Geoforensics and Information Management for crime Investigation (GIMI)

Project Staff - Mark Tibbett

Dr. Mark Tibbett BSc, PhD.

Director
Centre for Land Rehabilitation (M087)
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
University of Western Australia
Crawley, WA 6009
Australia

Tel: (+61) 8 6488 2635
Fax: (+61) 8 6488 1050

Email: Mark.Tibbett@uwa.edu.au
Web: http://www.clr.uwa.edu.au/

Current research activities

• Forensic Taphonomy
• Soil Science
• Soil Microbiology
• Soil-Plant Interactions

Publication

Tibbett, M., Carter, D. O., Haslam, T, Major, R and Haslam, R. (2004). A laboratory incubation method for determing the rate of soft tissue decomposition in soil. Journal of Forensic Science 49, 560-565.

Tibbett, M. & Carter, D. O. (2003) Mushrooms and Taphomony: the fungi that mark woodland graves. Mycologist. 17, 30-34.

Carter, D. & Tibbett, M. (2003). Taphonomic mycota: fungi with forensic potential. Journal of Forensic Science. 48, 1-4.

Carter D. O. & Tibbett, M (2005). Forensic taphonomy: the adaptation of the soil microbial decomposer community to soft tissue burial. Proceedings of the 33rd international Symposium on Archaeometry (eds. H. Kars & E. Burke) Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies Volume 3. Institute for Geo-and Bioarchaeology, Amsterdam.

Haslam, R. & Tibbett, M. (2005). The use of different soil aggregate fractions in the investigation of a possible land use boundary at Merrivale, Dartmoor England. Proceedings of the 33rd international Symposium on Archaeometry (eds. H. Kars & E. Burke) Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies Volume 3. Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology, Amsterdam.

Carter, D. & Tibbett, M. (2001). The effect of temperature on the decomposition of soft tissue in soil. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Soils and Archaeology (Ed. G. Füleky) 57-60. Környezetkíméló Agrokémiáért Alapítvány, Gödölló, Hungary.