Rock- Paleo- Magnetism

Welcome to RPM, Dario Bilardello's Research & Activities page

Seismite, Ischia, Italy
Seismite in Ischia, Italy.

Overview

I am a Research Associate Professor and contribute to the routine operations of the IRM. I am primarily interested in rock-magnetism, paleomagnetism and magnetic anisotropy. I routinely combine the three disciplines to determine the nature and reliability of paleomagnetic data, their mineral carriers, and correcting for known remanence biases. I am the primary editor of The IRM Quarterly newsletter and of the IRM's website. Please contact me for inquiries, or contributions, comments, and suggestions for the IRM Quarterly or website.

Here is the link to my Private Website.

Research Highlights

  • First successful anisotropy measurement technique for hematite-bearing rocks (Bilardello & Kodama 2009) and isolation of different hematite anisotropy contributions (Bilardello 2015);

  • First to use compiled shallowing-factor distributions to correct for sedimentary rock inclination shallowing (Bilardello & Kodama 2008) and to point out the method's drawbacks (Bilardello & Kodama 2009);

  • First to evaluate the elliptical uncertainty around inclination-corrected paleomagnetic directions based on compilations of shallowing factors (Bilardello et al. 2011);

  • First to evaluate the effects of inclination shallowing corrections on the paleogeography of Pangea (Bilardello & Kodama 2010b; Bilardello & Kodama 2010c);

  • First to evaluate the effects of inclination shallowing corrections on Relative Paleo-Intensity estimates (Molinek & Bilardello 2018);

  • First to propose an intersection of great-circles technique, fitted to VGPs, to determine common (re)magnetization events (Bilardello et al. 2018);

  • First to propose an MPMS HIRM-based goethite test, to separate different mineral contributions to the bulk magnetization between room and low-temperature (Bilardello 2019).

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Duties

By contract, my duties are two-fold: 80% of my time is spent participating with IRM faculty and staff in management and supervision of the operations at the IRM. This includes, among other things, assisting the visiting scientists in their research, collaborating in the research of the IRM’s faculty members, staff, and students, sharing responsibility for routine operations (gas transfers, supplies, lab safety, instrument calibration and maintenance), and an increasing proportion of my time is spent building and maintaining the IRM Website and editing the IRM Quarterly, for which I am becoming the main contributor; Conversely, 20% of my time is spent on personal, independent research and professional development.

Research

My primary research interests lie in Rock- and Paleomagnetism, with a particular interest on paleomagnetic data fidelity. My dominant research line is in Magnetic Anisotropy, Detrital Remanent Magnetization (DRM) and its associated biases (e.g., Inclination Shallowing): I use magnetic fabrics to correct paleomagnetic directions and the corresponding Paleogeographic Reconstructions, with a particular interest in the early assemblage of Pangea and other factors which may affect paleomagnetic directions and their reliability. These interests extend to cover the acquisition mechanisms of DRM and the effect of anisotropy-based corrections of inclination shallowing and of Relative Paleointensity (RPI) data, and to include the evaluation of anisotropic distributions of  paleomagnetic data (Shape Analysis) from remagnetized rocks in general. Other recent research topics include the Magnetic Enhancement of Soils, Environmental Rock-Magnetic proxies and the magnetic characterization of Volcanic Eruptive Styles.

Publications

Peer-reviewed:

  • Yang, H., Tikoo, S. M., Carvallo, C., Bilardello, D., Solheid, P., Gaastra, K. M., et al. (2024).  Preliminary characterization of submarine basalt magnetic mineralogy using amplitude‐dependence of magnetic susceptibility. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2023GC011222. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011222

  • Huang, W., Niu, S., Dekkers, M. J., Lippert, P. C., Bilardello, D., Solheid, P., et al. (2023). Remagnetization under hydrothermal alteration of south Tibetan Paleocene lavas: Maghemitization, hematization, and grain size reduction of (Titano)magnetite. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB026418. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026418

  • Vigliotti, L., Bilardello, D., Winkler, A, Del Carlo, P., (2022). Rock magnetic fingerprint of Mt. Etna volcanic ash, Geophys. J. Int., 231, 749-769, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac213.

