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| Dr. Gail Anderson
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President |
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Dr.
Anderson received her PhD (1992) and M.P.M. (1986) from Simon Fraser
University, B.C. in entomology, and her BSc (Hon.)(1983) from
Manchester University in England.
She is an Associate Professor in forensic entomology in the School of
Criminology at Simon Fraser University, Associate Director of the
School of Criminology, Co-Director of the Centre for Forensic Research,
a forensic consultant to the RCMP and City Police across Canada (and
other countries) and a regular instructor at Canadian Police College.
She is a Board Certified Forensic Entomologist. She has been
analyzing forensic entomology cases since 1988, and has testified as an
expert witness in court many times. She is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Forensic Sciences and a Fellow of The Canadian Society of
Forensic Sciences, the Past-President of the Entomological Society of
BC, President- of the Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences, as well as
a member of the International Association for Identification, the
Canadian Identification Society, Entomological Society of America and
Entomological Society of Canada. She was a recipient of Canada's Top 40
under 40 Award in 1999, received a YWCA Women of Distinction Award for
Science and Technology in 1999, and the Simon Fraser University Alumni
Association Outstanding Alumni Award for Academic Achievement in 1995.
She was listed in TIME magazine as one of the top 5 innovators in the
world, this century, in the field of Criminal Justice. Dr. Anderson was
presented with the Derome Award in 2001. This is the most prestigious
award the Canadian Society of Forensic Science bestows, for outstanding
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| Dr. Ken Schoenly —
President-Elect |
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Dr.
Schoenly is a Professor of Biological Sciences at California State
University, Stanislaus, and past Secretary of NAFEA. Ken has
taught at CSU-Stanislaus since 2000 where he teaches undergraduate
courses in entomology, ecology, zoology, and evolution, and a graduate
course in quantitative ecology. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology from the University of New Mexico in 1989 and
his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology and Zoology from the University of
Texas-El Paso. In 1989-1999, Ken was a postdoctoral associate at
Rockefeller University in New York and held teaching and research
positions at Louisiana Technical University and the International Rice
Research Institute in the Philippines. In those years, he also
worked with forensic entomologists Lee Goff, Jeff Wells and Wayne Lord
to quantify statistical uncertainty in succession-based PMI estimates
and modified his demographic bait trap to work with larger, human
corpses.
Dr. Schoenly has been active in teaching and research in forensic
entomology since 1989 and is a member of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences, the Entomological Society of America, the Ecological
Society of America, and the National Association of Biology
Teachers. In 1994, Ken and two colleagues (Drs. Neal Haskell and
Rob Hall) became the first forensic entomologists in the country to
receive federal funding from the National Institute of Justice to test
the reliability of pig carcasses as surrogates of human corpses in
research and training programs in forensic entomology. Dr.
Schoenly’s current research interests involve the use of ecostatistical
approaches to study spatiotemporal dynamics and successional
development in arthropod-rich ecological communities. He has
recently co-developed inquiry-based field exercises, aimed at high
schools and universities, which use pig carcasses as model corpses to
teach concepts of forensic entomology and ecological succession.
His demographic bait trap (published in 1981), which collects and
isolates immigrating and emigrating arthropods from carcasses and other
rotting baits, is in use by several European and Latin American
forensic entomologists to gather baseline successional data on their
carrion-arthropod faunas. To date, he has published numerous
peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on forensic
entomology, food-web ecology, tropical rice invertebrates, and
arthropod succession. Ken is interested in continuing his work to
identify and validate best laboratory and field practices in forensic
entomology, increasing NAFEA’s visibility to the general public,
bolster travel support for students to attend future NAFEA meetings,
and revisit the feasibility of a joint meeting between NAFEA and EAFE.
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| Ms. Adrienne Brundage
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Secretary |
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I am a second year PhD student in
the FLIES lab at Texas A&M University under Dr. Jeff Tomberlin. I
completed my BS in 1999 in Plant Protection Sciences at Cal Poly, San
Luis Obispo, with a double minor in music and theater. I completed my
Masters in 2007 in Entomology at San Jose State University, where I
studied forensic entomology.
I spent spring 2008 and 2009 as faculty at TAMU, teaching Forensic
Entomology (Ento 431 and 432), and I’m now embarking on my research:
insect-bacteria associations in forensically important species.
