Dr. Gregory E. Berg earned his B.A. in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1993 and his M.A. from the bioarchaeology program from Arizona State University in 1999. He is completed his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee in 2008. He is currently a forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager at the JPAC-Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii where he works on the recovery and identification of missing U.S. service personnel. He has over seventeen years of field experience in archaeology and physical anthropology and has presented or published numerous articles and papers in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Journal of Archaeological Science, Military Medicine, Journal of Forensic Identification, and at various annual meetings. His recent research has concentrated on trauma analysis, aging techniques, human identification from eyewear, and intra- and inter-observer error studies, which have been particularly focused on aging and population determination methods used in human identification. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Dr. Berg has been an invited speaker at the FBI Human Remains Recovery School at the University of Tennessee. He has participated in recent forensic investigations in Hawaii and with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. He has also been involved with several mass disaster recoveries, identifications, and rescues in Hawaii and Laos. Dr. Berg has participated in Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory recoveries in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, North and South Korea, and China.
Dr. Michael Kenyhercz began his education at The Ohio State University where he studied anthropology and forensic science. During his time at Ohio State, he spent a summer excavating a medieval cemetery in central Poland. After receiving his B.A. in anthropology, Michael went on to Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA to get his master's in Biological and Forensic Anthropology. While at Mercyhurst University, Michael participated in dozens of forensic recoveries and the analysis in over 60 forensic cases. While at Mercyhurst University, Michael worked on two National Institute of Justice grants; one for creating protocols for mass fatality scenes, such as plane crashes, and another for the recovery and analysis of fire altered remains. In addition to the grants, Michael has participated in the recovery of the Continental/Colgan Flight 3407 crash in 2009 in Buffalo, NY, and the recovery and analysis of the Amtrak train crash in Reno, NV in 2011. Michael completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 2014. From 2014-2016, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tennessee where he researched the incorporation of geographical information systems (GIS) into forensic anthropological analysis with a focus on site prediction modeling and human decomposition. At Tennessee, he was awarded an NIJ research grant to incorporate GIS into human decomposition research. Further, he also served as a forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, which included the recovery and analysis of decomposed and skeletal remains. He is currently an ORISE fellow at the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.