Suzanne Elshult
Suzanne Elshult MA, has been active in K9 Search and Rescue (K9SAR) and deployed on hundreds of missions since 2001. She has held leadership positions with both the Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue K9 Team and Everett Mountain Rescue and is currently the Past President of Cascadia Search Dogs and a K9 handler with the Canine Forensics Foundation and Mason County Search and Rescue.
She and her K9 partners have been working on missions ranging from disaster searches to urban searches looking for dementia subjects and missing children, to mountain and wilderness searches, and old ancestral graves in various environments. Suzanne has worked with K9 “Keb” since 2010. They have certified in Human Remains Detection, Historical/Archeological Search Airscent Wilderness, Avalanche, and First Responder Disaster search disciplines.
Guy Mansfield
Guy Mansfield, Ph.D., has been active in search and rescue since 2008, with experience as a member of Everett Mountain Rescue, the Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue, and Cascadia Search Dogs. He has deployed SAR missions ranging from wilderness searches to technical rope rescues, disaster searches, and searches for Alzheimer patients. He has assisted law enforcement in searches for human remains and clandestine graves in significant homicide cases.
Guy is the founder and Director of the Washington State SAR Planning Unit and has served as Operations Section Chief and Planning Section Chief on some of the most extensive searches in northwest Washington State. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at Oregon Health Science University and has done research at the University of Washington and the University of Illinois Medical School.