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Dr. Robert Hatfield

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I am an Assistant Professor at UF, before that I was a Postdoc and Research Associate at Oregon State University from 2010-2019. I focus on several research themes in the UF Pmag lab including environmental magnetism, stratigraphy, and developing records of relative geomagnetic paleointensity (RPI).

Recently I have worked on developing magnetic and geochemical fingerprints to trace sediment sources to the Northern North Atlantic and using those fingerprints to better understand the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and North Atlantic paleoceanography. I have been involved with several different multiple-PI paleomag projects, including sailing as the shipboard paleomagnetist onboard IODP Expedition 340 to the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc, IODP Expedition 363 to the Western Pacific Warm Pool, and the JR100 Expedition to the Chilean Margin. I also served as the field-based stratigraphic correlator and then shore-based paleomagnetist during ICDP drilling of Jake Junin, Peru.

You can take a look at my publications and/or download some project specific data here.
You can also find my publications and abstracts on Google Scholar, ORCiD, or on my CV.

I am always looking for grad students interested in paleomagnetism, stratigraphy, and/or rock and environmental magnetism. If you are interested in undertaking research on these topics then please don't hesitate to drop me a line!

Teaching

  • GLY6519: Stratigraphy and Timescales - Offered Spring 2020, 2022.
  • GLY4155: Florida Geology - Offered Spring 2021.
  • GLY4930/6932: Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism - Offered Spring 2021.
  • Current Students

  • Maggie Brosky (Ph.D.) Low latitude paleomagnetic and environmental magnetic records of change in the Holocene.
  • Lindsey Monito (Ph.D.) Tracking the last demise of the Greenland Icesheet using paleo- and environmental magnetism.
  • Paloma Olarte (Ph.D.; co advised with Dr. Ellen Martin) Radiogenic isotope records in the North Atlantic and Baffin Bay.
  • Graduated Students

  • James Kowalski (M.S. 2022) - The Particle Size Specific Magnetic Record of IODP Sites U1302/03: Fingerprinting Late Pleistocene Laurentide Ice Sheet Instabilities in the North Atlantic Sediment Record.
  • Benjamin Freiberg (M.S. 2019; Oregon State University) - Particle size specific magnetic records from the Eirik Drift (now Faculty Research Assistant, OSU).