Fabian Batista, now a graduate student at Stonybrook University (Photograph by Tom Kleindinst).

Each year NOSAMS hosts several undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral associates or Summer Student Fellows through the Academic Programs office of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Since 2006, NOSAMS has awarded two NSF-supported internships to qualifying graduate students (see Graduate Student Internship) annually.

Investigators and students who want to use radiocarbon analysis as an important tool in their work, come to NOSAMS for use of our facilities and to train with our scientific and technical staff. Often these collaborations lead to new methods and interesting new ways of using the radiocarbon isotope in carbon studies. Some examples of past and current projects are:

age surveys of deep sea corals
lignin extracted from lake sediments
formaldehyde in ambient air
age survey of surface sediment organic matter