  • Wang. S., Chang, L., Tao, C., Bilardello, D., Liu, L., Wu, T. (2021). Seafloor magnetism under hydrothermal alteration: insights from magnetomineralogy and magnetic properties of the Southwest Indian Ridge basalts. J. Geophys. Res, 126, e2021JB022646. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022646.

  • Fu, R. R., Volk, M. W. R., Bilardello, D., Libourel, G., Lesur, G. R. J., & Ben Dor, O. (2021). The fine-scale magnetic history of the Allende meteorite: Implications for the structure of the solar nebula. AGU Advances, 2, e2021AV000486. https://doi. org/10.1029/2021AV000486.

  • Bilardello, D. (2021). Late Paleozoic depositional environments and sediment transport directions of the Itararé Group rocks from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, determined from rock magnetism and magnetic anisotropy. Earth and Space Science, 8, e2021EA001703. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001703

  • Paknia, M., Ballato, P., Heidarzadeh, G., Cifelli, C., Feinberg, J., Jackson, M., Bilardello, D., Salvini, F., Ataabadi, M.M., Tadayon, M., Ghassemi, M.R., Mattei, M. (2021). Middle-late Miocene normal faulting during the collisional deformation of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone, NW Iran: A regional process or local feature?, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 217, 104846, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104846.

  • Hosseinzadehsabeti, E., Ferre, E. C., Andersen, T. B., Geissman, J. W., Bilardello, D., & Di Toro, G. (2021). Focal mechanisms of intraslab earthquakes: Insights from pseudotachylytes in mantle units. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB021479. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021479.

  • Bilardello, D., Banerjee, S.K., Volk, M.W.R., Soltis, J.A., Penn, R.L. (2020). Simulation of natural iron oxide   alteration in soil: conversion of synthetic ferrihydrite to hematite without artificial dopants, observed with magnetic methods, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, e2020GC009037. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009037.

  • Bilardello, D. (2020). Comment on “New late Pennsylvanian paleomagnetic results from Paraná Basin (southern Brazil): Is the recent Giant Gaussian process model valid for the Kiaman Superchron?” by Brandt et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018556. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018556.

  • Srinivasan, K., Radu, C., Bilardello, D., Solheid, P., Stadler, B.J.H., 2020. Interfacial and Bulk Magnetic Properties of Stoichiometric Cerium Doped Terbium Iron Garnet Polycrystalline Thin Films, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202000409.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Jackson, M., Stillinger, M.D., Bilardello, D., Feinberg, J.M., 2020. Anisotropy of full and partial anhysteretic remanence across different rock types: 1. Are partial anhysteretic remanence anisotropy tensors additive? Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005284.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Jackson, M., Bilardello, D., Feinberg, J.M., 2020. Anisotropy of full and partial anhysteretic remanence across different rock types: 2. Coercivity-dependence of remanence anisotropy. Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005285.

  • Hopkins, N.R., Evenson, E.B., Bilardello, D., Alley, R.B., Berti, C., Kodama, K.P., 2019. Magnetic anisotropy and debris dependent rheological heterogeneity within stratified basal ice. Journal of Glaciology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.51.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Jackson, M., Bilardello, D., Feinberg, J.M., 2019. Anisotropy of (partial) isothermal remanent magnetization: DC-field-dependence and additivity. Geophys. J. Int., 10.1093/gji/ggz234.

  • Wang, Y., Hendy, I.L., Latimer, J., Bilardello D., Napier, T.J., 2019. Diagenesis and iron paleo-redox proxies: new perspectives from magnetic and iron speciation analyses in the Santa Barbara Basin, Chemical Geology, 519, 95-109, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.018.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Bilardello, D., Jackson, M., Tauxe, L., Feinberg, J.M., 2019. Grain-size-dependent remanence anisotropy and its implications for paleodirections and paleointensities – proposing a new approach to anisotropy corrections. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 512, 111-123, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.01.051.

