Dr Ai Nguyen
Senior Scientific Officer
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
+61 7 334 67636
Researcher biography
I am a geochemist working for the Radiogenic Isotope Facility within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Queensland. I am currently interested in radiogenic isotope and trace element chemistry for paleoclimate and paleoenvironment studies. My work involves development and application of analytical techniques for projects of the RIF clients.
Journal Articles
Adams, Shaun, Westaway, Michael C., McGahan, David, Williams, Doug, Zhao, Jian-Xin, Feng, Yuexing, Nguyen, Ai, Pearce, John, Flinders, Clarence and Collard, Mark (2021). Isotopic analyses of prehistoric human remains from the Flinders Group, Queensland, Australia, support an association between burial practices and status. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13 (7) 121. doi: 10.1007/s12520-021-01376-3
Han, Z., Edraki, M., Nguyen, A. and Mostert, M. (2021). Efficiency of acid digestion procedures for geochemical analysis of tungsten mining wastes. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 21 (3), geochem2021-034. doi: 10.1144/geochem2021-034
Price, Gilbert J., Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E., Nguyen, Ai Duc, Zhao, Jian-xin, Feng, Yue-xing, Sobbe, Ian H., Godthelp, Henk, Archer, Michael and Hand, Suzanne J. (2021). New ages of the world's largest-ever marsupial: Diprotodon optatum from Pleistocene Australia. Quaternary International. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.013
Saha, Narottam, Webb, Gregory E., Zhao, Jian-Xin, Lewis, Stephen E., Duc Nguyen, Ai and Feng, Yuexing (2021). Spatiotemporal variation of rare earth elements from river to reef continuum aids monitoring of terrigenous sources in the Great Barrier Reef. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 299, 85-112. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.02.014
Davis, Brooke A., Rodrigues, Sandra, Esterle, Joan S., Nguyen, Ai D., Duxbury, Alexander J. and Golding, Suzanne D. (2021). Geochemistry of apatite in Late Permian coals, Bowen Basin, Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology, 237 103708, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.coal.2021.103708
Liu, Entao, Uysal, I. Tonguç, Wang, Hua, Feng, Yuexing, Pan, Songqi, Yan, Detian, Nguyen, Ai Duc and Zhao, Jian-xin (2021). Timing and characterization of multiple fluid flow events in the Beibuwan Basin, northern South China Sea: implications for hydrocarbon maturation. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 123 104754, 104754. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104754
Su, Ao, Chen, Honghan, Feng, Yue-xing, Zhao, Jian-xin, Nguyen, Ai Duc, Wang, Zecheng and Long, Xiaoping (2020). Dating and characterizing primary gas accumulation in Precambrian dolomite reservoirs, Central Sichuan Basin, China: Insights from pyrobitumen Re-Os and dolomite U-Pb geochronology. Precambrian Research, 350 105897, 105897. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105897
Luo, Kai, Zhou, Jia-Xi, Feng, Yue-Xing, Uysal, I. Tonguc, Nguyen, Ai, Zhao, Jian-Xin and Zhang, Jiawei (2020). In situ U-Pb dating of calcite from the South China antimony metallogenic belt. iScience, 23 (10) 101575, 101575. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101575
Liao, Wei, Feng, Yue-xing, Zhao, Jian-xin, Jiang, Ting-yun, Yao, Yan-yan, Liang, Hua, Nguyen, Ai Duc, Bae, Christopher J. and Wang, Wei (2020). Combined U-series dating of cave pearls and mammal fossils: Constraint on the age of a late middle pleistocene Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna from the Diaozhongyan Cave, Guangxi, South China. Quaternary Geochronology, 60 101111, 101111. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101111
Leonard, Nicole D., Lepore, Mauro L., Zhao, Jian-xin, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Butler, Ian R., Clark, Tara R., Roff, George, McCook, Laurence, Nguyen, Ai D., Feng, Yuexing and Pandolfi, John M. (2020). Re-evaluating mid-Holocene reef “turn-off” on the inshore Southern Great Barrier Reef. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244 106518, 106518. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106518
Kendrick, Mark A., Caulfield, John T., Nguyen, Ai D., Zhao, Jian-xin and Blakey, Idriss (2020). Halogen and trace element analysis of carbonate-veins and Fe-oxyhydroxide by LA-ICPMS: Implications for seafloor alteration, Atlantis Bank, SW Indian Ridge. Chemical Geology, 547 119668, 119668. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119668
Gao, Jian, He, Sheng, Zhao, Jian-xin, He, Zhiliang, Wu, Changwu, Fen, Yuexing, Nguyen, Ai Duc , Zhou, Jiaxi and Yi, Zhixing (2020). Sm-Nd isochron dating and geochemical (rare earth elements, Sr-87/Sr-86, delta O-18, delta C-13) characterization of calcite veins in the Jiaoshiba shale gas field, China: implications for the mechanisms of vein formation in shale gas systems. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132 (7-8), 1722-1740. doi: 10.1130/B32015.1
