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Are those prawns really 100 per cent Australian? The mission to fight food fraud

Those Christmas prawns bathing in the supermarket ice-baths are exactly what you expect: plump, red and labelled 100…
#NewsBeep #News #Business #adulteration #ANSTO #AU #Australia #fake #food #foodfraud #labelling #Laboratory #prawns
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/299905/

🐠 #Flinders #ANSTO and #CurtinUni have new insights into the lives of 380-million-year-old lungfish after a high-tech examination of ‘remarkable’ well-preserved jawbones found in the remote Gogo fossil field in northern Western Australia

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/high-tech-dive-into-mighty-bite-of-ancient-lungfish

The Australian Synchrotron is holding a free two-day workshop for prospective users of the microscopy beamlines (XFM, IRM and THz).

#Synchrotron #AustralianSynchrotron #ANSTO #XFM #XrayFluorescence #IRM #microscopy

https://www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/australian-synchrotron-microscopy-workshop-2024-a-virtual-2-day-event

Just published in Organic Geochemistry, "Fire-induced shifts in stalagmite organic matter mapped using Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy", led by #ANSTO colleague Dr. Liza McDonough. We demonstrate for the first time that Synchrotron IRM is a promising non-destructive, high resolution (5 µm) technique for analysing stalagmite organic matter. The paper can be found #OpenAccess here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104842

#speleothem #stalagmite #organicMatter #pastClimate #geochemistry #UNSW

@Andbaker

Paper publication day is one of my favourite days! Our paper on wildfire ash chemistry is out today and #OpenAccess in the #AGU journal 'Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.' We analysed the inorganic and organic chemistry of wildfire (and prescribed burn) ashes from 4 karst areas in Australia and found that ash chemistry varies with burn severity and sampling location. Another team effort from #ANSTO, #UNSW, #UWA, #GNSScience colleagues (👋 @Andbaker )

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011470

@paleofire

If you are interested in the chemical tracers of wildfires, and how those might vary with burn severity, check out our new #preprint https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.170689252.26414470/v1

We leached wildfire ashes and soils from karst areas, so we can better understand the speleothem palaeofire proxy signal. Another team effort, with co-authors from #UNSW (👋 @Andbaker) #ANSTO, #UWA, and #GNSScience

#palaeofire #paleofire #processUnderstanding #Proxy #proxies #paleoenvironment

Our @unsw / #ANSTO team is presenting at #EGU23 today! We're in session BG1.2, poster Hall A, from 2pm until the coffee break. Come and find as at A.191, A.202 and A.203 to see what we've been up to in the #speleothem #palaeofire world.

#paleofire