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Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee
The Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee focuses on standards and guidelines related to taxonomic identification, individualization, and geographic origin of non-human biological evidence based on morphological and genetic analyses.
Officers | Members | Standards | Other Work Products
Officers
Kimberly Frazier, Subcommittee Chair, Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic Laboratory
Christina Lindquist, Subcommittee Vice Chair, UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory Forensic Unit
Ashley Spicer, Subcommittee Executive Secretary, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Members
Barry Baker, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
Mary Burnham Curtis, USFWS National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory
Jason Byrd, University of Florida/Maples Center for Forensic Medicine
Kelly Carrothers, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Law Enforcement Division
Nicole Chinnicci, East Stroudsburg University
Hope Draheim, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
Holly Ernest, Ph.D., University of Wyoming
Robert Grahn, University of California
Rachel Jacobs, Ph.D., National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
Rebecca Johnson, Smithsonian Institute
Kelly Meiklejohn, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Erin Meredith, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Jeff Rodzen, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Christopher Saunders, South Dakota State University (Statistics Task Group member)
Nadja Schreiber Compo, Florida International University (Human Factors Task Group member)
Michael Stockdale, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Dyan Straughan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tabitha Viner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Standards
Published by a Standards Developing Organization (SDO)
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ANSI/ASB Standard 019, Wildlife Forensics General Standards, First Edition, 2019.
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Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added March 2, 2021).
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ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, First Edition, 2019.
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Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added june 3, 2020).
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ANSI/ASB Standard 029, Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics, First Edition, 2019.
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Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added March 2, 2021).
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- ANSI/ASB Standard 046, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standards—STR Analysis, First Edition, 2019.
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Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added june 3, 2020).
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- ANSI/ASB Standard 048, Wildlife Forensic DNA Standard Procedures, First Edition, 2019.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 106, Wildlife Forensics - Protein Serology Method for Taxonomic Identification, First Edition, 2020.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 111, Standard for Training in Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Analysis for Taxonomic Identification, First Edition, 2020.
Sent to an SDO
Under Development
- OSAC 2021-S-0006, Standard for the Use of GenBank for Taxonomic Assignment of Wildlife (draft OSAC Proposed Standard).
- OSAC 2021-S-0014, Standard for Reference Collections in Wildlife Forensic Biology: Genetics and Vertebrate Morphology (draft OSAC Proposed Standard).
- Standard for the Development and Use of Allele Frequency and Population Genetics Databases.
- Standard for the Development and Use of In-House Sequence Databases for Taxonomic Assignment of Wildlife.
- Method for Geographic Assignment of Individual Animals.
- Best Practices for Building STR Panels in Wildlife Forensics.
- Genetic Methods to Determine an Individual of Potential Hybrid Origin.
- Criteria for Analyzing STR Data in Forensic Wildlife Cases When No Allelic Ladder is Available.
- Veterinary Forensic Live Animal Examination Standards.
- Veterinary Forensic Postmortem Examination Standards.
Other Work Products
Research & Development Needs
- See the research and development needs identified by the Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee.