Seven Secrets to Sample Prep 
Set Stage for Success! 
(or: What to Do Before You Come to the IRM)
Read about the sample preparation facilities available at the IRM.   Most types of sample prep can be carried out here, but some are still better done before you leave home.  What can you do here, and what should you do at home?  Read more in the current issue of the  IRM Quarterly.
Institute for Rock Magnetism
Discovering the Fundamentals of Magnetism in Nature
 
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Online Privacy Statement Variable Frequency Susceptibility Meter on Loan to IRM from MAGNON
Thanks to the generosity of Horst Worm of MAGNON GbmH, the IRM has use of a variable-frequency, variable-amplitude susceptibility bridge.  The instrument is available to all IRM visitors. More information here.
IRM Grad Student Jessica Till Wins Prestigious MSA Award
IRM Home People About the IRM Equipment Resources Visiting the IRM Education
Congratulations to Jessica Till who was awarded one of two 2010 Mineralogical Society of America Grants for Student Research in Mineralogy and Petrology for her work on “Rutherford backscattering spectrometry studies of Fe chemical diffusion in plagioclase.”
IRM Postdoc Maxwell Brown prepares basalt cores using the high-speed rock saw in the IRM prep lab.