Short-Lived Isotope Lab

A selection of recent work using the Dartmouth Short-Lived Isotope Lab.  Click on any these titles to learn more.

Hydrology

• Determining lateral migration rates of meandering rivers using fallout radionuclides

• Surficial redistribution of fallout ¹³¹iodine in a small temperate catchment

• Impact of flow regulated on near-channel floodplain sedimentation

• Time and depth scales of fine sediment delivery into gravel stream beds: constraints from fallout radionuclides on fine sediment residence time and delivery

• Flow and sediment regimes at tributary junctions on a regulated river:  Impact on sediment residence time and benthic macroinvertebrate communities

• Evaluating the impacts of impoundment on sediment transport using short-lived fallout nuclides

• The use of short-lived radionuclides to quantify transitional bed material transport in a regulated river

Methods Development

• Measurement of ⁷Be in soils and sediments by gamma spectroscopy