[Latinmag] IRM Visiting Researcher Program Applications Open - Summer/Fall 2025 - Deadline April 30th

[Institute for Rock Magnetism]

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*IRM Summer/Fall 2025 Visiting Researcher Program - DEADLINE April 30th, 
2025.*

Application 
information:**_https://cse.umn.edu/irm/irm-visiting-research-application_ 
<https://cse.umn.edu/irm/irm-visiting-research-application>

Application form: 
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The *Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM)* at the University of Minnesota 
is one of 30 national multi-user facilities in the Earth Sciences 
supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide 
advanced infrastructure and expertise to the geoscience research and 
education communities. Research at the IRM ranges from fundamental 
investigations of the physics of fine-particle magnetism, to applied 
studies using the magnetic characteristics of rocks, sediments, 
speleothems, and other materials to investigate a wide variety of 
geological, geophysical, planetary, environmental, and surficial Earth 
processes.

We provide access and support for visiting scientists in five 
categories, for which we encourage you to apply:

(1) Visiting Researchers;
(2) U.S. Students Visits;
(3) Long-Core (u-channel) Magnetometer Visits;
(4) Magnetic Microscopy Visits;
(5) Remote Access Measurements.*
*

*Applications*

Applications and proposals are due*April 30th 2025* for visits during 
the period from *July 1st 2025 *through*December 23rd 2025*. Proposals 
will be reviewed by IRM staff and members of our external Review and 
Advisory Committee (RAC).

A link to the application form can be found at 
https://forms.gle/QiybGBwyLPBwHDxc7
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Information about required proposal documents are available at 
_https://cse.umn.edu/irm/irm-visiting-research-application_ 
<https://cse.umn.edu/irm/irm-visiting-research-application> and 
https://cse.umn.edu/irm/applying-visit <http://www.irm.umn.edu>*.
*

*Visitor Category Overview (please read fully)
*

*(1) Visiting Researcher (10 days)
*

These awards provide access to the full set of IRM instruments for up to 
10 days with no usage fees and a partial reimbursement of travel costs 
(up to $750). Topics for research are open to any field of study 
involving fine particle magnetism, but preference will be given to 
projects relating magnetism to geological or environmental studies, or 
to fundamental physical studies relevant to the magnetism of Earth 
materials.*_Please make sure that you have funding in hand to cover 
costs above $750 before applying and that for international applicants, 
you are in possession of (or can acquire) a valid Visa for entry into 
the USA for the time period of your visit._ *Please note that US 
embassies in some countries have very long wait times for visa 
interviews and we would ask that you double check your nearest US 
embassies wait times 
athttps://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html._
_

*(2) U.S. Student Visits (5 days)*

This program provides financial and instrumental support for advanced 
*_U.S. undergraduates and MS students _*who seek to acquire 
state-of-the-art rock magnetic and/or paleomagnetic data for an 
individual research project. PhD students are encouraged to apply for a 
10-day Visiting Researcher visit. Special consideration is given to 
students requiring data for the completion of a senior thesis or 
preliminary data for a proposal to support continued graduate research. 
Visiting Students spend five days at the IRM and work closely with IRM 
staff to: 1. Learn how to design and conduct rock-magnetic experiments; 
2. Process and interpret the generated data; and 3. Identify specific, 
attainable research goals that can be achieved with future magnetic 
measurements. US Student reserchers are not charged facility usage fees, 
and are eligible for reimbursement of travel costs up to a maximum of 
$500. *_Please make sure that you have funding in hand to cover costs 
above $500 before applying._*

*(3) U-Channel Visits*

For a usge fee of $100 per day for a maximum of 10 days, the IRMs 
u-channel magnetometer system is available for continuous sediment 
analysis on time senstive projects. The primary aim of these visits is 
to make u-channel measurements, but a small number of complementary rock 
magnetic measurements can be requested.These data may be used to explore 
the feasibility of returning to the IRM as a Visiting Researcher with a 
targeted rock magnetic study. A fee waiver may be granted in cases of 
financial hardship, and proposals will not be evaluated on the basis of 
ability to pay.*
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*(4) Magnetic Microscopy Visits **(10 days)
*

Observations of micromagnetic structures in individual grains or 
measuring magnetic moments at high spatial resolutions are useful for 
understanding the origin of natural magnetic memory and its stability 
over geologic timescales. With the installation of an Asylum Magnetic 
Force Microscope (MFM) and Quantum Diamond Microscope (QDM) we can  
offer magnetic mircroscopy visits. MFM offers spatial resolutions of a 
few tens of nanometers for (sub)domain imaging over a field of view of 
~100 microns. The QDM is a magnetic mapping method and its resolution is 
not spatial, but in its sensitvity to the fields induced during the 
measurements. It offers a field of view of 2 mm per image, with limited 
resolution optical imaging, but with the sensitivity to capture magnetic 
field data from magnetic particles to the single domain level. Please 
contact Maxwell Brown at irm en umn.edu prior to designing and submitting a 
research project, so we can advise of the feasibility of the research 
project.

*(5) Remote Access*

To give the Earth Sciences community greater access to IRM 
instrumentation, this fellowship allows researchers to submit proposals 
for measurements on *_a small suite of pilot samples_*. IRM staff will 
conduct measurements on the researchers behalf. The aim of fellowship is 
to provide support to researchers with limited resources, limited (or no 
funding) or an inability to travel. Preference will be given to graduate 
students coming towards the conclusion of their studies and early career 
post-docs.

As part of the application to the Remote Access Fellowship, applicants 
should provide a rationale for how the fellowship would benefit their 
research and help promote their careers.*
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*CONTACT*

Feel free to contact Maxwell Brown at irm en umn.edu with any questions 
about the fellowship programs.
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