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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 | Discipline-Specific Baseline Documents | Research & Development Needs | Presentations
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 Representative)
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 Represenatative)
Christopher Saunders, South Dakota State University (Statistics Representative)
Nadja Schreiber Compo, Florida International University (Human Factors Representative)
Michael Stockdale, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Tabitha Viner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Standards
Tier 1: On the OSAC Registry
- ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, First Edition, 2019 (effective June 3, 2020).
- ANSI/ASB Standard 047, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing, First Edition, 2019 (effective June 3, 2020).
Tier 2: Published by a Standards Developing Organization (SDO)
- ANSI/ASB Standard 019, Wildlife Forensics General Standards, First Edition, 2019.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, First Edition, 2019.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 029, Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics, First Edition, 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
Tier 3: Sent to an SDO
- None currently.
Tier 4: Under Development
- Wildlife Forensics Method - Collection of Known Samples from Live Animals (Domestic).
- 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.
- Validation of Wildlife Sequences in Public Databases.
- Wildlife Forensics Reference Collection Standards.
- Best Practices for Building New STR Panels in Wildlife Forensics.
- Criteria for Analyzing STR Data in Forensic Wildlife Cases When No Allelic Ladder is Available.
Discipline-Specific Baseline Documents
- None currently.
Research & Development Needs
- See the research and development needs identified by the Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee.
Presentations
- None currently.