Skip to main content
Search hero banner

Search results

Showing 641 - 660 of 1151 results

Elliot Gilbert
Lead, Food Materials Science; Instrument Scientist, QUOKKA (Small-Angle Neutron Scattering); Honorary Professor, CNFS, The University of Queensland

Role at ANSTO

Tree rings

Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating is a well-known method for determining the age of materials up to the age of approximately 50,000 years.

coming to visit lucasheights ansto

Visit our Sydney facilities

ANSTO's Sydney locations are home to the Open Pool Australian Light-water (OPAL) multi-purpose reactor, the Centre for Accelerator Science (CAS), the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, the National Research Cyclotron and the National Deuteration Facility.

ANTARES microprobe

High-energy heavy ion microprobe

The high-energy heavy-ion microprobe is used for the characterisation or modification of material properties at depths from approximately 1 micrometre to maximum depths of up to 500 micrometres from the material surface. 

Infrastructure Cultural Heritage

Infrastructure - Cultural Heritage

In Australia and the Southeast Asia basin, the ANSTO facility offers a wide range of unique nuclear-beam techniques for cultural heritage research.

Feathery moa’s fossilised footprints, ancient age revealed

ANSTO scientist, Dr Klaus Wilcken of the Centre for Accelerator Science, used cosmogenic nuclide dating to determine the ages of layered sand and gravel samples, in which seven footprints of the flightless bird, the moa, were found on the South Island in New Zealand in 2019.

Aaron Down
Global Innovation Projects Coordinator & Lecturer

Aaron is the International Research and Development Projects Coordinator at DesignFactory Melbourne, and currently delivers DFM’s global programs with the Centre fo rDesign Research at Stanford University, the SUGAR Network for Global Innovation and Ide

2019 Shorebirds Competition Summary and Results

From June to August we invited primary schools in Greater Sydney/Illawarra and Melbourne to participate in our 2019 Shorebirds Competition. Students in Years 3 to 6 were asked to create a public awareness poster for a threatened shorebird found in Australia.

Pagination