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Ex-members of the OGU

	Dr James Bendle James worked as a PDRA on an Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) thematic project, from 2005-2007 entitled, “The use of bacterial and higher plant biomarkers to track changes in wetland extent since the Last Glacial period” (PIs: Dr Richard Pancost, Dr Mark Maslin). The project refined the use of bacterial biomarker proxies for past tropical wetland extent and used them to reconstruct variations in Amazon basin wetlands since the Last Glacial Maximum in order to understand one of the major controls on atmospheric methane.
	Dr Anna Mukherjee Ann held a Welcome Trust Fellowship in Archaeology from 2004-2007. The project that she worked on was entitled 'Elite Diet and Burial Practice though Biomolecular Analysis of Ceramic Containers, Skeletal Remains and anthropogenic soils in a Royal Tomb from the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age' and was a collaboration with Professor Peter Pfälzner from the University of Tübingen, Germany.
	Dr Zoë Crossman Zoë was a NERC PDRA from 2004-2007 working on a project entitled “TOPS: Tropospheric Ozone Pollution: using stable isotopes to quantify ozone deposition, uptake and detoxification.” This was a collaborative project with Professor P. Ineson, Professor M. Ashmore, Dr L. Emberson (University of York) and Dr J. Barnes (University of Newcastle). Tracer studies using ¹⁸O₃ were employed to quantify ozone uptake and removal by plants. Plant metabolites were analysed by GC, GC/MS (University of Bristol) to determine the products of the reaction with ozone.
	Miss Nadia Graham Nadia conducted research concerned with the analysis of lipid residues found in Neolithic African potsherds from sies including include Gogo Falls, Laikipia Nature Conservancy, Siror, and Likoaeng using HTGC, GC-MS and GC-C-IRMS.
	Dr Rob Berstan After over ten years working in the OGU Rob has now moved on to pastures new. Aside from conducting a huge amount of research work in the area of archaeological chemistry, latterly, Rob was a key figure resposible for the day-to-day running of the Bristol node of the NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility.