Team210

Minimum reporting recommendations for reproducibility, age-model integrity, and archiving of 210Pb sediment data

Team Members

• Colin Courtney-Mustaphi -- University of York, York, England
• Marco Antonio Aquino Lopez -- Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Janice Brahney -- Utah State University, Logan, USA
• Alexandra Noronha -- University of Texas, Austin, USA

Project Description

There is a lack of standardization in reporting of 210Pb dating of sediment cores. Our objectives are several fold.

1. To assess current practices in reporting through a literature review
2. Recommend minimum reporting requirements for authors to ensure models can be reproduced and for adequate uncertainty assessment
3. Using recommendations for reporting to advise database structuring for geochronology components of repository records
4. Outreach to the academic community to promote best practices

List of Lead-210 Dating labs

##Alpha

St. Croix Watershed Research Station

Flett Research Radioisotope Services

MyCore

Centre D'études Nordiques

Core Scientific International

GNS Science

##Gamma UCL Environmental Radiometric Facility

WHOI Coastal Systems Group

Daniel Bain - University of Pittsburgh

Jules Blais - University of Ottawa

PEARL - Queen's University, Canada

##Unknown ANSTO

##Defunct National Water Research Institute, Canada

Beta Analytic, lead-210