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(i) Professional Preparation
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989
B.S. in Chemistry, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania, 1985
(ii) Appointments
Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA
Director, Midwest Forensics Resource Center (since April 2002)
Director, Environmental and Protection Sciences Program (since July 1999)
Chemist I, Environmental and Protection Sciences Program (since March 1997)
Associate Chemist (April 1991 to March 1997)
Group leader and principal investigator in research program investigating development of spectroscopic instrumentation and methods for determination of environmental contaminants in a wide variety of media including air and stack emissions, soil, water, and chemical and radiological waste processing streams.
Postdoctoral Research
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Combustion Chemistry Division (August 1989 to March 1991)
Investigation of unimolecular photodissociation and bimolecular reaction mechanisms by photofragment imaging, with Dr. David W. Chandler.
(iii) Selected publications most relevant to forensics
None relevant to current topic
(iv) Synergistic Activities
a. Directly in Forensics. Dr. Baldwin has written proposals on determining the environmental fate of Lead with collaborators in Botany and Agronomy Departments at Iowa State University. He has written proposal pending on developing statistical basis for toolmark uniqueness for forensic reliability with ISU Statistics Department and the Illinois State Police Laboratory. He is also currently the Director of the Midwest Forensics Resource Center.