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The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science

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

R. Christopher O'Brien, Ph.D., Subcommittee Vice Chair, University of New Haven

Ashley Spicer, Subcommittee Executive Secretary, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Members

Barry Baker, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory

Tasha Bauman, Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic and Fish Health Laboratory (Quality Task Group member)

Jason Byrd, University of Florida/Maples Center for Forensic Medicine

Nicole Chinnicci, East Stroudsburg University

Hope Draheim, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory

Holly Ernest, Ph.D., University of Wyoming

David Foran, Ph.D., Michigan State University

Jenny Giles, Ph.D., Fin Forensics, LLC

Robert Grahn, University of California Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory Forensic Unit

Rachel Jacobs, Ph.D., National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory

Kelly Meiklejohn, Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Erin Meredith, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Jeff Rodzen, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Andrea Roth, UC Berkeley School of Law (Legal Task Group member)

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

Tabitha Viner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Standards

Published by a Standards Developing Organization (SDO)

ANSI/ASB Standard 019, Wildlife Forensics General Standards, First Edition, 2019.
- Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added March 2, 2021).
ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, First Edition, 2019.
- Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added june 3, 2020).
ANSI/ASB Standard 029, Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics, First Edition, 2019.
- Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added March 2, 2021).
ANSI/ASB Standard 046, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standards—STR Analysis, First Edition, 2019.
ANSI/ASB Standard 047, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing, First Edition, 2019.
- Published standard on the OSAC Registry (added june 3, 2020).
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

OSAC 2021-N-0001, Wildlife Forensics Method-Collection of Known Samples from Domestic Mammals.
- OSAC Proposed Standard on the Registry (added April 6, 2021 and sent to ASB for further development and publication).

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.

Created September 30, 2020, Updated July 6, 2021