CAIS-Center for Applied Isotope Studies

CAIS-Center for Applied Isotope Studies is hiring! This is an entry-level lab tech position in our radiocarbon dating lab. Really cool job—age-dating awesome archaeological finds from around the world—and a fun group to work with. Full-time, full UGA benefits package, generous PTO. Starting salary $36K-42K per year.

Lab/Research Technician I This is a laboratory technician position responsible for a variety of sample preparation techniques for radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) using wet chemistry and vacuum systems during sample preparation. Some data entry.

Yesterday we celebrated the remarkable career of our friend and colleague, Dr. Sayed Hassan! Sayed has been a cornerstone of UGA’s analytical chemistry expertise for 28 years, and we congratulate him on a well-deserved retirement.

CAIS Director Dr. Carla Hadden named Women's Leadership Fellow:

Ten faculty members named Women’s Leadership Fellows The new cohort includes representatives from seven schools and colleges.

CAIS at the SAAs! Come see us in booth 801!

CAIS ringing in the New (Fiscal) Year with a BBQ picnic 🥂

Fun new paper by Carla Hadden, Greg Waselkov, Betsy Reitz, and Fred Andrus!

Hot off the (electron) press:

Temporality of fishery taskscapes on the north-central Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) during the Middle/Late Woodland period (AD 325–1040)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416522000447

Spotlight featuring our friend and former GRA Alex Edwards, who's now in Bozeman MT in her first job out of grad school. Go Alex!

Student has a passion for lab-based problem solving - UGA Research News  Anthropology | June 21, 2022 Student has a passion for lab-based problem solving By Allyson Mann Photography By Ian Bennett Alex Edwards, who earned a master’s degree in geology at UGA in May, loads a sample into an ion exchange column. The column is made up of resin and a filter, with multipl...

New paper, hot off the electronic presses!

Chronology and geology of a late Pleistocene fossil bed on the Georgia coast (USA) with CAIS co-authors Carla Hadden and Alex Cherkinsky

Revised temporal and morphostratigraphic context for Clark Quarry: A late-Pleistocene, fluvially-reworked, Atlantic coast backbarrier deposit Sediments along the Atlantic Coastal Plain (ACP) of North America have been the focus of numerous paleontological investigations and yielded a diverse…

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Yale Climate Connections highlights CAIS scientist Scott Noakes’ research on ocean acidification.

Hurricanes can cause ocean acidity to spike near the seafloor » Yale Climate Connections Marine life may be vulnerable to these fluctuations.

Cool new publication in Nature Communications!

Carla Hadden & the CAIS radiocarbon lab helped establish the chronology for the first genome-wide study of ancient human DNA from Sudan’s Nile Valley

Social stratification without genetic differentiation at the site of Kulubnarti in Christian Period Nubia - Nature Communications Little is known about the genetic landscape of people living in the Nile region prior to the Islamic migrations of the late 1st millennium CE. Here, the authors report genome-wide data for 66 ancient individuals to investigate the genetic ancestry of a Christian Period group from Kulubnarti.

Yale undergrad Sophia DeSchiffart is visiting CAIS this week to learn lab techniques from Alex Cherkinsky. Sophia is studying stable isotopes in animal bones from a Bronze Age archaeological site in Syria for her undergrad thesis.