JOURNAL OF SOIL AND SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION is the main communication vehicle of the Association for the Environmental Health of Soils (AEHS). It provides a direct link between the association's membership and those disciplines concerned with the technical, regulatory, and legal challenges of contaminated soils. The journal is a bimonthly, internationally peer-reviewed publication focusing on information and critical analysis in the following areas:· Analytical chemistry, including basic analytical problems with soil, product identification, development and evaluation of field screening and analytical techniques, and development and evaluation of laboratory analytical techniques and standards· Site assessment, including field sampling techniques and statistical design, sample handling and preparation, and assessment methodologies· Environmental fate, including the chemistry and physics influencing the movement and partitioning of contaminants in the soil· Environmental modeling, including the mathematical representation of contaminant movement and its relationship to real world utility· Remediation techniques, including both offsite and in situ techniques, such as vacuum extraction, bioremediation, low and high thermal treatment, land treatment, solidification and encapsulation, asphalt incorporation, chemical treatment, soil washing, and vitrification· Risk assessment issues, including health effects and hazards, exposure assessment, and risk characterization of sites and actions (remediation)· Risk management or the application of risk assessment information, especially during remediation· Regulatory issues, especially numerical standards of cleanups (action levels, maximum concentration levels, and cleanup levels) and approaches/methodologies used by the regulatory community· Legal considerations pertaining to regulatory statutes or actions, as well as those pertaining to the private sector, such as banking and real estate transactionsJOURNAL OF SOIL AND SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION considers all types of soil contamination. Sludges and petroleum contamination and their chemical constituents are recent concerns, however, the journal also discusses petrochemical, chlorinated hydrocarbon, pesticide, and heavy metal (especially lead) contamination.Indexing: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Chemical Abstract Service, Environmental Abstracts, Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, CABS, Compendex, Paperchem, ISI