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Darshil Patel

Darshil Patel

Assistant Professor of Forensic Science at University of North Dakota; forensic chemistry researcher specializing in volatile organic compounds and human decomposition

Jun 9, 2026

10:32
... forensic research.
10:33
Human, human taphonomic facility are basically, they're colloquially called as, like, body farms.
10:41
So here we kind of study the human decomposition or in an outdoor environment.
10:49
So it's a, it's a fenced facility where we basically have ...
10:54
We do research on different, I would say, different areas within forensic taphonomy.
11:00
So you have the forensic taphonomy, uh, it's- itself is a process of understanding death and the process that kind of allows us to determine the cause of death, the nature, what happens to the remains after post-mortem period or, or during the post-mortem period.
11:23
And so we have different disciplines that are involved.
12:57
I think you did a great job discussing some of the, the general reasons that, that they exist.

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