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Staff profiles
Margaret NorrisRadiocarbon Laboratory Manager
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Qualifications
- New Zealand Certificate in Science, Chemistry
- New Zealand Diploma in Science
- MSc, Physical Geography
Areas of expertise
- Radiocarbon: sample treatment methods
- Radiocarbon: New preparation procedures
- Radiocarbon: Dating of Microbotanicals
- Radiocarbon: Calibration of time scale
- Radiocarbon: Graphite making
- Radiocarbon: Laboratory Managemnent
- Radiocarbon: Atmospheric applications
- Radiocarbon: Lab tours and explanations to visitors
- Radiocarbon: Aging of post-bomb materials
- Radiocarbon: Tree ring sample preparation methods
- Radiocarbon: Authentication of antiquities
- Radiocarbon: pretreatment method development
- Radiocarbon: Dating of macrofossils
- Radiocarbon: Biosecurity management