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Law and law enforcement   (publications in chronological order)

373. Ehleringer, J.R., T.E. Cerling, and J. B. West. 2007. Forensic applications of stable isotope ratio analysis, pages 399-422. In R. D. Blackledge (ed.), Forensic analysis on the cutting edge: new methods for trace evidence analysis. Wiley Interscience. PDF

390. Ehleringer, J.R., T.E. Cerling, J.B. West, D.W. Podlesak, L.A. Chesson, and G.J. Bowen. 2008. Spatial considerations of stable isotope analyses in environmental forensics, pages 36-53. In R.E Hester and R.M. Harrison (eds.), Issues in Environmental Science and Technology volume 26. Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, Cambridge. PDF

407. 
Ehleringer, J.R., A.H. Thompson, D. Podlesak, G.J. Bowen, L.A. Chesson, T.E. Cerling, T. Park, P. Dostie, and H. Schwarcz. 2010. A framework for the incorporation of isotopes and isoscapes in geospatial forensic investigations, p. 357-387. In J. West, G.J. Bowen, T.E. Dawson, and K. Tu (eds.), Isoscapes: understanding movement, pattern, and process on Earth through isotope mapping. Springer Verlag, New York. PDF

419. Ehleringer, J.R., and S.M. Matheson Jr. 2010. Stable isotopes and courts. Utah Law Review 2010 (2):385-442. PDF

447. 
Chesson, L.A, B.J. Tipple, J.D. Howa, G.J. Bowen, J.E. Barnette, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2014. Stable isotopes in forensic applications. In H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian (eds.), Treatise of Geochemistry, Second Edition, vol. 14, pages 285-317. Oxford, London. PDF

452. Chesson, L.A., B.J. Tipple, J.E. Barnette, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2014. The potential for application of ink stable isotope ratio analysis in questioned document examination. Science & Justice, doi:10.1016/j.scijus.2014.05.010. PDF
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473. Cerling, T.E., J.E. Barnette, G.J. Bowen, L.A. Chesson, J.R. Ehleringer, C.H. Remien, P. Shea, B.J. Tipple, and J.B. West. 2016. Forensics stable isotope biogeochemistry. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 44:175-206. PDF
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​Environmental drivers influencing populations and evolution

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