Well this last weekend I had a forensics class that was focused on geoforensics and the use of technology for use in locating clandestine grave sites. We spent a large portion of the class using GPS units and learning the ArcGIS software (wich we all got a one year copy of SCORE).
Anyway when we introduced ourselves we had to say an interesting thing about ourselves. Do to the nature of the course I mentioned I was a detection dog handler. This actually caused a request for me to discuss detection dog work with the class. Later a former mayor of one of the small towns near here pulled me aside to ask about a project she is working on. Apparently there is an old grave site where they buried children back in the early 1900s. In the mid 1950s a rancher tore down the fence and let his cattle graze on the land. Most of the grave markers are gone now and no one really knows the boundry of the cemetary either. She wants to try and use the detection dogs to see if we can determine a perimiter at the very least if not identify locations of the graves so they can put up new markers and a fence line.
Im discussing it with the others in my group to see if we can figure out how to train the dogs for the job. We have narc dogs, bomb dogs, scats dogs heck we even had a whale dog but no really old body dogs. Anyway it could be an interesting opprotunity.
