Welcome to Ecology Guide
Ecology Careers Article
. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.
Criminal Forensic Investigators and Population Ecology
from:A sub-field of ecology that deals with how individual species of populations interact with their environment is population ecology. The concept recognizes that a species is an organized group of organisms, in our case human organisms into a population. Scientists can tell more about a species of organisms through testing the population, because the population will have commonalities with the individual. Populations of a species will have a certain genotype, which is part of the genetic makeup of the cells of the individual. Population ecology studies the demographics, and interactions between populations that coexist with each other.
Often the effects of population ecology is observable; there are characteristics in physical development, and in behavior. The information gained from the population ecology studies are used in many areas, including the field of forensic profiling. Crime scene investigators (CSI) collect samples from a crime scene. Once collected the samples are examined. For instance, murder victims may have something belonging to the perpetrator on their body, such as skin under their fingernails or hair. Because this type of ecology deals with a species, the sample that was collected at the scene of a crime can tell the sex, approximate age, and ethnicity of the suspect. All the information can be found through testing tissues on the cellular level. Once apprehended the evidence from DNA testing can be enough to put the criminal away for a long time.
Population ecology can account to how criminal profiling works. Criminals that have certain personality traits may have a certain way they operate during a crime; this is called method of operations, which is called m.o. for short. Many criminal profilers are psychologists and use psychological models that had their start from renown doctors such as Sigmund Freud, and others. CSI investigators from the FBI are trained by the Behavioral Science Unit; the main division is in Quantico Virginia.
Behavioral science researchers work very closely with the basic concepts of population ecology. The philosophy can be applied to police science, criminology, and even the study of terrorism and how to fight it. The study has biological, psychological, social, as well as criminal aspects.
To create a profile the CSI team will collect evidence at a crime scene, such as hair, fibers from clothing, hair. The investigators collect anything that may be possible evidence, such as a weapon. They collect fingerprints if there were any left at the scene. Next, the team looks for patterns associated with the crimes. Next the investigators attempt to reconstruct the crime, based on the information that has been collected. The profile is made when all the steps of the investigation have been completed. The science of population ecology has pioneered the path, so that the criminal profilers can predict the age and sex of the suspect, and they may be able to pin down the possible motives for the crime.
Ecology Careers Specific links
Ecology Careers News
UT Students Honor Charles Darwin with Darwin Day - Tennessee Today
 Tennessee Today | UT Students Honor Charles Darwin with Darwin Day Tennessee Today Gordon Burghardt, joint professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and psychology, dressed as Charles Darwin for the 2009 Darwin Day Events with current Darwin Day coordinator and graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology, Jessica Welch. |
Students Study the Oso Bay - KIII TV3
Students Study the Oso Bay KIII TV3 Local biology students were literally testing the waters of their future careers. The students from Texas A&M Corpus Christi are spending a big bulk of the weekend knee deep in the Oso Bay. It's all apart of an annual check up to test water quality. |
"Welcome to Cancerland" — or What does Komen do with all that money? - AMERICAblog (blog)
"Welcome to Cancerland" — or What does Komen do with all that money? AMERICAblog (blog) There are 2.2 million American women in various stages of their breast-cancer careers, who, along with anxious relatives, make up a significant market for all things breast-cancer-related. Bears, for example: I have identified four distinct lines, ... |
The Scientist: Prof. Graffin Ph.D. '03 Performs On-Stage and in the Classroom - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
The Scientist: Prof. Graffin Ph.D. '03 Performs On-Stage and in the Classroom Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun Richard Harrison, ecology and evolutionary biology. In addition to being the frontman of acclaimed punk band Bad Religion, Prof. Graffin Ph.D. '03, ecology and evolutionary biology, is a lecturer, an author, most recently of the book Anarchy Evolution, ... |
ENDERS - San Francisco Chronicle
ENDERS San Francisco Chronicle Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. (510) 548-2220, ext. 240. www.ecologycenter.org. EB FREE Can We Build Our Way Out of CA Water Problems? A discussion of the controversial Peripheral Canal. 1:30 pm Sat. Bay Model Visitor Center, ... |