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Overview

L.K. Fifield is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has contributed extensively to multiple scientific fields, particularly Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Radiation, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist has focused work on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Nuclear Physics and Applications, Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Radioactive contamination and transfer, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fifield include S.G. Tims, M.B. Froehlich, Stefan Pavetich, A. Wallner, and Dominik Koll. This indicates ongoing interdisciplinary research partnerships.

Their publications appear regularly in various scientific journals, with the most frequent venues being Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, SSRN Electronic Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, and Science.

Recent papers by L.K. Fifield include the following:

  • Phasing of millennial-scale climate variability in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 2020, Science
  • Controls on denudation along the East Australian continental margin, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • 60 Fe deposition during the late Pleistocene and the Holocene echoes past supernova activity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Beppu Bay, Japan, as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series, 2022, The Anthropocene Review
  • Plutonium isotopes in the North Western Pacific sediments coupled with radiocarbon in corals recording precise timing of the Anthropocene, 2022, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Kurt Lambeck;Patrick De Deckker;Paul Johnston

  • Correction: Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Kurt Lambeck;Patrick De Deckker;Paul Johnston

  • Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores, in eastern Indonesia

    M J Morwood;R P Soejono;Richard G Roberts;T Sutikna

  • Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago

    Chris S. M. Turney;Michael I. Bird;L. Keith Fifield;Richard G. Roberts

  • Radiocarbon dating of old charcoal using a wet oxidation, stepped-combustion procedure

    Michael I Bird;L K Ayliffe;L K Fifield;Christian S M Turney

  • Cosmogenic chlorine-36 from calcium spallation

    J.O. Stone;G.L. Allan;L.K. Fifield;R.G. Cresswell

  • The timing of the Last Glacial Maximum in Australia.

    Timothy T Barrows;John O Stone;L.Keith Fifield;Richard G Cresswell

  • Cosmogenic Chlorine-36 Production in Calcite by Muons

    J.O.H. Stone;J.M. Evans;L.K. Fifield;G.L. Allan

  • Millennial and orbital variations of El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high-latitude climate in the last glacial period

    Christian S M Turney;Christian S M Turney;A Peter Kershaw;Steven C Clemens;Nick Branch

  • Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Kosciuszko Massif, Snowy Mountains, Australia

    Timothy T. Barrows;John O. Stone;L. Keith Fifield;Richard G. Cresswell

  • Recent near-Earth supernovae probed by global deposition of interstellar radioactive 60 Fe

    A. Wallner;J. Feige;N. Kinoshita;M. Paul

  • Cl/Br ratios and environmental isotopes as indicators of recharge variability and groundwater flow: An example from the southeast Murray Basin, Australia

    Ian Cartwright;Tamie Renee Weaver;L Keith Fifield

  • Tectonic uplift, threshold hillslopes, and denudation rates in a developing mountain range

    Steven A. Binnie;William M. Phillips;Michael A. Summerfield;L. Keith Fifield

  • An inflection in the rate of early mid-Holocene eustatic sea-level rise: A new sea-level curve from Singapore

    M.I. Bird;L.K. Fifield;T.S. Teh;C.H. Chang

  • Sea-level at the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from northwestern Australia to constrain ice volumes for oxygen isotope stage 2

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Patrick De Deckker;Kurt Lambeck;Paul Johnston

  • Accelerator mass spectrometry and its applications

    L K Fifield

  • Natural and anthropogenic 236U in environmental samples

    Peter Steier;Max Bichler;L. Keith Fifield;Robin Golser

  • Punctuated eustatic sea-level rise in the early mid-Holocene

    Michael I. Bird;William E.N. Austin;Christopher M. Wurster;L. Keith Fifield

  • Optical Dating of Deep-Sea Sediments using Single Grains of Quartz: a Comparison with Radiocarbon

    J.M. Olley;P. De Deckker;R.G. Roberts;L.K. Fifield

  • Evolution of vertical knickpoints (waterfalls) with resistant caprock: Insights from numerical modeling

    I Haviv;Y Enzel;K. X Whipple;E. Zilberman

  • Kinetics of uptake and elimination of silicic acid by a human subject: a novel application of 32Si and accelerator mass spectrometry.

    J.F Popplewell;S.J King;J.P Day;P Ackrill

  • Re-anchoring the late Pleistocene tephrochronology of New Zealand based on concordant radiocarbon ages and combined 238U/230Th disequilibrium and (U–Th)/He zircon ages

    Martin Danišík;Martin Danišík;Phil A.R. Shane;Axel K. Schmitt;Alan G. Hogg

  • Denudation rates for the southern Drakensberg escarpment, SE Africa, derived from in-situ-produced cosmogenic 36C1: initial results

    A. Fleming;M. A. Summerfield;J. O. Stone;L. K. Fifield

  • Unsaturated zone tritium and chlorine 36 profiles from southern Australia: Their use as tracers of soil water movement

    P. G. Cook;I. D. Jolly;F. W. Leaney;G. R. Walker

  • Redating the onset of burning at Lynch's Crater (North Queensland): implications for human settlement in Australia

    Christian S M Turney;Arnold P Kershaw;Patrick T Moss;Michael I Bird

  • Oligomeric but not monomeric silica prevents aluminum absorption in humans

    Ravin Jugdaohsingh;D. M. Reffitt;C. Oldham;J. P. Day

  • Carbon isotope evidence for changes in Antarctic Intermediate Water circulation and ocean ventilation in the southwest Pacific during the last deglaciation

    Helen C. Bostock;Bradley N. Opdyke;Michael K. Gagan;L. Keith Fifield

  • Accelerator mass spectrometry of the actinides

    L.K. Fifield

  • Terrestrial vegetation change inferred from n-alkane σ13C analysis in the marine environment

    Michael I. Bird;Roger E. Summons;Michael K. Gagan;Zarko Roksandic

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Guaciara M. Santos
Guaciara M. Santos University of California, Irvine
John O. Stone
John O. Stone University of Washington
Timothy T. Barrows
Timothy T. Barrows University of New South Wales
Peter Steier
Peter Steier University of Vienna
Chris S. M. Turney
Chris S. M. Turney Heriot-Watt University
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
Allan R. Chivas
Allan R. Chivas University of Wollongong
Dylan H. Rood
Dylan H. Rood Imperial College London
Stewart P.H.T. Freeman
Stewart P.H.T. Freeman University of Glasgow

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