Dr Rob Fitzpatrick is head of the Centre for Australian Forensic Soil Science.
Soil science solving crimes
A five-minute audio in which soil forensic expert Dr Rob Fitzpatrick talks about forensic soil science and how it was used to solve a murder. (4:59)
- 24 July 2006 | Updated 25 November 2011
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The growing focus on security related issues and counter terrorism is one of the most significant challenges facing soil forensics in the future.
'There is a paradigm shift from not only providing soil forensic information for evidence but also for intelligence,' says Dr Rob Fitzpatrick a soil forensics expert and Director of the Centre for Australian Forensic Soil Science (CAFSS).
Dr Fitzpatrick speaks to Mr Dominic Buchanan about how the CAFSS helped in solving a three-year murder mystery in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia.
Find out about the Centre for Australian Forensic Soil Science (CAFSS).
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