Peter Lippert

University of Utah

I am an assistant professor of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Utah. My research interests center around using the unique information encoded in the magnetic and chemical properties of geological materials to understand tectonic, paleoclimate, and paleoecological processes, and to recognize feedbacks between geodynamics, climate change, and surface processes. My research group has active projects addressing the tectonics and paleogeography of Asia, measuring the heartbeat of climate and oceanographic processes over the past 60 million years, refining the tempo and distribution of volcanism associated with the Yellowstone volcanic field, developing new methods for detecting wildfire in deep time, microbe-rock-fluid interactions in young oceanic crust, and the use of bacterially-produced magnetic particles as ecological and environmental biomarkers. My research is both lab and field based, is highly collaborative, and has involved extensive field work in Tibet, Central Asia, the High Canadian Arctic, the Western US, and the North Atlantic ocean.

 

I teach introductory geoscience classes for non-majors, core-curriculum in structural geology & tectonics, and graduate classes in tectonics, bio/geo/environmental magnetism, and paleogeography. I am strongly engaged in and committed to curriculum development for undergraduate geoscience majors and believe in strong mentorship and apprenticeship for graduate students and post-docs.

 

I am a native of Upstate NY, earned my BS in Geological Sciences from the University of Rochester, my PhD in Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed two post-doctoral research appointments at the University of Arizona before moving to Salt Lake City in 2014. Outside of the lab and classroom, I enjoy traveling with my partner, hanging out with my cat, cooking, and mountain biking throughout the Wasatch.

see also:

 http://www.pmag.earth.utah.edu

 http://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2016/11/11/geotalk-peter-lippert-understanding-continental-tectonics-through-palaeomagentic-studies/

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