Join Jan Burke and Dr. Doug Lyle for an interview with prominent forensic scientist Jay Jarvis, who has over 35 years of experience in working in the field. He has served on the American Society of Crime Lab Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board, and has written a history of the establishment of the first crime lab in Georgia. He currently operates a private forensic lab, Arma Forensics, which specializes in firearms evidence, and is active in his church and community. He'll talk to us about forensic science, past, present and future; lab accreditation; firearms evidence; private labs, and more.
BIO: Jay Jarvis is a native of Long Island, New York. While a student in high school, his chemistry class went on a tour of the New York City Police Crime Lab. It was on that trip that Jay decided that his interest in chemistry could be best used in the field of forensic science. After his family relocated to Georgia, Jay earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Georgia College. To better prepare himself for a career in forensic science, Jay applied for and was accepted into the graduate program in Forensic Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and received his Master of Science degree in 1979. Immediately after graduate school, he was hired at the Georgia State Crime Laboratory in Atlanta.
During his 32 plus year career, Jay either performed casework in or was a supervisor for most of the forensic disciplines. Between 1982 and 1997, he wore a multitude of hats, performing casework in firearms and tool marks, hair, fiber and glass comparisons, footwear and tire tread examinations, fire debris and explosives analysis, latent fingerprint processing, marijuana identification, presumptive blood testing and crime scene analysis for a large area of central Georgia. He has testified as an expert in Federal Court and the courts of Georgia and several other states over 750 times.
Jay also has extensive experience in crime laboratory accreditation, having served as an accreditation assessor and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB), including one year as the Board Chair. He has been invited to speak at seminars and training sessions on topics related to forensic science. Jay currently lives in northwest Georgia just outside the metropolitan Atlanta area, which allows him easy access to most destinations via Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Link goes live Saturday June 4, 2016 at 10 a.m. Pacific
LINKS:
Georgia's Crime Doctor http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/jay-jarvis/georgias-crime-doctor/hardcover/product-10639368.html
Arma Forensics http://www.armaforensics.com/index.html
Crime Lab Report http://forensicfoundations.com/crimelabreport [Jay, do you want us to put this link up? It seems not to be updated since last summer.]
ASCLD/LAB http://www.ascld-lab.org
"Real-Life Not Like CSI on Television," Macon Telegraph article on Jay Jarvis http://www.armaforensics.com/uploads/Real_Life_CSI-Grisamore.pdf
"Alumnus carries microscope into career," Georgia College Alumnus article on Jay Jarvis
http://www.armaforensics.com/uploads/Alumnus_carries_microscope.pdf
