TWO DAY
COLOR SEMINAR WORKSHOP (W-1)
Kevin Loughrey, Color Education Manager
GretagMacbeth
New Windsor, New York
-DAY 1-
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF COLOR AND
APPEARANCE
This
is a “basic” day-long workshop beginning with the introduction to
color and appearance. Topics to be presented include visual color evaluation,
quantifying color, color standards, introduction to instrumentation,
introduction to color numbers and color tolerances.
-DAY 2-
THE PRACTICAL USE AND MANAGEMENT OF COLOR DATA
This is an
“advanced” continuation of the Fundamentals of Color and Appearance
Workshop. Topics to be covered include color differences and tolerances,
instrument performance, instrument practices, sample preparation and
measurement, color communications, and establishing a method for color control.
(note: prior attendance to the -Day
1- basic workshop is strongly encouraged) .
HOW
TO SET UP A COMPUTER FORENSICS PROGRAM (W-2)
Carrie Whitcomb, Director
National Center for Forensic Sciences
Orlando, FL
This is a day-long workshop beginning with an
introduction to Cybercrime and how the forensic science perspective relates to
the new world of Digital Evidence. The establishment of a computer forensics
program is examined from both a management and an examiner’s perspective.
This includes discussions on equipment, personnel, training, policies and
procedures, and costs. Some current
resources available are discussed and the future of digital evidence is
examined, including areas such as digital audio and video.
BLOODBORNE
PATHOGENS
(W-3)
Hank
Frentz
Environmental
Health, Safety, and Quality Management Services
Monrovia,
Maryland 21770
This
half-day workshop addresses the training requirements of the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Exposure Control Standard (29 CFR
1910.1030), which was developed to protect employees from dangerous diseases
while the employee is on the job.
CHEMICAL
HYGIENE (W-4)
Hank
Frentz
Environmental
Health, Safety and Quality Management Services
Monrovia,
Maryland 21770
This
half-day workshop discusses the risks, issues, and precautions related to
hazardous materials in the laboratory. This
section is designed to comply with OSHA’s Chemical Hygiene Standard (29 CFR
1910.1450).
DNA
Works
hop (W-5)
David Coffman, George Li, Dr. Mark Perlin, Ed LaRue
Topics
to be discussed during this one day workshop will include the Florida experience
with CODIS, STR mixture analysis and CODIS, Automated STR Analysis and the use
of Peak Heights for Forensic Mixture Calculations.
Paper
Knowledge Workshop (W-6)
Dr.
Bruce Blom
Manager,
Paper and Graphics Education
Mead
Paper Manufacturing
Chillicothe,
OH
This
day-long workshop will cover all aspects of the paper manufacturing process. The
morning session will discuss raw materials and the manufacturing of paper in
relation to their influence on final paper characteristics. The afternoon
session will discuss coated paper, paper characteristics in relation to
printing, graphic arts, and related manufacturing operations, as well as the
effects of paper characteristics on the final printed product. This workshop is
essential for the document examiner who must observe and evaluate the
characteristics of paper and their significance in the day-to-day work. All
participants in this workshop will receive paper samples and a 200+ page Paper
Knowledge textbook.
PETROLEUM REFINERY PROCESSES (W-7)
Julia Dolan
BATF – National Laboratory Center
Rockville, Maryland
This is a day-long workshop with an in-depth look at the
petroleum refinery process, the various type of chemical products manufactured,
and how they may be encountered in the forensic analysis of ignitable liquids.
Included in this workshop is a guided tour of a local refinery.
The
processing of crude oil is largely dependent on its source, as compositions can
vary greatly depending on the source of the petroleum.
A discussion of crude oil properties and the composition of petroleum
will serve as an introduction to the section on refinery processing.
Refining terminology will also be introduced, due to the fact that
terminology used in the petroleum industry does not always directly correlate to
that used in forensic chemistry.
Emphasis will be on the various aspects of refinery processing including
distillation, cracking, hydroprocessing, reforming, isomerization, alkylation
and polymerization.
Blending is an important part of the refinery process and will be
discussed in relation to product specifications.
Various streams are blended in order to meet specifications, depending on
the type of finished product.
Definitions of various properties such as Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) and
octane number will be provided.
A brief discussion on petrochemical feedstocks will focus on production
of specialty solvents.
Discussion of values of importance to specialty chemicals, such as the
Kauri-Butanol value will be incorporated.
Forensic
analysts will need to be able to apply this knowledge of various petroleum
products to casework.
Historically, ignitable liquids used as accelerants in incendiary fires
fell into a relatively few basic categories.
However, both refinery processes and forensic capabilities have changed,
and consequently, more and more of the ignitable liquids encountered in the
forensic science laboratory fall outside of the “traditional” categories.
This portion of the workshop will introduce the most recent version of
the ASTM ignitable liquid classification scheme.
This expanded version of the classification scheme defines classes based
on both boiling point range and chemical composition.
Discussion of chemical composition, boiling point ranges and typical
product uses will be supplemented by tips for interpretation of GC-MS data for
the various categories of ignitable liquids.
CLANDESTINE
LABORATORY WORKSHOP (W-8)
Tim
McKibben and Pam Smith
DEA
– Special Testing and Research Lab
Chantilly,
VA
This
day-long workshop will present data on the clandestine laboratory situation in
the US. This will include an
overview of the labs encountered and the synthesis routes used.
Specific drug analogs will be emphasized.
The common synthesis routes, yields, and analytical information (to
include spectral information) will be presented.
Some of the drugs which will be covered are tryptamine analogs, MDMA and
selected analogs, 2-CT7, PMA, and GHB and some selected analogs.
THE USE
OF STATISTICS IN FORENSICS (W-9)
Dale
Nute, Professor
Florida
State University
Tallahassee,
Florida
This workshop is an entertaining approach to statistics
from a conceptual perspective. It
answers what types of stats there are, and where and when to use them.
Guaranteed to be light on the math and heavy on how statistics fits in
forensic science.
PAINT DATA QUERY (PDQ) (W-10)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police/FBI Chemistry Unit
This two-day workshop will focus on the use and explanation of the PDQ paint
database. Developed through a collaborative effort of the RCMP, FBI, NIJ, and
SWGMAT, the database currently contains over 10,000 automotive paint systems in
a user-friendly, searchable format. Based on the layer structure and complete
chemistry of each layer in an automotive paint system, an analyst can search the
database and come up with the potential sources for their automotive paint.
Information such as manufacturer(s), maker(s), assembly plant, and year(s) can
be obtained. PDQ has proven to be an essential tool for forensic paint analysis.
Commitment by the laboratory system participants to enroll and support the PDQ
program will be implied upon registration for the workshop.
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