Adam Hunt

Adam began his PhD in Chemistry at UVM in 2002. During his time at UVM, Adam pursued a multidisciplinary research project employing his expertise in chemistry to answer questions that have improved the cosmogenic 10Be research methods in Dr. Paul Bierman's Geology Department lab.
PhD dissertation (University of Vermont, 2007)
Analysis of factors that affect ion beam currents for cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al analysis by accelerator mass spectrometerdownload ppt of PhD dissertation defense slides
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Undergraduate Degree
Connecticut College, B.A., 1996Current Position and Contact Information (4/2008)
Doctoral CandidateDepartment of Chemistry
The University of Vermont
Cook Physical Sciences Building
82 University Place
Burlington VT 05405
Refereed Papers
Hunt, A. L., Larsen, J., Bierman, P. R., and Petrucci, G. A., (2008) Investigation of factors that affect the sensitivity of accelerator mass spectrometry for cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al isotope analysis. Analytical Chemistry. v. 80(5), p. 1656-1663. doi:10.1021/ac701742pHunt, A. L., Petrucci, G. A., Bierman, P. R. and Finkel, R. C. (2007) Investigation of metal matrix systems for cosmogenic 26Al analysis by accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interaction with Materials and Atoms. v. 260(2), p. 633-636. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2007.03.101
Hunt, A. L., Petrucci, G. A., Bierman, P. R., and Finkel, R. C., (2006) Metal matrices to optimize ion beam currents for accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. v. 243(1), p. 216-222. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2005.07.220
Abstracts
Hunt, A. L., Petrucci, G. A., Bierman, P. R. and Finkel, R. C. (2005) The effect of matrix electron affinity on ion beam currents for BeO analysis. The 10th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. (download pdf)***Hunt, A. L., Bierman, P. R., Petrucci, G. A. and Finkel, R. C. (2004) Effects of metal mixing matrices on beryllium beam currents. ESF-IAAMS conference, Arran, Scotland.