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NamUs Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report

Date Published

January 2024

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

OsteoID: A New Forensic Tool to Help Identify the Species of Skeletal Remains

Date Published

November 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

Advances in Chemical Sorting of Commingled Remains

Event Dates

November 30, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Series

2023 NIJ Forensic Science R&D Webinar Series

Evaluation of Target Enrichment for SNP Genotyping of Skeletal Remains

15PNIJ-23-GG-04224-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$659,287

Developing and Validating Standards for Dental Cementum Age-at-Death and Season-of-Death Estimation

15PNIJ-23-GG-04229-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$467,325

Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation

15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$111,000

Design and operation of a portable scanner for high performance microchip capillary array electrophoresis

Date Published

2010

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Fuzzy Choquet integration of homogeneous possibility and probability distributions

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Intra- and Inter-Element Variability in Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA from Fresh and Environmentally Exposed Skeletal Remains

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Fluvial Transport of Human Remains Forensic Application of a HECRAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA

Date Published

December 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NSF co-funded project - Sex Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: Taking a Legally-lnformed Approach to Method Development

DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0007

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$100,000

Age Estimation from the Pubic Symphysis: Back to Basics

Event Dates

January 11, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

How Prevalent is Violence in Missing and Unidentified Persons Cases?

Global mtDNA Databasing Project

2005-DN-R-086-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2004

$180,000

Global mtDNA Databasing Project

2005-DN-R-086-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005

$350,000

Global mtDNA Databasing Project

2005-DN-R-086-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005

$2,572,553

Global mtDNA Databasing Project

2005-DN-R-086-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005

$1,891,390

Improving identification of unknown American Indians and Hispanic/Latinx Americans

15PNIJ-21-GG-04139-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$532,833

Pre-grouping of commingled human skeletal remains by elemental analysis

15PNIJ-21-GG-04151-SLFO

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2021

$240,594

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

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

A Multi-Methodological Approach to Estimating Ancestry and Sex in Asian Groups for Forensic Casework

2020-R2-CX-0020

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$100,000

Serial Killer Connections Through Cold Cases

Notes from the Field: Solving Missing Persons Cases in Indian Country

Expert Panel Issues New Best Practices Guide for Cold Case Investigations