Amid the ongoing pandemic, the ECHOES team has undergone a degree of change, and yet remained surprisingly productive. Our physicist, Andrea Scifo, has taken on the full-time role of operating the Micadas accelerator mass spectrometer in the Centre for Isotope Research. He is, however, managing to continue his PhD research on ECHOES.   In 2021, we have had a number of Master's students working on the project, from fields as diverse as chemistry, physics, and archaeology. One such student, Pinar Erdil, after completing her Master's dissertation (with Distinction) has become a core member of the ECHOES team, albeit only for a short period. She is currently writing up her Master's research, and will soon be submitting her second first-author article, on radiocarbon dating and the Middle Kingdom period of ancient Egypt. Moreover, Pinar has been awarded a NWO funding (agency of the Dutch government) to begin a PhD on radiocarbon dating at the University of Groningen. Such awards are extremely competitive, and we are immensely proud of her achievement.

ECHOES have managed to obtain some extremely interesting data in the last few months and our most significant paper yet is currently going through the editorial process. We look forward to revealing more about this work in the coming months.