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Peter Steier is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and has a significant body of research focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their academic interests frequently intersect with topics such as radioactive contamination and transfer, radioactivity and radon measurements, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as radioactive element chemistry and processing.

The scientist's extensive publication record includes contributions to several specialized venues. Notably, Steier has published multiple papers in the following outlets:

  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications

Among their recent papers are:

  • "233U/236U signature allows to distinguish environmental emissions of civil nuclear industry from weapons fallout" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "An unknown source of reactor radionuclides in the Baltic Sea revealed by multi-isotope fingerprints" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "70-Year Anthropogenic Uranium Imprints of Nuclear Activities in Baltic Sea Sediments" (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "Pushing Limits of ICP-MS/MS for the Determination of Ultralow 236U/238U Isotope Ratios" (2020, Analytical Chemistry)
  • "Prehistoric salt mining in Hallstatt, Austria. New chronologies out of small wooden fragments" (2021, Dendrochronologia)

Steier's frequent collaborators include:

  • Karin Hain
  • Robin Golser
  • Jixin Qiao
  • Martin Martschini
  • Eva Maria Wild

Their main fields of study are environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with detailed subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, radiological and ultrasound technology, inorganic chemistry, and radiation. This multidisciplinary expertise supports research across both natural and applied science domains.

Key topic areas of Steier's work include:

  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Radioactivity and radon measurements
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Nuclear physics and applications
  • Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology

Best Publications

  • Biogeochemically diverse organic matter in Alpine glaciers and its downstream fate

    Gabriel A. Singer;Christina Fasching;Linda Wilhelm;Jutta Niggemann

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

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

  • Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C.

    Sturt W. Manning;Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Walter Kutschera;Thomas Higham

  • Iodine-129 in Seawater Offshore Fukushima: distribution, inorganic speciation, sources, and budget.

    Xiaolin Hou;Pavel P. Povinec;Luyuan Zhang;Keliang Shi

  • New half-life measurement of 182Hf: improved chronometer for the early solar system.

    C. Vockenhuber;F. Oberli;M. Bichler;I. Ahmad

  • Direct dating of Early Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Mladeč

    Eva M. Wild;Maria Teschler-Nicola;Walter Kutschera;Peter Steier

  • Natural and anthropogenic 236U in environmental samples

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

  • 14C dating with the bomb peak: An application to forensic medicine

    E.M Wild;K.A Arlamovsky;R Golser;W Kutschera

  • Abundance of live 244Pu in deep-sea reservoirs on Earth points to rarity of actinide nucleosynthesis

    Anton Wallner;T. Faestermann;J. Feige;C Feldstein

  • The use of Bayesian statistics for 14C dates of chronologically ordered samples : A critical analysis

    Peter Steier;Werner Rom

  • First results on 236U levels in global fallout

    A. Sakaguchi;A. Sakaguchi;K. Kawai;P. Steier;F. Quinto

  • Towards more precise 10Be and 36Cl data from measurements at the 10−14 level: Influence of sample preparation

    S. Merchel;M. Arnold;G. Aumaitre;L. Benedetti

  • Cesium, iodine and tritium in NW Pacific waters - a comparison of the Fukushima impact with global fallout

    P. P. Povinec;M. Aoyama;D. Biddulph;R. Breier

  • Accelerator mass spectrometry of heavy long-lived radionuclides

    Christof Vockenhuber;Irshad Ahmad;Robin Golser;Walter Kutschera

  • Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia

    João Zilhão;João Zilhão;João Zilhão;Daniela Anesin;Thierry Aubry;Ernestina Badal

  • Isotopic determination of U, Pu and Cs in environmental waters following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

    Aya Sakaguchi;Akinobu Kadokura;Peter Steier;Kazuya Tanaka

  • Pego do Diabo (Loures, Portugal): dating the emergence of anatomical modernity in westernmost Eurasia.

    João Zilhão;Simon J.M. Davis;Cidalia Duarte;Antonio Manuel Monge Soares

  • Bomb fall-out 236 U as a global oceanic tracer using an annually resolved coral core

    Stephan R. Winkler;Peter Steier;Jessica Carilli

  • Isotopic Compositions of 236U and Pu Isotopes in “Black Substances” Collected from Roadsides in Fukushima Prefecture: Fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

    Aya Sakaguchi;Peter Steier;Yoshio Takahashi;Masayoshi Yamamoto

  • Uranium-236 as a new oceanic tracer: A first depth profile in the Japan Sea and comparison with caesium-137.

    Aya Sakaguchi;Akinobu Kadokura;Peter Steier;Yoshio Takahashi

  • Airborne Plutonium and Non-Natural Uranium from the Fukushima DNPP Found at 120 km Distance a Few Days after Reactor Hydrogen Explosions

    Taeko Shinonaga;Peter Steier;Markus Lagos;Takehisa Ohkura

  • Analysis and application of heavy isotopes in the environment

    Peter Steier;Franz Dellinger;Oliver Forstner;Robin Golser

  • Determination of plutonium in environmental samples by AMS and alpha spectrometry

    E. Hrnecek;P. Steier;A. Wallner

  • Predicting soil organic matter stability in agricultural fields through carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes

    Tim De Clercq;Maria Heiling;Gerd Dercon;Christian Resch

  • Neolithic Massacres: Local Skirmishes or General Warfare in Europe?

    Eva Maria Wild;Peter Stadler;Annemarie Häußer;Walter Kutschera

Frequent Co-Authors

L. Keith Fifield
L. Keith Fifield Australian National University
L.K. Fifield
L.K. Fifield Australian National University
Pavel P. Povinec
Pavel P. Povinec Comenius University
Yoshio Takahashi
Yoshio Takahashi University of Tokyo
Maurice Arnold
Maurice Arnold Collège de France
João Zilhão
João Zilhão University of Lisbon
Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Horst Geckeis
Horst Geckeis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Christopher Bronk Ramsey University of Oxford
Göran Possnert
Göran Possnert Uppsala University

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