Alex Smith, B.A. FIRS Lab Manager graduated from Portland State University with a B.A. in Anthropology in 2017. He interned at the FIRS in the Fall of 2017 and stayed on to become a research assistant and volunteer crew chief, working with current students and instructing them in lab operations. In this capacity he also worked with Dr. Elson Shields of Cornell University in studying the blowfly species at the FIRS. Mr. Smith is certified as a Technician by the American Board of Forensic Entomology. While at the FIRS, he has conducted research on local scavengers and authored papers on striped skunk and feral cat scavenging. Mr. Smith became FIRS' full-time Lab Manager April, 2019.