  • Bilardello D., Callebert W.C., Davis J.R., 2018. Evidence for Widespread Remagnetizations in South America, Case Study of the Itararé Group Rocks From the State of São Paulo, Brazil, Front. Earth Sci. 6, 182, doi: 10.3389/feart.2018.00182.

  • Molinek, F.R., Bilardello, D., 2018. Application of an anisotropy-based correction to relative paleointensity estimates of experimentally deposited sediments, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 19, DOI: 10.1002/2017GC007196.

  • Leslie, C., Peppe, D., Williamson, T., Bilardello, D., Secord, R., Leggett, T., 2018. High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of the upper Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA: implications for basin evolution and mammalian turnover, American Journal of Science, 318, 300–334, DOI: 10.2475/03.2018.02.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Jackson, M., Bilardello, D., Feinberg, J.M., Brown, M.C., McEnroe, S.A., 2017. Influence of static alternating field demagnetization on anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility: Experiments and implications, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, doi:10.1002/2017GC007073.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Jackson, M., Bilardello, D., McEnroe, S.A. 2017. Effect of magnetic anisotropy on the natural remanent magnetization in the MCU IVe’ layer of the Bjerkreim Sokndal Layered Intrusion, Rogaland, Southern Norway, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 790-807, doi:10.1002/2016JB013506.

  • Biedermann, A.R., Heidelbach, F., Jackson, M., Bilardello, D., McEnroe, S.A., 2016. Magnetic fabrics in the Bjerkreim Sokndal Layered Intrusion, Rogaland, Southern Norway: Mineral Sources and Geological Significance, Tectonophysics688, DOI:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.09.019.

  • Bilardello, D., 2016. Magnetic Anisotropy: Theory, Instrumentation, and Techniques, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09516-6.

  • Bilardello, D., 2015. Isolating the anisotropy of the characteristic remanence-carrying hematite grains: a first multispecimen approach, Geophys. J. Int., 202, 695-712, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv171.

  • Bilardello, D., Jackson, M.J., 2014. A comparative study of magnetic anisotropy measurement techniques in relation to rock-magnetic properties. Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.01.026.

  • Kirscher, U., Bilardello, D., Mikolaichuk, A., Bachtadse, V., 2014. Correcting for inclination shallowing of early Carboniferous sedimentary rocks from Kyrgyzstan- indication of stable subtropical position of the North Tianshan Zone in the mid-late Palaeozoic. Geophys. J. Int., 198, 1000-1015, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu177.

  • Bilardello, D., 2013. Understanding DRM acquisition of plates and spheres: a first comparative experimental approach, Geophys. J. Int., DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt240.

  • Bilardello, D., Jezek, J., Gilder, S.A., 2013. Role of spherical particles on magnetic field recording in sediments: Experimental and numerical results, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.10.014.

  • Jezek, J., Gilder, S.A., Bilardello, D., 2012. Numerical simulation of inclination shallowing by rolling and slipping of spherical particles, Computers and Geosciences, DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.06.013. 

  • Bilardello, D., Jezek, J., Kodama, K. P., 2011. Propagating and incorporating the error in anisotropy-based inclination corrections. Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05138.x.

  • Bilardello, D. & Kodama, K. P., 2010c. A new inclination shallowing correction of the Mauch Chunk Formation of Pennsylvania, based on high field-AIR results: Implications for the Carboniferous North American APW path and Pangea reconstructions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.002.

  • Bilardello, D., Kodama, K. P., 2010b. Rock magnetic evidence for inclination shallowing in the early Carboniferous Deer Lake Group red beds of western Newfoundland, Geophys. J. Int., 181, 275-289, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04537.x.

  • Bilardello, D., Kodama, K. P., 2010a. Paleomagnetism and magnetic anisotropy of Carbonifeous red beds from the Maritime Provinces of Canada: Evidence for shallow paleomagnetic inclinations and implications for North American apparent polar wander, Geophys. J. Int., 180, 3, 1013-1029, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04457.x.

