A Forensic Fiber Examiner Training Program

Consistent with a laboratory experiment book. This document offers exercises at each stage of the learning process to include time allotted for the exercise, materials to have on hand and objectives.

Process to Create

  • To provide a standardized training document that incorporate methods previously tested, list of materials, and purpose of the training exercise.
  • Drafts offered to community for comment
  • Comments reviewed by the fiber subgroup and  incorporated or denied. All changes presented to the full SWG for their review.
  • Final draft voted on by full SWG.
  • Enforcement - Voluntary

Forensic Fiber Examination Guidelines 

  • Consists of optional requirements
  • Primary audience is analysis and forensic science management

Process to Create

  • Needed a non-stop document that addressed the various steps in the examination process.
  • Drafts offered for community comment.
  • Comments reviewed by the fiber subgroup and incorporated or denied. All changed presented to the full SWG for their review.
  • Final Draft voted on - if approved, submitted to ASTM for incorporation.
  • Enforcement - Voluntary

 

1. Johanne Almer
Centre of Forensic Sciences, Chemistry Section
2. Sue Ballou
NIST/OLES
3.Eileen A. Davis
ORAU/TEDAC
4. Lynne D. Herold
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Scientific Services Bureau/Trace Section
5. Sandra Koch
Chair, FBI Laboratory, Trace Evidence Unit
6. Cheryl Lozen
Michigan State Police
7. Kevin McMahon
New Hampshire Department of Public Safety, State Police Forensic Laboratory
8. Kornelia Nehse
 Der Polizeiprasident in Berlin, Textilkunde und Mikromorphologie
 9. Ken Olson
Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory - Madison
 10. Doug Orr
National Centre for Forensic Services, Alberta
11. Sandy Parent
 Texas Department of Public Safety, Crime Laboratory - Austin
 12. Jennifer Remy
North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
 13. Claude Roux
 University of Technology, Sydney
14. William M. Schneck
 Washington State Patrol Crime Lab
15. Glenn D. Schubert
 Illinois State Police, Southern Illinois Forensic Science Centre
16. Scott F. Stoeffler
McCrone Associates, Inc.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

17. Marty Fink
San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, Regional Crime Laboratory
18. Mark Kurowski
Acadiana Criminalistics Lab
19. Samuel J. (Skip) Palenik
Microtrace