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Below is a list of news coverage on AFTER:
A Focus on Forensic Taphonomy and Chromatography
January 2023 | Chromatography Online
Forensic chemist Maiken Ueland examines emissions from human remains
October 2021 | Chemical and Engineering News
A Conversation with Maiken Ueland
September 2021 | ACS Publications
World of Forensics: Forensic Chemistry and Taphonomy
September 2021 | Offploy
Human remains teach disaster response to elite investigators in unprecedented AFTER exercise
March 2020 | ABC News
A day at the 'Body Farm'
October 2019 | Particle
Yarramundi's Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) site makes important discoveries about human cadaver decomposition
September 2019 | Blue Mountains Gazette
Yarramundi's Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) site makes important discoveries about human cadaver decomposition
September 2019 | Hawkesbury Gazette
How do we identify human remains?
August 2019 | The Conversation
Under the Microscope – Jodie Ward
July 2019 | ISHI
‘This is going to affect how we determine time since death’: how studying body donors in the bush is changing forensic science
July 2019 | The Conversation
Forensic taphonomy, Dr Maiken Ueland
Wide Open Air Exchange
Australia's first human 'body farm'
26 August 2017 | BBC News
More than 500 people have donated their bodies to a research facility near Sydney, Australia, where forensic experts study decomposition. Shari Forbes, a professor of forensic science at the University of Technology Sydney, explains why she set up Australia's first human body farm.
60 Minutes Australia: The talking dead
27 June 2017 | 60 Minutes | Peter Stefanovic
Twelve months ago, crime fighters in Australia got a brand new weapon. It’s a little gruesome so it’s hidden away in a secret location in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, but already it is helping police solve murders and missing person cases. It’s Australia’s first body farm.
An exclusive look inside Australia's human body farm
18 October 2016 | Lateline | Matt Wordsworth
At a secret bushland location, just outside Sydney, a team of world class researchers is studying decomposing bodies and helping police investigate real life crimes.
Inside the secret Australian body farm helping real-life CSIs
18 October 2016 | ABC News | Matt Wordsworth
UTS scientists study decomposing bodies at Australia's only body farm.
Australia's first body farm flooded with donations
15 April 2016 | National Geographic | Cassie Crofts
Sydney will soon be home to a field of decomposing corpses – in the name of science.
Forensic scientist shares insights
24 January 2016 | Otago Daily Times | Rhys Chamberlain
Professor Shari Forbes shares the intricacies and research behind human body decomposition.
Australia’s first body farm on a quest to solve forensic mysteries
11 August 2015 | Australian Times UK | Estelle Vosloo
Donating your body to Australia’s body farm could help solve crimes.
Australia's first body farm: More than 30 people offer to donate their corpses
12 April 2015 | Sydney Morning Herald | Julie Power
More than 30 people have offered to donate their cadavers to Australia's first body farm since it was announced four months ago.
Lunch with new body farm queen, Shari Forbes
11 April 2015 | Sydney Morning Herald | Julie Power
The woman who will preside over Australia's first body farm could not be more normal.
What lies beneath: Sydney gets the southern hemisphere's first 'body farm'
31 January 2015 | The Guardian | Michael Safi
Knowledge of how human bodies decay is mostly based on US experiments, far from Australia’s unique climate and creatures. One university has found a way to tackle that. Welcome to Yarramundi.
Time to meet the body farmers: Sydney scientists will research human decomposition
19 November 2014 | The Daily Telegraph | Ian Walker
Bodies donated to science will be buried or dumped at the secret site for forensic researchers to study, in a bid to help police solve murders or missing persons cases using data gathered under Australian conditions.
13 June 2013 | The Sydney Morning Herald | Wendy Frew
By working out how the chemical compounds in odours emanating from a rotting corpse change over time and how they interact with each other, scientists can establish a “scent” profile of a decomposing human body that can be used in forensic investigations.