Best Practices for Digital Image Processing

Thursday, August 5th, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour In the criminal justice community, digital images are used for scientific analysis and comparison. Unfortunately, many digital images are not always captured with the necessary clarity required…

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Image Quality and Clarity: The Keys to Forensic Digital Image Processing

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour The ability to accurately and reliably analyze and compare forensic digital images relies on two key elements: image quality and image clarity. Most forensic examiners understand that…

AFDAA 2021 Summer Meeting

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 | 9:00am – 5:00pm CT (10:00am – 6:00pm ET) Thursday, July 29th, 2021 | 9:00am – 5:00pm CT (10:00am – 6:00pm ET) The Association of Forensic DNA Analysts and Administrators (AFDAA), RTI International, and NIJ’s Forensic…

Multiple Perspectives on Overdose Fatality Reviews

This webinar originally occurred on July 27th, 2021 Duration: 1 hour This webinar provided an overview of overdose fatality reviews (OFRs) with a specific focus on engaging partnerships with coroners, medical examiners, and medicolegal death investigators. The presenters highlighted OFRs…

Novel Psychoactive Substance Naming Conventions & Challenges

This webinar originally occurred on July 22nd, 2021 Duration: 1 hour Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) present many challenges for the forensic scientist, including the various ways that they are named and how those names are used – both scientifically and…

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ASCLD Train the Director Series – Best Practices for Engaging Participants in Video Conferences

← Back to Series This webinar originally occurred on July 7th, 2021 Duration: 1 hour In this webinar, attendees learned a variety of strategies to keep participants engaged in an online meeting environment. First, attendees learned about the importance of…

Microhaplotypes: A Comprehensive Forensic DNA Marker

This webinar originally occurred on June 22nd, 2021 Duration: 1 hour In this presentation, the subject matter expert discussed the current status of the research conducted in the GW-FMB lab on a new multi-function DNA marker and its potential impact…

ASCLD Train the Director Series – Successful Onboarding in Crime Laboratories

← Back to Series This webinar originally occurred on June 16th, 2021 Duration: 1 hour Onboarding involves integrating a new employee into your organization. Also known as organizational socialization, onboarding is an important process that sometimes becomes an afterthought in…

A Comprehensive Look at LatentSleuth

This presentation originally occurred on Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 Duration: 1 hour LatentSleuth is a novel software toolset designed for (and with direct feedback from) latent print examiners. The toolset includes a small-scale automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) matcher that leverages a novel matching…

ASCLD Train the Director Series – Firearms 3D technology: Advantages and Value for Implementing 3D Technologies 

← Back to Series This webinar originally occurred on June 2nd, 2021 Duration: 1 hour This presentation demonstrated the effectiveness of integrating 3D technology into the forensic firearms/toolmarks discipline and the decision analysis used for selecting samples for virtual comparison. …