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Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) recently participated in a public outreach event hosted by the Oxford Museum of Natural History called “Museums Late Night: Water World”. The evening event was held on Friday, May 17 and was based on a wide range of research around the theme of freshwater. She had a great time hosting a stall and talking to people during the event! Corrie’s stall for this event included a poster on reservoir effect corrections [...]

Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) presented a poster entitled “Diving Deeper into Ancient Hunter Gatherer Diets: Amino Acid Stable isotope Approaches” for the University of Oxford Social Science Division DPhil Welcome event back in October 2023. The division hosts a poster session and drinks reception each year where incoming DPhil students from the Social Science Division learn what support the division offers them and see the wide range of research current DPhil students are working on. [...]

Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) recently presented a talk entitled “Amino acid-specific approaches to radiocarbon freshwater reservoir corrections” at the UK Archaeological Science Conference. Photos are from her presentation, beautiful York, and two geese Corrie passed by regularly on her walk through York campus. : )

A note from Corrie about her research: I’ve been conducting lab work at the University of Bristol, School of Chemistry as part of a successful NEIF funding application. I am preparing archaeological and modern bone collagen samples from Lake Baikal for amino acid specific stable isotope analysis to better understand the dietary consumption of freshwater resources. In this first image I am using flash column chromatography as part of the sample preparation. The first results of screening using the [...]