Dorothy Godfrey-Smith

Associate Professor - Resigned 2005


Email: Earth@Dal.Ca
Phone: +1 (902) 494-2358
Mailing Address: 
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Dalhousie University
6287 Alumni Cres
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS B3H 4R2
CANADA
 

Education

  • B.Sc., University of Calgary (1980)
  • M.Sc., Simon Fraser University (1985)
  • Ph.D., Simon Fraser University (1991)

Publications

The physics of luminescence:

  • D.I. Godfrey-Smith and M. Cada. Stimulation spectroscopy of potassium and plagioclase feldspars and quartz. Radiation Protection Dosimetry,66:379-385, 1996.
  • D.I. Godfrey-Smith, H.M. Rendell, and R.A. Wood. A new model for recombination processes in feldspars based on combined optically and thermally stimulated luminescence spectroscopy. 41st International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy, Windsor, Ont., Aug. 1995.
  • D.I. Godfrey-Smith. Thermal effects in the optically stimulated luminescence of quartz and mixed feldspars from sediments. Journal of Physics D, 27:1-10, 1994.
  • D.I. Godfrey-Smith and E.H. Haskell. The application of optically stimulated luminescence to dosimetry of recent radiation events involving low total absorbed dose. Health Physics 65:396-404, 1993.
  • Authenticity analysis and dating of archaeological materials: D.I. Godfrey-Smith, M. Deal, and I. Kunelius.Thermoluminescence dating of St. Croix ceramics: Chronology building in southwestern Nova Scotia. Submitted, 1995.
  • Sediment geochronology and the dating of Quaternary-age volcanic materials: D.I. Godfrey-Smith, M.L. Clarke, and P. Scallion. Reassessment of beta dosimetry using imaging microprobe analysis and beta counting. Submitted, 1995.
  • D.I. Godfrey-Smith and R.R. Stea. Late Interglacial geochronology of a mastodon locality at East Milford, Nova Scotia, Canada. Abstract, Annual GSA meeting, New Orleans, USA, Nov. 4-6, 1995.
  • V. Butenko, D.I.Godfrey-Smith, J. Kronfeld, E. Ne'eman, H. Koral. The use of radiocaesium as a marine sediment tracer in the eastern Mediterranean. Abstract, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Co., Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 1996.
  • D.D. Lindsay, D.I. Godfrey-Smith, and M. Zentilli. Age Determinations on the Upper Expression of a Lithospheric Fissure, the West Fissure, northern Chile. Extended Abstract, International Global Change Program #342, IGCP342 Meeting, Brazil, Sept. 1996.
  • D.J. Huntley, D.I. Godfrey-Smith and M.L.W. Thewalt. Optical dating of sediments. Nature 313(5998):105-107, 1985.
  • Radiation dosimetry in medical applications: D.I. Godfrey-Smith and B.Pass. Detection of gamma doses absorbed by human dental enamel using optically stimulated luminescence. Submitted, 1996.