Doctor Barry Brennan

BSc(Hons), PhD, MNZIP

Contact details
Building 303, Room 609
Building 301, Room G27
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88809
Email: b.brennan@auckland.ac.nz

• Luminescence and ESR dating
• Structure of the Earth
• Radiation physics
• Seismology

Luminescence and ESR Dating
Studies of dosimetry effects for luminescence and ESR dating in inhomogeneous environments, including theory and software describing alpha and beta dosimetry in planar and spherical geometry, relative efficiency of alpha radiation, experimental tests of beta dose gradients, stochastic aspects of gamma dosimetry in 'lumpy' environments, microdosimetry effects for alpha and beta radiation, theory of cosmic ray dosimetry for sites in variable terrain.

• Brennan, B. J., 'Beta doses to spherical grains', Radiation Measurements, 37, 299-303, 2003.
• Marsh, R.E., Prestwich, W.V., Rink W.J. and Brennan, B.J., 'Monte Carlo
• determinations of the beta dose rate to tooth enamel', Radiation Measurements, 35, 609-616, 2002.
• Brennan, B.J., 'Calculation of the environmental dose rate for ESR and luminescence dating', Proceedings of the Australian Archaeometry Conference, Auckland 2001, 49-57.
• Brennan, B.J., 'Systematic Underestimation of the Age of Samples with Saturating Exponential Behaviour and Inhomogeneous Dose Distribution', Radiation Measurements, 32, 731-734, 2000.
• Brennan, B.J., Prestwich, W.V., Rink W.J., Marsh, R.E. and Schwarcz, H.P., 'Alpha and Beta Dose Gradients in Tooth Enamel', Radiation Measurements, 32, 759-765, 2000.
• Brennan, B.J., Rink W.J., Rule, E.M., Schwarcz, H.P. and Prestwich, W.V., 'The ROSY ESR dating program', Ancient TL, 17, 45-53, 1999