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Environmental

 

 

ANSTO maintains a comprehensive range of environmental and analytical facilities for scientific research and the provision of commercial services to industry. Capabilities and the key ANSTO contact are listed below;

 

Researcher access to ANSTO facilities is available via our User Access Programs

For all commercial/industry enquiries please contact Access ANSTO on +61 2 9717 7000

 

Facility description ANSTO Contact
  • Near Surface and Depth Profiling Analysis Facility (SIBA2)
  • Multiple Surface Analysis Facility (SIBA1)
  • Aerosol Measurement Facility (SIBA1)
  • 10MV Tandem Accelerator - General
  • Heavy Ion Time-of-Flight Spectrometer and Surface Analysis Facility
  • Ion Beam Analysis Facility  
  • Ion Beam Irradiations
  • High Energy Heavy Ion Microprobe Analysis Facility

Dr David Cohen

+61 2 9717 3042

  • Ion Implantation Facility - Metal Vapour Vacuum Arc Ion Source (MEVVA)

Dr Peter Evans

+61 2 9717 3696

  • C-14 AMS analysis - graphite, carbon dioxide, pre-treated, standard treatment, complex treatment
  • C-14 high precision analysis (<0.3% precision)

Dr Geraldine Jacobsen

+61 2 9717 9060

  • Stable isotope, delta C13 and delta N15 analysis
 

Alan Williams

+61 2 9717 3395

  • Be-10 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - ice, snow, filters

Dr Andrew Smith

+61 2 9717 9054

  • Be-10 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - BeO, quartz (in situ)
  • Al-26 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - Al203, quartz (in situ), water

Dr David Fink

+61 2 9717 3048

  • I-129 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - Agl, soil, sediment, biota, water
  • U-236 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - U2O5, soil, sediment, biota, water

Dr Mike Hotchkis

+61 2 9717 3148

  • Environmental Radiochemistry - Geochronology
  • Uranium/Thorium dating
  • 210Pb-dating dating (alpha spectrometry)
  • 210Pb dating (gamma spectrometry)
  • Grain Size Analysis

Jennifer Harrison

+61 2 9717 3480

  • Tritium - Environmental Chemistry
  • Chemical analysis
 

Henri Wong

+61 2 9717 3539

 
  • Radon calibration chamber
  • Radon/radium measurement
  • Radon/thoron emanometer
  • Radon/radium liquid scintillation counter

Dr Wlodek Zahorowski

+61 2 9717 3804

  • SIMS - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry - Cameca 5f

Dr Kathryn Prince

+61 2 9717 9217

  • Coastal research vessel

Ron Szymczak

+61 2 9717 9221

  • Environmental radioisotope tracing facility

Dr Cath Hughes

+61 2 9717 3272

  • Marine Radioecology Laboratory

John Twining

+61 2 9717 3060