Professor Stewart Fallon

PhD - The Australian National University
Fellow - Head of Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory
ANU College of Science
T: 61254261

Areas of expertise

  • Isotope Geochemistry 040203
  • Physical Oceanography 040503
  • Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) 039901
  • Geochronology 040303
  • Climate Change Processes 040104
  • Palaeoclimatology 040605
  • Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments And Techniques 029904
  • Forensic Biology 069901
  • Chemical Oceanography 040502
  • Oceanography 0405
  • Ecological Applications 0501

Research interests

  • Radiocarbon
  • Isotope Geochemistry
  • Marine Science
  • Oceanography
  • Carbon cycle Science

 

Biography

I trained as a marine scientist at the University of San Diego (B.A. and M.S. Marine Science) and The Australian National University, obtaining a PhD in isotope geochemistry in 2001. I then went to the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to learn radiocarbon preparation and measurements using AMS. In 2004 I moved to the Chemistry, Biology and Nuclear Science Division at LLNL and developed isotopic measurements and maps using the CAMECA nanoSIMS. In 2006 I returned to Australia to take up a research Fellow position as the head of the newly refurbished Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University. Since 2010 I have been a Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences. My research interests include radiocarbon dating, using radiocarbon as a tracer for the carbon cycle, developing proxy records of marine environment using trace element and isotopic records from biogenic archives and examining past environmental change to help understand our future climate.

Experience

2010 – present –  Fellow and Head of the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University

2007-2010 –  Research Fellow and Head of the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University

2004-2006 – Environmental Chemist, Chemical Biology and Nuclear Science

Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2001-2004 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

Available student projects

Coral geochemistry in a changing Ocean. Using Porites coral cores examine elemental and isotopic proxies under changing ocean conditions..

 

Deep Sea Corals as climate archives. Utilize elemental, isotopic and radiometric proxies trapped in deep sea coral skeletons to examine past climate.

 

Novel Uses of Radiocarbon in Environmental Studies. Utilize the state of the art AMS and radiocarbon preparation labs at RSES to investigate carbon cycle studies. 

Publications

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