Faculty & Staff

Earthquake seismology; imaging and tectonics of active plate boundaries.

Continental deformation using structural geology, seismology, and and other disciplines.

Chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology.

Thermal structure, fluid flow, hydrocarbon maturation and migration in sedimentary basins.

Climate and ENSO Forecasting, Outreach, Training

Using field surveys, hyperspectral remote sensing and bioacoustics to better understand the multi-trophic level consequences of climate change, invasive species and urbanization.

Using isotopes to better understand the role of the oceans in climate change.

Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, biology.

Development of theoretical models for processes that affect the solid earth.

Tropical oceanography, climate modeling, paleoclimate, impacts of climate on society, El Niño forecasting, data analysis methods.

Sedimentary geology and tectonics.

Public health, populations, infectious diseases, mathematical models, demography, ecology, epidemiology, population genetics.

Role of clouds and water vapor in climate; dynamics of planetary atmospheres.

Using stable isotopic and trace metal (Mg/Ca) analyses of marine sediment to reconstruct past changes in ocean circulation and terrestrial climate.

Earth systems.

Global earthquake seismology, including detailed study of individual earthquake ruptures, and the relationship between seismicity and large scale tectonic deformation of the crust and mantle over geologic time.

Vertebrate paleontology, systematics and biogeography, relationships between environmental and faunal changes through time, paleomagnetism.

Climate prediction, near term climate change, ENSO.

Isotope geology.

Ocean stratification, circulation and mixing and the ocean's role in Earth's climate system.

Plant respiration, global carbon cycle, forest ecology.

Radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres; modeling current climate trends and projecting humans' potential impacts on climate.

Tectonics of the circum-Antarctic ocean; origin and evolution of southeast Asian marginal seas; long-lived tectonic corridors of the global mid-ocean ridge system.

Climate change history; evolutionary history of microfossils.

Sedimentary geochemistry, paleoclimate, continental crust evolution.

Geoscience learning and education; spatial thinking in geosciences, spatial thinking; environmental journalism, science journalism; diversity in geosciences; marine geology.

Melting and melt transport in the Earth's mantle; igneous processes forming the Earth's crust; ductile deformation and evolution of the lower crust.

Seismology; focusing on upper mantle structures.

Oceans and their role in climate; onset and termination of ice ages.

Seismology, volcanology, data analysis, inverse theory.

Mid-ocean ridge and rift tectonics.

Glacial earthquakes.

Description and relationships of coelurosaurs; Asian Mesozoic fauna; theoretical methods for better understanding phylogenetic relationships and pattern in the fossil record.

Paleontology, stratigraphy; evolution of continental ecosystems (climate change, mass extinctions).

Ocean dynamics, climate theory.

Paleoclimate, paleoecology, climate modeling, wetland carbon storage, palynology.

Role of sea ice in the redistribution of sediments and pollutants in the Arctic.

Sea-level change with regard to the sedimentary record, climate change and human history.

Geochemistry, igneous petrology.

Atmospheric and climate dynamics; geophysical fluid dynamics; numerical methods for weather and climate modeling; planetary atmospheres.

Structure of oceanic lithosphere and experimental marine seismology.

Theory of seismic wave propagation; physics of earthquakes; Earth's inner core; improvements in estimating earthquake locations; monitoring underground nuclear explosions, nuclear arms control.

Past and future climate changes, climate modeling, stratospheric processes, solar-climate studies, sea ice, land surface effects, remote sensing.

Ocean floor and sediments.

Aqueous geochemistry, physical oceanography, climate, contaminant transport.

Tectonophysics.

Atmospheric chemistry, climate change.

Geochemistry of natural waters and implications for mitigation strategies.

Marine geophysics; remote sensing; population and environment.

Late-Holocene paleoclimatology; land-atmosphere interactions; proxy-process modeling; statistical climatology.

Atmospheric and climate dynamics, tropical meteorology.

Dynamic fluid flow, from magma migration theory to sedimentary basins and groundwater hydrology.

Isotope hydrology, water resources, paleoclimate.

Earthquake studies, control of nuclear weapons, tectonics, natural hazards.

CO₂ cycling through oceans and atmosphere; industrial CO₂ accumulation.

Abyssal circulation and mixing; physical oceanography near mid-ocean ridges.

Atmospheric impacts of global climate change at regional scales; dynamics of naturally occuring and anthropogenically-forced climate changes, droughts and floods; regional climate modeling.

Marine Geophysics

Examination of the chemical and physical evolution of the terrestrial planets by the methods of experimental petrology; development of new experimental techniques and new materials.

Marine seismology, ocean mantle dynamics, marine electromagnetism.

Marine geochemistry, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, tracer oceanography, dust, paleoclimate.