State-of-the-art radiocarbon measurements to study Earth's carbon cycle

Category: Time:
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
Access:
public
Room: URL: Speaker:
Lukas Wacker
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Contact:
Kiyomi Morino

The development of high-precision, rapid through-put radiocarbon dating for small samples via a compact accelerator mass spectrometer — the MIni CArbon DAting System (MICADAS) — has opened a wide variety of new possibilities for next generation radiocarbon studies. This talk will explain the basics of the instrumentation (which will be installed in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in 2024) and explore a variety of examples of the ways in which it can be used to explore the carbon cycle and beyond.