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Forensic Identification Using Individual Chemical Signatures

Date Published

July 10, 2017

By touching a cell phone, car keys, or even a pen, you are leaving behind a chemical signature that can reveal much about how you live your daily life.

The Evidence for Very Small Particles

Date Published

June 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Evidential Value of Particle Combination Profiles on Common Items of Evidence

Date Published

May 2017

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Evidence for Very Small Particles

Date Published

June 4, 2017

Improving a Database to Help Identify a Vehicle by Using Paint Fragments

Applications of Blue Light-curing Acrylic Resin to Forensic Sample Preparation and Microtomy

Date Published

March 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Development of an Analytical System for the Forensic Comparison and Identification of Fiber Dyes on Casework-Sized Fibers

Date Published

February 2016

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soils

Date Published

March 2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Differential Sampling of Footwear To Separate Relevant Evidentiary Particles From Background Noise

Date Published

February 2017

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

What Every First Responding Officer Should Know About DNA Evidence

Date Published

January 2000

Publication Type

Training (Aid/Material)

Agencies

NIJ

Trace Metal Analysis by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry and X-Ray K-Edge Densitometry of Forensic Samples

Date Published

December 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Lifestyle Chemistries from Phones for Individual Profiling

Date Published

October 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Isotope Analyses of Hair as a Trace Evidence Tool to Reconstruct Human Movements: Establishing the Effects of the "Human Ecosystem" On Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Ratios

Date Published

April 2016

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Encapsulated phase change nanoparticles as thermally-readable covert taggants

2012-DN-BX-K821

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$305,965

Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification

2016-DN-BX-0196

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$637,735

The Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Microspectrophotometry (MSP) of Dyed Fibers

2016-DN-BX-0145

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$289,126

A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics

2015-DN-BX-K430

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$564,735

Investigation of a time-effective approach to the discrimination and interpretation of inkjet printer inks using micro Raman spectroscopy

2016-DN-BX-0164

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$246,838

Differential Quantitative Analysis of Particles from the Contact Surfaces and Recessed Areas of Footwear

2016-DN-BX-0146

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$380,323

Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time at Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry

2016-NE-BX-0001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$324,082

Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS

2016-DN-BX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$50,000

Use of Likelihood Ratios for Evidence Quantification in Forensic Applications - Recorded Seminar at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Instructional Material (Programmed)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Conviction of Family Annihilator Christopher Vaughn - Recorded Seminar at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Instructional Material (Programmed), Case Study

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Examination of Fibers, Hairs and Personal Lubricants - Recorded Seminar at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Report (Grant Sponsored), Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Future of Forensics Plenary Session - Plenary Panel at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Instructional Material (Programmed)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored