21^st May: Morning

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.30

Keynote Speaker (TBA)

10.30-13.00

Search operations 

(chair: Alastair Ruffell & Jennifer McKinley)

21^st May: Afternoon

14.00-17.00

HISTORY of forensic geology - in memory of Raymond Murray  

(chair: Ezio Vaccari & Martina Kolbl-Ebert)

Soil DNA – in memory of Nicola Bennett 

(chair: Lorna Dawson & Duncan Pirrie)

22^nd May: Morning

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.30

Keynote Speaker (dr. Vincenzo Sapia, INGV)

"25 Years of INGV: Pioneering the Fight Against Environmental Crimes in Italy"

10.30-13.00

Environmental Crimes 

(chair: Rosa Maria Di Maggio & TBA)

22^nd May: Afternoon

14.00-17.00

Illegal mining, Fossils, Minerals, and Metals Crimes 

(chair: Laurance Donnelly & Federico Fanti)

23^rd May: Morning

9.00-12.00

Field training at the ingv venue

It will consist in a “blind” concealment to be detected using NDTs (geophys, UAVs, RS), forensic geoarchaeological dig, recovery, and soil sampling.