Spill response including: legal sampling, chemical analysis, and toxicological assessment.

Forensic analysis of spill material and environmental samples in order to delineate types and sources of hydrocarbons: e.g. collect data on petroleum biomarkers, alkylated PAHs as well as data interpretation (e.g. chemometrics)

Dr. Birkholz has been a member of the Oil Spill International network of experts (OSINET) for a decade and participated in numerous international interlaboratory studies involving a variety of petroleum products.