Leonard, Nicole D., Lepore, Mauro L., Zhao, Jian-xin, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Butler, Ian, Clark, Tara R., Roff, George, McCook, Laurence, Nguyen, Ai D., Feng, Yuexing and Pandolfi, John M. (2020). A U-Th dating approach to understanding past coral reef dynamics and geomorphological constraints on future reef growth potential; Mazie Bay, Southern Great Barrier Reef. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35 (2) e2019PA003768. doi: 10.1029/2019PA003768
Leonard, N. D., Welsh, K. J., Nguyen, A. D., Sadler, J., Pandolfi, J. M., Clark, T. R., Zhao, J. X., Feng, Y. X. and Webb, G. E. (2019). High resolution geochemical analysis of massive Porites spp. corals from the Wet Tropics, Great Barrier Reef: rare earth elements, yttrium and barium as indicators of terrigenous input. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 149 110634, 110634. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110634
Ward, Jack F., Verdel, Charles, Campbell, Matthew J., Leonard, Nicole and Duc Nguyen, Ai (2019). Rare earth element geochemistry of Australian Neoproterozoic carbonate: constraints on the Neoproterozoic oxygenation events. Precambrian Research, 335 105471, 105471. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105471
Adams, Shaun, Grün, Rainer, McGahan, David, Zhao, Jian-Xin, Feng, Yuexing, Nguyen, Ai, Willmes, Malte, Quaresimin, Michael, Lobsey, Brett, Collard, Mark and Westaway, Michael C. (2019). A strontium isoscape of north-east Australia for human provenance and repatriation. Geoarchaeology, 34 (3), 231-251. doi: 10.1002/gea.21728
Yan, Shuang, Zhao, Jian‐xin, Lau, A.Y. Annie, Roff, George, Leonard, Nicole D., Clark, Tara R., Nguyen, Ai D., Feng, Yue‐xing, Wei, Gangjian, Deng, Wenfeng and Chen, Xuefei (2019). Episodic reef growth in the northern South China Sea linked to warm climate during the past 7000 years: potential for future coral refugia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124 (4) 2018JG004939, 1032-1043. doi: 10.1029/2018jg004939
Weisler, Marshall I., Hua, Quan, Zhao, Jian-xin, Nguyen, Ai Duc, Nothdurft, Luke, Yamano, Hiroya and Mihaljević, Morana (2017). Marine reservoir correction for the southern Marshall Islands for the past 2500 years. Radiocarbon, 60 (1), 333-348. doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.63
Razak, Tries B., Mumby, Peter J. , Nguyen, Ai D., Zhao, Jian‑Xin, Lough, Janice M., Cantin, Neal E. and Roff, George (2017). Use of skeletal Sr/Ca ratios to determine growth patterns in a branching coral Isopora palifera. Marine Biology, 164 (4) 96. doi: 10.1007/s00227-017-3099-8
Sadler, James, Nguyen, Ai D., Leonard, Nicole D., Webb, Gregory E. and Nothdurft, Luke D. (2016). Acropora interbranch skeleton Sr/Ca ratios: evaluation of a potential new high-resolution paleothermometer. Paleoceanography, 31 (4), 505-517. doi: 10.1002/2015PA002898
Clark, Tara R., Leonard, Nicole D., Zhao, Jian-xin, Brodie, Jon, McCook, Laurence J., Wachenfeld, David R., Nguyen, Ai Duc, Markham, Hannah L. and Pandolfi, John M. (2016). Historical photographs revisited: a case study for dating and characterizing recent loss of coral cover on the inshore Great Barrier Reef. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 19285, 19285.1-19285.14. doi: 10.1038/srep19285
Price, Gilbert J., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Feng, Yue-xing, Zhao, Jian-xin, Hocknull, Scott A., Webb, Gregory E., Nguyen, Ai Duc and Joannes-Boyau, Renaud (2015). Temporal overlap of humans and giant lizards (Varanidae; Squamata) in Pleistocene Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 125, 98-105. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.013
Unal-Imer, Ezgi, Shulmeister, James, Zhao, Jian-Xin, Tonguc Uysal, I., Feng, Yue-Xing, Duc Nguyen, Ai and Yuce, Galip (2015). An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean. Scientific Reports, 5 (Art No.: 13560) 13560, 13560. doi: 10.1038/srep13560
Nguyen, A. D., Zhao, J-x, Feng, Y-x, Hu, W-p, Yu, K-f, Gasparon, M., Pham, T. B. and Clark, T. R. (2013). Impact of recent coastal development and human activities on Nha Trang Bay (Vietnam): evidence from a Porites lutea geochemical record. Coral Reefs, 32 (1), 181-193. doi: 10.1007/s00338-012-0962-4
Conference Papers
Ristevski, Jorgo, Price, Gilbert J., Sobbe, Ian H., Molnar, Ralph E., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Nguyen, Ai D., Zhao, Jian-xin, Feng, Yue-xing and Beirne, Laurence (2019). A new ziphodont eusuchian from the Pleistocene of Queensland, and implications for Australasia’s ziphodont crocodylian diversity. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 79th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 9-12 October 2019.
Nguyen, A. D., Gasparon, M. and Baumgartl, T. (2006). Chemical and mechanical stability of waste rock at the Mole River Arsenic Mine, Australia. Fourteenth Annual JKMRC Postgraduate Conference and Second JKMRC International Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 7-8 March 2006. Brisbane, Qld.: Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre.
Nguyen, A. D. and Gasparon, M. (2005). Arsenic mobility at the Mole River Mine, Australia. Second International Congress of Chemistry and Environment, Indore, India, 24 - 26 December 2005. India: Research Journal of Chmistry and Environment.