William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition.
 He has also assisted federal, local, and non-U.S. authorities in the identification of human remains.
 He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and though currently retired from teaching, still plays an active research role at the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, which he founded.
 The Facility is more popularly known as "The Body Farm", a name used by crime author Patricia Cornwell in a novel of the same name, which drew inspiration from Bass and his work.
 Bass has also described the body farm as "Death's Acre" – the title of the book on his life and career, co-written with journalist Jon Jefferson.
 Jefferson and Bass, under the pen name "Jefferson Bass", have also written several fictional works: "Carved In Bone", "Flesh and Bone", "The Devil's Bones", "Bones of Betrayal", "The Bone Thief", "The Bone Yard", "The Inquisitor's Key", "Cut To the Bone", and "The Breaking Point".
 Bass is the third generation in his family to have an educational building named after him.
 The Dr. William M. Bass III Forensic Anthropology Building dedication ceremony was September 27, 2011, near the Body Farm.
A body farm is a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings.
 They were invented by an anthropologist named William Bass in 1972, after he had realized how little was known about decomposition of the human body.
 Previous to this, in the 1970s, pig remains were used to study decomposition processes.
 The aim is to gain a better understanding of the decomposition process, permitting the development of techniques for extracting information such as the timing and circumstances of death from human remains.
 Body farm research is of particular interest in forensic anthropology and related disciplines, and has applications in the fields of law enforcement and forensic science.
 By placing the bodies outside to face the elements, researchers are able to get a better understanding of the decomposition process.
The explosion of animals is an uncommon event arising through natural causes or human activity.
 Among the best known examples are the post-mortem explosion of whales, either as a result of natural decomposition or deliberate attempts at carcass disposal.
 Other instances of exploding animals are defensive in nature or the result of human intervention.
"The Hearse Song" is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin.
 It was popular as a World War I song, and was popular in the 20th century as an American and British children's song, continuing to the present.
 It has many variant titles, lyrics, and melodies, but generally features the line "the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out", and thus is also known as "The Worms Crawl In".
A body farm is a research facility where human decomposition is studied.
The California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) is a federally funded biomedical research facility, dedicated to improving human and animal health, and located on the University of California, Davis, campus.
 The CNPRC is part of a network of seven national primate research centers developed to breed, house, care for and study primates for medical and behavioral research.
 Opened in 1962, researchers at this secure facility have investigated many diseases, ranging from asthma and Alzheimer's disease to AIDS and other infectious diseases, and has also produced discoveries about autism.
 Frequent announcements are posted on the CNPRC website illustrating translational discoveries.
 CNPRC currently houses about 4,700 monkeys, the majority of which are rhesus macaques, with a small population of South American titi monkeys.
 The Center, located on 300 acres (1.2 km²) 2.5 miles west of the UC Davis campus, is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Sondrestrom Upper Atmospheric Research Facility is an ionospheric and atmospheric research facility situated about 15 km west of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.
 It is commonly known around the town as Kellyville.
 The facility has been operational since the ionospheric radar was first constructed by SRI International at Stanford, California, then moved to Chatanika, Alaska, where it was operational from November 1971 to March 1982.
 It was transported to Kangerlussuaq in 1983.
Karen Ramey Burns was an American forensic anthropologist known for work in international human rights.
 Her specialty was the recovery and identification of human remains in criminal, historical, archaeological, and disaster-related circumstances.
 She worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the Raboteau Massacre and trial in Haiti, the Río Negro massacre in Guatemala, victims of genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amelia Earhart search in Kiribati, Fiji, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the identification of the Kazimierz Pułaski remains in Savannah, Georgia, United States.
 She was also active in international forensic training and taught human osteology and forensic anthropology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
 She was a 2007-08 Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where she also worked with EQUITAS, a non-governmental organization dedicated to helping families of disappeared persons due to the ongoing Colombian conflict.
The Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, also known as Hiroshima Synchrotron Orbital Radiation (HiSOR), at Hiroshima University is a national user research facility in Japan.
 It was founded in 1996 by the University Science Council at Hiroshima University initially as a combined educational and research facility before opening to users in Japan and across the world in 2002.
 It is the only synchrotron radiation experimental facility located at a national university in Japan.
What Remains is a 2003 photography book by Sally Mann.
 The book is published by Bullfinch Press and contains 132 images on the subject of death, including photographs of decomposing bodies.
 The book lent its name to the 2005 film about Sally Mann, "", in which Mann can be seen at the University of Tennessee's anthropological facility, taking photos for the book of corpses which had specifically been left outside for scientific study of human decomposition.
 Mann opened her exhibition for the book at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2004.
 The exhibition was divided into five sections that "visually depict[ed] the eternal cycle of life, death, and regeneration."

Question: What was the occupation of  the man best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition, who is the founder of  a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings?
Answer: forensic anthropologist