Luminescence Dating Laboratory
Luminescence Dating Laboratory
Sam, originally from Ipswich, UK, joined UFV’s LDL in 2023 after completing a PhD at the University of Oxford. Sam’s PhD research focused on understanding landscape evolution in response to climate change over the last 500,000 years in south-east Arabia, applying optical dating and remote sensing methods to alluvial fans in the Hajar Mountains. Before the end of his PhD, Sam undertook an internship at UFV and UBC for 3 months to study river terraces in south-central British Columbia. As a postdoctoral fellow, he is working jointly across UFV and UBC using optical dating to test whether the timing of river terrace formation along the Thompson River is linked to external forcing since the retreat of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet. He is also interested in the use of portable geochemistry techniques to calculating environmental dose rates and the application of optical signals outside of dating, such as what they can tell us about sediment provenance and mineralogical properties.