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Paula J. Reimer is a scientist and professor whose research focusses mainly on carbon, both in modern and past environments, and its use for radiocarbon dating and calibration, for better understanding carbon cycling and climate dynamics, and for archaeological dietary studies.

Biography
Paula J. Reimer is a professor at Queen's University Belfast, in Northern Ireland and is the director of the 14CHRONO Center for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology in the School of Natural and Built Environment from 2004. Prior to that she worked in the Quaternary Isotope Lab at the University of Washington and the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. She chaired an international radiocarbon calibration working group (IntCal) based at Queen's University Belfast from 2002 until 2020, which has published several calibration curves to improve the technique of radiocarbon dating. She also created the radiocarbon calibration program CALIB and the Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Correction database. Moreover, she managed the development of CALIBomb, a software for the calibration of post-nuclear testing radiocarbon analyses. Prof. Reimer's research also focusses on carbon cycling and the use of carbon to trace certain geological processes in the environment, namely, in marine and freshwater reservoirs, atmosphere, soils, and sediments. Additionally, her work also covers the use of stable isotopes in dietary studies in an archaeological context.

Awards and Recognition
In 2013 she was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London for contributions towards the development of radiocarbon dating and calibration and carbon cycling in the environment. In 2014, she was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She was nominated as one of the archaeologists of the year for 2021 by Current Archaeology Magazine.

Selected Publications

 * Reimer & Reimer (2001). A Marine Reservoir Correction Database and On-Line Interface. Radiocarbon 43, 461-463.
 * Reimer et al. (2009). IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP. Radiocarbon 51, 1111-1150.
 * Reimer et al. (2020) The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere radiocarbon age calibration curve (0–55 cal kBP). Radiocarbon 62, 725-75.