Welcome to the homepage of the Paleomagnetic Research Group at the University of Rochester. The photo above shows students waiting for their ride to the next camp site during one of our laboratory's expeditions to the Arctic. Learn more about our adventures above the Arctic Circle, and our new studies in New Zealand, southern Africa and the Sahara Desert.
Call for Graduate Applications, Paleomagnetic Research Group, 2007-2008. Click here for more information.
The Paleomagnetic Research Group has also been involved in the Ocean Drilling Program. In 1999, Prof. John Tarduno and then graduate student Rory Cottrell proposed an ocean drilling leg to study the motion of the Hawaiian hotspot during formation of the Emperor Seamounts as a follow-up to their paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Click here for a look at life on board the JOIDES Resolution and here for a link to the Sciencemanuscript describing results of the cruise. This work has also been highlighted in a recent article by Prof. John Tarduno in Scientific American.
The Paleomagnetic Research Group has also published a number of papers on their technique in single crystal paleointensity. Prof. Tarduno was asked to present his group's work as part of the Bullard Lecture Series during the Fall 2004 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union which has led to a publication in Reviews of Geophysics in 2006. The Group has also had recent publications in Journal of Geophysical Research investigating the dipole strength and variation of the reversing and nonreversing geodynamo based on paleointensity measurements of plagioclase crystals. Most recently, we have published a paper in the journal Nature concerning geomagnetic field strenth 3.2 billion years ago. This publication has received quite a bit of attention in the news world.
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