People

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

Associate Professor, Principal Investigator

Nick’s research integrates original field observations with laboratory data sets in order to further understanding of global change through time. In conjunction with his research group, he is particularly focused on developing data from sequences of volcanic and sedimentary rocks where information can be extracted about ancient continental motions, the evolution of the magnetic field, and changes in climate.


Curriculum Vitae

Current Research Group

Opportunities are available to join our group as a graduate student or an undergraduate researcher. If you are interested in exploring this possibility, please reach out to Nick at nicks-h@umn.edu.

Our group in the lab in July, 2024

Group Alumni

Post-undergraduate researcher (2023 – 2024); Senior honors thesis research (2022 – 2023)

Masters research (2023); Senior honors thesis research (2022 – 2023)

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2020 – 2022); Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2023)

Blake Hodgin

Postdoctoral Researcher (2020 – 2022)

Pierre Maffre

Postdoctoral Scholar on Frontier Research in Earth Sciences Grant    (2019 – 2022)

Michael Kouyoumdjian

Senior honors thesis research (2022)

Nicolas Anderson

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Senior thesis advisor (2021 – 2022)

Stacey Gerasimov

Senior honor’s thesis research (2020 – 2021); Post-undergraduate researcher   (2021 – 2022)

James Pierce

Senior honor’s thesis research (2020 – 2021)

Maggie Avery

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (2017 – 2020)

Fran Meyer

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Senior thesis advisor (2017 – 2020)

Sarah Slotznick

Miller Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 – 2019)

Abby Jackson-Gain

undergraduate science communication specialist (2017 – 2018)

Rob Sherwood

Luke Fairchild

Kevin Gaastra

Courtney Sprain

Marissa Tremblay

Taylor Kilian

Eliel Anttila

Sonia Tikoo