Recent research from the André E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory.

2022

Alexis, Mantha Cosmology, ancestors and mortuary monuments: Principles of political authority in the Rapayán and Tantamayo region of the upper Marañón in the central Andes of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1450 CE)

Erin L.Flannigan, Jean-François, Alary, William E.Kieser, Lisa M.Cousins, Gholamreza Javahery. Characterization of the isobar separator for anions integrated into the A. E. Lalonde laboratory’s 3 MV AMS system

Chris R.J. Charles, Friedhelm Ames, Oliver Kester, S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer, Carla Babcock, Brad E. Schultz, Cameron Peters, Erin L. Flannigan, Jean-Francois Alary, Aurelia Laxdal, Production of Radioactive Molecular Ions in Radiofrequency Quadrupole Gas-Reaction Cells

J-F Alary , L M Cousins , R Javahery , W E Kieser , E L Flannigan and C Charles Dynamics and reactivity of thermalized ions in a radiofrequency quadrupole gas-reaction cell used for the production of radioactive molecular ions

Gao, Y., Salvatore, M. C., Xu, Q., Yang, L., Sun, L., Xie, Z., & Baroni, C. (2022). The occupation history of the longest-dwelling Adélie penguin colony reflects Holocene climatic and environmental changes in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 284

Felix Vogel, Carley Crann, Michael F.J Pisaric, 2022, Tracking local radiocarbon releases from nuclear power plants in southern Ontario (Canada) using annually-dated tree-ring records

2021

Campeau, A., Eklöf, K., Soerensen, A.L., Åkerblom, S., Yuan, S., Hintelmann, H., Bieroza, M., Köhler, S. and Zdanowicz, C. (2022) Sources of riverine mercury across the Mackenzie River Basin; inferences from a combined HgC isotopes and optical properties approach

McCarthy, F. (2022). Stratigraphy: Finding Global Markers in a Small Canadian Lake. Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right, 196.

Francisco, B. B. A., Bergl, R., Zhao, X. L., Cornett, R. J., & Kieser, W. E. Comparison of two methods to determine" I in charcoal cartridge samples.

Duda, M. P., Cyr, F., Robertson, G. J., Michelutti, N., Meyer‐Jacob, C., Hedd, A., ... & Smol, J. P. (2022). Climate oscillations drive millennial‐scale changes in seabird colony size. Global Change Biology.

Zhou, Z., Zhao, X., Kieser, W. E., & Cornett, R. J. (2022). A preliminary study of rapid measurements of aqueous 210 Po by accelerator mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

2020

Milner, A. M., Baird, A. J., Green, S. M., Swindles, G. T., Young, D. M., Sanderson, N. K., ... & Gałka, M. A regime shift from erosion to carbon accumulation in a temperate northern peatland. Journal of Ecology.

Heffernan, W. (2020). The Impact of Permafrost Thaw on Soil Carbon Cycling in Boreal Peatlands.

Rashtchi, R. (2020). Assessing Aquitard Integrity: the Newmarket Till (Southern Ontario) (Doctoral dissertation, Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa).

Smith, H. A. (2020). Human and Ecological Responses to the Northern White River Ash Eruption (Doctoral dissertation, University of Alaska Fairbanks).

Gauthier, M. S., Kelley, S. E., & Hodder, T. J. (2020). Lake Agassiz drainage bracketed Holocene Hudson Bay Ice Saddle collapse. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 544, 116372.

Holland, K. M., Porter, T. J., Froese, D. G., Kokelj, S. V., & Buchanan, C. Ice‐wedge evidence of Holocene winter warming in the Canadian Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL087942.

Francisco, B. B. A., Bergl, R., Zhao, X. L., Cornett, R. J., & Kieser, W. E. (2020). Comparison of two methods to determine 129I in charcoal cartridge samples by AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 466, 47-51.

Maccali, J., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Ghaleb, B., Ménabréaz, L., Blénet, A., Edinger, E., ... & Preda, M. (2020). Late Quaternary sporadic development of Desmophyllum dianthus deep-coral populations in the southern Labrador Sea with specific attention to their 14C-and 230Th-dating. Marine Chemistry, 103807.

Mirzavand, M., Ghasemieh, H., Sadatinejad, S. J., & Bagheri, R. (2020). Delineating the Source and Mechanism of Groundwater Salinization in Crucial Declining Aquifer Using Multi-Chemo-Isotopes Approaches. Journal of Hydrology, 124877.

Heffernan, L., Estop‐Aragonés, C., Knorr, K. H., Talbot, J., & Olefeldt, D. Long‐term impacts of permafrost thaw on carbon storage in peatlands: deep losses offset by surficial accumulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, e2019JG005501.

