Earth and Environmental Sciences
Quick Facts
Title: Professor
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Contact Info
227 Hutchison Hall
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Box 270221
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
Phone: (585) 275-5713
john.tarduno@rochester.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
People—John A. Tarduno
Research Interests
Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Geodynamics, including rates of plate tectonic, hotspot and polar motion, mantle plume volcanism, long-term history of Earth's magnetic field (paleointensity, paleosecular variation and reversal frequency), origin of the geodynamo, inner core growth and magnetic shielding, decay of the modern dipole magnetic field and archeomagnetism;, Cretaceous climate;, environmental magnetism.
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- EES 102Q/202 Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Mountain Ranges in California: A Field Quest
- EES 252/454 Marine Geology
- EES 255/455 Planetary Science
- EES 256/456 Paleomagnetism
- EES 258/458 Hotspots and Plate Motions
Selected Publications
- Tarduno, J.A., et al., Evidence for a dynamo in the main group pallasite parent body, Science, 338, 939-942, 2012.
- Tarduno, J.A., et al., Geodynamo, Solar wind, and magnetopause 3.4 to 3.45 billion years ago, Science, 327, 1238-1240, 2010.
- Tarduno, J.A., H.-P. Bunge, N. Sleep and U. Hansen, The bent Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot track: Inheriting the mantle wind, Science, 324, 50-53, 2009.
- Tarduno, J.A., Hotspots Unplugged, Scientific American, 298, 88-93, 2008.
- Tarduno, J.A., R.D. Cottrell, M.K. Watkeys and D. Bauch, Geomagnetic field strength 3.2 billion years ago recorded by single silicate crystals, Nature, 446, 657-660, 2007.
- Tarduno, J.A, R.D Cottrell, and A.V. Smirnov, The paleomagnetism of single silicate crystals: Recording the geomagnetic field during mixed polarity intervals, superchrons and inner core growth, Reviews of Geophysics, 44, Art. No. RG1002, 2006.
- Tarduno, J.A., et al., The Emperor Seamounts: Southward motion of the Hawaiian Hotspot plume in Earth's mantle, Science, 301, 1064-1069, 2003.
- Tarduno, J.A., Cottrell, R.D. and Smirnov, A.V., The Cretaceous Superchron geodynamo: Observations near the tangent cylinder, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 99, 14020-14025, 2002.
- Tarduno, J.A., R.D. Cottrell and A.V. Smirnov, High geomagnetic field intensity during the mid-Cretaceous from Thellier analyses of single plagioclase crystals, Science, 291, 1779-1783, 2001.
- Tarduno, J.A., et al., Evidence for Extreme Climatic Warmth from Late Cretaceous Arctic Vertebrates, Science, 282, 2241-2244, 1998.
- Tarduno, J.A., and J. Gee, Large-scale motion between Pacific and Atlantic hotspots, Nature, 378, 477-480, 1995.
- Tarduno, J.A., and W.W. Sager, Polar standstill of the mid-Cretaceous Pacific plate and its geodynamic implications, Science, 269, 956-959, 1995.
- Tarduno, J.A., et al., Rapid Formation of Ontong Java Plateau by Aptian Mantle Plume Volcanism, Science, 254, 399-403, 1991.
Research Opportunities for Graduate Students
Opportunities are available for graduate students interested in multidisciplinary laboratory and field research with the Paleomagnetic Research Group (see www.ees.rochester.edu/pmag/). We have projects studying large-scale plate and mantle motions in the Pacific, Africa and High Arctic. Our archeomagnetic work is focused on southern Africa. Our studies of the oldest magnetic fields and the early Earth are based on field studies in South Africa, Swaziland, Australia and Canada. Opportunities are available for students with Earth Science backgrounds with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and with degrees in Physics through the Department of Physics and Astronomy. (See www.pas.rochester.edu/urpas/faculty_page/tarduno_john_a)
Contact: john.tarduno@rochester.edu
