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face="Roboto"><b><font size="4">IRM Summer/Fall
2025 Visiting Researcher Program - DEADLINE
April 30th, 2025.</font></b></font>
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<p><font face="Roboto">Application information:</font><font
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<p><font face="Roboto">The <b>Institute for
Rock Magnetism (IRM)</b> 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.</font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto">We provide access and
support for visiting scientists in five
categories, for which we encourage you to
apply: <br>
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<p><font face="Roboto">(1) Visiting Researchers;
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(2) U.S. Students Visits;<br>
(3) Long-Core (u-channel) Magnetometer
Visits;<br>
(4) Magnetic Microscopy Visits;<br>
(5) Remote Access Measurements.<b><br>
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<p><font face="Roboto"><b>Applications</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto"> Applications and
proposals are due<b> April 30th 2025</b> for
visits during the period from <b>July 1st
2025 </b>through<b> December 23rd 2025</b>.
Proposals will be reviewed by IRM staff and
members of our external Review and Advisory
Committee (RAC).</font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto">A link to the application
form can be found at </font><font
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<p><font face="Roboto">Information about
required proposal documents are available at
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<p><font face="Roboto"><b>Visitor Category
Overview (please read fully)<br>
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<p><font face="Roboto"><b>(1) Visiting
Researcher (10 days)<br>
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<p><font face="Roboto">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.<b><u>
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.</u> </b>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 at<a
href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html</a>.<u><br>
</u></font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto"><b>(2) U.S.
Student Visits (5 days)</b><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto">This program
provides financial and
instrumental support for advanced
<b><u>U.S. undergraduates and MS
students </u></b>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. </font><font face="Roboto"><b><u>Please
make sure that you have
funding in hand to cover costs
above $500 before applying.</u></b></font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto"><b>(3)
U-Channel Visits</b><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto">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.</font><font
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<p><font face="Roboto"><b>(4) Magnetic
Microscopy Visits </b></font><font
face="Roboto"><span
style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><font
color="#000000"><b>(10 days)<br>
</b> </font></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto"><span
style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><font
color="#000000">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 <a
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href="mailto:irm@umn.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">irm@umn.edu</a>
prior to designing and
submitting a research project,
so we can advise of the
feasibility of the research
project.</font></span></font><span></span></p>
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<p> <font face="Roboto"><b>(5) Remote
Access</b><br>
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<p><font face="Roboto">To give the
Earth Sciences community greater
access to IRM instrumentation,
this fellowship allows researchers
to submit proposals for
measurements on <b><u>a small
suite of pilot samples</u></b>.
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. </font><font
face="Roboto"><font face="Roboto">Preference
will be given to graduate
students coming towards the
conclusion of their studies and
early career post-docs.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Roboto"><font
face="Roboto">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.</font></font><font
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<p><font face="Roboto"><b>CONTACT</b></font><font
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<p><font face="Roboto">Feel free to
contact Maxwell Brown at <a
href="mailto:irm@umn.edu"
target="_blank"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
moz-do-not-send="true">irm@umn.edu</a>
with any questions about the
fellowship programs.</font></p>
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