Miagkaia, A., & Ershova, E. (2020, January). A 10 000-year pollen and plant macrofossil record from the Losiny Ostrov National Park (Moscow, Russia). In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 438, No. 1, p. 012018). IOP Publishing.

Ershova, E. G., Krenke, N. A., Kittel, P., & Lavrenov, N. G. (2020, January). Archaeological sites in the Katynka river basin (Smolensk Region): Paleogeographic study. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 438, No. 1, p. 012007). IOP Publishing.

Ahad, J. M., Pakdel, H., Gammon, P. R., Mayer, B., Savard, M. M., Peru, K. M., & Headley, J. V. (2020). Distinguishing natural from anthropogenic sources of acid extractable organics in groundwater near oil sands tailings ponds. Environmental Science & Technology.

Francisco, B. B. A., Bergl, R., Zhao, X. L., Cornett, R. J., & Kieser, W. E. (2020). Comparison of two methods to determine 129I in charcoal cartridge samples by AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 466, 47-51.

Beaupré, S. R., Walker, B. D., & Druffel, E. R. (2020). The two-component model coincidence: Evaluating the validity of marine dissolved organic radiocarbon as a stable-conservative tracer at Station M. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 104737 (in press).

Lewis, C. B., Walker, B. D., & Druffel, E. R. (2020). Isotopic and optical heterogeneity of solid phase extracted marine dissolved organic carbon. Marine Chemistry, 103752.

Chanton, J. P., Jaggi, A., Radović, J. R., Rosenheim, B. E., Walker, B. D., Larter, S. R., ... & Oldenburg, T. B. (2020). Mapping Isotopic and Dissolved Organic Matter Baselines in Waters and Sediments of the Gulf of Mexico. In Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills (pp. 160-181). Springer, Cham.

Jean-François Millaire (2020). Dating the occupation of Cerro Arena: A defensive Salinar-phase settlement in the Moche Valley, Peru. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 57, 101142.

2019

Miszaniec, J. I., Darwent, J., & Darwent, C. M. (2019). Small game, estuaries, and nets: New perspectives on Norton culture coastal adaptations from a shell midden in Norton Sound, Alaska. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1-25.

Darwent, J., & Miszaniec, J. (2019). Recent Investigations at Difchahak (Tivcaraq) NOB-005, Norton Sounds, Alaska. Arctic, 17.

Marsh, N. (2019). Carbon Budget and Cycling in Perennially Ice–Covered Lake Untersee, East Antarctica (Doctoral dissertation, Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa).

Franchi, F., Ahad, J. M., Geris, J., Jhowa, G., Petros, A. K., & Comte, J. C. (2019). Modern sediment records of hydroclimatic extremes and associated potential contaminant mobilization in semi-arid environments: lessons learnt from recent flood-drought cycles in southern Botswana. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 1-19.

Hill, E. A., Lubell, D., & McLaughlin, T. R. (2019). Re-evaluation of radiocarbon dates using Helix melanostoma shell at two Capsian sites–Aïn Misteheyia and Kef Zoura D–In the Télidjène Basin of eastern Algeria. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 28, 102004.

Gregory, B. R. B., Patterson, R. T., & Galloway, J. M. (2019). Climate-induced variations in sedimentary arsenic sequestration in Northern Canada during the Mid-to Late-Holocene. Understanding the impact of millennial to sub-decadal climate and limnological change on the stability of arsenic in lacustrine sediments, 103.

Zhou, Z., Zhao, X., & Cornett, R. J. (2019). An AMS method for measurement of Radium-226 in drinking water. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

Hagedorn, G. W., Paulen, R. C., Smith, I. R., Ross, M., & Neudorf, C. M. Surficial Geology Constraints on Laurentide Ice Sheet Reconstruction in the Southern Northwest Territories Grant W. Hagedorn1, Roger C. Paulen2, I. Rod Smith3, Martin Ross1, Christina M. Neudorf4 and Olav B. Lian4.

Shkarupin, A. (2019). Activation of Organically-Bound Tritium by Tritiated Water in Soil (Doctoral dissertation, University of Ottawa).

Miller, G. H., & Andrews, J. T. (2019). Hudson Bay was not deglaciated during MIS-3. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, 105944.

Lacelle, D., Fontaine, M., Pellerin, A., Kokelj, S. V., & Clark, I. D. (2019). Legacy of Holocene landscape changes on soil biogeochemistry: a perspective from paleo‐active layers in northwestern Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Crann, C. A., Doucet, A. M., Richards, M. P., & Talamo, S. (2019). The old bone project: Quality assurance on radiocarbon dating bone in the 30,000–50,000 age range at the AE Lalonde AMS Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada). Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

Crann, C. A., & Grant, T. (2019). Radiocarbon age of consolidants and adhesives used in archaeological conservation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 1059-1063.

