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Trace Evidence Scientific Area Committee

The Trace Evidence Scientific Area Committee (SAC) provides strategic direction, serves as a platform to integrate similar standards activities across multiple forensic science disciplines, and manages the activities of the following subcommittees:

Members

Tatiana Trejos, SAC Chair, West Virginia University

Daniel Mabel, SAC Vice Chair, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory

Sandra Koch, Trace Materials Subcommittee Chair, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Thomas White, Ignitable Liquids, Explosives, & Gunshot Residue Subcommittee Chair, Texas DPS Crime Laboratory

Marissa Bluestine, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (legal representative)

Kent Cattani, Arizona Court of Appeals (legal representative)

Andrew Cohen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (human factors representative)

Jennifer Remy, North Carolina State Crime Laboratory (quality representative)

Michael Smith, Federal Bureau of Investigation (statistics representative)

Created August 28, 2020, Updated October 2, 2026
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