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Below is a list of news coverage on AFTER:
A Focus on Forensic Taphonomy and Chromatography
January 2023 | Chromatography Online
Forensic chemist Maiken Ueland examines emissions from human remains
October 2021 | Chemical and Engineering News
A Conversation with Maiken Ueland
September 2021 | ACS Publications
World of Forensics: Forensic Chemistry and Taphonomy
September 2021 | Offploy
Human remains teach disaster response to elite investigators in unprecedented AFTER exercise
March 2020 | ABC News
A day at the 'Body Farm'
October 2019 | Particle
Yarramundi's Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) site makes important discoveries about human cadaver decomposition
September 2019 | Blue Mountains Gazette
Yarramundi's Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) site makes important discoveries about human cadaver decomposition
September 2019 | Hawkesbury Gazette
How do we identify human remains?
August 2019 | The Conversation
Under the Microscope – Jodie Ward
July 2019 | ISHI
‘This is going to affect how we determine time since death’: how studying body donors in the bush is changing forensic science
July 2019 | The Conversation
Forensic taphonomy, Dr Maiken Ueland
Wide Open Air Exchange
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Australia's first human 'body farm'
26 August 2017 | BBC News
More than 500 people have donated their bodies to a research facility near Sydney, Australia, where forensic experts study decomposition. Shari Forbes, a professor of forensic science at the University of Technology Sydney, explains why she set up Australia's first human body farm.
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60 Minutes Australia: The talking dead
27 June 2017 | 60 Minutes | Peter Stefanovic
Twelve months ago, crime fighters in Australia got a brand new weapon. It’s a little gruesome so it’s hidden away in a secret location in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, but already it is helping police solve murders and missing person cases. It’s Australia’s first body farm.
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An exclusive look inside Australia's human body farm
18 October 2016 | Lateline | Matt Wordsworth
At a secret bushland location, just outside Sydney, a team of world class researchers is studying decomposing bodies and helping police investigate real life crimes.
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Inside the secret Australian body farm helping real-life CSIs
18 October 2016 | ABC News | Matt Wordsworth
UTS scientists study decomposing bodies at Australia's only body farm.
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Australia's first body farm flooded with donations
15 April 2016 | National Geographic | Cassie Crofts
Sydney will soon be home to a field of decomposing corpses – in the name of science.
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Forensic scientist shares insights
24 January 2016 | Otago Daily Times | Rhys Chamberlain
Professor Shari Forbes shares the intricacies and research behind human body decomposition.
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Australia’s first body farm on a quest to solve forensic mysteries
11 August 2015 | Australian Times UK | Estelle Vosloo
Donating your body to Australia’s body farm could help solve crimes.
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Australia's first body farm: More than 30 people offer to donate their corpses
12 April 2015 | Sydney Morning Herald | Julie Power
More than 30 people have offered to donate their cadavers to Australia's first body farm since it was announced four months ago.
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Lunch with new body farm queen, Shari Forbes
11 April 2015 | Sydney Morning Herald | Julie Power
The woman who will preside over Australia's first body farm could not be more normal.
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What lies beneath: Sydney gets the southern hemisphere's first 'body farm'
31 January 2015 | The Guardian | Michael Safi
Knowledge of how human bodies decay is mostly based on US experiments, far from Australia’s unique climate and creatures. One university has found a way to tackle that. Welcome to Yarramundi.
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Time to meet the body farmers: Sydney scientists will research human decomposition
19 November 2014 | The Daily Telegraph | Ian Walker
Bodies donated to science will be buried or dumped at the secret site for forensic researchers to study, in a bid to help police solve murders or missing persons cases using data gathered under Australian conditions.
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13 June 2013 | The Sydney Morning Herald | Wendy Frew
By working out how the chemical compounds in odours emanating from a rotting corpse change over time and how they interact with each other, scientists can establish a “scent” profile of a decomposing human body that can be used in forensic investigations.