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PETER C. LIPPERT - Sustainability Profile

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Assistant Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Associate Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Affiliated Faculty, Global Change & Sustainability Center

pete.lippert@utah.edu

Publications

  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., P. Stassen, E. Thomas, P.C. Lippert & I. Lascu (2022). Magnetofossils and benthic foraminifera record changes in food supply and deoxygenation of the coastal marine seafloor during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology. Vol. 37, doi:10.1029/2022PA004502., 09/2022
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., I. Lascu, P.C. Lippert, R. Egli, K.J.T. Livi & H.B. Sears (2021). Diversification of iron‐biomineralizing organisms during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence from quantitative unmixing of magnetic signatures of conventional and giant magnetofossils. Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology. Vol. 36, doi:10.1029/2021PA004225., 04/20/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., Egli, R., I Lascu, P.C. Lippert, K.J.T. Livi & H.B. Sears (2021). In situ magnetic identification of giant, needle-shaped magnetofossils in Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum sediments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 118., 02/01/2021
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: G. Rea-Downing, B.J. Quirk, C.L. Wagner & P.C. Lippert (2020). Evergreen Needle Magnetization as a Proxy for Particulate Matter Pollution in Urban Environments. GeoHealth. Vol. 4, e2020GH000286., 08/13/2020
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Hull, P.A. & A. Bornemann, D.E. Penman, M.J. Henehan, R.D. Norris, P.A. Wilson, P. Blum, L. Alegret, S. Batenburg, P.R. Bown, T.J. Bralower, C. Cournede, A. Deutsch, B. Donner, O. Friedrich, S. Jehle, H. Kim, D. Kroon, P.C. Lippert, D. Loroch, I. Moebius, K. Moriya, D (2020). On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science. Vol. 367, 255-272., 01/17/2020 CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Egger, L.M., A. Bahr, O. Friedrich, P.A. Wilson, R.D. Norris, T.E van Peer, P.C. Lippert, D. Liebrand & J. Pross (2018). Sea-level and surface-water change in the western North Atlantic across the Oligocene–Miocene Transition: A palynological perspective from IODP Site U1406 (Newfoundland margin). Marine Micropaleontology. Vol. 139, 57-71., 03/2018 CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Zhang, R., D.B. Jiang, G. Ramstein, Z.S. Zhang, P.C. Lippert & E.T. Yu (2018). Changes in Tibetan plateau latitude as an important factor for understanding East Asian climate since the Eocene: A modeling study. Earth & Planetary Science Letteres. Vol. 484, 295-308., 02/15/2018 CHINA TIBET
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: van Peer, T.E., C. Xuan, P.C. Lippert, D. Liebrand, C. Agnini & P.A. Wilson (2017). Extracting a detailed Oligocene to early Miocene magnetostratigraphy from weakly magnetized, dynamic sediment drifts at IODP Site U1406 (Newfoundland margin, northwest Atlantic Ocean). G-Cubed. Vol. 18, 3910-3928., 10/2017 CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: van Peer, T.E., D. Liebrand, C. Xuan, P.C. Lippert, C. Agnini, N. Blum, P. Blum, S.M. Bohaty, P.R. Bown, R. Greenop, W.E.C. Kordesch, D. Leonhardt, O Freidrich & P.A. Wilson (2017). Data report: Revised composite depth scale and splice for IODP Site U1406. Vol. 342, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program., 07/2017 CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Egger, L.M., K.K. Sliwinksa, T.E. van Peer, D. Liebrand, P.C. Lippert, O. Friedrich, P.A. Wilson, R.D. Norris & J. Pross (2016). Magnetostratigraphically-calibrated dinoflagellate cyst bioevents for the uppermost Eocene to lowermost Miocene of the western North Atlantic (IODP Expedition 342, Paleogene Newfoundland sediment drifts). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. Vol. 234, 159-185., 08/18/2016 CANADA
  • ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Schwartz, H., P.R. Renne, L.E. Morgan, M.W. Wildgoose, P.C. Lippert, S.R. Frost, K. Harvati, F. Schrenk & C. Saanane (2012). Geochronology of the Manyara Beds, northern Tanzania: Stratigraphy and new magnetostratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar ages. Quaternary Geochronology. Vol. 7, 48-66., 02/2012 TANZANIA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Lippert, P.C. (2008). Big discovery for biogenic magnetite. (pp. 17595-17596). Vol. 105. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences., 11/18/2008
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Lippert, P.C. & J.C. Zachos (2007). A biogenic origin for anomalous fine-grained magnetic material at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary at Wilson Lake, New Jersey. Paleoceanography. Vol. 22., 12/05/2007

