Lab Security & Equipment

Two levels of swipe card access, ceiling-mounted cameras and locked Viking brand cabinets provide the levels of security for the temporary curation of human remains.


Students have faculty supervised access to the following equipment and evidence processing supplies:

student pushing a ground penetrating radar on the grass
A student uses a ground-penetrating radar.
  • GSSI Utility Scan Ground Penetrating Radar
  • Inspire One Drone
  • Mavic II Drone
  • Drone mounted and handheld FLIR
  • SparkFun RTK
  • CrimeScope alternate light sources
  • Metal Detectors
  • Transit
  • Theodolite
  • Nikon digital cameras and tripods
  • Professional camera and lighting system designed to support drop-out lighting with plexiglas illuminated with diffused light sources and camera counter-weighted mono stand tethered directly to a computer providing a real time view of the artifact as they compose the image beneath the camera lens
  • Comparative faunal bone collections
  • Bone Clones full size skeletons representing adults, children and infants, as well as numerous additional crania models
  • Robust teaching collection of human skeletal remains, many depicting trauma and pathology
  • Metric equipment used in the analysis of human remains (mandibulometer, craniometer, osteometric boards, sliding and spreading calipers)
  • Field search and excavation/exhumation equipment
  • Full complement of chemicals and supplies for evidence documentation and collection, latent print processing, gunshot residue detection, serial number restoration, blood enhancement and spatter analysis, footwear and tire track examinations, firearms /ammunition/ammunition component analysis, trajectory determination, vehicle lamp examinations, toolmark investigations, and more.