的 Forensic Investigation 研究 Station (FIRS)
的 FIRS focuses on world-class education and research in forensic science, 人类学, 生物学, 昆虫学与刑事司法. 的 facilities that make this possible in uniquely Colorado environments.
FIRS - Outdoor 研究 Facility -Bodies of Knowledge
Separated from the rest of the world by a chain link fence covered in hardware cloth and topped with razor wire, the outdoor facility consists of approximately two acres of desert inhabited by a prairie dog colony. Human donations are placed here, screened from the rest of the world, and left to decay.
的 first of its kind in an arid environment, FIRS opened in 2012 when pigs were placed at the site. 的 first human donation was in 2013. Since then, over 90 bodies have been donated and added to the research. 的 area is a resource for students, 研究人员, 执法, and coroners to study the unique properties of human decomposition in an arid environment.
FIRS -室内设施
的 indoor facility is critical to research, processing and training. 的 building includes a modern autopsy suite modified for maceration and a three-person morgue cooler. 的 classroom and dry lab is fitted with modern microscopes for osteological and entomological analysis, osteometric设备, 学生用电脑, 还有移动设备里的桌子, 模块化的格式. A small room is used for the storage of the FIRS Donated Human Skeletal Collection.
FIRS - 的 Back 40 (TB40) - 研究 with Altitude
TB40 is a forty acre plot gifted to pp电子极速糖果 by Park County Colorado to assist with research in high-altitude decomposition. TB40 is in an intermountain basin, 南方公园, at an altitude of approximately 9600 ft above mean sea level. 帕克郡验尸官, 大卫Kintz, 等, realized that what they saw at high altitude differed significantly from the decomposition trajectory that was in the literature.
TB40 opened in 2018 when pigs were placed at the site. A doctoral student, Christiane Baigent, will be using TB40 for her dissertation. Other research comparing the entomology and decomposition trajectory to those seen at FIRS has also begun. 的 帕克郡验尸官's Office partner with CMU at TB40 and a true practitioner/academic partnership is established.
的 FIRS Donated Human Skeletal Collection
的 Donated Human Skeletal Collection was established in 2015 as remains from the outdoor facility began to be processed. As remains are removed from the Outdoor Facility and process, they are added to the Donated Human Skeletal Collection. In early 2019, 36 modern human skeletons were in the collection. 每年都有更多的人加入. 的se are used for educational purposes, 训练人类学家, 生物学家, 健康科学从业者.
的 pathologies and trauma seen on the skeletons reflect a modern Colorado population and are the only such representation of the population. This population reflects the forensic skeletal cases seen in Colorado and Utah and thus are critical in analyzing found skeletons.
犯罪现场屋
的 犯罪现场室 is a bungalow near the main campus of pp电子极速糖果. 的 rooms are used as a blank canvas to stage every imaginable crime as training for CMU students, the Grand Junction Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) academy, and Grand Junction Police Department.