Megavolts 15: Deer antlers and coral reefs

Monday 9 February 2026 10am

Forget needles in haystacks: if you’re looking for a million billionth of a gram of a radioactive isotope, hidden, say in sea water, coral, or the antler of a deer – then accelerator mass spectrometry is the tool for you!

In this episode of Megavolts Dr Michaela Froehlich tells us all the weird and wonderful things that you can test with AMS using our most amazing tool, the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility.

Find the rest of the MegaVolts episodes on the ANU Physics YouTube channel.

Contact

Dr Michaela Froehlich
E: michaela.froehlich@anu.edu.au
T: 51612

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