Meet the editors

Dr. Mario Alfonso Murillo Tovar is currently working at CIQ-IICBA Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, México as a Professor-Researcher and he is involved in teaching, research, management, and academic work. He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Chemistry degree from Universidad del Valle, Colombia and he obtained his Master´s degree and Doctorate in Chemical Sciences from Universidad

Nacional Autónoma de México. His research has focused on the development and validation of analytical methods, chemical characterization of environmental samples, and treatment and removal methods. He has worked on many projects, including determination of trace metal, inorganic species and toxic organic compounds using ICP-MS, GC, and LC tandem MS techniques, identification of emission sources, chemical degradation of emerging compounds and risk assessment.

Since 1991, Hugo Saldarriaga-Noreña has worked in the environmental pollution field, specifically in water purification. Later in 1995, I joined the University of Antioquia (Colombia), combining research with teaching, until 2001. In 2007, I joined the Center for Research and Assistance in Technology and Design of the State of Jalisco, Mexico, as a leading researcher in the area of air quality. Since 2012, I have been a full-time professor at the

Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico. My research area is environmental chemistry, specifically oriented to the characterization of environmental matrices, through the application of high-performance liquid and gas chromatography, ICP mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, and IR among others.

Agnieszka Saeid graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) in 2005. In 2010, she defended her doctoral thesis, and in 2019 she obtained habilitation and she was granted a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) to participate in the Postgraduate School of Industrial Ecology (PSIE) - IndEcol at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She has

published over 77 papers, including 69 papers in world-known peer-reviewed scientific journals from the JCR list. Her works have been cited more than 300 times and she has an h-index: 15. She is the author of 5 patents. She cooperates with many universities in the field of multidisciplinary projects. She has edited books for CRC Press, Wiley, and NOVA Science and has also contributed to 10 book chapters published by Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press, Nova Science, Studium Press LLC, and IntechOpen.

Contents

**Section 1**

and Solid Matrix

*by Yao Shan and Jianjun Shi*

*and Vuyo Mavumengwana*

*by Barbara Mueller*

Materials and Waters *by Cengiz Soykan*

*and Vuyo Mavumengwana*

*and Armindo dos Santos Rodrigues*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Source, Mobility and Fate Processes **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 35**

**Chapter 3 51**

Determination, Environmental Pollution and Health Effects **63**

**Chapter 4 65**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 101**

Data Mining for Source Apportionment of Trace Elements in Water

Mobility of Trace Element Contaminants from Abandoned Gold Mine

The Provenance of Arsenic in Southeast Asia Discovered by Trace

New Methods in the Synthesis of (Meth)Acrylamides and Application Chelating Resin for Determination of Trace Metals in Certified Reference

Evaluation of Trace Elemental Levels as Pollution Indicators in an Abandoned Gold Mine Dump in Ekurhuleni Area, South Africa *by Godwin Okereafor, Mamookho Makhatha, Lukhanyo Mekuto* 

Trace Elements in Volcanic Environments and Human Health Effects

*by Diana Paula Silva Linhares, Patrícia Ventura Garcia* 

Dump to Stream Waters in an Agricultural Active Area *by Godwin Okereafor, Elizabeth Makhatha, Lukhanyo Mekuto* 

Elements in Groundwater from the Lowlands of Nepal
