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The 2nd International Workshop on Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics is being held at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, from 30th October to 1st November. The conference is formally accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), on a one-off basis, by the Bar Standards Board (for 20 hours) and the Chartered Institute for Wastes Management (18 hours). Other professional organisations have listed the conference as eligible for CPD under their own regulations.
The conference is at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Delegates may attend for any of 1, 2 or all three days. The conference programme is now published, a copy of which is available from the conference website.
Papers focussing specifically on criminal soils forensics including:
● Ms Jo Ashworth, Head of Physical Evidence, National
Police Improvement Agency, on “A multi-disciplinary approach to soil forensics and crime investigation - the road to the courtroom”
● Professor Mark Harrison MBE, National Police
Improvement Agency, on “The coordinated approach of multidisciplinary teams to locate concealed victims of homicide, developing the role of forensic landscape investigation”
● Clive Alcock, Chief Executive Cumbria Police
Authority, on “March of the gladiators - scientists entering the arena of lawyers”
● Julie Bond and Stuart Bell, Forensic Science Service,
on “Mud sticks”
● Patricia Wiltshire, University of Aberdeen, UK (who
featured in Channel 5’s ‘The Body Farm), on the use of biological trace evidence from soil, from case studies such as the ‘Soham murders’ and ‘Ipswich murders’.
● Dr Ruth Morgan, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime
Science, on “The geoforensic analysis of soils from footwear”.
● Dr Rob Fitzpatrick, Director of the Centre for
Forensic Soil Science, Australia, on “Forensic soil science: current research and case work activities in Australia”.
● Professor Leigh Burgoyne, Flinders University,
Australia, on the interpretation of detritus from drug seizures using DNA techniques.
● Andrew Moncrieff, on the Soham murder enquiry and the
nature of evidence and its context.
● Sabine Fiedler, Instituteof Soil Science, University
Hohenheim, Germany, on the detection of buried corpses using georadar.
● Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, Queen's University Belfast,
on stable isotope composition of human tissue to aid victim identification.
● Jean Robertson, The Macaulay Institute, “In-situ
FTIR Analysis of Soil Evidence on Clothing”.
● Steve Hillier, The Macaulay Institute, “Provenancing
archaeological objects using traces of soil”.
● Professor Ken Killham, Universityof Aberdeen,
Remedios, on “Toxicological fingerprinting of pollution incidents in soils and waters".
The conclusion of the conference is a public lecture by Dr James Robertson, of the Forensic Laboratories of the Australian Federal Police, Australia, on the importance of soil forensics in criminal investigation.
The theme of the Conference Dinner and Ceilidh, at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 31st October (Halloween!), is “Murder, mystery and microscopes - an evening celebrating the science of crime fighting”. Authors of fictional crime novels will attend and have a chance to meet with you. Thus far, 15 crime writers (including Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus novels) have accepted invitations to attend. There are currently 125 people attending the dinner, with a limited number of places still available.
For full programme and further information please consult the conference WWW site (www.soilforensicsinternational.org).
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