Trends in modern environmental analysis. Analytical chemistry and the environment. Problematics of real world samples. Destructive and non-destructive analytical methods used for real world samples. The limits and reliability of instrumental analytical methods. . Some aspects of organic analysis and the analysis of biological samples.Sampling and preparation and decomposition of inorganic and organic samples for analysis. Approaches to contemporaneous analysis of atmosphere, waters, sediments, sludges, and soils. Contemporaneous approaches to evaluation of analytical results. Specifics of trace analysis.Speciations of elements in the environment Hyphenated methods for analysis of element and molecular speciations. The significance of speciations for the essenciality and toxicity of elements.