December 2024 Newsletter

Happy Holidays from NOSAMS

The past six months have been very busy at the NOSAMS facility. In September we hosted a MICADAS workshop that brought together 42 people from 18 international institutions at WHOI, plus an additional 38 online participants.

Mark Roberts has recently retired after 22+ productive years as Staff Physicist with the facility. We are happy to report he will maintain an Emeritus role at NOSAMS.

Last week we hosted an Introduction to Radiocarbon workshop in Washington, D.C. prior to the AGU Fall Meeting. Attendees had the opportunity to practice sampling and discuss issues ranging from preventing contamination to nomenclature.

Our fees will be increasing effective April 2025. The new fee chart can be found on our website.

Highlights from the recent literature

Lester, J. G., Graven, H. D., Khatiwala, S., McNichol, A.P. (2024) Changes in Oceanic Radiocarbon and CFCs Since the 1990s.” Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 129, e2023JC020387. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020387

McHugh, C. M., Seeber, L., Gulick, Sean P.S., et al. (2024) Sedimentary signatures of large earthquakes along the submerged Enriquillo−Plantain Garden transpressional plate boundary, northern Caribbean.” Geology . https://doi.org/10.1130/G52258.1

Goldstein, S. T., Mueller, N. G., Janzen, A., et al. (2024) Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, no. 2026 : 20232747. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2747

A full bibliography of publications utilizing NOSAMS analyses can be found here.