Award Results for 2004

Henry Delaforce Award

Karl Kent and Bruce Nelson, Australian Federal Police for their paper 'Drug Operations'.

Best Literature Review

Simon Walsh, University of Technology, Sydney for his paper 'Recent Advances in Forensic Genetics'.

Best Chapter in a Book

The judges were unable to differentiate between two very good papers and decided for the first time to make two Best Chapter in a Book awards:

• Roger Byard, Forensic Science SA for his paper 'Sudden Death in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence - Chapters 2 & 6';   and

• Henry Roberts, Victoria Police Forensic Services Centre for his paper 'Statistical Evaluation in Forensic DNA Typing'.

Best Paper in a Refereed Journal

The judges were unable to differentiate between two very good papers and decided for the first time to make two Best Chapter in a Book awards:

• The papers of Hayley Brown and Stewart Walker, Flinders University of South Australia, Paul Kirkbride and Paul Pigou, Forensic Science SA were considered as a joint paper - 'New Developments in SPME Part 1:  The Use of Vapor-Phase Deprotonation and On-Fiber Derivatization with Alkylchloroformates in the Analysis of Preparations containing Amphetamines' and 'New Developments in SPME Part 2:  Analysis of Ammonium Nitrate-based Explosives';   and
  

• Christie Wallace, Claude Roux, University of Technology, Sydney and Chris Lennard, Australian Federal Police for their paper 'Forensic Applications of Chemical Imaging:  Latent Fingerprint Detection Using Visible Absorption and Luminescence'.

Best Technical Article

Sonia Casamento, Claude Roux, Michael Dawson, Philip Doble, University of Technology Sydney and Ben Kwok, Australian Federal Police for their paper 'Optimization of the Separation of Organic Explosives by Capillary Electrophoresis with Artificial Neural Networks'.

Best Case Study

Gerard Dutton, Tasmania Police for his paper 'An Unusual Toolmark Examination of an Impact to a Bridge'.

Michael Duffy Travel Fellowship

Kate Oakley, Australian Federal Police.

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