Fabian Batista, now a technician at NOSAMS was a 2003 Summer Student Fellow from Humboldt State University (Photograph by Tom Kleindinst).

Each year NOSAMS hosts several undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral associates or Summer Student Fellows through the Academic Programs office of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Beginning in 2006, NOSAMS will also award two NSF-supported internships to qualifying graduate students (see Graduate Student Internship).

Investigators and students who want to use radiocarbon analysis as an important tool in thier work come to NOSAMS for use of our facilities and to train with our scientific and technical staff. Often these collaborations lead to new methods and interesting new ways to use the radiocarbon isotope in carbon studies. Some examples of these involved what we call Small Sample Compound Specific Radiocarbon Analysis, or CSRC, to study

seawater DOC
pigments
black carbon
lipid extracts, diatom dating
petroleum persistence
sterols in sediments
alkenones from sediments