Professor David Richards

Research summary

Climate change - Using a wide-range of deposits, especially stalagmites from caves, but also bone, coral and sediments, to obtain high-resolution records of past temperature, sea levels, vegetation change, faunal evolution. 

Geochronology -High-precision dating techniques to obtain chronological control on change in the Earth System (principally uranium-series and radiocarbon methods).

Environmental radioactivity - Developing novel protocols to explore source and pathways of radionuclides, particularly caesium, plutonium and uranium.

Read more >

Links

•   Google Scholar
• twitter
•   ResearcherID

Selected publications

• Hoffmann, D, Prytulak, J, Richards, D, Elliott, T, Coath, C, Smart, P & Scholz, D, 2007, ‘Procedures for accurate U and Th isotope measurements by high precision MC-ICPMS’. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol 264 (2-3)., pp. 97 - 109
• Martin, PG, Payton, OD, Yamashiki, Y, Richards, DA & Scott, TB, 2016, ‘High-resolution radiation mapping to investigate FDNPP derived contaminant migration’. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, vol 164., pp. 26-35

Read more >

Recent publications

• Martin, P, Louvel, M, Cipiccia, S, Jones, C, Batey, D, Hallam, K, Yang, IAX, Satou, Y, Rau, C, Mosselmans, JFW, Richards, D & Scott, T, 2019, ‘Provenance of uranium particulate contained within Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 ejecta material’. Nature Communications, vol 10.
• Martin, P, Davies-Milner, M, Nicholson, J, Richards, D, Yamashiki, Y & Scott, T, 2019, ‘Analysis of particulate distributed across Fukushima Prefecture: Attributing provenance to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident or an alternate emission source’. Atmospheric Environment, vol 212., pp. 142-152

Read more >

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system