Carol-ann Craig
Head of Inorganic Isotope Analysis
Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Carol-Ann Craig have a background both geochemistry and environmental analysis where Carol-Ann Craig spent her postgraduate years developing technical methods for the accurate and precise analysis of geological (rocks, fossils, waters) and environmental (waters, plant, animal) materials using mass spectrometry. I specialised in looking at the isotopic signature of rocks and minerals using Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) and Multi Collector-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS).
Research Interest
Some of my current commercial work involves the analysis of rock cores for Samarium and Neodymium isotope analysis to determine their provenance. I also regularly analyse the Strontium isotope ratios of the salts in pore spaces of rock cores and some production waters, to aid a better understanding of their stratigraphy and connectivity.
Publications
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Craig, C-A. 2003. Geochronological methods for the analysis of young carbonate and igneous samples using MC-ICP-MS. University of London PhD thesis.
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Seth, B., Thirlwall, M.F., Houghton, S.L. and Craig, C-A. 2003. Accurate measurements of Th-U isotope ratios for carbonate geochronology using MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy 18, 1323-1330.
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Craig, C-A., Jarvis, K.E. and Clarke, L.J. 2000. An assessment of calibration strategies for the quantitative and semi-quantitative analysis of calcium carbonate matrices by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy 15, 1001-1008.
