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Introduction to the Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy

Event Dates

August 31, 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Recommendations for Maintaining a Dermestid Beetle Colony (Dermestes maculatus) for Processing Human Remains

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Facilitating Forensic Research in Multiple Fields Using a Unique Computed Tomography Dataset

Date Published

August 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Age-at-Death Estimation for Modern Populations in Mexico and Puerto Rico through the Use of 3D Laser Scans of the Pubic Symphysis

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Bone Mineral Density Adult Age Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: A Test of the DXAGE Application

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Study on the Asymmetry of the Human Left and Right Pubic Symphyseal Surfaces Using High-Definition Data Capture and Computational Shape Methods

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Exploring the Relationship Between Dental Development, Population Variation, and Environment

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Selective Mortality in Middle-aged American Women With Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)

Date Published

August 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Pathology Portfolio

Date Published

June 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A computational framework for estimating ancestry and adult age-at-death from shape measures of the pubic symphysis

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Macromorphoscopic Databank

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

2016-MU-BX-K007

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2021

$3,341,165

2021 Forensic Science R&D Symposium

Event Dates

February 16, 2021, 10:00 am – 5:40 pm Central

Location

Online

Event Type

Symposium

Registration Status

Open

Series

NIJ Forensic R&D Symposium

Expanding on Total Body Score With Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Date Published

March 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Macromorphoscopic Databank: Establishing the Statistical Analysis of Macromorphoscopic Data in Forensic Anthropology

Date Published

October 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database

2020-DQ-BX-0025

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$457,536

Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis

2020-R2-CX-0048

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$683,542

Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone

2020-75-CX-0015

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$462,240

Positive identification using frontal sinus comparisons: Developing empirically-based guidelines

2020-75-CX-0013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$357,871

ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition, Final Report

Date Published

September 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

2016-MU-BX-K007

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$4,288,461

Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach

2020-R2-CX-0024

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$100,000

Finding the Missing and Unidentified: The Application of Predictive Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Small Unmanned Aircraft-Mounted Infrared Imagery for the Detection of Unmarked Graves

2020-R2-CX-0043

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$150,000

A Virtual Anthropological Approach to the Study of Commingled Human Remains

2020-R2-CX-0025

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$138,704

Skeletal Blast Trauma: determining the effect of known and experimental blast events on trauma patterns, fracture behavior, and blast scene recovery approaches

2020-R2-CX-0041

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$150,000