Paula Reimer

Paula Jo Reimer MRIA is radiocarbon and archaeological scientist. Reimer is Director of the 14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology at Queen's University Belfast.^[1]

Biography[]

Reimer has a BSc (1974) and MSc (1976) from Iowa State University. She was awarded her PhD from University of Washington in 1998.^[2] She worked at the Quaternary Isotope Lab at Washington from 1977 to 1998, after which she moved to Queen's University Belfast for a Postdoctoral fellowship in 1998–2001. This was followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2001 to 2004. She joined the 14Chrono Centre at Queen's in 2004.^[3]

Awards[]

Reimer was awarded the Lyell Medal from the The Geological Society in 2013.^[4] She was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2014.^[2] In December 2020 Reimer was voted the 2021 'Archaeologist of the Year' in the annual Current Archaeology awards.^[5] in 2021 Reimer was the recipient of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology from the Archaeological Institute of America in recognition of her "distinguished record of contributions to the advancement of archaeological science".^[6]

Select publications[]

A full list of Reimer's publications can be found here.

• Reimer P.J., Austin W.E.N., Bard E., Bayliss A., Blackwell P.G., Bronk Ramsey C., Butzin M., Cheng H., Edwards R.L., Friedrich M., Grootes P.M., Guilderson T.P., Hajdas I., Heaton T.J., Hogg A.G., Hughen K.A., Kromer B., Manning S.W., Muscheler R., Palmer J.G., Pearson C., van der Plicht J., Reimer R.W., Richards D.A., Scott E.M., Southon J.R., Turney C.S.M, Wacker L., Adolphi F., Büntgen U., Capano M., Fahrni S.M., Fogtmann-Schulz A., Friedrich R., Köhler P., Kudsk S., Miyake F., Olsen J., Reinig F., Sakamoto M., Sookdeo A., Talamo S. 2020. "The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)". Radiocarbon doi:10.1017/RDC.2020.41
• Carobene, D., Meyer, M.C. Spötl,c., Rötzel, R., Göhlich, U.B., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M., Wimmer-Frey, I., Reimer, P.j., Auer, F. 2020. "An interdisciplinary study of a mammoth-bearing Late Pleistocene sediment succession in lower Austria", Quaternary International doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.02.022
• Snoeck, C., Jones, C., Pouncett, J., Goderis, S., Claeys, P., Mattielli, N., Zazzo, A., Reimer, P.J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., and Schulting, R.J. 2020. "Isotopic evidence for changing mobility and landscape use patterns between the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in western Ireland", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 30. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102214
• Bard, E., Heaton, T.J., Talamo, S., Kromer, B., Reimer, R.W., Reimer, P.J. 2020. "Extended dilation of the radiocarbon time scale between 40,000 and 48,000 y BP and the overlap between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (35) doi:10.1073/pnas.2012307117
• Barrett, G.T., Donnelly, C., Reimer, P.J. 2020. "Radiocarbon dating mortar: The identification of a Medieval Irish round tower using a multi-method inter-comparative approach", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33 doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102538

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