Adam Hall M.S., Instructor
Biography
Adam Hall received his Masters of Science in Chemistry at Northeastern University in Boston MA. His forensic experience was obtained at the Massachusetts State Crime Lab where he was responsible for identifying petroleum and alcohol-based ignitable liquids by GC-FID and GC/MS. He was also involved in the operation and maintainance of a JEOL Scanning Electron Microscope for the identification of gunshot residues, explosive residues, clandestine laboratory samples and unknown materials by energy dispersive x-ray analysis. He has responded to crime scenes across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has been qualified as an expert witness in Middlesex, Worcester, and Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth and Barnstable counties. He joined the BMFS faculty in May 2007 and teaches courses in Forensic Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis and Arson and Explosives and was the Peter R. DeForest Collegiate Competition Chair for the 2009 NEAFS Conference.
Research Interests
Mr. Hall is actively developing a forensic instrumental analysis laboratory and microscopy suite suited for a variety of forensic chemical applications. His current interests lie in the chemical analysis and characterization of a variety of compounds by GC/MS, UV-Vis spectroscopy and FTIR.
Publications
Anzivino B, Tilley L, Ingalls L, Hall A, Drugan, John E. Got a Match? Ion Extraction GC/MS Characterization of Accelerants Adsorbed in Charcoal Using Negative Pressure Dynamic Headspace Concentration. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 55.
Presentations
2009
Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists 35th Annual Meeting, Long Branch NJ
Adam Hall. Understanding the Millennial Generation: Strategies for the Incorporation of Technology into the Forensic Science Classroom
Danielle L. Conklin, Adam B. Hall and Frank J. Padula. Elemental Analysis of Float Glass Samples Using a 193nm Excimer Laser Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer to Identify Forensic Glass Evidence.
Lisa R. Tozier and Adam B. Hall. Evaluation of Commercially Available Presumptive Drug Testing Kits for the Forensic Analysis of Salvia Divinorum
2008
Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists 34th Annual Meeting, White Plains, NY, 2008.
Brian Cawrse, Adam Hall. Forensic Chemical Analysis and Characterization of Salvia Divinorum and Salvinorin A.