  • Giordano, G., De Benedetti, A.A., Diana, A., Diano, G., Esposito, A., Fabbri, M., Gaudioso, F., Marasco, F., Mazzini, I., Miceli, M., Mincione, V., Porreca, M., Rodani, S., Rosa, C., Vinkler, A.P., Caprilli, E., Taviani, S., Trigari, A., Bilardello, D., Malinconico, S., Sabato Ceraldi, T., Funiciello, R., Mattei, M., De Rita, D., Parotto, M., Cas, R.A.F. 2010, Stratigraphy, volcano tectonics and evolution of the Colli Albani volcanic field, Special Publications of IAVCEI, no. 3, pp. 43-97.

  • Bilardello, D., Kodama, K. P., 2009. Measuring remanence anisotropy of hematite in red beds: anisotropy of high-field isothermal remanence magnetization (hf-AIR), Geophys. J. Int., 178, 3, 1260-1272, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04231.x.

  • Wegmann,, K.W., Zurek, B.D.,Regalla, C.A.,Bilardello, D.,Wollenberg,J.L., Kopczynski, S.E.,Apgar,J.D., Haight, S.S.,Zhao, C.,Ziemann, J.M., Pazzaglia,F.J., 2007. Position of the Snake River watershed divide as an indicator of geodynamic processes in the greater Yellowstone region, western North America. Geosphere, 3, 4, 272-281.

     

Non-peer reviewed:

  • Bilardello, D. Practical Magnetism XI: The low temperature AC susceptibility of multidomain (titano)magnetite, an addendum on its amplitude dependence. IRMQ33(1) Spring 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/254820

  • Bilardello, D. Practical Magnetism X: A review of the low temperature AC susceptibility frequency-dependence of multidomain (titano)magnetite. IRMQ32(4) Winter 2022-23. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/254211

  • Biedermann, A. R., Bilardello, D., 2022. Practical Magnetism IX: Evaluating the statistical significance of magnetic anisotropy data, the IRM Quarterly 32(3), Fall 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/254210

  • IRM staff, 2022. Report on the 2022 Summer School for Rock Magnetism, the IRM Quarterly 32(2), Summer 2022.  https://hdl.handle.net/11299/254209

  • Bilardello, D., Biedermann A., Practical Magnetism VIII: reporting and visualization of magnetic anisotropy data. IRMQ 32 (1), Spring 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/254208

  • Biedermann A., Bilardello, D. Practical Magnetism VII: Avoiding common misconceptions in magnetic fabric interpretation. The IRM Quarterly 31(3), Fall 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226221

  • Bilardello, D., Egli, R. Practical Magnetism VI: another FORC in the road? Part B. The IRM Quarterly 31(2), Summer 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226220

  • Bilardello, D. Report on the 12th IRM Conference on Rock Magnetism. The IRM Quarterly 31(1) Spring 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226219

  • Bilardello, D., Egli, R. Practical Magnetism V: another FORC in the road? Part A. The IRM Quarterly 30(4), Winter 2020-2021. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226217

  • Bilardello, D., Roberts, A.P. Practical Magnetism IV: feats and challenges in quantifying hematite through magnetic methods. The IRM Quarterly 30(3), Fall 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226216

  • Bilardello, D. Practical Magnetism III: what’s what in remanence anisotropy. The IRM Quarterly 30(2), Summer 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/214981

  • Bilardello, D. Practical Magnetism II: humps and a bump, the maghemite song. The IRM Quarterly 30(1), Spring 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/214980

  • Bilardello, D. Practical Magnetism I: discriminating SD and MD magnetite particle behavior through FC-ZFC remanence curves. The IRM Quarterly 29(3), Fall 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/214978

  • Bilardello, D. Tinkering with the wheel: can the goethite test run more smoothly? The IRM Quarterly 29(2), Summer 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208770

  • Bilardello, D. The 11th Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism. The IRM Quarterly 29(1), Spring 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208769

  • Bilardello, D. Civilized Magnetist’s deadly sins. The IRM Quarterly 28(4), Winter 2018-19. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/201751

  • Biedermann, A.R. Bilardello, D., Jackson, M., Chadima, M., and Feinberg, J. Commonly used experimental parameters for acquisition of anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM) and its anisotropy (AARM): Results and recommendations from a rock magnetic community survey. The IRM Quarterly 28(3), Fall 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200745

