FORENSIC TECHNOLOGYFORENSIC TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 2010contentsThe use of 3dMD surface imaging technology in forensic face identity research at I2SISBy A Midori Albert, PhD and Karl Ricanek Jr, PhDInternational Conference on Soil ForensicsConference review by Dr Lorna Dawson, Macaulay InstituteA Novel MALDI-MSI analytical tool to process fingermarks recovered at a sexual assault crimeBy Dr Simona Francese and Dr Rosalind WolstenholmePublish or perishBy David "Ski" Witzke Vice President, Program Management Foray TechnologiesScene Capture SolutionTBy Paul Couture, President, Crime Sciences IncPreliminary evaluation of Bludgeon Head aka Spatter HeadBy Todd A Thorne and Stuart H JamesCaribbean crime-labBy Michael Riggs Moulden, Crimescene AssociatesEppendorf Consumables: solutions for forensicsBy Daniel Wehrhahn, Eppendorf AG, Hamburg, GermanyNew forensic productsDigital crime scene reconstruction: digital forensic technologies - as important as challengingBenno Sauter, MD

FORENSIC TECHNOLOGYFORENSIC TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 2011The Use of 3dMD Surface Imaging Technology in Forensic Face Identity Research at I2SIS3dMD's imaging systems are the most widely used ultra-fast, high-precision 3D surface imaging devices in leading teaching institutions, hospitals and private practices worldwide, with an outstanding reputation for accuracy, speed, and dependability.By A Midori Albert, PhD1 and Karl Ricanek Jr, PhD2Formed in 2010 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Identity Sciences (I2SIS) comprises a team of computer science, mathematics, and statistics professors, a forensic anthropology professor, a computer science post-doc and associates, graduate and undergraduate college students of the above mentioned disciplines, high school interns, as well as a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery consultant. Formerly known as the Face Aging Group, this team has been researching and developing computer automated face recognition technologies as well as studying myriad aspects of adult human face aging for purposes of improving face identification, particularly in the forensic context. Supported by continual grants since 2003, our work has evolved to integrate the use of 3dMD surface imaging technology in our forensic face identity research.3dMD descriptionThe 3dMD is a system of networked digital cameras linked to a computer with software that enables a quick-as-a-flash, multi-camera simultaneous snapshot of a human face. An individual whose face and head data we wish to collect sits on a stool centered in a