Classic papers recommended for participants

Classic papers recommended for participants (it is recommended for trainees to read through these papers prior to the lectures)£º

  1. E-Lectures: Radioactivity. (Limnology & Oceanography 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1) https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2164-0254.radioactivity

Lecture 1£ºRadioactivity in the Marine Environment: Understanding the Basics of Radioecology

Lecture 2£ºRadioactivity in the Marine Environment: Uranium-Thorium Decay Series

Lecture 3£ºRadioactivity in the Marine Environment: Understanding the Basics of Radioactivity

Lecture 4£ºRadioactivity in the Marine Environment: Cosmogenic and Anthropogenic Radionuclides

  1. Cochran, J. K and Masqué, P. 2003 Short-lived U/Th Series Radionuclides in the Ocean: Tracers for Scavenging Rates, Export Fluxes and Particle Dynamics. Uranium-Series Geochemistry, Reviews in Mineralogy and geochemistry, 52, 461-492.
  2. Cochran, J. K., Feng, H., Amiel, D., Beck, A. 2006. Natural radionuclides as tracers of coastal biogeochemical processes. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 88, 376-379.
  3. Livingston, H. D., Povinec, P. P. 2000. Anthropogenic marine radioactivity. Ocean & Coastal Management, 43, 689-712.
  4. Waples, J.T., Benitez-Nelson, C., Savoye, N., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Baskaran, M., Gustafsson, O¨. 2006. An introduction to the application and future use of 234Th in aquatic systems. Marine Chemistry 10, 166-189
  5. Moore, W. S.  2000. Ages of continental shelf waters determined from 223Ra and 224Ra, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105(C9), 22117–22122, doi:10.1029/1999JC000289.
  6. Moore, W. S., J. O. Blanton, and S. B. Joye. 2006. Estimates of flushing times, submarine groundwater discharge, and nutrient fluxes to Okatee Estuary, South Carolina, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C09006, doi:10.1029/2005JC003041.
  7. R Arias-Ortiz, A., Masqué, P., Garcia-Orellana, J., Serrano, O., Mazarrasa, I., Marbà, N., Lovelock, C. E., Lavery, P. S., and Duarte, C. M. 2018. Reviews and syntheses: 210Pb-derived sediment and carbon accumulation rates in vegetated coastal ecosystems – setting the record straight, Biogeosciences, 15, 6791–6818, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6791-2018
  8. Buesseler, K.O. 2014. Fukushima and ocean radioactivity. Oceanography, 27(1):92–105.

 

Further reading (Methods in marine radioactivity)

  1. On-line methods “Cookbook” for radionuclides originated from a Working Group called Rio5 (Radioactivity in the Ocean, 5 decades later): https://cmer.whoi.edu/cookbook/
  2. RiO5 METHOD (6): 234Th — method — seawater samples: 234Th in 4 Liter method in seawater (Ken Buesseler)
  3. Measurement of 223Ra and 224Ra in coastal waters using a delayed coincidence counter (Moore & Arnold, 1996, Journal of Geophysical Research)
    -- There will be a special reward for the first student who finds a major mistake in the Moore & Arnold paper.  
  4. Fifteen years experience in measuring 224Ra and 223Ra by delayed-coincidence counting (Moore, 2008, Marine Chemistry)
  5. Website: visit www.radecc.com to learn more about RaDeCC
  6. Lab experiment instruction on Gamma Spectroscopy:  https://www.mirion.com/learning-center/lab-experiments 
  7. "Pore water sampling couldn't be simpler" - Home of "PushPoint" sediment pore water sampling systems: http://www.mheproducts.com/