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ANDREW NEWELL
Research Assistant Professor
Tel. (919) 513-7454
E-mail: andrew_newell@ncsu.edu

B. Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, University of Toronto, 1987

M. Sc. in geophysics, University of Toronto (advisor: David Dunlop), 1990

Ph. D. in geophysics, University of Washington (advisor: Ron Merrill), 1997

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

  • Dependence of magnetic properties on grain size
  • Thermoremanent magnetization and paleointensity
  • Low temperature magnetic phase transitions
  • Micromagnetic theory
  • Biomagnetism

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

P. A. Selkin, J. S. Gee, L. Tauxe, W. P. Meurer, and A. J. Newell (2000). The effect of remanence anisotropy on paleointensity estimates: A case study from the Archean Stillwater complex. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 183, 403-416, 2000

A. J. Newell (2000). The Lowrie-Fuller test: single-domain and micromagnetic theory. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 183, 335-346.

A. J. Newell and R. T. Merrill (2000). The size dependence of hysteresis properties of small PSD grains. Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 19,393-19,404.

A. J. Newell and R. T. Merrill (2000). Nucleation and Stability of Remanent States. Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 19,377-19,392.

A. J. Newell and R. T. Merrill (1999). Single-domain critical sizes for coercivity and remanence. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 617-628.
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