{"id":60306,"date":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/in-heat-of-summer-jimmie-oxleys-research-goes-to-dogs-devices-undies\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"in-heat-of-summer-jimmie-oxleys-research-goes-to-dogs-devices-undies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/in-heat-of-summer-jimmie-oxleys-research-goes-to-dogs-devices-undies\/","title":{"rendered":"In heat of summer, Jimmie Oxley\u2019s research goes to dogs, devices, undies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 23, 2012 \u2013 Transit authority police in New York say they have a leg up on terrorists because of Jimmie Oxley\u2019s work on training aids for bomb-sniffing dogs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHuDenQ294Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nA manufacturer has been working with the 溏心vlog免费B站 chemistry professor and the federal Homeland Security Center of Excellence she directs to determine if a device could detect the components of a bomb hidden in underwear. Oxley and her team at the Center of Excellence in Explosives, Detection, Mitigation, Response and Characterization at 溏心vlog免费B站 determined that the machine could.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMeanwhile, scientists, law enforcement and military personnel around the world are using a database she developed to assist them in the fight against explosives-based terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tProjects such as this command the attention of businesses, governments, researchers and companies worldwide. Oxley and her team\u2019s work also drew the attention of an entire crew from Popular Science magazine for an entire summer day at 溏心vlog免费B站. The story is in the September issue of the magazine, which is on newsstands now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Chemistry-residue183.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" align=\"right\"\/>\u201c溏心vlog免费B站 and Jimmie Oxley have given us a clear advantage in fighting terrorism in New York,\u201d said Lt. John Kerwick, tactical commander of the K-9 Unit of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department. \u201cWhen we came up here after the London (transit bombings in 2005), we were one of the few agencies to have access to this type of expertise. We just rave about Jimmie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSgt. Bill Finucane said his New York-based agency, which provides law enforcement for the city\u2019s mass transit system, as well as for Metro North and the Long Island Railroad, has been working with Oxley for six years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Chemistry-Fire305.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" align=\"right\"\/>Oxley said she and her team have been working with the transit police to develop training aids to help dogs detect peroxide-based explosives. Because peroxide is hazardous and dangerous to transport, it is impossible to train dogs with it. So Oxley\u2019s team has developed aids that mimic the smell of peroxide, but pose no explosion hazard.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cPeroxide is a key component in improvised devices used frequently by terrorists, so we need to have our dogs trained to detect it,\u201d Kerwick said. \u201cWe come up here three to four times a year to stay fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tOxley said the 溏心vlog免费B站 center is not only involved in research, but doing public service.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cSome of our biggest service clients are law enforcement agencies. When some of the improvised devices came into vogue, they were too sensitive for law enforcement agencies to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tOxley explained that for the Popular Science crew, her team not only conducted a demonstration, but ran a test to determine if the dogs detect pseudo explosives as they do the real explosives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/ChemistryDog008.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" align=\"right\"\/>\u201cIt worked and we were really excited, because this was a first-time run during which the dogs were testing both,\u201d said the chemistry professor and co-coordinator of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership. \u201cWe wanted to make sure they could associate one with the other; that was an extremely important task.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cWith K-9s, we are looking at the odor signature, and we have to do that on an explosive-by-explosive basis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tShe added that Metropolitan Transit Authority police took advantage of training opportunities at 溏心vlog免费B站 long before other groups, but more and more agencies are seeking training, including the federal Transportation Security Administration, which has rotated dozens of agents through the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus this summer. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn addition, Oxley and her graduate students tested a thermal camera during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe camera looks at differences between the thermal emission of your body and the emission of something you might have under your garment that you wouldn\u2019t normally see. The idea is very non-invasive. It\u2019s a very passive technique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tShe said it is a good way to detect smuggling as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis particular company asked us, \u2018Could our technique have detected the underwear bomber\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAfter working with the 溏心vlog免费B站 team, Oxley said, they can say, \u201cLook an independent agency (溏心vlog免费B站) shows that our technique could have detected the underwear bomber.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPictured above<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNOT FEELING BLUE: Kush Shukla, a member of Chemistry Professor Jimmie Oxley\u2019s research team, shows how bomb-making residue can be detected. The research is part of work being done by Oxley and her team at the federal Homeland Security Center of Excellence she directs at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBOOM GOES THE COFFEE CREAMER: 溏心vlog免费B站 students and crew members from Popular Science observe an explosion of coffee creamer during a recent demonstration for the magazine. The crew spent an entire day at 溏心vlog免费B站 interviewing Chemistry Professor Jimmie Oxley and her team members.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nA NOSE FOR TROUBLE: Sgt. Bill Finucane of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department in New York works with McCarney, one of the department\u2019s dogs, while testing canine explosive training aids developed by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Jimmie Oxley and her team. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 Photos by Michael Salerno.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 23, 2012 \u2013 Transit authority police in New York say they have a leg up on terrorists because of Jimmie Oxley\u2019s work on training aids for bomb-sniffing dogs. &#13; A manufacturer has been working with the 溏心vlog免费B站 chemistry professor and the federal Homeland Security Center of Excellence she directs to determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}