Friday 22 May 2015

Aquatic Forensics Group

We at the Burial Research Consortium are proud to welcome a new group of academics and forensic practitioners into the fold. The Aquatic Forensics Group are interested in all forms of forensic evidence found in water, such as diatoms and micro-organisms that can help the estimation of post-mortem submersion interval of drowned victims, the provenance of bodies of water and the diagnosis of drowning. We welcome them all, and encourage you to check out their 'sister' website.

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Only a matter of time?

A new article has just been published in Police Oracle regarding the burgeoning campaign amongst UK academics to instigate a human taphonomy facility in the UK. The BRC's Dr Anna Williams was interviewed about her belief that one is needed in the UK.
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Thursday 8 January 2015

Geological Society meeting

Members of the Burial Research Consortium attended the recent conference on Near Surface Geophysics and Forensic Geoscience, a Specialist sub-group meeting of the Geological Society of London on the 2nd and 3rd December 2014.

The following work was presented:

Geophysical monitoring of simulated clandestine graves using electrical and group penetrating radar methods: 4-6 years.
Pringle, J. Jervis, J. Roberts, D. Dick, H. Cassidy, N. and Cassella, J.

Geophysical detection and analysis of mass burial and clandestine graves within the Cementerio del Salvador, Oviedo, Spain.
Roberts, D. Fernandez Alvarez, J. and Pringle, J.

Quantifying geophysical response of graves against burial age: electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and GPR methods.
Van Der Putten, R. Locher, P. Evans, G. Kerr, M. Beard, D. Wisniewski, K. Pringle, J. and Goodwin, J.