Forensic Science-What's it all about?

      Forensic science is really a multidimensional field. There are so many amazing areas to specialize in: DNA analysis, blood spatter analysis, forensic anthropology, and so many other really neat subjects to specialize in.  You can really pick and choose based on what interests you the most. People in this field do a little bit of every kind of science you could possible imagine: chemistry, biology, and even physics. They are there to help solve the thousands of crimes committed every day and help to bring people who commit crimes to justice.  They serve as expert witnesses at trial, analyze samples from crime scenes, and write reports. They provide a necessary service to the world at large allowing us to solve crimes that would have been impossible before. They even solve puzzles that are thousands of years old, like how King Tut died.
      

       The most amazing thing about forensic science is that in almost every area of it you can take something very small, so small you can hardly even see it and learn so much from it. DNA to the naked eye looks like snot but it can tell you so much about a person: eye color, blood type, what diseases they have, it is truly amazing.
   

       Those who work as forensic scientists must be honest and thorough in their work because what they do impacts the lives of many people. They help to bring peace to a victim of a crime or that victim's family, they help to catch people who have committed crimes, or even show that people who were accused of crimes were actually innocent.

The Body Farm in Knoxville,TN

      People in this field really have to love their work because it is not always glamorous or nice. You very often get very dirty. I read in a book by Dr. Bill Bass, the founder of the Body Farm in Knoxville, TN, about how while working on a case were he needed to clean flesh from bones he boiled the bones on his own kitchen stove and from that day on every time he or his wife would try to cook on the stove it would smell like decaying body parts ( needless to say his wife made him get a new stove). It may not be as glamorous as it is on T.V. but to me forensic science is one of the most amazing and necessary fields you could ever work in

Forensic scientist working at a crime scene