Third International Soil Forensics Conference Session: Soil Forensic Oral Presentations: II (2010 Annual Meeting (Oct. 31

Third International Soil Forensics Conference

soil forensics

Wednesday, November 3, 2010: 8:30 AM-5:00 PM

Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Regency Ballroom DEF, Third Floor

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Presiders:

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

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

3:00 PM

Break (beverage only) - Regency Foyer

3:30 PM

Geomorphological and Geoforensic Interpretation of Maps, Aerial Imagery, Conditions of Diggability and the Colour Coded RAG Prioritisation System.
Laurance J. Donnelly, Wardell Armstrong; Mark Harrison, National Policing Improvement Agency

4:00 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

4:30 PM

Adjourn