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Denotes industry-funded research        Denotes environmental research        Denotes research on climate change John B. Anderson Mechanism & Timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat at the End of the Last Glacial Maximum Holocene Evolution of Gulf Coast Environments: Developing Models for Predicting Response to Global Change Quaternary Sedimentation and Sequence Stratigraphy in the Gulf of Mexico. Holocene Climate History and Mountain Denudation in the Chilean Inland Passage SHALDRIL Antarctic Research Database Gerald R. Dickens  Collaborative Research: Late Quaternary Siliciclastic and Carbonate Sediment and Sediment Fluxes on the Slopes and Basin floors of the Ashmore and Pandora Troughs, Gulf of Papua New Guinea Geochemistry and Paleoceanography of sediment sequences from the Central Arctic Ocean Detection and Production of Methane Hydrate Consequences of Greenhouse Warming for Biocomplexity and Biogeochemical Cycles: A multidisciplinary Case Study Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: - The Continental Margin of New Zealand during the Paleocene and Early Eocene - Modeling the Global Carbon Cycle with a Large, Dynamic and microbially mediated Hydrate Capacitor André W. Droxler Collaborative Research: Late Quaternary Siliciclastic and Carbonate Sediment and Sediment Fluxes on the Slopes and Basin floors of the Ashmore and Pandora Troughs, Gulf of Papua New Guinea Testing the Model for a Globally Synchronous MIS-11 Establishment of Modern Barrier Reefs  Cenozoic Evolution of the Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Depositional System in the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea: Interpretation of reprocessed seismic and Well Data  Turbidite Sedimentation and Basin Fill in Brazos-Trinity Basin IV: Refining the age model (IODP Expedition 308) Brandon Dugan Laboratory Geotechnical and Geochemical Analyses of Sediments from the ChevronTexaco GOM Drilling Detection and Production of Methane Hydrate Laboratory and Modeling Constraints on the Physical Hydrogeology of the Brazos-Trinity Basin IV and the Ursa Region, IODP Expedition 308 Subsurface Fluid Flow and Sediment Physical Property Evolution Mechanics and Strength of Slumps in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Investigation of Freshwater Resources and Pleistocene Hydrology of the US Atlantic Continental Shelf Richard G. Gordon  Quantification of Plate Motion Relative to the Hotspots Horizontal Thermal Contractional Strain of Oceanic Lithosphere: The Ultimate Limit to the Rigid Plate Hypothesis Global Plate Motions from Space Geodesy and from Marine Geophysical Data including (i) motion between Nubia and Somalia and (ii) motion between the Indian, Capricorn, & Australian Plates Dynamics and Rheology of Diffuse Oceanic Plate Boundaries Paleomagnetism of the Pacific Plate Cin-Ty A. Lee Cin-Ty Lee's Personal Research Site The Origin of Continental Crust Origin and Dynamics of Continental Lithosphere Serpentinization, The Global Water Cycle, and Element Cycling Mantle Geochemistry Partitioning, Redox, Metasomatism Continental Weathering Adrian Lenardic  Lecture Demonstrations Evolution and Influence of the Martian Hemispheric Dichotomy The Science of Sports: Skateboarding Alan Levander  High Resolution 3-D Seismic Reflection Investigation at a Groundwater Contamination Site Southeast Caribbean Continental Dynamics Project: BOLIVAR (Broadband Ocean-Land Investigation of Venezuela and the Antilles arc Region) CMG: Adjoint, Depth Migration, and Velocity Analysis Methods for Teleseismic Data Andreas Lüttge Microbial Fuel Cell Project Microbes as indicators of structural defects and stresses in materials: a basic understanding of the process and development of the methods Natural sequestration of radionuclides in Volcanic Tuffs and Secondary Minerals Quartz Growth Kinetics Defining How a Microbial Cell Senses and Responds to a Redox-Active Environment; Interdisciplinary Studies of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Exploration of the possibilities and limitations of an increase of lateral resolution of a vertical scanning interferometer based on image processing techniques Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Mineral Dissolution Kinetics:  An Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach The Fate of Nanoparticles in the Environment Computer Simulations of the Dissolution of Crystalline Matter Using ab initio, Density Functional Theory, and Monte Carlo Techniques Understanding and prediction of cement hydration Carbonate Dissolution Growth Kinetics Carrie A. Masiello Natural Organic Matter Carbon Oxidation States Black Carbon in the Earth's Carbon Cycle Mechanisms of Soil Carbon Stabilization and Destabilization Effects of Climate Change on Carbon Storage in Texas Rivers Carbon Oxidation State and Land Use Julia K. Morgan 3D Seismic Velocity Structure of Hawaii from Onshore-Offshore Tomography Gravitational Spreading, Structure and Evolution of Martian and Terrestrial Volcano Seismic Reflection Survey of Giant Hawaiian Landslides Structure and Composition of the South Kona Landslide, Mauna Loa Volcano, HI Accretionary Prism Deformation and the Seismogenic Zone Particle Dynamics Simulations of Fault and Gouge Evolution and Mechanics Particle Dynamics Simulations of Gravitationally Driven Deep-Water Fold and Thrust A Numerical Sandbox using DEM simulations Fenglin Niu Developing a Methodology for Imaging Stress Transients at Seismogenic Depth The Crust and Upper Mantle Structure of China From Receiver Function Analysis NorthEast China Extended SeiSmic Array (NECESSArray): Deep Subduction, Mantle Dynamics, and Lithospheric Evolution beneath Northeast China Mid-mantle seismic structure (discontinuity, reflectors, and scatterers) Mapping seismic scatterers near the core-mantle boundary Seismic structure of Earth's inner core Depth distribution of seismic anisotropy Dale S. Sawyer  Continental Breakup and formation of the Atlantic Ocean between Iberia and Newfoundland Enhanced Lateral Resolution for Vertical Scanning Interferometry Earth Science for K-16 Education Colin A. Zelt Crust-Mantle Interactions at an Oblique Arc-Continent Collision Zone: The SE Caribbean Plate Boundary 3-D Seismic Experimentation and Advanced Processing/Inversion Development for Investigations of the Shallow Subsurface Detection and Production of Methane Hydrate Geophysically Constrained Dynamic Models of Volcanotectonics: Integrating 3-D Seismic Tomography, Gravity, and Particle Dynamics Simulations of Hawaiian Volcanoes Improved seismic reflection imaging with traveltime and waveform inversion: Naga Thrust Fault, North-East India Seismic Characterization of a Gas Hydrate System in the Gulf of Mexico 3-D Seismic Tomography at a Groundwater Contamination Site 3D Seismic Tomography of the South Flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii Hans G. Avé Lallemant Evolution of Two High Pressure Accrectionary Complexes in Northern Venezuela Upper Mantle Evolutaion During Rifting: Evidence from the Peridotite complexes Along the North Pyrenean Faulty Zone, France Petrogenesis and Exhumantion of Jadeitites in Guatemala Stretching of the Leeward Antilles Island Arc H. C. Clark Jean-Claude De Bremaecker Peter R. Vail