Dr. Robert Hatfield

Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences

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!