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Presentation for undergraduate geology students in the Northwest University (Xi’an, China, May 2010).

CONTACT INFORMATION Mail: Physics Department 4-183 CCIS University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada Phone: +1-(780) 492-5591 Fax: +1-(780) 492-0714 E-Mail: vadim@ualberta.ca

Vadim A. Kravchinsky
Dr., Associate Professor

Research interests: paleomagnetism, petromagnetism, paleoclimate, environmental magnetism, magnetostratigraphy, tectonophysics.

Office: CCIS 3-106
Laboratory of Paleomagnetism and Petromagnetism: Lab rooms CCIS L2-097 – Tel. (780) 492-7464

Laboratory of Paleomagnetism and Petromagnetism

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My CV

Opportunities for graduate studies (M.Sc. and Ph.D.):
1. Paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental studies.
2. Paleomagnetism and tectonics.
3. Dating of sediments and geological processes using magnetostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy, and time series analysis.

See application procedure details at http://www.physics.ualberta.ca/en/grad.aspx

Current graduate students (see also Gradstudents in the Physics Department and more details at Lab link):

	Name	Program	Duration	Thesis Topic
1.	Dunia A. Blanco	Ph.D.	2008 – 2013	Paleointensity of basalts from the large igneous provinces; Paleoclimate and Milankovitch cyclicity in Siberian loess sequences
2.	Karol Rohraff (co-supervised with M. Sacchi)	M.Sc.	2009 – 2011	Time series processing: stratigraphy and paleoclimatic implications
3.	Chen Jiasheng	Ph.D. student at the Lanzhou University (China) and Research Fellow at the University of Alberta (Canada)	2011 – 2013	Environmental magnetism of the eolian sediments of Asia and North America

Former graduate students (see details at Lab link):

	Name	Program	Duration	Got first job at
5.	Rui Zhang	Ph.D.	2006 – 2011	Professorship (tenure-track) at the Northwest University (Xi’an, China)
4.	Jeff Samson	M.Sc.	2007 – 2009
3.	Shawn Walker	M.Sc.	2004 – 2007	Aurora Enterprise (North Canada and US)
2.	Jason Zhigang Han (co-supervised with D. Schmitt)	M.Sc.	2002 – 2005	Shell Canada (Calgary)
1.	Mikhail A. Krainov (co-supervised with M.I. Kuzmin)	Ph.D.	2000 – 2005	Russian Academy of Sciences (permanent researcher)

Affiliated personnel of the laboratory:
Prof., Dr. Ted Evans
See visitors and researchers at Lab link

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A view of the cryogenic magnetometer facility at the Physics Department of the University of Alberta. The facility was funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and University of Alberta.

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Performed paleomagnetic services for industry and research groups include but not limited by:

1. Magnetostratigraphy

2. Cyclostratigraphy using advanced techniques developed in the lab

3. Paleomagnetic dating of igneous rocks and sediments

4. Paleomagnetic core re-orientation and core correlation

5. Determining of the paleocurrent/flow direction in the sediments using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

6. Magnetoenvironmental studies (magnetic property measurements of sediment cores, natural outcrops and modern soils or surface samples from polluted basins or areas often show that concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and a number of heavy metals (Pb, As, Ni, Cu, Cr, Zn, Cd, Fe) are strongly correlated with magnetic susceptibility, magnetic mineralogy and grain size parameters)

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LINKS
Geophysical Research at the Physics Department
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University of Alberta
City of Edmonton
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Last modification: September 5, 2011

Вадим А. Кравчинский