Shammas, N., Walker, B., De La Torre, H. M., Bertrand, C., & Southon, J. (2019). Effect of ultrafilter pretreatment, acid strength and decalcification duration on archaeological bone collagen yield. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

O’Neill, H. B., Wolfe, S. A., & Kerr, D. E. Surficial geology and Holocene shoreline evolution near Whitebeach Point, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories.

Kazi, Z. H., Charles, C. R. J., Zhao, X. L., Cornett, R. J., & Kieser, W. E. (2019). Ion beam enhancement in 236UO− measurement by AMS using Si powder as the binder. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

Zhao, X. L., Francisco, B. B. A., Kieser, W. E., El-Jaby, A., Cochrane, C., & Clark, I. D. (2019). A direct-AMS multi-isotope survey of uranium ore concentrates. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 459, 98-114.

Walker, B. D., Beaupré, S. R., Griffin, S., & Druffel, E. R. (2019). UV photochemical oxidation and extraction of marine dissolved organic carbon at UC Irvine: Status, surprises, and methodological recommendations. Radiocarbon, 1-15.

O’Donnell, J. A., Carey, M. P., Koch, J. C., Xu, X., Poulin, B. A., Walker, J., & Zimmerman, C. E. Permafrost Hydrology Drives the Assimilation of Old Carbon by Stream Food Webs in the Arctic. Ecosystems, 1-19.

Bauer, A. M., & Johansen, P. G. (2019). The Maski Archaeological Research Project (2010–18): initial results from a multi-period interdisciplinary project on the Raichur Doab, Karnataka, India. Current Science, 117(1), 46-56.

Reynolds, L. (2019). Soil 14CO2 Source Apportionment for Biodegradation in Contaminated Soils in Permafrost Climates: A Novel Technique for Rapid Sample Collection by Barium Carbonate Precipitation (Doctoral dissertation, Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa).

Szpak, P., Savelle, J. M., Conolly, J., & Richards, M. P. (2019). Variation in late holocene marine environments in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Evidence from ringed seal bone collagen stable isotope compositions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 211, 136-155.

Grinter, M., Lacelle, D., Baranova, N., Murseli, S., & Clark, I. D. (2019). Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-wedge activity on the Blackstone Plateau, central Yukon, Canada. Quaternary Research, 91(1), 179-193.

Murseli, S., Middlestead, P., St-Jean, G., Zhao, X., Jean, C., Crann, C. A., ... & Clark, I. D. (2019). The preparation of water (DIC, DOC) and gas (CO2, CH4) samples for radiocarbon analysis at AEL-AMS, Ottawa, Canada. Radiocarbon, 1-9.

Zhao, X. L., Crann, C. A., Murseli, S., St-Jean, G., Kieser, W. E., Wilk, M., ... & Clark, I. D. (2019). A preliminary ion source background study at Lalonde AMS. Radiocarbon, 1-16.

Walker, B. D., & Xu, X. (2019). An improved method for the sealed-tube zinc graphitization of microgram carbon samples and 14C AMS measurement. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 438, 58-65.

2018

Cameron, M., & Pfeiffer, S. (2018). An additional person from Diaz Street Midden, Saldanha Bay, Western Cape. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 73(208).

Abdalla, O. A., Al-Hosni, T., Al-Rawahi, A., Kacimov, A., & Clark, I. (2018). Coupling isotopic and piezometric data to infer groundwater recharge mechanisms in arid areas: example of Samail Catchment, Oman. Hydrogeology Journal, 26(8), 2561-2573.

Druffel, E. R., Griffin, S., Wang, N., & Walker, B. D. (2018). Temporal variability of dissolved organic radiocarbon in the deep North Pacific Ocean. Radiocarbon, 60(4), 1115-1123.

Fatayer, S., Coppola, A. I., Schulz, F., Walker, B. D., Broek, T. A., Meyer, G., ... & Gross, L. (2018). Direct visualization of individual aromatic compound structures in low molecular weight marine dissolved organic carbon. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(11), 5590-5598.

2017

Conference Abstracts (PDF, 201 KB) - AMS14 Ottawa, Canada (August 12-20, 2017)

Patterson, R. T., Crann, C. A., Cutts, J. A., Mustaphi, C. J. C., Nasser, N. A., Macumber, A. L., ... & Falck, H. (2017). New occurrences of the White River Ash (east lobe) in Subarctic Canada and utility for estimating freshwater reservoir effect in lake sediment archives. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 477, 1-9.

