Conference Schedule and Speakers

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Monday, June 5

Morning, FORC Workshop I (Nicholson Hall 275)

9:00 - 9:15: Introduction: Josh Feinberg (IRM)

9:15 - 10:00: Andrew Roberts (Australian National University) - Fundamentals & Theory of FORCs

10:00 - 10:15: Questions and discussion

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:30: Ramon Egli (Geosphere, Austria) - FORC measurements and processing: A guided tour through pitfalls and optimization

11:30 - 12:00: Questions and discussion


12:00 - 13:00: Lunch (Tate Hall Atrium)


Afternoon: FORC Workshop II (Nicholson Hall 275)

13:00 - 13:45: Ioan Lascu (Smithsonian Institution) - A practical guide to using FORC-PCA

13:45 - 14:00: Questions and discussion

14:00 - 14:15: Coffee Break

14:15 - 15:00: Victorino Franco (University of Seville) - Temperature FORC (TFORC), magnetocalorics, and potential applications in rock magnetism

15:00 – 15:15: Questions and discussion

15:15 – 15:30: Future directions and closing remarks

15:30 – 16:30: Optional: Geology tour of East Bank Campus

Evening (Nicholson Hall 275)

17:00 – 17:15: Welcome - Bruce Moskowitz and Maxwell Brown

17:15 – 18:45: Keynote Talk I: Tim Lyons (University of California-Riverside) - Iron cycling through time: Pathways, products, and relationships with co-evolving life

Dinner (Tate Hall Atrium)

19:00 – 20:00: Dinner


Tuesday, June 6

Morning: Iron Cycling in Natural and Anthropogenic Environments (Nicholson Hall 275)

Conveners: Andrew Roberts (ANU), Robert Hatfield (U. Florida)

9:00 - 9:05: Convener introduction to the session

9:05 – 9:40: Allyson Tessin (Kent State University) - The roles of redox and reactive iron supply in active benthic iron cycling

9:40 – 10:15: Courtney Wagner (Smithsonian Institution) - Decoding marine records of past global warming events using environmental magnetism

10:15 – 10:35: Coffee Break

10:35 – 11:10: David Heslop (Australian National University) - Quantifying the role of iron minerals in climate change

11:10 – 11:45: France Lagroix (Institute de Physique du Globe, Paris) - Loess and Paleosols in the Global Iron Cycle

11:45 – 12:00: Summary and group discussion of future directions


12:00 - 13:00: Lunch (Tate Hall Atrium)



Afternoon I: Frontiers in Magnetic Microscopy (Nicholson Hall 275)

Conveners: Roger Fu (Harvard), Rashida Doctor (IRM)

13:00 13:05: Convener introduction to the session

13:05 – 13:40: Eduardo Lima (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Estimating net moment from magnetic microscopy data for paleomagnetic studies

13:40 – 14:15: Alec Brenner (Harvard University) - Revealing Archean seafloor hydrothermal magnetizations with magnetic imaging, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love CRMs

14:15 – 14:35: Coffee Break

14:35 – 15:10: Lennart de Groot (Utrecht University) - 3D interpretations of 2D magnetic scans: where do we stand?

15:10 – 15:45: Suzanne McEnroe (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) - Multiscale Magnetic Surveys: Can SMM contribute to our understanding of the bulk magnetic response mapped at large scales?

15:45 – 16:00: Summary and group discussion of future directions


Afternoon II: Poster Session (Campus Club, 4th Floor Coffman Memorial Union)

16:30 – 18:30


Evening: Social Event and Group Dinner (Campus Club, 4th Floor Coffman Memorial Union)

18:30 – 20:30


Wednesday, June 7

Morning: Fundamentals in Rock Magnetism - in memoriam of Özden Özdemir

Conveners: Julie Bowles (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Suzanne McEnroe (NTNU)

9:00 - 9:05: Convener introduction to the session

9:05 – 9:40: David Dunlop (University of Toronto) - Özden Özdemir:  A Life in Science

9:40 – 10:15: Ramon Egli (Geosphere Austria)- Beyond FORC: Identification of reversible and irreversible magnetization changes in hysteretic curves

10:15 – 10:35: Coffee Break

10:35 – 11:10: Annemarieke Beguin (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) - Magnetic recording properties of dendritic iron-oxides and their three-dimensional characterization

11:10 – 11:45: Adrian Muxworthy (Imperial College, London) - Quantifying the effect of stress on magnetic signatures

11:45 – 12:00: Summary and group discussion of future directions


12:00 - 13:00: Lunch (Tate Hall Atrium)


Afternoon I: Keynote talk II (Nicholson Hall 275) 

13:00 – 14:30: Emily Cooperdock (Brown University) - Dating magnetite in ultramafic systems: a tale of tears, trace elements, and unexpected ages

14:30 – 14:45: Coffee Break


Afternoon II: Grand Challenges in Paleogeography and Tectonics

Conveners: Dario Bilardello (IRM), Peter Lippert (U. Utah)

14:45 – 14:50Convener introduction to the session

14:50 – 15:25: Bram Vaes (Utrecht University) – On pole position: new approaches to quantifying polar wander and relative paleomagnetic displacements (virtual)

15:25 – 16:00: John Tarduno (University of Rochester) - Hadean to Eoarchean stagnant lid tectonics recorded by the paleomagnetism of zircons

16:00 – 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:50: Yiming Zhang (University of California - Berkeley) - New approaches to apparent polar wander path development constrain the late Mesoproterozoic assembly of Rodinia

16:50 – 17:25: Derya Gürer (University of Queensland) - Embracing uncertainty and noise in paleomagnetic data: application to global tectonics

17:25 – 18:00: Summary and group discussion of future directions


Thursday, June 8

Morning: Community Workshop I: Implementing JEDI in Rock Magnetism see website (Tate Hall 301-20) 

9:00 – 9:30: Welcome! What are the current demographics of our community: Establishing a need for
action and change
- Joshua Feinberg

9:30 – 10:30: Informal presentations and discussion about the DEI activities that people in our community are doing now: Synthesis and forward thinking

10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:45: Informal presentations and discussion about the activities that people in our community want to do in the future

11:45 – 12:15: Agreeing on a structure for the White Paper, gauging levels of interest, and setting a timeline


12:15 – 13:15: Lunch: Tate Hall Atrium


Afternoon: Community Workshop II: Implementing JEDI in Rock Magnetism see website (Tate Hall 301-20) 

13:15 – 15:00: White paper drafting (all participants welcome, but not required)


All Oral Session Presentations will be uploaded to our YouTube channel. There you will find each session organized as playlists.