Luminescence Dating Laboratory
The Geography Department at UFV is the home of a luminescence dating laboratory, currently the only one of its kind in western Canada. The NSERC-funded laboratory has absorbed, and replaced, the Optical and TL Dating Laboratory in the Physics Department of Simon Fraser University which closed due to the retirement of its director.
After much delay, construction of the laboratory was completed in the spring of 2007, and a new Risø TL/OSL-DA-20 dating system and other equipment was installed in November of that year.
The UFV Luminescence Dating Laboratory serves as a place of research and teaching, and welcomes both visiting colleagues from other universities, and graduate and undergraduate students. The laboratory also undertakes limited contract work.
Watch this space for updates on the facility and faculty and student research activities associated with it!
Gamma-ray spectrometry being conducted on perched (glacial?) lake sediments, Fraser Plateau, southcentral British Columbia, Canada (summer 2005)
Dr. Olav Lian Laboratory Director |
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