Duties
Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:
Serves as a forensic anthropologist providing professional, scientific leadership to a team engaged in forensic and biological anthropological studies and investigations leading to establish the medico-legal identity of skeletal remains
Plans and directs investigations and archaeological excavations designed to achieve casualty resolution
Performs professional anthropological laboratory examinations to current laboratory standards and in keeping with published best practices
Process and analyze skeletal remains or portions of remains to determine ancestry, age, sex, stature, trauma, surgical intervention, and other physical characteristics and anomalies in support of forensic identification
Serves as a professional Scientific Recovery Expert providing professional and scientific leadership to DPAA and OSD organizations
Provides expert advice and scientific guidance to DPAA teams engaged in all the phases of archaeological testing and excavation (Phase I, II and III) of military aircraft crash sites, ground losses, and burial
Provides quality control services and control reviews to DPAA of identification determinations completed by laboratory teams