Single-grain optically-stimulated luminescence and dosimetry instruments to service the Sydney metropolitan and greater New South Wales region

Project Member(s): Skilbeck, C.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Infrastructure)

Start year: 2010

Summary: The acquisition of a single-grain optically-stimulated luminescence reader and dosimetry instruments will permit five institutions in the Sydney metropolitan and greater NSW region to establish chronologies for complex fluvial, marine, and coastal sedimentary environments.

Keywords: Fluvial geomorphology, Coastal management, Palaecoclimates, Archaeological Science, Optically-stimulated luminescence, Climate Control, Climate Variables, Environmental Change, Human impact, Geochronology; Quaternary environments; stratigrapher; sedimentology; river management; Antarctic; trace metals, arid environments; ceramics; Tsunamis.

FOR Codes: Extraterrestrial Geology, Quaternary Environments, Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts), Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts), Understanding Australia's Past, Planetary geology, Understanding Australia¿¿¿s past, Effects of climate change on Australia (excl. social impacts)

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.