For a list of recent projects supported by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility-Steering Committee please see the NERC Radiocarbon Facility web site.

Other projects and institutions with which the NERC Radiocarbon Facility (Environment) is currently, or has recently, been involved include:

• NERC RAPID thematic programme



• British Antarctic Survey



• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology



• ABACUS (Arctic Biosphere Atmosphere Coupling at Multiple Scales) NERC-funded International Polar Year project



• Suigetsu Varves 2006 project - a multi-national collaborative research project to establish a radiocarbon calibration model for the Late Pleistocene (10,000 – 50,000 BP)

Current development projects at the NERC Radiocarbon Facility (Environment) include:

• Sample processing development to reduce the minimal sample size required for ¹⁴C analysis (sub 500 microgram C samples)
  
  
• Development of techniques to recover and seperate peatland gases (methane and carbon dioxide) for ¹⁴C analysis



• Stepped combustion of marine sediments