Essays about: "limnologist"

Found 1 essay containing the word limnologist.

  1. 1. Dating lake bottom sediment by searching for 210Pb using gamma-ray spectroscopy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Tillämpad kärnfysik

    Author : William Bäckström; [2020]
    Keywords : sediment dating; dating; spectroscopy; gamma-ray; nuclear; lead; HPGe detector; sedimentation; sedimentation rate; attenuation; migration; limnologist; least squares;

    Abstract : In a collaboration with limnologists at Uppsala University a planar HPGe detector has been used to find 210Pb in lake bottom sediment in hopes of getting an estimation for the sedimentation rate. Using a least squares fit to the data, the sedimentation rate was calculated to 0.08 ± 0. READ MORE