About Rieneke Weij
I’m a palaeoclimatologist and geochronologist. My research involves U-series dating of secondary carbonates (speleothems, travertines, tufas). I’m specialized in understanding past variability in the hydroclimate in the Southern Hemisphere subtropics. I currently work on speleothems from the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa and from various sites in southern Australia including the Naracoorte Caves. I love being in the lab preparing samples for U-Th or U-Pb dating and analysing them using MC-ICPMS and LA-ICPMS.