AbstractPig Scene Investigations—Using Geoforensics to Teach GIS Track: Teaching with GIS in Higher Education Author(s): Henrietta Laustsen, Katherine Mickelson University of Colorado students have been working with NecroSearch International, a forensics investigation team. NecroSearch maintains a field study site south of Denver, where over the past twenty years they have buried pigs to serve as analogs for human burial. The changes induced in the environment due to the presence of a burial are studied to help NecroSearch in finding clandestine human graves. Students have used ArcPad, ArcGIS, and GPS to create detailed maps of the site. In addition to GIS and mobile mapping techniques, students have had the opportunity to use ground-penetrating radar, soil conductivity meters, soil compaction, and magnetometer measurements to study anomalies due to burials. The students have incorporated this data into their GIS projects. In the future, expansion of the project will incorporate GIS and GPS field techniques in ongoing investigations. These have the potential of removing biases resulting from flagging techniques currently used. Henrietta Laustsen University of Colorado Geological Sciences 11895 Oxford Rd Longmont, CO 80309 US Phone: 303-492-7025 E-mail: laustsen@colorado.edu Katherine Mickelson University of Colorado Geological Sciences UCB 399 Boulder, CO 80309 US Phone: 303-492-7025 E-mail: katherine.a.mickelson@colorado.edu |