Soil Forensic Oral Presentations: II

soil forensics

Third International Soil Forensics Conference
Wednesday, November 3, 2010: 8:30 AM-5:10 PM
Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Regency Ballroom DEF, Third Floor
Presidings:
Lorna Dawson and Alastair Ruffell
8:30 AM
Famous Cases and Infamous Issues in Forensic Geology.
Raymond Murray, University of Montana
9:15 AM
The Polarized Light Microscope in Forensic Provenance Investigations.
Andrew Bowen, Stoney Forensic, Inc.
9:45 AM
Contribution to the Study of Heavy Minerals In Forensic Soil Investigations.
Skip Palenik, Forensic Group
10:15 AM
Refreshment Break - Regency Foyer
10:45 AM
Examination of Volcanic Glass From the Pacific Northwest, USA, Using Light Microscopy, SEM- XRF and Cathodoluminescence.
William Schneck, Microvision Northwest-Forensic Consulting, Inc
11:15 AM
Integrated Textural and Mineralogical Data In Soil Forensic Analysis Based on Automated Mineralogy and Particle Classification.
Duncan Pirrie, Helford Geoscience LLP; Matthew R. Power, Power Geoscience; Gavyn Rollinson, University of Exeter
11:45 AM
OPEN, announcements, etc
12:00 PM
Banquet Lunch with Guest Speaker Dana Kollmann - Beacon Ballroom A and B
2:00 PM
Soil Traces as a Source of Meaningful Criminalistic Information (on examples of soils from Moscow region).
Ekaterina Nesterina, Federal Centre of Forensic Science (Ministry of Justice); OLGA GRADUSOVA, Federal Centre of Forensic Science (Ministry of Justice)
2:30 PM
An Examination of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Analysis of Soils and the Transfer Issue.
Elisa Bergslien, Buffalo State College
3:00 PM
Break (beverage only) - Regency Foyer
3:30 PM
Potential Applications of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) to Forensic Investigations.
Nelson Eby, University of Massachusetts
4:00 PM
Geomorphological and Geoforensic Interpretation of Maps, Aerial Imagery, Conditions of Diggability and the Colour Coded RAG Prioritisation System.
Laurance J. Donnelly, Wardell Armstrong; Laurance Donnelly, Forensic Geologist and Police Search Advisor
4:30 PM
Soil Forensic Investigations of Frontier Conflict Sites In Far North-Western Australia Using Advanced XRD Techniques.
Mark Raven, CSIRO; Pamela Smith, Flinders University; Peter Self, CSIRO; Robert Fitzpatrick, CSIRO; Soren Blau, The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
5:00 PM
Adjourn
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