Meet the editors

Luis Felipe Mazadiego is a mining engineer, doctor, and professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He teaches several master's degree subjects (mining engineering, energy engineering, research, modeling and risk analysis in the environment, oil and gas engineering, teacher training) and is oriented, in many cases, the planning and management of projects. For his research on the applications of surface geochemistry, he obtained the

Extraordinary Doctorate Award and the Juan Artieda Award. He is an elected member of INHIGEO, a scientific association dependent on UNESCO. He has participated in research projects on environment, mining heritage, shale gas, and natural radioactivity and published more than 100 scientific articles and congress communications.

Since he joined Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1990, Eduardo De Miguel Garcia has pursued three main research lines: geochemical prospecting, environmental geochemistry, and human health risk analysis. His research career began with the development of his PhD thesis in collaboration with the German Geological Survey (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR) and the Norwegian Atmospheric Research Institute (Norsk

Institutt for Luftforskning, NILU). He remains in close collaboration with prestigious international researchers in the field of urban geochemistry and human health risk assessment. He has led 9 research projects with a total funding of nearly 500000 € and has had fruitful collaborations with regional environmental authorities and private companies. His teaching activity (in the fields of geochemistry, soil pollution and environmental risk assessment) is not limited to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in which he is full professor, but he has also taught outside of Spain at Saint Louis University, Jönköping High School, and Linköping University.

Fernando Barrio-Parra is an assistant professor at the School of Mining Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences, a master's degree in research, modelling and environmental risk analysis, and a PhD in natural resource conservation. His research is related to the modelling of environmental processes, covering the human-environment interaction, littoral geodynamics, geochemical and soil

and groundwater pollution processes and prospecting, including human health and environmental risk assessment. His teaching is related to chemistry, geochemistry, and environmental risk assessment.

Miguel Izquierdo-Díaz is a teaching assistant at the School of Mining and Energy Engineering of the Technical University of Madrid. He has a BSc in environmental sciences, a MSc in research, modelling and environmental risk analysis, and his PhD was focused on the study of atmospheric pollution phytomonitoring, probabilistic risk assessment, and trace element bioaccessibility in urban gardens. He is a member of the research group PROME-

Contents

*by Gaafar A. El Bahariya*

*by Shaun Williams*

*and Ming-Guo Ma*

*and Shan Jiang*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 85**

**Chapter 7 111**

from the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Emphasis on the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Tsunami Elemental Signatures in the Samoan Islands: A Case Study

*by Wei-Yu Shi, Xiao-Cong Zhu, Feng-Bao Zhang, Kai-Bo Wang, Lei Deng* 

The Geochemical Data Imaging and Application in Geoscience: Taking

Geochemistry and Tectonic Setting of Neoproterozoic Rocks

Soil Carbon Biogeochemistry in Arid and Semiarid Forests

the Northern Daxinganling Metallogenic Belt as an Example *by Jiang Chen, Zhaoxia Mao, Yan Zhao, Chunpeng Zhang* 

Geochemical Methods to Assess Agriculture Sustainability *by Trolard Fabienne, Kaniewski David and Bourrié Guilhem*

Geoenvironmental Characterization of Sulfide Mine Tailings

Implications of Sediment Geochemistry and Diet Habits in Fish

Metal Levels and Human Health Risk

*by Alice Bosco-Santos and Wanilson Luiz-Silva*

*by TomásMartín-Crespo, David Gómez-Ortiz and Silvia Martín-Velázquez*

DIAM (Prospecting and Environment Laboratory). His research is focused on soil and groundwater pollution modelling, biomonitoring and remediation; environmental and human health risk assessment; urban geochemistry; and sustainable agriculture. He also takes part in several European educational projects to bring science and critical raw materials closer to high school students.