Presentations

  • ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., P.C. Lippert, I. Lascu, P. Parlanti, R. Polson, Y.P. Yu, and K. Livi. Promise and progress with in situ visualization of magnetofossils in marine sediment chips. 2021 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Abstract GP33A-03. Talk., 12/2021
  • AIR QUALITY: Rea-Downing, G., P.C. Lippert, B. Olds, B. Quirk, C.L. Wagner, K. Kelly, and A.G. Hallar. Spatial and temporal trends in evergreen needle magnetization in Salt Lake City, UT: Development of a robust proxy for particulate matter pollution. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. GP33A-01. Invited Talk., 12/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., I. Lascu, P.C. Lippert, R. Egli, K. Livi, H. Sears, P. Stassen, and E. Thomas. Linking quantitative unmixing of magnetic signatures of conventional and giant magnetofossils with environmental change 56 million years ago. 2021 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Abstract U15A-03. Invited Union Poster., 12/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Zhang, R, D.B. Jiang, G. Ramstein, Z.S. Zhang, P.C. Lippert, and E.T. Yu. April 2021. Changes in Tibetan Plateau latitude as an important factor for understanding East Asian climate since the Eocene: A modeling study. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Abstract EGU2021-10479, Virtual. Virtual PICO Talk, 04/2021 BANGLADESH BHUTAN CHINA INDIA TIBET
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., P.C. Lippert, I. Lascu, P. Parlanti, and R. Polson. April 29, 2021. Search for magnetic needles in marine haystacks: Promise and progress with in situ visualization of magnetofossils in marine sediment chips. Virtual 13th Annual FIB SEM Meeting. Canadian Center for Electron Microscopy & McMaster University. Virtual. Talk., 04/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Lippert, P.C., C. Wagner, R. Egli, I. Lascu, K. Livi, and H. Sears. December 2020. In-Situ magnetic identification of giant, needle-shaped magnetofossils in Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum sediments using high-resolution, low-noise FORC measurements. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract GP04-01, Virtual. Talk., 12/2020
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., I. Lascu, P.C. Lippert, K. Livi, H. Sears, R. Egli. December 2020. Magnetic unmixing of conventional and giant coastal marine magnetofossils during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract GP016-06, Virtual. Talk., 12/2020
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Kowalski, J., P.C. Lippert, B.J. Tipple, and C.L. Wagner. December 2020. High-resolution environmental magnetism record of dynamics in bottom water redox conditions across the Paleocenen-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Zumaia, Spain. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract GP011-0001, Virtual. Poster., 12/2020 SPAIN
  • AIR QUALITY: Rea-Downing, G., B. Quirk, C.L. Wagner, P.C. Lippert, B. Olds, and K. Kelly. December 2020. Evergreen needle magnetization as a proxy for particulate matter pollution in Salt Lake City, UT: Spatial and temporal trends. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract GP011-0007, Virtual. Poster., 12/2020
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: van Peer, T.E., V.E. Taylor, D. Liebrand, S. Brzelinski, I. Möbius, A. Bornemann, O. Friedrich, S.M. Bohaty, C. Xuan, P.C. Lippert, and P.A. Wilson. April 2020. Eccentricity-paced ice sheet variability and obliquity-driven bottom-water changes during the Oligocene-Miocene. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Abstract EGU2020-15256, Vienna, Austria., 04/2020 ANTARCTICA CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: van Peer, T.E., V.E. Taylor, D. Liebrand, S. Brzelinski, I. Möbius, A. Bornemann, O. Friedrich, S.M. Bohaty, C. Xuan, P.C. Lippert, and P.A. Wilson. April 2020. Eccentricity-paced ice sheet variability and obliquity-driven bottom-water changes during the Oligocene-Miocene. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Abstract EGU2020-15256, Vienna, Austria., 04/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: Olds, B., G. Rea-Downing, P.C. Lippert, K. Kelly, and A.G. Haller. February 2020. A yearlong study in air quality: The correlation between the magnetization of evergreen needles and particulate matter concentrations. Global Change & Sustainability Center Environment & Sustainability Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 02/2020
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.*, I. Lascu, and P.C. Lippert. February 2020. FORC-PCA on Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Sediments from Wilson Lake, New Jersey. Global Change & Sustainability Center Environment & Sustainability Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 02/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: Olds, B.**, G. Rea-Downing*, P.C. Lippert, K. Kelly, and A.G. Haller. February 2020. A yearlong study in air quality: The correlation between the magnetization of evergreen needles and particulate matter concentrations. Global Change & Sustainability Center Environment & Sustainability Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster. , 02/2020
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C., I. Lascu, and P.C. Lippert. February 2020. FORC-PCA on Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Sediments from Wilson Lake, New Jersey. Global Change & Sustainability Center Environment & Sustainability Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 02/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: Rea-Downing, G.H., P.C. Lippert, B. Quirk, and C.L. Wanger, June 2019. What can the magnetism and chemistry of evergreen needles tell us about particulate matter, air quality, and urban health during seasonal temperature inversions in the Salt Lake Valley? Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Poster., 06/2019
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C.L., I. Lascu, and P.C. Lippert, June 2019. Preliminary FORC-PCA on Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum sediments from Wilson Lake, New Jersey. Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Poster., 06/2019
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Finley, H., C.L. Wagner, P.C. Lippert, April 2019. Magnetic measurements and environmental change over the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) at Bass River, New Jersey. Undergraduate Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 04/2019
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Kowalski, J., P.C. Lippert, B.A. Tipple, April 2019. Land erosion and coastal sedimentation in the sub-tropics during rapid planetary warming: Environmental magnetism of the Zumaia, Spain Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Record. Undergraduate Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 04/2019 SPAIN
  • AIR QUALITY: Rea-Downing, G., P.C. Lippert, B. Quirk, and C. Wagner. February 2019. Further development of the magnetization of evergreen needles as a proxy for air quality in Salt Lake City. Global Change & Sustainability Center Environment & Sustainability Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 02/2019
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C., P.C. Lippert, P. Stassen, E. Thomas, and R.P. Speijer. February 2019. Magnetofossil, magnetic particle, and microfossil assemblages in a subtropical coastal environment: Environmental change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Global Change & Sustainability Center Environment & Sustainability Research Symposium. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Poster., 02/2019
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Ran, Z., D.B. Jiang, G. Ramstein, Z.S. Zhang, P.C. Lippert, and E.T. Yu. December 2018. Changes in Tibetan Plateau latitude as an important factor for understanding East Asian climate since the Eocene: A modeling study. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract PP41C-1856, Washington, D.C., 12/2018 BANGLADESH CHINA INDIA MYANMAR NEPAL PAKISTAN
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wagner, C., P.C. Lippert, P. Stassen, E. Thomas, and R.P. Speijer. September 2018. Magnetofossil, magnetic particle, and microfossil assemblages in a subtropical coastal environment: Environmental change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. International Conference on Magnetotactic Bacteria, Poster #7. Kanazawa, Japan. Poster., 09/2018
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Ran, Z., D.B. Jiang, G. Ramstein, Z.S. Zhang, P.C. Lippert, and E.T. Yu. April 2018. From Eocene to present day, the northward drift of the Tibetan plateau as a key factor for understanding East Asian Climate. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Abstract EGU2018-12608, Vienna, Austria. Talk., 04/2018 BANGLADESH CHINA INDIA MYANMAR PAKISTAN TIBET
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Egger, L.M., A. Bahr, O. Friedrich, P.A. Wilson, R.D. Norris, T.E. van Peer, P.C. Lippert, D. Liebrand, and J. Pross. April 2018. Sea-level and surface-water change in the western North Atlantic across the Oligocene-Miocene Transition: A palynological perspective from IODP Site 1406 (Newfoundland margin). European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Abstract EGU2018-17948, Vienna, Austria. Poster., 04/2018 CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: The Rise and Fall of Microbial Biogenic Magnetite in Marine Sediments during Abrupt Warming and Cooling Events in the Northwest Atlantic. Invited colloquium talk at Weber State University., 03/17/2017

