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Dr Brian Tripney

Associate Research Scientist (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)

telephone: 01355 270132
email: Brian.Tripney@glasgow.ac.uk

SUERC, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0QF

Import to contacts

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786

Research interests

Forensic and anthropogenic ¹⁴C.

Development of ¹⁴C lab biofuel capabilities.

Ongoing development of SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory systems.

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2024 | 2023 | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007

Number of items: 20.

2026

Tierney, K. M. et al. (2026) Integrating radiocarbon and stable isotopes in odontocete teeth to reveal life histories. Frontiers in Marine Science, 13, 1934180. (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2026.1934180)

Shanks, Richard P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-8655, McIntyre, Cameron P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-9836, Freeman, Stewart P.H.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-3171, Gulliver, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1180-1578, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Kitchen, Richard, Sundquist, Mark and Murray, Raphael (2026) Positive ion mass spectrometry enables simplified radiocarbon analysis. Scientific Reports, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-68036-1) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623 and Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 (2024) Carbon isotope changes through the recent past: f14c and δ13c values in single barley grain from 1852 to 2020. Radiocarbon, 66(6), pp. 1869-1882. (doi: 10.1017/rdc.2024.8)

2023

Tripney, B. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Scott, E. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623 and Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997 (2023) Routine quality assurance in the SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory. Radiocarbon, 66(5), pp. 1395-1405. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2023.45)

Freeman, Stewart P.H.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-3171, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Ascough, Philippa L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-2903, Fabel, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2859-3293, Gulliver, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1180-1578, McIntyre, Cameron ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-9836, Naysmith, Phillip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Shanks, Richard P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-8655 and Xu, Sheng (2023) Another 6 years of radiocarbon secondary-standard AMS with two spectrometers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 535, pp. 267-271. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2022.12.014)

Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Tait, Andrew (2023) Introduction of interactive remote monitoring at SUERC. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 535, pp. 34-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2022.11.019)

2020

Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Fabel, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2859-3293 (2020) Using carbon isotopes to fight the rise in fraudulent whisky. Radiocarbon, 62(1), pp. 51-62. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.153)

2018

Jacobsson, Piotr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5650, Hamilton, William Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Crone, Anne, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Kinch, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-3443, Naysmith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Xu, Sheng (2018) Refining the Hallstatt plateau: Short-term 14C variability and small scale offsets in 50 consecutive tree-rings from south west Scotland dendro-dated to 410-460 BC. Radiocarbon, 60(1), pp. 219-237. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.90)

2017

Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623, Xu, S. and Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 (2017) Investigation of the analytical F14C bone background value at SUERC. Radiocarbon, 59(5), pp. 1463-1473. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.67)

Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 (2017) Preliminary results for estimating the bone background uncertainties at SUERC using statistical analysis. Radiocarbon, 59(5), pp. 1579-1587. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.70)

2016

Xu, S. et al. (2016) Radiocarbon releases from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. Scientific Reports, 6, 36947. (doi: 10.1038/srep36947) (PMID:27841312) (PMCID:PMC5107918)

Xu, S. et al. (2016) 14C levels in the vicinity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant prior to the 2011 accident. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 157, pp. 90-96. (doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.03.013) (PMID:27023156)

Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Xu, S. (2016) AMS 14C dating at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory. Radiocarbon, 58(01), pp. 9-23. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2015.2)

2015

Muir, G.K.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-5958, Hayward, S., Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Herbert, B.M.J., Garnett, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-2126 and Wilkinson, M. (2015) Determining the biomass fraction of mixed waste fuels: A comparison of existing industry and 14C-based methodologies. Waste Management, 35, pp. 293-300. (doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.09.023)

Muir, Graham K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-5958, Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, MacKenzie, Angus B., Stewart, Helena and Tierney, Kieran M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-8946 (2015) Temporal trend in the transfer of Sellafield-derived 14C into different size fractions of the carbonate component of NE Irish Sea sediment. Radiocarbon, 57(3), pp. 347-354. (doi: 10.2458/azu_rc.57.18399)

2014

Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Naysmith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997 and Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2014) A new database program installed at the SUERC radiocarbon laboratory. Radiocarbon, 56(2), pp. 567-572. (doi: 10.2458/56.17447)

2013

Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Ross, Isla, Wilson, Francis A. and Wilson, John N. (2013) Data value storage for compressed semi-structured data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8056, pp. 174-188. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40173-2_16)

2010

Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Foley, Christopher, Gourlay, Richard and Wilson, John (2010) Efficient data representation for XML in peer‐based systems. International Journal of Web Information Systems, 6(2), pp. 132-148. (doi: 10.1108/17440081011053122)

2009

Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Foley, Christopher, Gourlay, Richard and Wilson, John (2009) Sharing large data collections between mobile peers. In: MoMM 2009: The 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14-16 Dec 2009, pp. 321-325. (doi: 10.1145/1821748.1821809)

2007

Gourlay, Richard, Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Wilson, John (2007) Compressed Materialised Views of Semi-Structured Data. In: BNCOD '07: 24th British National Conference on Databases, Glasgow, UK, 3-5 July 2007, pp. 75-82. ISBN 0769529127 (doi: 10.1109/BNCOD.2007.8)

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Jump to: Articles | Conference Proceedings

Number of items: 20.

