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(i) Professional Preparation
Ph.D. in Physics, Iowa State University, 1976
B.S. in Physics, Dickinson College, 1965
(ii) Appointments
2000–present Adjunct Associate Professor, Iowa State University
1984–present President then Research Director, MTEC Photoacoustics, Inc.
1980–present Physicist then Senior Physicist, Ames Laboratory
1976–1980 Postdoctoral Researcher, Photoacoustic Spectroscopy, Iowa State University
1976–1977 Research Staff, Honeywell Electro-Optics Center
1962–1974 Physicist, National Bureau of Standards
(iii) Selected publications most relevant to forensics
McClelland, J.F. and R.W. Jones. "FTIR Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Diesel Lubricant Oils Containing Particulate Matter." Lubrication Engineering 57(9) (2001): 17-21.
McClelland,
J.F., R.W. Jones, and S.J. Bajic. "Photoacoustic Spectroscopy" in Handbook
of Vibrational Spectroscopy, Vol. 2. Ed. J.M. Chalmers and P.R. Griffiths. Chichester,
UK: Wiley, 2002.
Available at http://www.mtecpas.com/Pub3/BC1.html.
Jones, R.W. and J.F. McClelland. "Phase References and Cell Effects in Photoacoustic Spectroscopy." Appl. Spectrosc. 55 (2001): 1360-1367.
Jones, R.W. and J.F. McClelland. "Quantitative Depth Profiling Using Saturation-Equalized Photoacoustic Spectra." Appl. Spectrosc. 56 (2002): 409-418.
Jones, R.W., R.R. Meglen, B.R. Hames, and J.F. McClelland. "Chemical Analysis of Wood Chips in Motion Using Thermal-Emission Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy with Projection to Latent Structures Regression." Anal. Chem. 74 (2002): 453-457.
(iv) Synergistic activities
a. Directly in Forensics. Dr. McClelland currently directs research funded by the National Institude of Justice to investigate "Direct In-Situ Identification of Inks to Expedite Forensic Analysis."
b. Other Dr. McClelland is the founder of the International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena. See http://www.chem.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/labs/sawada/icppp/ for the most recent conference. He is a proposal reviewer for DOE, EPA, NSF, Research Corporation, and Petroleum Research Fund. Journal referee for Applied Optics, Applied Spectroscopy, Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Analytical Chemistry, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Journal of Applied Physics and has hosted visits by elementary school students to laboratory and planned hands-on student demonstrations in applied spectroscopy. He founded MTEC Photoacoustics, Inc., to make photoacoustic instrumentation available to academic, government, and industrial researchers in the U.S. and 35 foreign countries. He has also organized photoacoustic spectroscopy symposia at FACSS for the last five years.