Disciplines

The Paleontology group is concerned broadly with the evolution of life and life's interactions within the Earth system.

The Climate Science Group strives to solve problems in climate on timescales from seasonal to Quaternary and beyond.

This group focuses on using ocean sediments to understand how and why climates have changed at timescales ranging from years to millions of years.

The Aqueous Geochemistry group is concerned with a range of fundamental problems involving the oceans and continental water systems.

This group studies processes and products of large-scale Earth differentiation, such as the composition, evolution and age of the deep mantle and core.

The Biogeoscience group studies the physiological mechanisms underlying plant responses to environmental conditions and the influence these responses have on ecological patterns and processes.

This group focuses on the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) and low latitude (equatorial) ocean dynamics to study the ocean's role in the global climate system.

The Atmospheric Science program focuses on the fundamental processes that control the global circulation of the atmosphere.

This group is concerned both with the understanding the cause and mechanism of earthquakes and with determining the structure of the earth's interior.

Active areas of research include the processes of fault growth, the character and origins of sedimentary layering patterns, Neoproterozoic Earth history, and orbital forcing of the Earth's climate.

This group focuses on the acoustic, gravity, magnetic and seismic measurements relevant to shallow structure and to understanding near surface processes including those forming the seafloor.