Articles

Tierney, K. M. et al. (2026) Integrating radiocarbon and stable isotopes in odontocete teeth to reveal life histories. Frontiers in Marine Science, 13, 1934180. (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2026.1934180)

Shanks, Richard P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-8655, McIntyre, Cameron P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-9836, Freeman, Stewart P.H.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-3171, Gulliver, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1180-1578, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Kitchen, Richard, Sundquist, Mark and Murray, Raphael (2026) Positive ion mass spectrometry enables simplified radiocarbon analysis. Scientific Reports, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-68036-1) (Early Online Publication)

Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623 and Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 (2024) Carbon isotope changes through the recent past: f14c and δ13c values in single barley grain from 1852 to 2020. Radiocarbon, 66(6), pp. 1869-1882. (doi: 10.1017/rdc.2024.8)

Tripney, B. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Scott, E. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623 and Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997 (2023) Routine quality assurance in the SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory. Radiocarbon, 66(5), pp. 1395-1405. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2023.45)

Freeman, Stewart P.H.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-3171, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Ascough, Philippa L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-2903, Fabel, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2859-3293, Gulliver, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1180-1578, McIntyre, Cameron ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-9836, Naysmith, Phillip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Shanks, Richard P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-8655 and Xu, Sheng (2023) Another 6 years of radiocarbon secondary-standard AMS with two spectrometers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 535, pp. 267-271. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2022.12.014)

Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Tait, Andrew (2023) Introduction of interactive remote monitoring at SUERC. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 535, pp. 34-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2022.11.019)

Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Fabel, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2859-3293 (2020) Using carbon isotopes to fight the rise in fraudulent whisky. Radiocarbon, 62(1), pp. 51-62. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.153)

Jacobsson, Piotr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5650, Hamilton, William Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Crone, Anne, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Kinch, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-3443, Naysmith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Xu, Sheng (2018) Refining the Hallstatt plateau: Short-term 14C variability and small scale offsets in 50 consecutive tree-rings from south west Scotland dendro-dated to 410-460 BC. Radiocarbon, 60(1), pp. 219-237. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.90)

Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623, Xu, S. and Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 (2017) Investigation of the analytical F14C bone background value at SUERC. Radiocarbon, 59(5), pp. 1463-1473. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.67)

Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 (2017) Preliminary results for estimating the bone background uncertainties at SUERC using statistical analysis. Radiocarbon, 59(5), pp. 1579-1587. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.70)

Xu, S. et al. (2016) Radiocarbon releases from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. Scientific Reports, 6, 36947. (doi: 10.1038/srep36947) (PMID:27841312) (PMCID:PMC5107918)

Xu, S. et al. (2016) 14C levels in the vicinity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant prior to the 2011 accident. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 157, pp. 90-96. (doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.03.013) (PMID:27023156)

Dunbar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Xu, S. (2016) AMS 14C dating at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory. Radiocarbon, 58(01), pp. 9-23. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2015.2)

Muir, G.K.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-5958, Hayward, S., Tripney, B.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Naysmith, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Herbert, B.M.J., Garnett, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-2126 and Wilkinson, M. (2015) Determining the biomass fraction of mixed waste fuels: A comparison of existing industry and 14C-based methodologies. Waste Management, 35, pp. 293-300. (doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.09.023)

Muir, Graham K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-5958, Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, MacKenzie, Angus B., Stewart, Helena and Tierney, Kieran M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-8946 (2015) Temporal trend in the transfer of Sellafield-derived 14C into different size fractions of the carbonate component of NE Irish Sea sediment. Radiocarbon, 57(3), pp. 347-354. (doi: 10.2458/azu_rc.57.18399)

Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Naysmith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997 and Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2014) A new database program installed at the SUERC radiocarbon laboratory. Radiocarbon, 56(2), pp. 567-572. (doi: 10.2458/56.17447)

Tripney, Brian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Ross, Isla, Wilson, Francis A. and Wilson, John N. (2013) Data value storage for compressed semi-structured data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8056, pp. 174-188. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40173-2_16)

Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Foley, Christopher, Gourlay, Richard and Wilson, John (2010) Efficient data representation for XML in peer‐based systems. International Journal of Web Information Systems, 6(2), pp. 132-148. (doi: 10.1108/17440081011053122)

Conference Proceedings

Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786, Foley, Christopher, Gourlay, Richard and Wilson, John (2009) Sharing large data collections between mobile peers. In: MoMM 2009: The 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14-16 Dec 2009, pp. 321-325. (doi: 10.1145/1821748.1821809)

Gourlay, Richard, Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Wilson, John (2007) Compressed Materialised Views of Semi-Structured Data. In: BNCOD '07: 24th British National Conference on Databases, Glasgow, UK, 3-5 July 2007, pp. 75-82. ISBN 0769529127 (doi: 10.1109/BNCOD.2007.8)

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Grants

Radiocarbon dating research in Scottish archaeology. (Historic Environment Scotland). 2013-present. Named person responsible for ¹⁴C dating programme in SUERC.

Teaching

Organisation of laboratory tours for students, schools and other visitors, at both the Radiocarbon and AMS laboratories.

Responsible for co-ordinating SUERC-hosted Research Placements offered to S5 pupils during summer.

Additional information

Education

Ph.D. Department of Computer and Information Sciences - University of Strathclyde, 2006-2013
M.Sc. (merit) Forensic Informatics - University of Strathclyde, 2005-2006
B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science with Law - University of Strathclyde, 2001-2005

Brian Tripney