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Meetings
Southern Association of Forensic Scientists Annual Fall Meeting
September 20-23, 2010
Hollywood Casino Hotel
Tunica, Mississippi
Schedule of Events
Northwest Association of Forensic Scientists Annual Meeting
September 27 - October 1, 2010
Portland Oregan
http://nwafs.org/meetings.htm or contact Celeste Grover for more information.
Inter/Micro 2010
July 12-16, 2010
Chicago, IL
McCrone Research Institute marks its 50th anniversary this year by hosting and conducting the Inter/Micro conference at its facilities located at 2820 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Inter/Micro attendees have special room rates and can make hotel reservations at the Club Quarters hotel, located at Adams and Clark streets in the central Loop. Transportation to and from McCrone Research Institute to the Club Quarters hotel will be arranged by Inter/Micro.
Inter/Micro is an internationally recognized conference that attracts microscopists from all areas of light and electron microscopy. Symposia topics during the first three days will cover techniques and instrumentation, environmental and industrial microscopy, and forensic and chemical microscopy. This year's two-day workshop will be Animal Hair Identification taught by leading forensic microscopist Skip Palenik. Special events will include the Evening with Brian presentation, SMSI Awards Dinner, social hour with exhibitors, and our annual photomicrography competition. View the preliminary schedule. Website: http://www.mcri.org
2010 Continuing Education for Forensic ProfessionalsAugust 2-7, 2010
Boston, MAThe 2010 Summer Program will be a week of training with 36 different courses. All courses are FREE and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The first 100 people who register (1 person per agency location) also receive free transportation. Lodging will be FREE to all approved attendees. The schedule allows attendees to participate in more than one course throughout the week.
The Continuing Education for Forensic Professionals program is offered by the West Virginia University (WVU) Forensic Science Initiative (FSI) in collaboration with the National Institute of Justice. The WVU FSI is an outreach and resource initiative that provides no-cost training to the public sector of the forensic science community. It is made possible with funding from the National Institute of Justice. Please click the link in the title for more information about this important training opportunity.
Website: http://fsi.research.wvu.edu/
Association of Forensic Quality Assurance Managers (AFQAM) Annual Meeting
September 7-10, 2010 New Orleans Riverside Hilton
New Orleans, LA
Contact: Zo M. Smith
E-mail: z6849s@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.afqam.org
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Annual Symposium
September 12-16, 2010
Baltimore, MD
Website: http://www.ascld.org/content/2010-symposium
Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists Fall Meeting
October 4-8, 2010
Please join the Midwestern Assocation at their fall meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. For information about the meeting location, scheduled workshops and meeting events, please visit http://www.mafs.net/index.php?id=meeting08
21st International Symposium on Human Identification
October 11-14, 2010
San Antonio, Texas
Plan to attend the 21st International Symposium on Human Identification, October 11-14, 2010, San Antonio, Texas. This year's meeting will feature a keynote address by Ann Rule, author of more than 30 true crime novels, a talk by Carsten Pusch about DNA testing of King Tutankhamun and the royal family and a panel discussion on issues related to familial searching.
Workshops will include
* Forensic Statistics
* Use of Low Copy Number Testing
* Familial Searching
* Working with Difficult Samples
* Mixture Interpretation (sponsored by NIJ)
Find out more and register online at: www.ishi21.com
TRAININGS
Basic Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Workshop presented by the Specialized Training Unit at the Metropolitan Police Institute of the Miami-Dade Police Department, Doral, Florida.
December 6-10, 2010
For information contact:
Toby L. Wolson, M.S., F-ABC
Miami-Dade Police Department
Crime Laboratory Bureau
9105 N.W. 25th St.
Doral, FL 33172
Voice: 305-471-3041
Fax: 305-471-2052
E-mail: Twolson@mdpd.com
McCrone Research Institue
Our courses, usually one-week in length, are designed to provide practicing scientists with training in critical applied microscopy. Some courses provide an overview and emphasize the proper use of the microscope and its accessories; others are more specific. Each course has lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory practice so that students learn each technique by hearing about it, watching it being done, and then doing it. Students learn powerful and effective methods for studying, characterizing, and identifying materials of all kinds, and for rapidly solving research, production, and quality control problems.
Students are welcome to bring with them questions and samples pertaining to their particular area of interest.
McCrone Course Calendar
College of Microscopy
Located in Westmont, Illinois, the College of Microscopy is an institution for special instruction and specialized education, whose goal is to advance the knowledge and understanding of light and electron microscopy for materials analysis. It is dedicated to quality hands-on teaching of micro-analytical principles, techniques and applications, using state-of the-art light and electron microscopes and accessories. One of the advantages of attending a course at the College of Microscopy is that our courses are taught primarily by experienced senior staff scientists from McCrone Associates, Inc.
who solve microanalytical problems on a daily basis. That's why it's true when we say, "Learn From Experience ... Learn From The Experts."
Visit the College of Microscopy Online Course Calender
Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services
The Training and Records Testimony Team (TRTT) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division provides training and expert witness testimony in the science of fingerprints, including all the proper preparation/ processing of friction ridge skin, and criminal history report data to agencies with authorized access to the CJIS systems. The TRTT offers a variety of classes which are conducted at the FBI/CJIS Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In addition, some of our courses are available via Video Teleconferencing (VTC). Agencies are encouraged to send their employees to the FBI/CJIS Division to obtain fingerprint and criminal history training from the TRTT. The internal classes are scheduled on a quarterly basis and advertised on the FBI's Internet site at http://www.fbi.gov.
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