Seaborg Institute Affiliates and Student Mentors

Research Interests:

The development of improved radiation detection techniques that facilitate global nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, rare neutral particles, in particular the measurement of neutrino oscillations using reactor sources, and the search for direct interactions of dark matter in Earthly detectors

Research Interests:

• Environmental radiochemistry
• Low level radiochemistry
• Radiological emergency response

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Geochronology and geochemistry of samples from asteroids, Moon, and Mars and in order to constrain the nature and timing of processes occurring in the proto-planetary disk and planetary bodies early in the history of the Solar System.

Research Interests:

Astrophysics, cosmology, experimental gravitational detection methods, the physics of isomer population and decay modes, and fundamental tests of the standard model of particle physics and cosmology.

Research Interests:

• Applications of noble gases to nuclear forensics
• Earth and planetary science
• Inertial confinement fusion at the National Ignition Facility

Research Interests:

• Noble gas monitoring/investigation
• Post-detonation nuclear forensics
• Radioisotope production techniques

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The development and application of radiometric chronometry and isotope geochemistry to problems in nuclear forensics and planetary geochronology and petrogenesis.

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• Development of reference materials for the interest of producing realistic nuclear forensic samples
• Separation methods related to actinides, transactinides and superheavy elements

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• Nuclear forensics
• The security of nuclear materials in general (e.g., safeguards, nonproliferation, and illicit trafficking)

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The application of micro-analytical techniques for nuclear forensics, nuclear safeguards, and the transport of actinides in the environment.

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• The analysis of nuclear and associated materials to better understand clues about the origins, locations or processes
• The renaissance of historical fallout research to better understand fallout formation and interpretation in near surface nuclear events

Research Interests:

The application of analytical techniques to national security problems, as well as advancing the state-of-the-art in mass spectrometry, elemental/molecular imaging, and surface and microanalysis.

Research Interests:

• Nuclear detection systems
• Advanced spectral and multisource analysis algorithms
• Distributed detector systems

Research Interests:

Geochronology and geochemistry of planetary samples, formation and evolution of meteorites and planets, mineralogy and petrology of meteorites, isotopic and chemical evolution of the early solar system materials; nuclear forensics and attribution; and hydrothermal alteration and water-rock interaction in active and fossil hydrothermal systems and their relation to ore forming processes.

Research Interests:

Developing a better understanding of the physical and chemical processes that shaped the origin of our solar system from the condensation of the first solid materials to the evolution of planetary bodies.

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Beta decay, gamma-ray, and neutron spectroscopy studies for nuclear forensics and nuclear safeguards applications.

Research Interests:

Fundamental actinide chemistry, actinide behavior at solid-liquid interfaces, environmental transport and behavior of f-elements, engineered nanomaterials, extractions and separations of f-elements, microscopy, spectroscopic measurements, radiological measurements, nuclear forensics.

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• Modeling, chemometrics, and database development
• Use of reactor modeling codes to generate spent fuel compositions, dose rates, and decay heat for nuclear forensics, nonproliferation, and nuclear security research

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Advanced mass spectrometry for nuclear forensics and cosmochemistry.

Research Interests:

Low-energy nuclear physics, electroweak interactions, atom and ion trapping techniques, nuclear astrophysics, rare or exotic nuclear phenomena.

Research Interests:

Study of the nuclear and chemical properties of actinides, transactinides, and superheavy elements; fission properties; target preparation and radiochemical separation techniques; rapid heavy element atom-at-a-time chemistry; the behavior of radioactive contaminants in the environment.

Research Interests:

Predicting the hydrological response of alpine groundwater systems to climate change, tracking contaminants from agriculture and legacy nuclear material production in groundwater systems, developing geolocation signatures of nuclear materials, and establishing forensic signatures of toxic chemicals.

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Studying the sustainability of water resources by applying environmental tracers in a variety of hydrological systems to investigate sources, path ways and travel times of water.

Research Interests:

• Environmental radiochemistry
• Actinide chemistry
• Surface complexation modeling of contaminant-mineral interactions
• Reactive transport modeling