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SUMMARY:Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations - Profes
 sor Lorna Dawson\, CBE\, BSC\, PhD\, FRSE\, FRSA\, F.I.Soil.Sci.\, ChSci H
 ead of Forensic Soil Science\, The James Hutton Institute\, Aberdeen\, Uni
 ted Kingdom. AB15 8QH\, Aberdeen\, Scotland\, UK\; http://www.hutton.ac.uk
 /
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CONTACT:Krishna Amin
DESCRIPTION:Natural Justice and a Sense of Place: Some Examples of Soil as
  Intelligence and Evidence \n\nForensic soil science is an increasingly im
 portant discipline\, involving soils\, minerals\, dusts\, plants and rock 
 fragments to determine provenance i.e. to provide a chronology of their ow
 nership\, custody or location. Soil materials have been used as forensic t
 race evidence for many years\, even in Roman times\, and are often highly 
 distinctive from one region to another. In an attempt to inform the public
 \, Prof Dawson has been working with TV and through print media to show th
 e correct methodology\, where methods can be used as well as understanding
  and explaining the potential limitations of methods. Authors often like t
 o create a sense of place\, with soil and vegetation providing clues of wh
 ere in the landscape a crime may have been committed. The talk will cover 
 both examples from real case work and from fiction where evidence from the
  earth has been of importance in helping to solve the crime and to bring a
 bout natural justice. \n\nProfessor Lorna Dawson\, CBE\, BSC\, PhD\, FRSE\
 , FRSA\, F.I.Soil.Sci.\, ChSci\nHead of Forensic Soil Science\, The James 
 Hutton Institute\, Aberdeen\, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH\, Aberdeen\, Scotla
 nd\, UK\; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/\n
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Road
 \, Cambridge
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