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Status Date:   June 2004

Internal:

Spectrochemical Analysis of Children's Fingerprints
A post-doctoral fellow was working with me on the project. Recently she was hired full time.

Development of a Hyperspectral Imaging Instrument for Latent Fingerprints and Associated Trace Evidence
A post-doctoral fellow was working with me on the project.   Recently she was hired full time and another post-doc will come on-board.

Automotive Carpet Fiber Database Update
Coordinate Trace Evidence Examiners from State and Local Forensic Laboratories to use FBI Academy facilities to acquire data and enter into the database.

Evaluation of Field-Portable Raman and IR Instruments
Ph.D. intern has been working on a portion of this project.

The Application of Infrared and Raman Analysis for Explosives Residue
A post-doctoral fellow is working with me on the project.

External: (Contracted with close collaboration on the scientific projects)

Environmental Effects on Textile Fibers.

Relative Discriminating Power of Visible, UV/Visible, and UV/Fluorescence Microspectrophotometry of Dyed Textile Fibers.

Analysis of Fiber Dyes by Raman Spectroscopy .

Container Systems for Hazardous Evidence.

Light Weight Mission Competent Cylindrical Shaped Package, Phase I: Computer Design and Testing.

Light Weight Mission Competent Box Shaped Package, Phase I: Computer Design and Testing.