Forensic Research & Technology

Biography

Robert D. Blackledge received a BS (Chem.) from The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, in 1960 and MS (chem.) from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, in 1962. Starting with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Tallahassee Crime Lab in 1971, he worked in forensic science for over thirty years. Breaks included eleven years with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory-Europe, and with “Aby’s” NCIS Lab from 1989 to 2006. The author or co-author of over fifty journal articles and book chapters, he is the editor of, “Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge: New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis”, Wiley-Interscience, 2007.

Abstract

Abstract : National & University laboratories: An ignored Forensic science resource