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Environmental magnetism laboratory

Environmental magnetism at Liverpool was pioneered following the arrival of Professor Frank Oldfield in 1975.

The present Gladys Dalby New Environmental Magnetism Laboratory was completed in 1996 with help from a philanthropic donation by the family of Miss Gladys Dalby New. Miss New (1896-1992) was a former graduate of the University of Liverpool and taught Geography at Leeds Grammar School.

Contacts

Facilities

  • Bartington Instruments MS2 Magnetic susceptibility meters (with a wide range of sensors and variable temperature facility)
  • KLY-3 Kappabridge susceptibilty system
  • Molspin fluxgate spinner magnetometers
  • Molspin Vibrating Sample Magnetometer
  • ASC Scientific alternating-field demagnetizer with partial ARM capability
  • Molspin, Magnetic Measurements and Trilec pulse demagnetisers (fields up to 7 T)
  • Low-temperature spinner magnetometer, Curie balance and Quantum Designs Magnetic Property Measurement System available through the Liverpool University Geomagnetism Laboratory
  • Ancilliary equipment: large volume freeze-drier; isotope-source XRF system; atomic absorbtion spectrophotometer; Coulter laser diffraction granulometer; on-site helium liquefier and bulk liquid nitrogen storage 

Former PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Zhixiong Shen - Palaeomagnetic secular variation and optical luminescence dating of British Holocene lake sediments (PhD 2007).
  • Dr Dunsheng Xia - Magnetic studies of tephra in late Holocene peats and loessic soils from SE Iceland (PhD 2003).
  • Dr Amy Clarke - Lake records of Holocene climate change from west Greenland (PhD 2002).
  • Dr. Kuno van der Post - The development and deployment of a magnetic coastal sand tracer (PhD 2000).
  • Dr Shanju Xie - Magnetic studies of dusts in the urban environment (PhD 2000).
  • Dr Zoe Gibbs - The origin of fine grained magnetite in sediments (PhD 2000)
  • Dr Jan Reinders - Rock magnetism of urban pollutants (MAGNET Postdoctoral researcher) (1998-2000).
  • Dr. Jacqueline Hannam - Processes and timescales of secondary magnetic mineral formation in topsoils (PhD 1999).
  • Dr Eleanor Parker - An assessment of environmental magnetics and particle size distribution analyses as proxies for varioations in the intensity of the East Asian Monsoon (PhD 1999).
  • Dr Yuquan Hu - A magnetic approach to the establishment of sediment-source linkages for reconstructing the late pleistocene and holocene environmental evolution of the Lac D'annecy, France (PhD 1997)
  • Dr. Derek France - The mineral magnetic characterisation of Goethite and haematite in soils and sediments (PhD 1997).