Lab

Personnel

Peter C. Lippert

pete (dot) lippert (at) utah (dot) edu

Lab PI

Assistant Professor

Department of Geology & Geophysics

Global Change & Sustainability Center

Research Interests

Tectonics & Paleogeography

Geochronology applied to Climate, Igneous Processes, and Ecology &

Evolutionary Biology

Surface & Crustal Processes

Geobiology

Pete’s CV

Grant Rea-Downing

grant (dot) readowning (at) utah (dot) edu

PhD Student

Department of Geology & Geophysics

Research Interests

Continental Tectonics

Structural Geology & Paleomagnetism

Magnetic Recording Biases in Lavas

Grant’s CV

Facilities

Check back for photos and more information about the new Utah Paleomagnetic Center. 2016 was a successful summer for the lab: renovations were completed, new instruments and software were installed, existing instrumentation was brought back to life, and we started collecting data on a number of different projects. If you are interested in using any of this instrumentation, please contact Pete Lippert.

The Utah Paleomagnetic Center hosts:

•a 2G/WSGI DC-SQUID Superconducting Rock Magnetometer operated by Michael Wack’s CryoMag software
•a new AGICO JR-6A automated spinner magnetometer
•an ASC TD-48 thermal demagnetizer with custom-built Kiethley temperature monitor and data logger.
•a 2G alternating field demagnetizer with peak fields of 150 mT
•a new Magnon AFD300 alternating field demagnetizer with peak fields of 300 mT and ARM capabilities
•an ASC IM-10-30 impulse magnetizer
•a new AGICO MFK1 multifunction kappabridge with furnace, cryostat, and 3D rotator
•a new Lakeshore/PMC Model 3900-4 vibrating sample magnetometer
•a PMC Model 2900-2 alternating gradient magnetometer
•a Leitz transmitted and reflected light petrographic microscope with a new Leica digital camera
•an Applied Physics System 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer
•a Sartorius ENTRIS 64-1S analytical balance with computer interface
•magnetic separation equipment
•sample collection equipment (gas and electric Pomeroy drills)
•sample preparation equipment (dedicated saws and drill press)

We routinely work with these labs at Utah:

• The University of Utah Petrochron Lab

•The Surface Analysis Lab at the University of Utah NanoFab Lab

Courtney Wagner

courtney (dot) wagner (at) utah (dot) edu

PhD Student

Department of Geology & Geophysics

Research Interests

Geobiology

Magnetotactic Bacteria

Courtney’s CV

Postdocs & Long-Term Visitors

Wentao Huang with Pete Reiners (Arizona) with support from the NWO Rubicon Fellowship program; October 2015 - October 2017

check out Wentao’s GoogleScholar profile here

Research Interests

Asian tectonics, esp. of the India-Asia collision zone

Rock magnetism applied to remagnetization and fluid-rock interactions

(U-Th)/He thermochronology of zircon, apatite, and hematite

Peiping Song January-December 2017 with support of the China Scholarship Council

check out Peiping’s ResearchGate profile here

Research Interests

Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonics of the Tibetan Plateau

Paleomagnetism

Petrochonology

Jörg Pross May-September 2017 with support from Universität Heidelberg

check out Jörg’s webpage here

check out Jörg’s GoogleScholar profile here

Research Interests

Palynology & paleoenvironmental dynamics

Climate & environmental change under icehouse conditions (Quaternary & Oligocene)

Climate & environmental change under greenhous conditions (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, & Paleogene)

Terrestrial & marine ecosystems

Lab Visitors

Summer 2016

Dr. Frank Brown (Geology & Geophysics, Univ. Utah)

Rachel Darata (undergraduate student from Westminster College, working with Dr. Tiffany Rivera)

Fall 2016

Jiang Yu (PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, Univ. Utah)

Tonya Jensen (graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Univ. Utah)

Summer 2017

Dr. Ryan Leary (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University)

USU Blanding undergraduate students working with Dr. Alexis Ault (Department of Geology, USU)

Stacy Henderson (undergraduate student from Westminster College, working with Dr. Tiffany Rivera)

Fall 2017

Gwen Owen Jones (PhD student in the Department of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanographic Centre Southampton (UK), working with Dr. Steven Bohaty)

Spring 2018

Keegan Melstrom (PhD student, Geology & Geophysics, Univ. Utah, working with Dr. Randy Irmis)

Jeremiah Bernau (PhD student, Geology & Geophysics, Univ. Utah, working with Dr. Brenda Bowen)