Global developments in forensic geology

Rosa Maria Di Maggio; Laurance J. Donnelly; Khudooma Saeed Al Naimi; Pier Matteo Barone; Fabio Augusto Da Silva Salvador; Lorna Dawson; Roger Dixon; Rob Fitzpatrick; Olga Gradusova; Ekaterina Nesterina; Marina Peleneva; Olga Ushacova; Carlos Martin Molina Gallego; Duncan Pirrie; Alastair Ruffell; Jennifer McKinley; Gullermo Sagripanti; Diego Villalba; Bill Schneck; Ritsuko Sugita; Grant Wach; Ricardo Silva; Shari Forbes

doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2017/v40i2/017014

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Episodes 2017; 40(2): 120-131

Published online June 1, 2017

https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2017/v40i2/017014

Global developments in forensic geology

Rosa Maria Di Maggio^1*, Laurance J. Donnelly², Khudooma Saeed Al Naimi³, Pier Matteo Barone⁴, Fabio Augusto Da Silva Salvador⁵, Lorna Dawson⁶, Roger Dixon⁷, Rob Fitzpatrick⁸, Olga Gradusova⁹, Ekaterina Nesterina⁹, Marina Peleneva⁹, Olga Ushacova¹⁰, Carlos Martin Molina Gallego¹¹, Duncan Pirrie¹², Alastair Ruffell¹³, Jennifer McKinley¹³, Gullermo Sagripanti¹⁴, Diego Villalba¹⁴, Bill Schneck¹⁵, Ritsuko Sugita¹⁶, Grant Wach¹⁷, Ricardo Silva¹⁷, Shari Forbes¹⁸

¹Geoscienze Forensi Italia, Roma, Italia (Formerly Servizio Polizia Scientifica, Italia); Officer for Europe, International Union of Geological Sciences, Initiative on Forensic Geology (IUGS-IFG); ^*Corresponding author, E-mail: rosamaria.dimaggio@gmail.com
²International Union of Geological Sciences, Initiative on Forensic Geology (IUGS-IFG); Arup, Manchester, UK
³Abu Dhabi Police, UAE
⁴American Univrsity of Rome, Italy
⁵Brazilian Federal Police, Braszilia, Brazil
⁶The James Hutton Institute, Scotland
⁷University or Pretoria, South Africa
⁸CSIRO & University of Adelaide, Australia
⁹Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science, Moscow, Russia
¹⁰Federal Budget Institution Southern Regional Centre, Russia
¹¹Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forense, Bogota, Colombia
¹²Helford Geoscience LLP, Cornwall, UK
¹³Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
¹⁴Departamento de Geologia, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
¹⁵Washington State Patrol Crime Lab, USA
¹⁶National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan
¹⁷Basin and Reservoir Lab, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
¹⁸University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Correspondence to:*E-mail: rosamaria.dimaggio@gmail.com

Received: November 11, 2016; Revised: March 4, 2017; Accepted: March 4, 2017

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Abstract

Forensic geology has developed in each country dependent on the history, political and social setting, anthropological influences and geology. The aim of this section is to provide a global overview of forensic geology, including the history, developments and future challenges in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Russia and Commonwealth Independent States (CIS), and USA.