Crann, C. A., Murseli, S., St-Jean, G., Zhao, X., Clark, I. D., & Kieser, W. E. (2017). First status report on radiocarbon sample preparation techniques at the AE Lalonde AMS Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada). Radiocarbon, 59(3), 695-704. PDF

St-Jean, G., Kieser, W. E., Crann, C. A., & Murseli, S. (2017). Semi-Automated Equipment for CO 2 Purification and Graphitization at the AE Lalonde AMS Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada). Radiocarbon, 59(3), 941-956. PDF

2016

Birch, J., Crann, C. A., & Pilon, J. L. (2016). Chronological Modeling and Insights on European-St. Lawrence Iroquoian Interaction from the Roebuck Site, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 40(2).

Marrero, S. M., Phillips, F. M., Caffee, M. W., & Gosse, J. C. (2016). CRONUS-Earth cosmogenic 36Cl calibration. Quaternary Geochronology, 31, 199-219.

2015

Jackes, M., Lubell, D., & Crann, C. (2015). Dating and redating Capsian skeletons 3A-4 and 3A-7, Aïn Berriche (Algeria). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 4, 78-85.

Crann, C. A., Patterson, R. T., Macumber, A. L., Galloway, J. M., Roe, H. M., Blaauw, M., ... & Falck, H. (2015). Sediment accumulation rates in subarctic lakes: Insights into age-depth modeling from 22 dated lake records from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Quaternary Geochronology, 27, 131-144.

2014

Conference Abstracts (PDF, 184 KB) - AMS13 Aix en Provence, France (August 24-29, 2014)

Herod, M. N., Cornett, R. J., Clark, I. D., Kieser, W. E., & Jean, G. S. (2014). Extraction of 129I and 127I via combustion from organic rich samples using 125I as a quantitative tracer. Journal of environmental radioactivity, 138, 323-330.

Kazi, Z. H., Cornett, J. R., Zhao, X., & Kieser, L. (2014). Americium and plutonium separation by extraction chromatography for determination by accelerator mass spectrometry. Analytica chimica acta, 829, 75-80.

Davies, N. S., Gosse, J. C., & Rybczynski, N. (2014). Cross-bedded woody debris from a Pliocene forested river system in the High Arctic: Beaufort Formation, Meighen Island, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 84(1), 19-25.

2013

Clark, I. D., Al, T., Jensen, M., Kennell, L., Mazurek, M., Mohapatra, R., & Raven, K. G. (2013). Paleozoic-aged brine and authigenic helium preserved in an Ordovician shale aquiclude. Geology, 41(9), 951-954.

Herod, M. N., Clark, I. D., Kieser, W. E., Agosta, S., & Zhao, X. L. (2013). 129I dispersion and sources in Northwest Canada. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 294, 552-558.

Jolivel, M., & Allard, M. (2013). Thermokarst and export of sediment and organic carbon in the Sheldrake River watershed, Nunavik, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118(3), 1729-1745.

Rybczynski, N., Gosse, J. C., Harington, C. R., Wogelius, R. A., Hidy, A. J., & Buckley, M. (2013). Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution. Nature communications, 4, 1550.

Zhao, X. L., Litherland, A. E., Eliades, J., Fu, Y. C., & Kieser, W. E. (2013). A Study of KF 3− Attenuation in an RFQ Gas Cell for 41 Ca AMS. Radiocarbon, 55(2), 268-281.

Zhao, X. L., Kieser, W. E., Dai, X., Priest, N. D., Kramer-Tremblay, S., Eliades, J., & Litherland, A. E. (2013). Preliminary studies of Pu measurement by AMS using PuF4. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 294, 356-360.

2012

Sheppard, S. C., & Herod, M. (2012). Variation in background concentrations and specific activities of 36Cl, 129I and U/Th-series radionuclides in surface waters. Journal of environmental radioactivity, 106, 27-34.

2010

Cornett, R. J., Fabryka-Martin, J., Cramer, J. J., Andrew, H. R., & Koslowsky, V. T. (2010). 36Cl production and mobility in the Cigar Lake uranium deposit. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 268(7-8), 1189-1192.

Eliades, J., Zhao, X., Kieser, W. E., & Litherland, A. E. (2010). Isobar Attenuation Using Anion–Gas Reactions for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Application to 36Cl. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 34(2), 107-115.

Hidy, A. J., Gosse, J. C., Pederson, J. L., Mattern, J. P., & Finkel, R. C. (2010). A geologically constrained Monte Carlo approach to modeling exposure ages from profiles of cosmogenic nuclides: An example from Lees Ferry, Arizona. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(9).

Eliades, J., Litherland, A. E., Kieser, W. E., Cousins, L., Ye, S. J., & Zhao, X. L. (2010). Cl/S isobar separation using an on-line reaction cell for 36Cl measurement at low energies. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 268(7-8), 839-842.