Professor Tarduno received his BS degree in geophysics from Lehigh University in 1983 and an MS and PhD in geophysics from Stanford University in 1987. He was a Joint Oceanographic Institutions Fellow at Stanford University in 1988 and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH-Zurich in 1989. From 1990 to 1993 he was Assistant Research Geophysicist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He joined the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rochester in 1993 where he founded the paleomagnetism laboratory. Professor Tarduno is currently Professor of Geophysics and Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Professor Tarduno is a member of the American Geophysical Union and a fellow of the Geological Society of America. He is also an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma and Sigma Xi. He was a member of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) Lithosphere Panel (1992-1995), served as liaison to the JOIDES Ocean History Panel (1992-1995), and chaired the JOIDES Scientific Steering and Evaluation Panel on the Dynamics of Earth's Interior (1997-1999). He served on the American Geophysical Union's Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Executive Committee between 1996 and 2002, and on the editorial board of Geology (2001-2003), as a guest editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2004-2005) and on the Review Advisory Committee of the Institute for Rock Magnetism (2005-). He is currently editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed).
