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 spectrometer
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Undergraduate Degree

Connecticut College, B.A., 1996

Email Address

adam.hunt@uvm.edu

Current Position and Contact Information (4/2008)

Doctoral Candidate
Department 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/ac701742p

Hunt, 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.