Forensic Geoscience and Death Investigations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forensic Geoscience at crime scenes is of paramount importance with particular regard to death investigations. This Special Issue will deal with some of the ways in which the body and environment can provide evidence of the death circumstances with the help of different forensic fields such as archaeology, geology, geophysics, remote sensing, GIS, botany, entomology, osteology, anthropology, and statistics.
The Special Issue welcomes papers on (but is not limited to) principles of forensic search, crime scene investigations, missing persons, forensic geosciences, forensic biology, disaster victim identification, and fire investigation, as well as discovering how the stage of decomposition, the environment around the body or even what the person had last eaten may help determine when and how they died.
Dr. Rosa Maria Di Maggio
Dr. Alastair Ruffell
Dr. Pier Matteo Barone
Dr. Laurance Donnelly
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- forensic search
- crime scene investigation
- missing persons
- forensic geoscience
- forensic geology
- forensic archaeology
- forensic geophysics
- remote sensing
- GIS
- forensic anthropology and osteology
- forensic biology
- forensic botany
- forensic entomology
- forensic statistics
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Published Papers
Forensic Sci. - ISSN 2673-6756