I have worked as the resident forensic entomologist at the Santa Clara
County Medical Examiner's Office and at the Santa Clara County
Sheriff's Office since 2000, and currently perform my duties there long
distance.
As for my free time (what there is of it…don’t worry Jeff, I’m in the
lab ALL THE TIME!) I’m a professional harpist, playing weddings and
shows, I play all video games involving killing zombies, and I write
for several blogs.
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| Dr. Linda-Lou
O'Connor—
Treasurer |
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Dr.
Linda O’Connor is a graduate of the University of Delaware in medical
entomology. Prior to receiving her education in the field of
entomology, she was employed by the State of Delaware, Department of
Probation/Parole. As an officer and supervisor her duties
included supervising violent career criminals, testifying in local and
state courts, locating and arresting violent felons under a joint
agency FBI task force, and firearms coach. While pursuing a
Masters Degree in entomology, she was contacted by local police
agencies to consult on several homicide investigations, through these
contacts a working relationship was formed with the State Medical
Examiner’s Office (MEO). Linda O’Connor has consulted as a
forensic entomologist for the MEO since 2001 and completed an
internship under their supervision. Currently, she is a full
member of the Vidocq Society, and has presented numerous lectures on
forensic entomology at professional meetings, universities, forensic
science communities, and local and state police departments.
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| Dr. M. Eric Benbow —
Editor (Newsletter and Website) |
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Dr. Eric Benbow is an Assistant
Professor
of Biology at the University of Dayton. His forensic entomology focus
is on understanding
the biological and ecological principles of carrion and human
decomposition as it relates to applications in forensic science. Eric
was a founding executive committee member for NAFEA, and has assisted
on several forensic entomological cases with Dr. Rich Merritt and Ryan
Kimbirauskas, both board certified forensic entomologists, and has been
a co-author on several publications related to forensic entomology.
Most recently, Dr. Eric has
collaborated with Dr. Rich Merritt (ABFE) on a recently won $2 million
Emerging Infectious Disease grant from a joint NSF-NIH program through
NIH Forgarty International Center. This project is in
collaboration with several faculty at Michigan State University, the
University of Tennessee, Noguchi Memorial Medical Institute (Ghana,
Africa), the Ghana Water Research Institute, and the World Health
Organization. Additional collaborations are being developed with
Dr. John Wallace at Millersville University. The research addresses the
role of human land use change on the ecology and distribution of a
bacterial skin disease that is rapidly emerging in tropical regions of
the world.
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Dr. Mark
Benecke — International Member Representative
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Dr.
Mark
Benecke works internationally as a forensic biologist. He will gladly
get international people in touch whenever they want. Just drop a
note.
Forensic Entomology:
http://wiki.benecke.com/index.php?title=Forensic_Entomology
Trainings: http://wiki.benecke.com/index.php?title=Trainings
Cases:
http://wiki.benecke.com/index.php?title=Cases
Phone & SMS text messages : +49 173 287 3136 (emergencies only)
FAX only: +49 221 660 2644
Home: http://benecke.com/
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Ms. Jennifer
Rosati — Associate Member Representative
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Ms.
Jennifer Rosati obtained her B.Sc. in Wildlife Biology at the
University of Guelph in 2001. She is currently working on her
Ph.D. in Forensic Entomology in the Department of Biology at the
University of Windsor under the supervision of Dr. Sherah
VanLaerhoven. Her research interests focus on elucidating the
mechanisms of assembly within the carrion insect community,
specifically looking at the interactions between various insect species
in order to further the understanding of why particular insects are
found within the community at particular points in time during the
decomposition process. Jennifer has been an active member in
various scientific, entomological and forensic organizations including
NAFEA, the European Association of Forensic Entomology, the Canadian
Identification Society, the Canadian Society of Forensic Science, the
Entomological Societies of Ontario, Canada, and America, the Ecological
Society of America, and the Canadian Society for Ecology and
Evolution. Over the years, Jennifer has been involved in
many outreach and mentoring programs within the community to promote
the value of science in education at both the primary and secondary
educational levels, and regularly runs the “CSI camp” at the University
of Windsor, which is a novel program geared to familiarize students
with various scientific techniques used in modern day crime scene
investigations.
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