NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility

Are you UK based and need funding for radiocarbon dating? Spring has sprung, which means it is time for the next deadline for NEIF applications! Please get in contact asap to discuss your project. Deadline 25th March; www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Looking forward to Monday and filling this space! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

Currently writing up the results of new radiocarbon dating from this amazing Neolithic monument, Le Déhus, on the Channel Islands. With thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social and @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social for funding radiocarbon dating.

Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

Stood in the Cretaceous looking at the first grasses on Earth (British Geological Survey) geological walkway…

In 1955 the third (?) mass spectrometer in the world (maybe for geochronology?) was purchased by Oxford University for the determination of the oldest rocks… at the grand price of £10,000. Apparently the determination will have “no immediate practical application” but it was beautiful…

The University of Nottingham has appointed BGS’s senior isotope research geochemist, Angela Lamb, as an honorary professor. As part of her role, Angela will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching alongside facilitating collaborative research programmes between BGS and the University.

Premio Miglior pubblicazione GGM 2025 Benvenuto nel sito ufficiale della Società Geologica Italiana, fondata a Bologna il 29 Settembre 1881, la più antica e rappresentativa associazione scientifica italiana nel campo delle geoscienze.

Congratulations to NEIF researcher, Francesco Putzolu, whose Economic Geology paper 'Origin of the Jadar Volcano-Sedimentary Li-B Deposit, Serbia' has been awarded the prize for the best Mineral Deposits paper from Young Researchers by the Italian Geological Society: www.socgeol.it/N6807/premio...

So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

Frontiers | The abundance, diversity, and assemblage structure of the macrobenthos at the South Georgia shelf methane seeps A quarter of all marine methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is estimated to be hosted in Southern Ocean sediments. Climate change-induced ocean warming and ice...

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Stable Isotopes in Ecology Intro This is "Stable Isotopes in Ecology Intro" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

We're excited to announce the launch of the Stable Isotope Ecology course on the GAEA platform. Learn more and register for this and other courses at www.gaea.ac.uk @isotopesuk.bsky.social vimeo.com/757190807?fl...

Esthwaite Water: applying novel approaches to understand lake-water nutrient pollution - British Geological Survey Geology fieldwork in the Lake District, applying a novel stable isotope method for tracing phosphorus sources.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/esthwai...

Congratulations Charles Gowing on 32 years service to inorganic geochemistry /British Geological Survey - happy retirement, you will be missed! Follow your dreams ✈️🌍🛩️🌏

Great insights from the Elementar Elemental Analysis & TOC Forum at Manchester Museum!
Jack, Kotryna and Charlotte recently attended the Elementar Elemental Analysis & TOC Forum, an event packed with innovation & expertise in advanced elemental analysis.

One month before the next NEIF deadline! Please get in contact asap if you want to apply for some radiocarbon dates in this round. For UK based students, post-docs and beyond. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A graphic promoting both jobs. Organic geochemist has the closing date of 25 August and administrator / business assistant has the closing date of 10 August. to the left is a photo of core. To the top right is the BGS logo.

Interested in joining a world-leading geological organisation? We have two vacancies available:

🌱 Organic geochemist
📋 Administrator / business assistant

Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...

Congratulations to those who have received stable isotope NEIF funding (BGS node) at the spring 2025 meeting:

Dr KA Hemer (UCL).

Prof D Thornalley (UCL).

Dr JF Dean (Bristol).

Prof GMF van der Heijden (Nottingham).

Dr AC Law (Nottingham).

Dr D Wright (Newcastle).

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to the students and staff at the Museu de Zoologia at the University of Sao Paulo, about our @isotopesuk.bsky.social Stable Isotope Ecology Lab at @suerc.bsky.social , but also the many ways in which stable isotopes can be used in ecological applications.

Congratulations to Sir Keith O’Nions on his retirement as Chair of the British Geological Survey Board, thanks for your 8 years of service…

Keith was presented by Karen Hanghøj with a garnet laser engraved by Matthew Horstwood in the NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility

I am co-convening a meeting at the Royal Society later this year, with @krhendry.bsky.social and other very excellent polar science colleagues. If you have interests relating to Antarctica and the impacts of climate change, please consider participating!

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC at the Radiocarbon Meeting in Krakow

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC, together in Kraków! Great to see everyone at the 25th Radiocarbon Conference last week—enjoying 14C science, collaboration, and a bit of Kraków sunshine. #Radiocarbon2025 #NEIF #14C #Krakow

Delighted that pangolin research by @ruthlewissmith.bsky.social is featured by Birmingham Museums. Huge thanks from SUERC @isotopesuk.bsky.social for the generous donation of sample material from their natural science collection!

The Battarbee Lecture 2025: Recent Advances in the Use of Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science This year’s Battarbee Lecture was delivered by Professor Melanie Leng, Science Director of the NERC Stable Isotope Facility at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth.

🧬 Professor Melanie Leng delivered the 2025 Battarbee Lecture on stable isotope analysis in diatoms, insects, and lake sediments—continuing her impactful work with @ucl.ac.uk Geography.

More: tinyurl.com/ucl-leng

#UCLGeography #StableIsotopes #BattarbeeLecture #EnvironmentalResearch

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis Rationale Increasing demand for fish and seafood means that the traceability of marine products is becoming ever more important for consumers, producers and regulators. Highly complex and globalised.....

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis - Wilson - 2025 - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry #stableisotopes analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Andi Smith and Chris Bengt (BGS) travelled to the Philippines for Chris’s PhD fieldwork at Lake Bulusan, Sorsogon Province. The core material will shed light on phosphorus dynamics and the role volcanic eruptions play in fertilising the surrounding forests.

Isotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Research - update
Published 1.6.25.
This is an update on the 2004 QSR issue on “Isotopes in Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction”.The last 2 decades have seen huge advances in methods and interpretation…
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/quat...