Hello!
Welcome to the personal and professional website for Dr. Thom Chaffee.
I completed my PhD in Geophysics at Stanford in 2025, and my Bachelor's in Geology at Caltech in 2018. In-between, I worked on GIS databases for the City of Tallahassee.
I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Dartmouth College, where I am investgating rock and mineral magnetism, teaching mineralogy, and mentoring students.
You may be interested in my CV, research projects, teaching experience, or about me.
Gallery:
I'm holding slices of the St. Aubin (left) and Seymchan (right) iron meteorites that are specimens in my thesis research.
A clean-room selfie with myself and Stanford undergraduates Sam Boeschen and Raisha Abubo who I mentored in the Tikoo lab. In the background are pieces of lunar impactite glass from Apollo 16.
Myself, my advisor Sonia, and my fellow PhD student Ji-In Jung at the LPSC awards reception in 2022 after Ji-In and I were awarded LPI Career Development awards.
