non-living, as well as the study of critical environmental
processes. 

This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters that
span from methods to how NMR is used in environmental research to
gain insight into various ecosystem properties. 

It is organized into three parts:

• Part A focuses on methods used in environmental NMR
  which span from solution-state to magnetic resonance
  imaging. 


• Part B emphasizes how NMR spectroscopy plays an
  essential role in understanding various types of environmental
  components and related processes, including different forms of
  organic matter found in soil, water, and air as well as how NMR is
  used to probe the fate of water, organic pollutants, and metals in
  the environment. 


• Part C focuses on the growing field of environmental
  metabolomics which uses NMR as its main discovery
  platform. 

This volume highlights the immense potential of NMR spectroscopy
to expand our fundamental understanding of environmental processes
and how it will continue to do so well into the future.

About eMagRes Handbooks



eMagRes (formerly the Encyclopedia of Magnetic
Resonance) publishes a wide range of online articles on all
aspects of magnetic resonance in physics, chemistry, biology and
medicine. The existence of this large number of articles, written
by experts in various fields, is enabling the publication of a
series of eMagRes Handbooks on specific areas of NMR and MRI. The
chapters of each of these handbooks will comprise a carefully
chosen selection of eMagRes articles. In consultation with the
eMagRes Editorial Board, the eMagRes handbooks are
coherently planned in advance by specially-selected Editors, and
new articles are written to give appropriate complete coverage. The
handbooks are intended to be of value and interest to research
students, postdoctoral fellows and other researchers learning about
the scientific area in question and undertaking relevant
experiments, whether in academia or industry.

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