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Myriam A.C. Kars
œAssistant Professor

Specialization
œ Rock magnetism
œ Paleomagnetism

Research

œ Magnetic mineral diagenesis in marine anoxic environments (e.g. gas hydrate-bearing sediments, methanic zone in marine sediments)
œ Paleoclimate reconstruction based on rock magnetic studies
œ Environmental magnetism
œ Fundamental rock magnetism


Education
œ Ph.D in Geophysics, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, in collaboration with Ecole Normale Superieure Ulm Paris, France, 2012
œ M.Sc. in Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France, 2008.
œ B.Sc. in Geosciences, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, 2006.

Memberships
œ American Geophysical Union (AGU)
œ Japan Geosciences Union (JpGU)
œ Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Publications
œ Bezaeva N.S., N.L. Swanson-Hysell, S.M. Tikoo, D.D. Badyukov, M. Kars, R. Egli, D.A. Chareev, L.M. Fairchild, E. Khakhalova, B.E. Strauss, A.K. Lindquist, 2016, The effects of 10 to >160 GPa shock on the magnetic properties of basalt and diabase, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006583

œ Musgrave, R.J. and M. Kars, 2016, Recognizing magnetostratigraphy in overprinted and altered marine sediments - challenges and solutions from IODP Site U1437, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006386.

œ Kars, M. and K. Kodama, 2015, Rock magnetic characterization of ferrimagnetic iron sulfides in gas hydrate-bearing marine sediments at Site C0008, Nankai Trough, Pacific Ocean, off-coast Japan , Earth Planets and Space, 67, 118, doi: 10.1186/s40623-015-0287-y

œ Kars, M., C. Lerouge, S. Grangeon, C. Aubourg, C. Tournassat, B. Made and F. Claret, 2015, Application to the Callovian-Oxfordian formation of Bure (France), American Mineralogist, 100(7), 1544-1554, http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-5096

œ Kars, M. and K. Kodama, 2015, Authigenesis of magnetic minerals in gas hydrate-bearing sediments in the Nankai Trough, offshore Japan, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 16, doi:10.1002/2014GC005614