Centre for Australian Forensic Soil Science (CAFSS)

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Successful research funding and other proposals

CAFSS have developed and supplied interactive exhibits - based on murder case investigations conducted by CAFSS - for visitors and the public to view how soil information can be used to interpret soil evidence to solve a crime. These have been supplied to several Australian and International institutions.
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CAFSS are partners in the following newly developed international projects:

• The international "Geo-Forensic Network project (GIMI)", coordinated by The Macaulay Institute, Scotland, funded by EPSRC, to undertake an evaluation of the needs and options for non-invasive methods for measurement and interpretation of physical information to detect the presence and shape of foreign bodies/objectives in soils.
• The Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), for the development and application of specialist equipment, which can potentially be used in forensic soil science for new functional molecular biology techniques.