Library Articles Scent Theory & Ideas

Reconstruction and Morphometric Analysis of the Nasal Airway of the Dog
(Canis familiaris) and Implications Regarding Olfactory Airflow
Craven, Neuberger, Paterson, Webb, Josephson, Morrison, Settles, November 2007 (PDF 819K)

Visualizing Full-Scale Ventilation Airflows
Settles, 1997.

Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans
Porter, 2006.

The External Aerodynamics of Canine Olfaction
Settles, Kester,Dodson-Dreibelbis -- A chapter in Sensors and Sensing in Biology and Engineering, ed. F.G. Barth, J.A.C. Humphrey, and T.W. Secomb, Springer, Vienna & NY, 2002.

Sniffers: Fluid-Dynamic Sampling for Olfactory Trace Detection in Nature and Homeland Security—The 2004 Freeman Scholar Lecture
Settles, 2005.

Computational Study of the Wake and Contaminant Transport of a Walking Human
Edge, Patterson, Settles, 2005.

A Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Human Thermal Plume
Craven, Settles, 2006.

SCENT – K9's Reason for Being
Det. Steve White and Ofc. Tim Tieken (Ret.), Seattle Police Department (PDF 35k)

Cadaver dogs—A study on detection of contaminated carpet squares
L. Oesterhelweg, S. Krober, K. Rottmann, J. Willhoft, C. Braun,
N. Thies, K. Puschel, J. Silkenath, A. Gehl, April 2007. (PDF 787K)

Explosives detection by sniffer dogs following strenuous physical activity
Irit Gazit and Joseph Terkel, November 2002 (PDF 162K)

Domination of olfaction over vision in explosives detection by dogs
Irit Gazit and Joseph Terkel, December 2002 (PDF 107K)

Canine Detection Capabilities: Operational Implications of Recent R&D Findings J. M. Johnston, Ph.D. June 1999 (PDF 30K)

Scent identification evidence in jurisdiction (drawing on the example of judicial practice in Poland)
Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Piotr Girdwoyn, August 2006 (PDF 109K)

Scent identification lineups by dogs (Cunis familiaris) : experimental design
and forensic application G.A.A. Schoon, September 1995. (PDF 811K)

The effect of the ageing of crime scene objects on the results of scent identification line-ups using trained dogs
G.A.A. Schoon, July 2004. (PDF 228K)

Beyond the grave – understanding human decomposition
Arpad A. Vass, Microbiology Today 192 VOL 28/NOV 01. (pdf 74KB)