Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the Advances in Forensic Anthropology Technology Transition Workshop, the participant will have acquired the knowledge to:

• Summarize the forensic anthropological perspective on human variation
• Discuss the determination of biological sex
• Explain the fundamentals of traditional craniometrics and geometric morphometrics
• Identify and measure craniofacial landmarks and use 3D-ID
• Summarize the difference between parametric and non-parametric modeling methods
• Explain CT data collection and processing in the context of empirical modeling
• Discuss the development of the use of CT imaging and the empirical modeling approach in facial reproduction
• Apply segmentation methods for CT images and tissue and bone measurements to use the facial reproduction empirical modeling software tool
• Explain genetic variation in the context of forensics, emphasizing ancestry informative DNA markers
• Apply likelihood methods, the STRUCTURE software program, and other approaches to analyze SNP data sets to estimate ancestry
• Summarize various aspects of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and explain how and why the system works
• Explain the differences between NamUs user types and describe what data each user category can access and/or enter
• Enter an indentified remains case into NamUs and search the Missing Persons database