It is nearly 80 years since Nobel Prize-winning US chemist Willard Libby first suggested minute amounts of a radioactive form of carbon are created in the upper atmosphere. Radiocarbon dating has revolutionised our understanding of the past. UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.
Queen's University Belfast and University of Sheffield provide funding as founding partners of The Conversation UK. Tim Heaton receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust via a research fellowship on "Improving the Measurement of Time via Radiocarbon". Reimer receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and UK Research and Innovation. Lecturer in Statistics, University of SheffieldĬhris Turney receives funding from The Australian Research Council and is a scientific advisor to cleantech graphite company, CarbonScape ( ).Īlan Hogg receives funding from the Marsden fund administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Professor, Director, Carbon Dating Laboratory, University of WaikatoĬhair professor, Queen's University Belfast Professor, Earth Science and Climate Change, UNSW Sydney