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Myriam A.C. Kars
Assistant Professor

Specialization
Rock magnetism
Paleomagnetism

Research

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


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

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

Publications
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

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.

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

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

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