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Professor Derek Fabel studies how fast landscapes change due to climate change and tectonics by measuring and interpreting tiny quantities of rare atoms produced by cosmic radiation, known as cosmogenic nuclides, in rocks. He manages the NERC Cosmogenic Nuclide National Environmental Isotope Facility, operates accelerator mass spectrometers, and is the Director of Research at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), University of Glasgow. His research interests focus on in situ produced Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides (TCN) and their application in geomorphology and glaciology, specifically quantifying the effects of glaciers and ice sheets on landscapes, reconstructing ice sheets, and measuring cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in minerals to study long-term landscape evolution and its relation to climate change and tectonics. His work is largely interdisciplinary, involving collaboration with scientists in geomorphology, Quaternary geology, glaciology, nuclear physics, and geochemistry.
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NERC NEIF Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility • East Kilbride
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