My research interests centre on climate, oceanography
and innovative uses of radiocarbon in science
Deep Sea Corals:
Southern Ocean Deep sea corals
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Surface Corals and Ocean Circulation:
Using radiocarbon trapped in Porites coral skeletons
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Catostrophic Marine Inundation Events:
Large wave events affect a majority of the
Australian coastline
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Fish Ecology:
In an innovative study we have for the first time
been able to
determine the age for the Australian Lungfish.
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Recent Publications:
S.J. Fallon, L.K.
Fifield, J.M. Chappell, (2010) The
next chapter in radiocarbon dating at the Australian National
University:
Status report on the single stage AMS, Nuclear
Instruments
and
Methods
in
Physics Research B 268 898–901.
S.J. Fallon, K. James, R. Norman, M.
Kelly, M.J. Ellwood, (2010) A
simple radiocarbon dating method for determining the age
and growth rate of deep-sea sponges, Nuclear
Instruments
and
Methods
in
Physics Research B 268 1241–1243
James, K., Fallon, S.J., McDougall,
A., Espinoza, T., Broadfoot, C., (accepted 15 Apr.
2010) Assessing the potential for radiocarbon dating the scales of
Australian
Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri),
Radiocarbon
Skinner, L.C., Fallon, S.J.,
Waelbroeck, C., Michel, E., Barker, S., (2010)
Ventilation of the deep Southern Ocean and deglacial CO2 rise. Science,
Vol. 328, 28 MAY
2010, p1147-1151.
O’Connor, S., Ulm, S., Fallon,
S.J., Barham, A., Loch, I., (accepted 19
Mar. 2010)
Pre-bomb Marine Reservoir Variability in the Kimberley Region, Western
Australia, Radiocarbon
Cheetham, M.D., Keene, A.F.,
Erskine, W.D., Bush, R.T., Fitzsimmons, K., Jacobsen, G., Fallon,
S.J., (accepted 29 Jan. 2010) Correlation
and Continuity: Accurate
Dating of Holocene River Terraces using Radiocarbon and Luminescence.
Journal
of Quaternary Science.
Wallis, L.A., Keys, B., Moffat, I., Fallon,
S., (2009) Gledswood Shelter 1: Initial
Radiocarbon
Dates from a Pleistocene Aged Rockshelter Site in Northwest Queensland.
Australian Archaeology, 69, pp. 71-74.
Roark, E.B. and Guilderson, T.P. and
Dunbar, R.B. and Fallon, S. J. and
Mucciarone,
D.A. (2009) Extreme longevity in proteinaceous deep-sea corals,
Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 13, 5204-5208.
Sherwood, O.A., Thresher, R.E., Fallon,
S.J., Davies, D.M., Trull, T.W., (2009)
Multi-century
time-series of 15N and 14C in bamboo corals from deep Tasmanian
seamounts:
Evidence for stable oceanographic conditions, Marine Ecology Progress
Series
Vol. 397:209-218.
Thresher, R.E., MacRae, C., Wilson,
N.C., Fallon, S.J.,
(2009) Feasibility of age
determination of deep-water bamboo corals (Gorgonacea; Isididae) from
annual
cycles in skeletal composition, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic
Research Papers, Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 442-449, ISSN 0967-0637,
DOI:
10.1016/j.dsr.2008.10.003.