[Aqualist] 4th Quaternary Dating Workshop [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[HEIJNIS, Henk]

For details and registration see AINSE Website

 

 

 

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

4th Quaternary Dating Workshop

AINSE Theatre, Lucas Heights, Sydney

Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 March 2008

 PROGRAM 

Wednesday 26 March 2008

 

9.00

Bus from airport

 

9:45- 10.00

Registration

 

10.00 - 10:30

1) Henk Heijnis

210Pb and 137Cs dating

10:30 - 11.00

2) Richard Roberts

Optical stimulated luminescence

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

 

11.30 - 12.00

3) Colin Murray-Wallace

Amino acid racemisation

12.30 - 13.00

4) Alan Chivas                                       

Stable isotopes

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.30 

5) Tezer Esat

TIMS U-series (corals)

14.30 - 15:15 

Travel to U of Wollongong

 

15:15 - 17:00 

Tour of Wollongong Facilities 
(including coffee)

Tour of Environmental Radioactivity Facility at ANSTO

17:00 - 17:45

Bus to ANSTO from Wollongong

18:00 -18:45 

Australasian Quaternary Association Annual General Meeting 2008

18.45 - 19.30 

AQUA reception & pre-dinner drinks

 

19.30 - 21.00

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 27 March 2008

 

9.00 - 9.30

6)  Rainer Grun

ESR dating

9.30 - 10.00

7)  John Hellstrom

ICPMS MC U-series (speleothems)

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee break  

11.00 - 11.30

8)  Quan Hua

AMS Radiocarbon- sampling and  chemistry

10.30 - 11.00

9)  Mike Barbetti 

Radiocarbon calibration and reservoir ages 

11.30 - 12.00

10) AINSE student talks ( 2) 

Duane White (Macq) & Iona Flett (ANU)

12.00 -12:30 

Entry to ANSTO

12:30  - 13: 30

BBQ at B53 (ANTARES)

 

13:30 - 14:45

AMS tours of STAR,  ANTARES & AMS CHEM

 

15.00 - 15.30

 11) David Fink

Cosmogenic exposure dating

15.30 - 16.00

Wrap up session

 

 

 

17.00 - 17.45

Bus to airport

 

 SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

After the Wednesday session there will be a tour (by mini-bus) to the
Wollongong/ANSTO Stable Isotope facility, the OSL/TL and Amino Acid
Racemisation Laboratories or alternatively a tour of the classical
U-series and Pb-210/Cs-137 dating facilities at Lucas Heights.

 Followed by the AQUA AGM and pre-dinner drinks

After the Thursday BBQ lunch there will be a tour of the AMS-chemistry
and Accelerator Facilities at Lucas Heights.

 

 

 

Henk Heijnis , BSc, Drs , PhD, Adjunct Professor (UTS)

Institute for Environmental Research

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Telephone: 02 97179086

Fax: 02 97179270

Monday to Wednesday only

For the rest of the week: president at aqua.org.au