{"id":583,"date":"2020-01-29T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/?page_id=583"},"modified":"2020-02-02T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T12:26:19","slug":"georgina-king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/team\/georgina-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgina King"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Research Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last 2 million years of Earth\u2019s history has been characterised by abrupt climatic shifts between warm interglacial and cold glacial conditions which profoundly impacted the Earth\u2019s surface. I am principally interested in understanding how and when environmental change occurred, which I achieve through the development and application of novel trapped-charge dating methods i.e. Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance dating<\/a>. I am currently working on projects in the Himalaya, the Atacama desert, the Japanese and European Alps.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

I obtained a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2004 followed by an MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway\/University College London which I completed in 2007. I then moved to the University of St Andrews in Scotland to pursue a PhD in Earth Sciences supervised by Ruth Robinson and Adrian Finch which I completed in 2011. My PhD research concerned understanding the fundamental and sedimentological controls on the luminescence of quartz and feldspar minerals with a field site of Jostedalen in Norway. In 2012 I was appointed as a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Aberystwyth Luminescence Research Laboratory, Wales, collaborating with Helen Roberts, Geoff Duller and Nicholas Pearce. In 2013 I was appointed as a Senior Scientist in the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics where I helped Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Herman to establish the luminescence dating facility and primarily worked on the establishment of luminescence thermochronometry. In 2015 I moved to the University of Cologne, Germany to head the Cologne Luminescence Laboratory and was offered tenure in 2016. In 2016 I secured an Ambizione fellowship and returned to Switzerland to the University of Bern, before returning to the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics<\/a>\u00a0to establish a research group in mid-2018.<\/p>\n

Selected publications (<\/strong>full list of publications<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

King, G.E.<\/strong>, Tsukamoto, S., Herman, F.,\u00a0 Biswas, R., Sueoka, S., Tagami, T., 2019. ESR-thermochronometry of the Hida range of the Japanese Alps: Validation and future potential.<\/a> Geochronology, 2, 1-15. doi.org\/10.5194\/gchron-2-1-2020<\/p>\n

Lehmann, B., Herman, F., Valla, P.G., King, G.E.<\/strong>, Biswas, R.H., Ivy-Ochs, S., Steinemann, O. and Christl, M., 2020. Postglacial erosion of bedrock surfaces and deglaciation timing: New insights from the Mont Blanc massif (western Alps)<\/a>.\u00a0Geology<\/i>,\u00a048<\/i>(2), pp.139-144.<\/p>\n

Riedesel, S., King, G.E.<\/strong>, Prasad, A. K., Kumar, R., Finch, A. A., Jain, M., 2019.\u00a0Optical determination of band-tail width, depth and excited state of the IRSL trap in feldspar<\/a>. Radiation Measurements 125, 40-51.<\/p>\n

King, G.E.<\/strong>, Burow, C., Roberts, H.M., Pearce, N.J.P., 2018.\u00a0Age determination using feldspar: evaluating fading-correction model performance.<\/a>\u00a0Radiation Measurements 119, 58-73.<\/p>\n

Biswas,\u00a0R.H., Herman, F.,\u00a0King, G.E.<\/strong>\u00a0and Braun, J., 2018.\u00a0Thermoluminescence of feldspar as a multi-thermochronometer to constrain the temporal variation of rock exhumation in the recent past.<\/a>\u00a0Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 495, 56-68.<\/p>\n

Herman, F. and King, G.E.<\/strong>, 2018.\u00a0<\/em>Luminescence thermochronometry and the evolution of mountains, climate and tectonics.<\/a>\u00a0Invited contribution to Elements magazine, Eds: R. Smedley and A. Wintle.\u00a0DOI:\u00a010.2138\/gselements.14.1.33.<\/em><\/p>\n

G.E. King<\/strong>, B. Guralnik, P.G. Valla, F. Herman, 2016.\u00a0OSL-thermochronometry: a status review on its development, application and future outlook.\u00a0Chemical Geology\u00a0<\/em>446, 3-17<\/a>.<\/p>\n

G.E. King<\/strong>, F. Herman and B. Guralnik, 2016.\u00a0Northward migration of the eastern Himalayan syntax revealed by OSL-thermochronometry. Science 353 (6301), 800-804.<\/a><\/p>\n

J.A. Durcan,\u00a0G.E. King<\/strong>, G.A.T. Duller, 2015.\u00a0DRAC: An online Dose Rate and Age Calculator.\u00a0Quaternary Geochronology<\/em>\u00a028, 54-61.<\/a>\u00a0You can also get to the DRAC calculator\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Contact details<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institut des dynamiques de la surface terrestre
\nQuartier UNIL-Mouline
\nB\u00e2timent G\u00e9opolis 5875
\nCH \u2013 1015 Lausanne
\nPhone: +41 (0)21 692 35 33<\/p>\n

Email: georgina.king@unil.ch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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