Isotope Geochemist

Location: NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth

Tel: 0115 9363514

E-mail Carol Arrowsmith

Biography

• BSc Environmental Studies: University of Northumbria
• OND Science: Stockport College of Technology

Skills

• Water isotope geochemistry — classical vacuum and automated techniques
• Organic carbon isotope geochemistry
• Stable isotope mass spectrometry, with particular experience with Micromass SIRA, GV IsoPrime, and VG Optimas
• QA and Health and Safety

Published outputs

• NERC Open Research Archive — Carol Arrowsmith

Key Papers

TYLER, J.J., LENG, M.J., ARROWSMITH, C. 2007. Seasonality and the isotope hydrology of Lochnagar, a Scottish mountain lake: implications for palaeoclimate research. The Holocene 17; 717.

JONES,M.D., LENG, M.J., ARROWSMITH,C., DEUCHARS, C., HODGSON,J., DAWSON,T. 2007. Local δ¹⁸O and δ²H variability in UK rainfall. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 4, 2403–2423.

KEATINGS, K., TASSIE, G. T., FLOWER, R. J., HASSAN, F. A., HAMDAN, M. A. R., HUGHES, M. AND ARROWSMITH, C. 2007. An Examination of Groundwater within the Hawara Pyramid, Egypt.  Journal of Geoarchaeology, 22, 533-554.

THOMAS, E. R., WOLFF, E.W.W., MULVANEY, R., STEFFENSEN, J.P., JOHNSEN, S.J., ARROWSMITH, C., VAUGHN, B., WHITE, J.W.C., Popp, T., 2007. The 8.2 kyr event from Greenland ice cores. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 70-81.

STEPHENSON, M.H., LENG, M.J., VANE, C.H., OSTERLOFF, P.L. AND ARROWSMITH, C. 2005. Investigating Permian climate change from deglacial argillaceous sediments in Oman. Geological Society of London, 162, 641-651