  Lisa served as an operational military officer and spent much of her time in tactical mobile units. Now she is a research scientist and also enjoys testing new technologies in the support of search and rescue operations. She recently retired Oberon (aka BB), Shepherd, in 2009. He was operational in air scent from March 2003 and cadaver from 2005. Credentials 2009 VA State Land Cadaver K9 BB (recert) 2008 LETS Land Cadaver K9 Zooey VA State Land Cadaver K9 Zooey 2007 VA State Land Cadaver K9 BB 2006 VA State Evaluator (Cadaver) 2005 NASAR SARTECH III Land Cadaver K9 BB NASAR SARTECH III Land Cadaver K9 Titan VA State Air Scent K9 BB (recert) 2003 VA State Evaluator (Air Scent) VA State Air Scent K9 BB 2002 NASAR SARTECH II Field Team Member Primary Seminars Attended Oct 2008 40-hour LETS Land and Water Cadaver, LA Billy Smith, Larry Barker (instructors) June 2008 3-day Advanced Trailing, WV Kathy Holbert (instructor) Oct 2007 40-hour Land Cadaver LETS, WV Billy Smith (instructor) Oct 2007 5-day Advanced Trailing, WV Andy Rebmann (instructor) Apr 2007 2-day LETS Land Cadaver, MD Billy Smith (instructor) Jun 2006 5-day LETS Advanced Trailing, MI Laura Totis, Mark Matranga (instructors) Mar 2006 5-day Advanced Trailing, VA Doug Lowry (instructor) Apr 2005 3-day Trailing, WV Kathy Holbert, Larry Allen (instructor) Oct 2004 3-day “Motivation, Drive, Alert”, OH Kevin George (instructor) Oct 2004 7-day Advanced Cadaver, WV Andy Rebmann, Charm Gentry, Kathy Holbert (instructors) Feb 2004 AFRCC Inland SAR Planning School, MD Incident Commander Training Apr 2003 Advanced Cadaver PA Andy Rebmann, Marcia Koenig (instructors) Aug 2002 Basic Cadaver WA Andy Rebmann, Marcia Koenig (instructors) Feb 2001 “The SAR Puzzle” (Management) VA Taught by Canine Solutions, Inc. (Bill Dotson, instructor) Seminars Offered GPS and Digital Mapping for K9 SAR Awards Fairfax County Police Citizen's Award 2008Maryland Governor’s Citation 2006  |
Lisa Harper |