Meeting will discuss new radiocarbon-dating facility
April 17, 2019
Officials from the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility will discuss their plans for a state-of-the-art
Arctic radiocarbon-dating facility at a meeting at noon Friday, April 26, at the ELIF
BP Design Theater, Room 401.
Radiocarbon dating is used by University of Alaska researchers from a wide range of
disciplines. There is currently no radiocarbon dating facility in Alaska, so researchers
in the state must send their samples to facilities in the Lower 48. Not only must
they pay the expense of shipping and external testing, but the arrangement also prevents
researchers and their students from being involved in basic hands-on research; laboratory
and methods development; and innovative, experimental research that a local radiocarbon
lab would allow.
An Arctic radiocarbon facility at UAF would build on the National Science Foundation’s
growing research infrastructure in the Arctic, including new long-term ecological
research sites, the research vessel Sikuliaq, and other analytical facilities. Such a facility could be utilized across many disciplines,
including archaeology, engineering, geology, chemistry and biology. It would serve
university, state, local and private entities.
For more details, contact Mat Wooler at mjwooller@alaska.edu or Nicole Misarti at nmisarti@alaska.edu. To view the meeting via Zoom, go online to https://zoom.us/j/102179088.