Dr. Alan Hogg is the Director of the Waikato Radiocarbon Dating laboratory. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Applied Isotope Studies at the University of Georgia with Dr John Noakes, and worked closely with Dr Henry Polach, the past head of the Australian National University Radiocarbon Laboratory. Current areas of research include: Investigation into atmospheric 14C concentrations as archived in OIS 3 subfossil kauri; calibration of Southern Hemisphere 14C levels over the last 1000 years by decadal, high precision analysis of New Zealand Silver Pine and Cedar samples; development of high quality synthetic silica counting vials now routinely used in some of the world's liquid scintillation laboratories;and assessment of the influence of freshwater dilution of 14C levels in harbour environments.

Email: alan.hogg@waikato.ac.nz.

Selected publications:

  • Cook, E.R., Palmer, J.G., Cook, B.I., Hogg, A.G. & D’Arrigo, R.D. (2002). A multi-millennial palaeoclimatic resource from Lagarostrobos colensoi tree-rings at Oroko Swamp, New Zealand. Global Planetary Change, 33:209-220.

  • Lowe, D.J., Newnham, R.M., Higham, T.F.G., Wilmshurst, J.M., McGlone, M.S. and Hogg, A.G. in press. Dating earliest human impact and settlement in New Zealand. In Sutton, D.G. (ed), Origins of the First New Zealanders, 2nd edition. Auckland University Press, Auckland.

  • Hogg A.G., McCormac F.G, Higham, T.F.G, Baillie, M.G.L, Palmer, J.G., 2002. High-Precision 14C Measurements of Contemporaneous Tree-ring Dated Wood from the British Isles and New Zealand: AD 1850 – 950. Radiocarbon, 44 (3), 633-640.

  • McCormac F.G, Reimer, P.J., Hogg A.G., Higham, T.F.G, Baillie, M.G.L, Palmer, J.G, & Stuiver M., 2002. Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time scale for the Southern Hemisphere AD 1850 – 950. Radiocarbon, 44 (3), 641-651.

  • Hogg, A.G., Palmer, J., Lowe, D.J., Reimer, P., Higham, T.F.G., Newnham, R.M. 2003. A wiggle-match date for Polynesian settlement of New Zealand. Antiquity, 77 (295), 116-125.

  • Hogg, A.G., 2004. Towards achieving low background levels in routine dating by liquid scintillation spectrometry. Radiocarbon, 46 (1), 123-132.

  • McCormac, F.G, Hogg, A.G., Blackwell, P.G., Buck, C.E., Higham, T.F.G., Reimer, P.J., 2004. SHCal04 Southern Hemisphere calibration, 0 – 26 ka cal BP. Radiocarbon, 46 (3):1087–109.

  • Reimer, P.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Bertrand, C.J.H., Blackwell, P.G., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Cutler, K.B., Damon, P.E., Edwards, R.L., Fairbanks, R.G., Friedrich, M., Guilderson, T.P., Hogg, A.G., Hughen, K.A., Kromer, B., McCormac, G., Manning, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Reimer, R.W., Remmele, S., Southon, J.R., Stuiver, M., Talamo, S., Taylor, F.W., van der Plicht, J., Weyhenmeyer, C.E., 2004. IntCal04 Terrestrial Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0 - 26 ka cal BP. Radiocarbon, 46(3):1029-1058.

  • Hughen, K.A., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Bertrand, C.J.H., Blackwell, P.G., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Cutler, K.B., Damon, P.E., Edwards, R.L., Fairbanks, R.G., Friedrich, M., Guilderson, T.P., Hogg, A.G., Kromer, B., McCormac, G., Manning, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Reimer, P.J., Reimer, R.W., Remmele, S., Southon, J.R., Stuiver, M., Talamo, S., Taylor, F.W., van der Plicht, J., Weyhenmeyer, C.E., 2004. Marine04 Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0 - 26 ka cal BP.Radiocarbon, 46(3):1059-1086.

  • Alloway, B., Pribadi, A., Westgate, J., Bird, M., Hogg, A.G., and Smith, I., Correspondence between glass-FT and AMS 14C ages of silicic pyroclastic density current (PDC) deposits sourced from Maninjau caldera, west-central Sumatra. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (in press).

 

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