Dr Alec Deslandes

Alec has been involved in building and testing the first facilities in Australia to measure noble gases and radioactive noble gases in water samples, and maintaining and developing capabilities for measuring stable isotopes for soil and water science. A brief snapshot includes: fields trips, sampling, measuring environmental tracers with our state of the art analysis systems of which there are only a handful in the world, and analysing the data to build conceptual models of Australia's aquifers and hydrological systems. Alec joined CSIRO in 2015 after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and Centre for Accelerator Science, during which he developed and applied instrumentation and methods for measuring light elements in materials.