Nicholas Dygert

Nick Dygert grew up in Washington State and gained an appreciation for geology climbing mountains in the Cascades and Olympics. As an undergraduate at the University of Rochester, Dygert wrote a thesis on the geochemistry of an anomalous crater on the Bolivian Altiplano. After two years in geotechnical and environmental consulting, Dygert went on to graduate school at Brown University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, before joining the faculty at the University of Tennessee in 2017. In 2019, Dygert was named the Larry and Dawn Taylor Assistant Professor of Planetary Geosciences. Dygert uses field investigations, experiments, and numerical models to understand processes that shape the evolution of planetary interiors and crusts, and to interpret their expressions in the rock record.

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Contact

Phone: 865-974-6022

Email: ndygert1@utk.edu

Professional Website: dygert.utk.edu

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Research Interests

I use field investigations, experiments, and numerical models to understand processes that shape the evolution of planetary interiors and crusts, and to interpret their expressions in the rock record. My focus is the Earth and Moon.