  • Volk, M., Bilardello, D, and Jackson, M. Magnetic tests and characterization protocols: mineralogy and grain size /domain state Part II: isothermal weak field tests. The IRM Quarterly 28(2), Summer 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/199787

  • Bilardello, D. The 2018 Summer School in Rock Magnetism. The IRM Quarterly 28(1), Spring 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/198063

  • Volk, M., Jackson, M., and Bilardello, D. Magnetic tests and characterization protocols: mineralogy and grain size /domain state Part I: isothermal strong field tests. The IRM Quarterly 27(4), Winter 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/194232

  • Bilardello, D. The New Deal-transitioning from a disordered to an ordered state. The IRM Quarterly 27(2), Summer 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/190422

  • Bilardello, D. The do’s and don’ts of inclination shallowing corrections. The IRM Quarterly 26(3), Fall 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183115

  • Moskowitz, B., Feinberg, J., Jackson, M., Solheid, P., Bilardello, D. Report on the 2016 Summer School on Rock Magnetism. The IRM Quarterly 26(1), Spring 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/181345

  • Moskowitz, B., Banerjee, S., Feinberg, J., Jackson, M., Solheid, P., and Bilardello, D. The IRM at 25: A quarter century of community-based research and education. The IRM Quarterly 25(3), Fall 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/178383

  • Bilardello, D. One move to rule the mall: big changes in store for the IRM. The IRM Quarterly 25(2), Summer 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/176915

  • Bilardello, D. The third Summer School for Rock Magnetism held at the IRM. The IRM Quarterly 25(1), Spring 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/173321

  • Bilardello, D. A long review from a curt peer: a peek into the peer review system. IRMQ 24 (3), Fall 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171336

  • Bilardello, D., Jackson, M.  The Tenth Santa Fe3+ Conference on Rock-Magnetism. The IRM Quarterly 24(1), Spring 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171334

  • IRM staff, the RAC and community members. Where do we go from here? Past, Present and Future trends in Rock Magnetism. The IRM Quarterly 23(4), Winter 2013-14. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171333

  • Bilardello, D., Jackson, M. What do the Mumpsies do? The IRM Quarterly 23(3), Fall 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171332

  • Bilardello, D., and Jackson, M. Some like it hot! A new high temperature MFM comes online at the IRM. The IRM Quarterly 23(2), Summer 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171331

  • Bilardello, D. The second Summer School of Rock Magnetism held at the IRM. The IRM Quarterly 23(1), Spring 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171330

DEI efforts

A list of personal Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (JEDI) efforts

  • In the Spring of 2016 I have completed the 10 required workshops and have earned the Basic Equity and Diversity Certificate from the University of Minnesota's OED Office;
  • Following the above, I took the initiative to develop a Diversity Statement which I included on the IRM Website;
  • 2020, joined the nascent College of Science and Engineering Diversity Alliance;
  • 2020, volunteered to complete the Department's Equity and Diversity Committee website;
  • 2021-22, proposed to extend the pandemic-era mail-in visiting fellowship program into a Remote Access Visiting Fellowship category: "To give the magnetic community greater access to IRM instrumentation, this fellowship allows researchers to submit proposals designed around IRM staff conducting measurements on their behalf. The aim of fellowship is to provide support to researchers with limited resources, limited (or no funding) or an inability to travel";
  • 2022-23, proposed to include a JEDI workshop in the 2023 IRM Conference for Rock Magnetism;
  • 2023, took the initiative to develop a Code of Conduct for the 2023 IRM Conference for Rock Magnetism;
  • 2023, collaboratively developed the IRM's Diversity and Outreach website content and solely built the webpage for it;
  • 2024, took the initiative to develop a Code of Conduct for the IRM, which subsequently benefited from efforts from other lab and IRM RAC members;
  • Routinely contribute didactic articles to the IRM Quarterly newsletter, written in an accessible language, which I disseminate through an email list, the IRM website and other media (e.g., ResearchGate). For the IRM Quarterly collection in general, I have indexed the most useful articles in a dedicated webpage.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position:

Research Associate Professor Institute for Rock Magnetism, January 2021- present.

