10 August 2015
This month sees publication of a new book on Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores - Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences, edited by Ian Croudace (University of Southampton) and Guy Rothwell (BOSCORF). This book is published by Springer in their Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research book series (No. 17)
This is the first book of its kind, dedicated to studies of sediment cores using micro-XRF core scanners, which have... |
28 May 2015
PhD student Stephanie Bates from the University of Bristol visited BOSCORF to take SEM micrographs of benthic foraminifera. Her PhD project involves measuring Ba/Ca in benthic foraminifera and using this as a proxy for seawater alkalinity. Before measuring trace metal ratios such as Ba/Ca in foraminifera collected from marine sediments, it is necessary to clean them using a series of reagents intended to remove different contaminants. The SEM micrographs show the physical effects of... |
9 April 2015
BOSCORF ran a two-day training course on 'Advanced Techniques in Sediment Core Analysis and Core Data Visualisation' funded by the NERC Doctoral Training Scheme on 24-25 March. The course which focused on non-destructive core logging, data presentation and analysis, was aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers, particularly those using these techniques in their research. Expert lecturers from industry (Geotek Ltd.) and academia (Universities of Cambridge and Southampton),... |
10 November 2014
BOSCORF is providing high-resolution ITRAX data from swamp cores taken in the East African Rift Valley for Esther Githumbi of the York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (University of York) - the first time cores from terrestrial swamps have been investigated using our ITRAX core scanner. East Africa has relatively few multiproxy records of environmental change despite evidence for significant climatic variability and societal change during the Holocene. This research, part of a multi-proxy... |