Trace evidence
Improving a Database to Help Identify a Vehicle by Using Paint Fragments
Date Published
May 15, 2017
Identifying a car, truck, or other vehicle that has been involved in a hit-and-run accident often depends on examining paint fragments left at the scene by the vehicle.
Development of an Analytical System for the Forensic Comparison and Identification of Fiber Dyes on Casework-Sized Fibers
Date Published
February 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description,
Grants and Funding
Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soils
Date Published
March 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description,
Grants and Funding
Differential Sampling of Footwear To Separate Relevant Evidentiary Particles From Background Noise
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
What Every First Responding Officer Should Know About DNA Evidence
Date Published
January 2000
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Training (Aid/Material)
Trace Metal Analysis by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry and X-Ray K-Edge Densitometry of Forensic Samples
Date Published
December 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant 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
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Encapsulated phase change nanoparticles as thermally-readable covert taggants
2012-DN-BX-K821
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$305,965
The Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Microspectrophotometry (MSP) of Dyed Fibers
2016-DN-BX-0145
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$289,126
Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification
2016-DN-BX-0196
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$637,735
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
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
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 of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS
2016-DN-BX-0004
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$50,000
Conviction of Family Annihilator Christopher Vaughn - Recorded Seminar at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium
Date Published
August 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Instructional Material (Programmed),
Case Study
Future of Forensics Plenary Session - Plenary Panel at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium
Date Published
August 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Instructional Material (Programmed)
More Straightforward Derivation of the LR for a Database Search
Date Published
January 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The State of Forensic Science: A Q&A With NIJ's Director of Investigative and Forensic Sciences
Date Published
June 13, 2016
Development of Advanced Raman Spectroscopy Methods and Databases for the Evaluation of Trace Evidence and the Examination of Questioned Documents-Phase II
Date Published
May 2013
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Significance of Elemental Analysis from Trace Evidence
Date Published
October 2012
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Fighting Crime With Science
Journal
NIJ Journal
Date Published
November 2015
Agencies
NIJ
Forensic Identification Using Individual Chemical Signatures
2015-DN-BX-K047
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$1,518,268