Research Opportunies
Individuals that would like to conduct research at CCFFDIA must have attended this or a similar fire death investigation course prior to submitting an application for research. If you are using your attendance from a different course you must include your certificate of completion and course information and course syllabus with your research application.
All applications to conduct research are due by Dec 15, 2025. All fields in the application are required as are separate attachments for your CV/resume, research proposal with bibliography, budget and funding information. The CV has a 5-page limit, and the research proposal has an ten page limit including bibliography. Both documents must be no smaller than 12-point font.
Research that includes the use of human remains is associated with a cost and access is limited. Additionally our contract with the UC willed bodies program regulates the use and ownership of all photographic evidence of burned human remains. Researchers are encouraged to read our photograph use forms prior to applying to conduct research at CCFFDIA.
Fire research published by Team members, Attendees and Research affiliates
Galloway A, Pope E, Juarez C. 2024 Bone Color Changes and Interpretation of the Temperature/Duration of Fire Exposure to Human Remains in the Forensic Context. Wires Forensic Science. http://doi.org/10.1002/wfs2.1517
Galloway A, Juarez C, Pope E. 2023. Chapter 10: How Human Bodies Burn: The process of Thermal damage, body movement, and shifting fuel loads. In The Path of Flames: Understanding and Responding to Fatal Wildfires. Eds: Ashley Kendell, Alison Galloway, and Colleen Milligan. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL.
Elayne Pope. 2023. Fire Environments and Characteristic Burn Patterns of Human Remains from Four Common Types of Fatal Fire Scenes. Chapter 2 In Burnt Human Remains: Recovery, Analysis, and Interpretation, Forensic Science in Focus Series. (Eds.) Ellingham, S., Adseria Garriga, J., Zapico, S., and Ubelaker, D. Wiley Publishers. p.13-36.
Pope, E., Juarez, C. Galloway, A. 2022. A regional classification system of thermal damage to human remains. Journal of Forensic Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2021.0008
Elayne Pope and O. C. Smith 2004 Identification of Traumatic Injury in Burned Cranial Bone: An Experimental Approach. Journal of Forensic Sciences 2004; 49(3)431-440.
Elayne Pope, O. C. Smith, and Timothy Huff 2004 Exploding Skulls and Other Myths About How the Human Body Burns. Fire and Arson Investigator: Journal of the International Association of Arson Investigators 2004; 55(4)23-28.