Internal Service

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Global Change & Sustainability Center Student Travel and Research Grant Review Committee , 11/2016

External Service

  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: U Rock the Earth, 09/17/2019

Professional Service

  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Scientific Committee, 2020 Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene, Bremen, Germany, 06/2019-08/25/2022
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: co-Editor for Special Volume on the 2017 Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene meeting, Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology, American Geophysical Union, 10/2018-10/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: The North Atlantic Region at Transition and During the Early Icehouse World, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, 06/2018-12/2018 CANADA ICELAND NORWAY UNITED KINGDOM
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Co-Chair, Co-Convener, and Co-Host, 2017 Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene, 09/04/2017-09/09/2017 GLOBAL

Media

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Tracking pollution in the breeze, with trees. Eos: Science News by AGU, 12/15/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: @TheU: Mysterious magnetic fossils offer past climate clues., 02/01/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Smithsonian Magazine: New way to study magnetic fossils could help unearth their origins, 02/01/2021
  • AIR QUALITY: Frontiers of Ecology & Environment: Magnetic pine needles assess air pollution, 11/02/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: Utah Daily Chronicle, 10/22/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: KSL: How University of Utah trees are being used to measure air pollution, 10/04/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: Dessert News: First-of-its-kind Utah study uses trees to measure gunk in the air., 10/03/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: @TheU: Evergreen needles act as air quality monitors, 09/15/2020

Grants

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Understanding the Metals we Breathe. PI: Peter Lippert. Co-PI(s): Gannet Hallar, Kerry Kelly, 04/01/2019-04/30/2020