Staff profiles
Vanessa TrompetterPrincipal Technician
Biography
Vanessa is the Principal Technician in the Water Dating Lab with 28 years experience specialising in high sensitivity tritium analaysis. The laboratory also measures complementary environmental tracers such as CFC, SF6 H-1301 and Ne allowing understanding of processes in groundwater, surface water, oceans and glaciers. Vanessa is also using stable isotopes to create a groundwater isoscape for New Zealand.
Qualifications
- BSc, Earth Science
- MSc, Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Business Development: Quality assurance
- Business Development: Geochronology/Stable Isotopes
- Business Development: Quality assurance auditing
- Geochemist: Groundwater Dating
- Geochemist: Hydrogeology
- Geochemist: Isotope Geochemistry
- Geochemist: Stable Isotopes
- Geology: Erosion Processes
- Groundwater: Aquifer testing
- Groundwater: GW security - Municpal water supply
- Groundwater: Groundwater dating
- Groundwater: Sampling
- Groundwater: Water Quality
- Technical: Computer skills
- Technical: Data analysis
- Technical: Field Work
- Technical: Gas chromatography
- Technical: Gas chromatography
Major Publications
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- The Marlborough Deep Wairau Aquifer sustainability review 2008 : isotopic indicators Lower Hutt: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2008/33 18 p.