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Steve Lund

Professor of Earth Sciences

Contact Information
Office: ZHS 273
Phone: (213)740-5835
E-mail: slund@usc.edu

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Education

B.S. Geology, University of North Dakota Grand Forks, 1972
M.S. Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1976
Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1981
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Lund studies the Earth's magnetic field and its variability through time. This includes the pattern of directional and intensity (secular) variation during intervals of stable magnetic field polarity such as today, the evidence for anomalous excursions, the sequence of magnetic field reversals, and the field geometry during transitions. All of these aspects of paleomagnetic field variability provide insights into the magnetohydrodynamic processes active in the Earth's core which generate the geomagnetic field. One of his long-term goals is to define as best possible the space/time structure of the geomagnetic field, to then look for evidence in that structure of recurring, distinctive features of the field that may indicate coherent dynamic elements in the core dynamo, and finally to link the observed patterns of field variation to current theoretical studies of dynamo processes in order to better understand the fundamental dynamics of dynamo activity in the Earth's core. This overall research focus has fostered the development of four other general research interests: 1) rock magnetism of sediments; 2) quaternary paleoclimate/paleoceanography; 3) microplate tectonics; and 4) time-series analysis.
 

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded

Collaborative Research: Pleistocene Geomagnetic Field Variability From the High Latitute Southern He (National Science Foundation), Lund, Steven Phillip, $165,000, 1/1/2007-12/31/2008  
Reassessment Of The Mono Lake Excursion (National Science Foundation), Lund, Steven Phillip, $155,000, 7/1/2006-6/30/2008  
Collaborative Research/Rui: Assessing Multi-Scale Holocene Climate Variability in Western North Amer (National Science Foundation), Lund, Steven Phillip, $23,518, 9/1/2006-8/31/2007  
Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism of Postglacial Carbonates from the Tahiti Coral Reef (US Science Support Program, JOI), Steven Lund, Ellen Platzman, $29,128, 9/1/2006-8/31/2007  
Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism of Postglacial Carbonates from the Tahiti Coral Reef (US Science Support Program, JOI), Steven Lund, $44,271, 6/1/2006-5/31/2007  
 

Publications

Book

Camoin, G., Iryu, Y., McInroy, D., Lund and others, S. P. (2007). Proceedings of the IODP: Expedition 310 report - Tahiti Sea Level. (Vol. 310). Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
 

Book Chapter

Lund, S. P., Stoner, J., Lamy, F. (2007). Late Quaternary Paleomagnetic Secular Variation Records and Chronostratigraphy from ODP Sites 1233 and 1234. pp. p. 200-210. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Project, Scientific Results Volume 202.
Lund, S. P., Stoner, J., Channell, J., Lamy, F. (2007). Detailed paleomagnetic and rock magnetic variability within three Site 1233 high-resolution study intervals. pp. p. 210-220. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Project, Scientific Results Volume 202.
Lund, S. P. (2007). Paleomagnetic secular variation. (Vol. NA). Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism.
Lund, S. P., Tiedemann, R., Stern, A., Steph, S., Stoner, J. (2007). Astronomically calibrated time scales from 6-2.5 Ma and benthic isotope stratigraphies. (Vol. vol. 202). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Project.
 

Journal Article

Kirby, M., Lund, S. P., Anderson, M., Bird, B. (2007). Insolation forcing of Holocene climate change in Southern California: a sediment study from Lake Elsinore. Journal of Paleolimnology.
Paces, J., Neymark, L., Whelan, J., Wooden, J., Marshall, B., Peterman, Z., Lund, S. P. (2007). Impacts of Quaternary climate change on unsaturated-flow zone through Yucca Mountain, Nevada, derived from U-series ages, growth rates, and cathodoluminenscence in subsurface secondary opal. Scientific Investigations Report 07-xx/U.S. Geological Survey.
Lund, S. P., Stott, L. D., Schwartz, M., Thunell, R., Chen, A. (2006). Holocene paleomagnetic secular variation records from the western Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science letters/Elsevier. Vol. 246, pp. 381-392.
Yuan, F., Linsley, B., Benson, L., Lund, S. P. (2006). Late Holocene lake level reconstruction based on a sediment record at decadal resolution from Walker Lake, Nevada. Paleogeog., Paleoclim., Paleoecol.. Vol. 240, pp. 497-507.
Lund, S. P., Stoner, J., Channell, J., Acton, G. (2006). Brunhes Paleomagnetic Field Variability Recorded in Ocean Drilling Program Cores. Phys. Earth Planet. Int.. Vol. 156, pp. 194-205.
Kirby, M., Lund, S. P., Bird, B. (2006). Mid-Wisconsin sediment record from Baldwin Lake reveals hemispheric climate dynamics (Southern CA, USA). Paleogeog., Paleoclim., Paleoecol.. Vol. 241, pp. 267-283.
Lund, S. P., Schwartz, M., Keigwin, L., Johnson, T. (2005). Deep-sea sediment records of the Laschamp geomagnetic field excursion (~41,000 cal. Yrs. BP). J. Geophys. Res.. Vol. 110, pp. B04101.
Kirby, M., Lund, S. P., Poulsen, C. (2005). Hydrologic Variability and the Onset of Modern El NiƱo-Southern Oscillation: A 19,250 Calendar Year Record From Lake Elsinore, southern California. J. Quat. Sci.. pp. p. 239-254.
Stott, L. D., Prokopenko, M., Thunell, R., Haug, G., Koutavas, A., Lund, S. P. (2004). Decline of surface temperature and salinity in the western tropical Pacific Ocean in the Holocene epoch: Nature, v. 431, p. 56-59. Nature. Vol. v. 431, pp. 56-59.
 
 
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