John A. Tarduno


John A. Tarduno received a B.S. degree in geophysics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pa in 1983 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University in 1987. He was a Joint Oceanographic Institutions Fellow at Stanford University in 1988 and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH-Zurich in 1989. From 1990 to 1993 he was Assistant Research Geophysicist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He joined the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rochester in 1993, and served as Chair between 1998 and 2007. On arriving at the University of Rochester, he founded the paleomagnetism laboratory.  His research centers on the application of paleomagnetism to problems in geodynamics, geomagnetism and environmental change. He conducts both laboratory and field-based research. He has participated in ocean drilling cruises in the Pacific Ocean, conducted field research in India, Lesotho and Swaziland, South Africa, Australia and the Chatham Islands (New Zealand), and has led scientific expeditions to the High Canadian Arctic and the Sahara.

Professor Tarduno a member of the American Geophysical Union and a fellow of the Geological Society of America. He is also an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma and Sigma Xi. He was a member of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) Lithosphere Panel (1992-1995), served as liaison to the JOIDES Ocean History Panel (1992-1995), and chaired the JOIDES Scientific Steering and Evaluation Panel on the Dynamics of Earth's Interior (1997-1999). He served on the American Geophysical Union's Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Executive Committee between 1996 and 2002, and on the editorial board of Geology (2001-2003), as a guest editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2004-2005) and on the Review Advisory Committee of the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM RAC; 2005-). He is currently editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed) and Chair of the IRM RAC.

He was a JOI Distinguished Lecturer in 2000/2001 and served as lead proponent and co-chief scientist on Ocean Drilling Program Leg 197 (Motion of the Hawaiian Hotspot: A Paleomagnetic Test, 1 July - 27 August 2001). In 2001 he received the University of Rochester's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching. In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "providing large-impact contributions to the study of Earth's paleomagnetic record and for a matching mentoring outreach to students in this geophysical discipline." Professor Tarduno was the 2004 American Geophysical Union/Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetic Section Bullard Lecturer.  He has been interviewed on the nature of the magnetic field on CNN.  In 2006, Professor Tarduno was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for his "innovative contributions to the determination of geomagnetic paleointensity and the motion of Pacific hotspots". Also in that year, he received the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University of Rochester. He is Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rochester and Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester.



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