Dr. Daniela Pittauer

• Gamma spectrometry (laboratory and in-situ measurements)
• Alpha spectrometry
• Other radiometric methods: alpha autoradiography, radon activity determination (emanometry), surface contamination measurements
• Other instrumental methods: X-ray powder diffraction, electron microanalysis, Mössbauer spectroscopy, sychrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy

Journal papers

• Pittauer, D., Roos, P., Qiao, J., Geibert, W., Elvert, M., and Fischer, H. W. (2017). Pacific Proving Grounds radioisotope imprint in the Philippine Sea sediments. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.
• Pittauer, D., Tims, S., Froehlich, M., Fifield, K., Wallner, A., McNeil, S., and Fischer, H. W. (2017) Continuous transport of Pacific-derived anthropogenic radionuclides towards the Indian Ocean. Scientific Reports 7: 44679.
• Marrero A., Tudurí A., Pérez L., Cuña C., Muniz P., Lopes Figueira R.C., de Mahiques M.M., de Lima Ferreira P.A., Pittauerová D., Hanebuth T., García-Rodríguez F. (2015) Historical changes in terrigenous river supply from the Rio de la Plata basin to the inner shelf of Uruguay. Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, 21 (2): 165–179.
• Pittauerová, D., Kirchner, G., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Herut, B., Nishri, A. and Fischer, H. W. (2014). Radionuclides and recent sedimentation and mixing rates in Northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea. Journal of Marine Systems, 139: 1–8.
• Steinke, S., Mohtadi, M., Prange, M., Varma, V., Pittauerová, D., and Fischer, H. W. (2014). Mid- to Late-Holocene Australian-Indonesian summer monsoon variability. Quaternary Science Reviews, 93(1): 142–154.
• Zonneveld, K. A., Chen, L., Elshanawany, R., Fischer, H. W., Hoins, M., Ibrahim, M. I., Pittauerová, D., and Versteegh, G. J. (2012). The use of dinoflagellate cysts to separate human-induced from natural variability in the trophic state of the Po River discharge plume over the last two centuries. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 64(1): 114–132.
• Pittauerová, D., Hettwig, B., and Fischer, H. W. (2011). Fukushima fallout in Northwest German environmental media. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 102(9): 877–880.
• Pittauerová, D., Hettwig, B., and Fischer, H. W. (2011). Pb-210 sediment chronology: Focused on supported lead. Radioprotection, 46(6): 277–282.
• Fischer, H. W., Hettwig, B., and Pittauerová, D. (2011). Traces of Fukushima fallout in the environment of Northwest Germany. Radioprotection, 46(6): 181–185.
• Mulitza, S., Heslop, D., Pittauerová, D., Fischer, H., Meyer, I., Stuut, J.-B., Zabel, M., Mollenhauer, G., Collins, J., Kuhnert, H., and Schulz, M. (2010). Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region. Nature, 466(7303): 226–228.
• Fischer, H. W., Ulbrich, S., Pittauerová, D., and Hettwig, B. (2009). Medical radioisotopes in the environment - following the pathway from patient to river sediment. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 100(12): 1079–1085.
• Pittauerová, D., Mulitza, S., Hettwig, B., Chehade, W., Stuut, J.-B., Mollenhauer, G., and Fischer, H. W. (2009). Application of self-absorption correction method in gamma spectroscopy for 210Pb and 137Cs sediment chronology on the continental slope off NW Africa. Radioprotection, 44(5): 457–461.
• Goliáš, V., Vylita, T., Trískala, Z., Procházka, R., and Pittauerová, D. (2009). Short-term radioactive disequilibrium in thermal mineral waters in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) spa, Czech Republic. Radioprotection, 44(5): 155–158.
• Goliáš, V., Pittauerová, D., Procházka, R., and Trískala, Z. (2005). Field alpha spectroscopy of the radon (Rn-222) and actinon (Rn-219) progeny in soil gas: Locating a radon source. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 266(3): 461–470.
• Pittauerová, D., Dohnal, J., Goliáš, V., and Jáne, Z. (2003). Findings of complex geophysical survey in the area of historical shaft Geister in Joachimsthal ore district. Uhlí, rudy, geologický pruzkum (in Czech, English abstract): 25–29.

Papers in conference proceedings

• Pittauer, D., Tims, S., Roos, P., Froehlich, M., Qiao, J., and Fischer, H.W. (2016). Pacific Proving Grounds radioisotope imprint in sediments from equatorial Western Pacific and Indonesian Throughflow. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Radioecological Concentration Processes, Seville, Spain, November 2016.
• Pittauer, D., Höweling, D., Pérez Mayo, M., Hettwig, B., and Fischer, H.W. (2016). SedActiv 1.0: A cosmic veto gamma spectrometry setup for sediment samples. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Radioecological Concentration Processes, Seville, Spain, November 2016.
• Pittauerová, D., Mulitza, S., and Fischer, H. W. (2013). Gamma spectrometry for chronology of recent sediments. In Isotopes in Hydrology, Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change Studies, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Monaco, 27.3.–1.4.2011, IAEA, Vol. 1: 41–48.
• Pittauerová, D., Hettwig, B., and Fischer, H. W. (2013). Supported lead in Pb-210 chronology. In Isotopes in Hydrology, Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change Studies, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Monaco, 27.3.–1.4.2011, IAEA, Vol. 2: 477–484.
• Fischer, H. W., Ulbrich, S., Pittauerová, D., and Hettwig, B. (2013). Medical and other radioisotopes as tracers in the wastewater-river-sediment. In Isotopes in Hydrology, Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change Studies, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Monaco, 27.3.–1.4.2011, IAEA, Vol. 2: 403–408.
• Pittauerová, D., Kolb, W., Rosenstiel, J., and Fischer, H. (2010). Radioactivity in Trinitite - a review and new measurements. In Proceedings: Third European IRPA Congress, 14.–18.6.2010, Helsinki, Finland, P16: 2569–2578.
• Pittauerová, D., Ulbrich, S., Hettwig, B., and Fischer, H. W. (2010). Long-term background in gamma-spectroscopy. In Schriftenreihe Fachgespräch Überwachung der Umweltradioaktivität. Freiburg, 24.–26.3.2009: 314–321.
• Pittauerová, and Goliáš, V. (2005). Late stage of weathering of uranium ores as a waste rock after historical silver mining, Joachimsthal, Czech Republic. In Uranium production and raw materials for the nuclear fuel cycle - Supply and demand, economics, the environment and energy security, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Vienna, 20.–24.6.2005. IAEA-CN-128.: 272–277.
• Pittauerová, and Goliáš, V. (2002). Weathering of mine wastes after historical silver mining in the Jáchymov ore district (Czech Republic) and migration of uranium. In Uranium deposits: from their genesis to their environmental aspects, Proceedings of an International Conference, Prague, 10.–11.9.2002.: 157–160.