Full Name: Uwe Morgenstern
Position: Team Leader Isotope Hydrology & Water Dating Lab
Contact details
Email: U.Morgenstern
Phone: +64-4-570 4652
Qualifications
1986: MSc; 1992: PhD Areas of expertise
Geochronology: 32Si expert
Geochronology: Dating Paleoclimate archieves
Groundwater: Groundwater dating
Groundwater: Groundwater dynamics
Groundwater: Landuse impact on groundwater quality
Palaeoclimate: Cosmogenic isotopes in earth sciences
Palaeoclimate: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Professional activities
NZ Hydrological Society: Member
European Geosciences Union: Member
Major publications
Povinec, P.P.; Breier, R.; Coppola, L.; Groening, M.; Jeandel, C.; Jull, A.J.T.; Kieser, W.E.; Lee, S.-H.; Liong Wee Kwong, L.; Morgenstern, U.; Park, Y.-H.; Top, Z. 2011 Tracing of water masses using a multi isotope approach in the southern Indian Ocean. Earth and planetary science letters, 302(1/2): 14-26; doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.026
Purdie, H.; Mackintosh, A.; Lawson, W.; Anderson, B.; Morgenstern, U.; Chinn, T.; Mayewski, P. 2011 Interannual variability in net accumulation on Tasman Glacier and its relationship with climate. Global and planetary change, 77(3/4): 142-152; doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.04.004
Morgenstern, U.; Stewart, M.K.; Stenger, R. 2010 Dating of streamwater using tritium in a post nuclear bomb pulse world : continuous variation of mean transit time with streamflow. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 14(11): 2289-2301; doi:10.5194/hess-14-2289-2010
Stewart, M.K.; Morgenstern, U.; McDonnell, J.J. 2010 Truncation of stream residence time : how the use of stable isotopes has skewed our concept of streamwater age and origin. Hydrological processes, 24(12): 1646-1659; doi: 10.1002/hyp.7576
Morgenstern, U.; Taylor, C.B. 2009 Ultra low-level tritium measurement using electrolytic enrichment and LSC. Isotopes in environmental and health studies, 45(2): 96-117
Morgenstern, U.; Geyh, M.A.; Kudrass, H.R.; Ditchburn, R.G.; Graham, I.J. 2001 32 Si dating of marine sediments from Bangladesh. Radiocarbon, 43(2B): 909-916
Morgenstern, U.; Fifield, L.K.; Zondervan, A. 2000 New frontiers in glacier ice dating : measurement of natural 32Si by AMS. Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 172: 605-609
Present research/professional speciality:
Since 1998, Dr Morgenstern has led the Isotope Hydrology team and managed the Water Dating Laboratory at GNS Science. His scientific expertise centres on the use
of isotopic methods, such as tritium and 32Si, for determination of the age of water, ice, and sediments. A recent international assessment conducted by the IAEA has shown that, under Dr. Morgensterns management, the GNS Science Water Dating Lab has become the worlds most accurate tritium analytical facility (by a large margin). The information derived from the age measurements is crucial for reconstruction of past global climate and for management of groundwater and surface water resources.
Research leadership:
New Zealand Ice Core Programme
GNS Science Hydrogeology Core Programme
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