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Nigel A. Spooner is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and has an extensive research profile primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Materials Science. Their work spans several interdisciplinary subfields including Materials Chemistry, Geophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Anthropology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research encompasses diverse main topics such as:

  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Glass properties and applications
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Nigel A. Spooner has published frequently in several journals and venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications)
  • Radiation Measurements (7 publications)
  • Geoarchaeology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials (2 publications)
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (2 publications)

Selected recent papers illustrate the range of their research interests and include:

  • Identifying disturbance in archaeological sites in tropical northern Australia: Implications for previously proposed 65,000-year continental occupation date, 2020, published in Geoarchaeology
  • Understanding the mobility and retention of uranium and its daughter products, 2020, published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Selective radionuclide co-sorption onto natural minerals in environmental and anthropogenic conditions, 2020, published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Quartz optically stimulated luminescence configurational coordinate model, 2020, published in Radiation Measurements
  • Insights into the relationship between luminescence and ESR dating signals from Spanish sedimentary quartz samples of different geologic origins, 2020, published in Quaternary International

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Owen M. Williams
  • D. J. Ottaway
  • J. Moffatt
  • Thomas J. de Prinse
  • Georgios Tsiminis

Best Publications

  • New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia

    James M. Bowler;Harvey Johnston;Jon M. Olley;John R. Prescott

  • Australia's oldest human remains: age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton.

    Alan Thorne;Rainer Grün;Graham Mortimer;Nigel A. Spooner

  • Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna

    Gifford H. Miller;John W. Magee;Beverly J. Johnson;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • The human colonisation of Australia: optical dates of 53,000 and 60,000 years bracket human arrival at Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory

    Richard G. Roberts;Rhys Jones;Nigel A. Spooner;M.J. Head

  • The anomalous fading of infrared-stimulated luminescence from feldspars

    N.A. Spooner

  • Continuous 150 k.y. monsoon record from Lake Eyre, Australia: Insolation-forcing implications and unexpected Holocene failure

    John W. Magee;Gifford H. Miller;Nigel A. Spooner;Daniele Questiaux

  • Direct dating of Florisbad hominid

    Rainer Grün;James S. Brink;Nigel A. Spooner;Lois Taylor

  • On the optical dating signal from quartz

    N.A. Spooner

  • When did homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul

    James F. O’Connell;Jim Allen;Martin A. J. Williams;Alan N. Williams

  • Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia

    Peter M. Veth;Ingrid Ward;Tiina Manne;Sean Ulm

  • Optical dating: Preliminary results on the anomalous fading of luminescence from feldspars

    N.A. Spooner

  • Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia

    Giles Hamm;Peter Mitchell;Lee J. Arnold;Gavin J. Prideaux

  • OPTICAL DATING OF SEDIMENTS: INITIAL QUARTZ RESULTS FROM OXFORD

    B. W. Smith;E. J. Rhodes;S. Stokes;N. A. Spooner

  • A Benchmark Quantum Yield for Water Photoreduction on Amorphous Carbon Nitride

    Mohammad Z. Rahman;Patrick C. Tapping;Tak W. Kee;Ronald Smernik

  • Creeping soil

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  • The effect of illumination wavelength on the bleaching of the thermoluminescence (TL) of quartz

    N.A. Spooner;J.R. Prescott;J.T. Hutton

  • Tunnel afterglow, fading and infrared emission in thermoluminescence of feldspars

    R. Visocekas;N.A. Spooner;A. Zink;P. Blanc

  • Lake Lewis basin, central Australia: environmental evolution and OSL chronology

    P English;Nigel Spooner;John Chappell;D Questiaux

  • Quantifying the rate and depth dependence of bioturbation based on optically‐stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates and meteoric 10Be

    Michelle O. Johnson;Simon M. Mudd;Brad Pillans;Nigel A. Spooner

  • The Optical Dating of Sediments Using Quartz

    B. W. Smith;E. J. Rhodes;S. Stokes;N. A. Spooner

  • Age and origin of Terra Rossa soils in the Coonawarra area of South Australia

    A Mee;Erick Anthony Bestland;Nigel A Spooner

  • ESR and U-series analyses of faunal material from Cuddie Springs, NSW, Australia: implications for the timing of the extinction of the Australian megafauna

    Rainer Grün;Stephen Eggins;Maxime Aubert;Nigel Spooner;Nigel Spooner

  • Dating of marine terrace sediments by ESR, TL and OSL methods and their applicabilities

    Kazuhiro Tanaka;Ryuta Hataya;Nigel A. Spooner;Daniel G. Questiaux

  • Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts.

    Rainer GrüN;Nigel A. Spooner;Alan Thorne;Graham Mortimer

  • Human predation contributed to the extinction of the Australian megafaunal bird Genyornis newtoni ~47 ka

    Gifford Miller;John Magee;Michael Smith;Nigel Spooner

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanya M. Monro
Tanya M. Monro University of South Australia
Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem University of Adelaide
Edward J. Rhodes
Edward J. Rhodes University of Sheffield
Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia
Jon Olley
Jon Olley Griffith University
Marilyn L. Fogel
Marilyn L. Fogel University of California, Riverside

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