Thom Rocks!

Dr. Thom Chaffee, a Magnetic Mineralogist

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Dartmouth College in the Mag Lab. My courses include Mineralogy (Winter '26) and Evolution of Earth and Life (Winter '27).

I am looking for a permanent academic position beginning Fall 2027 or later.

Read more about me, my CV, my teaching experience, and my research projects.

The Dartmouth Mineralogy course field trip. My students are holding a piece of the Moon and a piece of Mars at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum!

I'm holding slices of the St. Aubin (left) and Seymchan (right) iron meteorites that are specimens in my thesis research.

I (with my little dog Homer) am accepting the Dartmouth Earth and Planetary Science Elizabeth L. Drake award for outstanding departmental service

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.