 

Professional Preparation:

Staff Scientist Institute for Rock Magnetism, December 2012- January 2021.

Post-doctoral researcher Instituto de Geociências, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2012. Project title (own project): Correction of the Itararé Group (Paraná Basin) paleopole based on magnetic anisotropy: Implications for the apparent polar wander of Gondwana and Pangea reconstructions. Co-investigator: Prof. Maria Irene Bartolomeu Raposo. 

Post-doctoral researcher Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2009- 2011. Project title (co-written project): Understanding magnetic remanence acquisition in sediments through a combined experimental and numerical approach. Co-investigators: Prof. Stuart Gilder, from Ludwig Maximilians University, and Prof. Josef Jezek, from Charles University, Prague.

Doctor of Philosophy, January 2009 from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, K. P. Kodama, advisor. Thesis title: A New Technique for Measuring the Magnetic Fabric of Hematite- Bearing Sedimentary Rocks, hf-AIR: Inclination Correction Case Studies for Carboniferous red beds from the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

Short Course, February 2002 from the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany: ‘High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth’s Interior’.

Master of Science in Geology cum laude, May 2002 from the Universita’ di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy, Prof. R. Funiciello, advisor; C. Faccenna and F. Rossetti, co-advisors; Prof. D. Cosentino, Chief Examiner. Thesis title: Structural evolution of the southern sector of the Coastal Range (northern Calabria, Italy). Structural aspects, P-T paths and tectonic implications.

Bachelor of Science in Geology, single honours, May 1999 from University of Southampton, UK. Prof. R. Nesbitt, senior advisor. Senior honors project: Mapping and Report of a sector of the south-eastern Spanish Pyrenees, Gosòl, Spain.

 

Honors and Awards:

2008: Selected for a Visiting Fellowship at Institute for Rock Magnetism at the University of Minneapolis, MN.

2007: P. B. Mayers Jr. Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award recipient from the Lehigh Earth and Environmental Science Department. 

2007: Lehigh University, College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship; Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kravis Fellowship.

2006: American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award (Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism) recipient for the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting.

 

Appointments:

2002- 2004: Teaching support for the English language laboratory in the Geology Department of the Universita’ di Roma Tre.

2003: Mapper for the CARG (Cartografia Geologica ‘Geological Cartography’) project of the Guidonia and San Vittorino CTR’s (Carta Tecnica Regionale ‘Regional Technical Map’: scale 1:10,000; 27 Km2).

 

Synergistic Activities:

Session Organizer for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA and Online.

Conference Organizer and Session Convener for the 13th IRM Conference on Rock Magnetism, Minneapolis, June 5-8, 2023.

Session Convener and Chair for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA and Online.

Member of the University of Minnesota Earth and Environmental Sciences Department Equity and Diversity committee, March 2019- present.

Member of the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering Diversity Equity and Inclusivity Alliance Lead Team, February 2019 to September 2020.

Instructor for a module on magnetic anisotropy, 17th Castle Meeting pre-Conference Workshop, 2020, Trakoscan, Croatia. Cancelled.

Session Convener and Chair for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA.

Conference Organizer for the 11th Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism, 2019, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Instructor for the 2018 Summer School on Rock Magnetism, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota.

Conference Organizer for the Santa-Utrecht Conference on Rock Magnetism, 2017, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Session Convener and Chair for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2016, San Francisco, USA.

External Advisory Board member for New Mexico Highlands University PREM program, November 2016.

Editor of The IRM Quarterly newsletter from January 2013 to present.

Instructor for the 2015 Summer School on Rock Magnetism, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota.

Session Convener and Chair for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2014, San Francisco, USA.

Conference Organizer for the 10th Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism, 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Session Convener and Chair for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2013, San Francisco, USA.

Instructor for the 2013 Summer School on Rock Magnetism, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota.

Session Convener and Chair for the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2010, San Francisco, USA.

Session Chair for the American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting 2006, Baltimore, USA.