Sedimentology

Haiti Offshore : A Rapid Response Expedition

PI(s):

Cecilia M. McHugh

PI(s):

Marie-Helene Cormier

PI(s):

John B. Diebold

PI(s):

Leonardo Seeber

PI(s):

Michael S. Steckler

A multidisciplinary team of scientists undertook a 20-day research cruise on the Research Vessel Endeavor to map the effects of the Haitian earthquake offshore.

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Haiti Offshore

Newark Rift Basin Coring Project

PI(s):

David S. Goldberg

PI(s):

Paul E. Olsen

Wireline logs were acquired at seven sites in the Newark Rift basin using dipmeter, gamma ray, resistivity, ve

MGDS: Virtual Ocean - A Visualization Application for Ocean Data

PI(s):

William B. Ryan

PI(s):

Suzanne M. Carbotte

Virtual Ocean integrates the GeoMapApp tool suite and the NASA World Wind 3-D

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Virtual Ocean

SedDB - Data Collection for Marine Sediment Geochemistry

PI(s):

Kerstin A. Lehnert

SedDB complements current geological data systems (PetDB, EarthChem, NavDat and GEOROC) with an integrated compilation of geochemistry of marine

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SedDB

Quantitative Basin Analysis

PI(s):

Garry Karner

Methodology for simulating basin stratigraphy and structure.

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Quantitative Basin Analysis

Paleoecology Laboratory

PI(s):

Dorothy M. Peteet

Describes global research using vegetation shifts to reconstruct local and regional changes in the landscape due to climate and/or anthropogenic influence.

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Paleoecology Laboratory

Lamont-Doherty Core Repository

PI(s):

Maureen Raymo

The Lamont-Doherty Core Repository is both an archive of sediment (some terrestrial), rocks and coral from beneath the ocean floor, and an archive of the digital data pertaining to the material. They are used for research in climate, environment, many other studies, and for education.

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Lamont-Doherty Core Repository

MGDS: Marine Geoscience Data System

PI(s):

Suzanne M. Carbotte

PI(s):

William B. Ryan

Unified data portal for the NSF Ridge 2000 program, MARGINS program, Marine Seismic Reflection data, Antarctic Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis, and RIDGE Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis; includes Geo

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Marine Geoscience Data System: MGDS

MGDS: Search For Data

PI(s):

Suzanne M. Carbotte

Find, map and download marine geoscience and other data by ship, region, program, investigator, data and more.

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MGDS: Search For Data

MARGINS Program

PI(s):

Geoffrey A. Abers

Continental margins are the Earth's principal loci for producing hydrocarbon and metal resources, for earthquake, landslide, volcanic and climatic hazards, and for

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MARGINS Program

Name	Title	Fields of interest
Jonathan Gale	Graduate Student	Remote Sensing, Delta Dynamics, Structural Geology
Victoria E. Lee	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography, Sedimentology, Geomorphology
Dorothy M. Peteet	Adjunct Senior Research Scientist	Paleoclimate, paleoecology, climate modeling, wetland carbon storage, palynology.
Geoffrey A. Abers	Associate Director - Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics	Earthquake seismology, imaging and tectonics of active plate boundaries
Cecilia M. McHugh	Adjunct Senior Research Scientist
Ramona Lotti	Staff Associate
Garry Karner	Adjunct Senior Research Scientist
Michael Kaplan	Lamont Assistant Research Professor	Quaternary and glacial geology, geomorphology, geochronology, paleoclimatology, ice sheet dynamics, limnogeology, cosmogenic surface exposure dating
Leonardo Seeber	Lamont Research Professor
Nicholas Christie-Blick	Professor	Sedimentary Geology and Tectonics
Peter B. deMenocal	Professor	Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Paul E. Olsen	Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor	paleontology, stratigraphy, Evolution of continental ecosystems (climate change, mass extinctions)
Margaret Reitz	Graduate Research Assistant	Structural Geology, tectonic applications of Cosmogenic Radionuclides, Forearc Basins, Sedimentology
Michael S. Steckler	Lamont Research Professor	Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Isostasy, Stratigraphic Modeling, Marine Geophysics

Volcano Expert Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

October 02, 2012

A geochemist who studies the workings of the deep earth and their influence on some of the world’s most explosive volcanoes has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. Terry Plank, a researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, joins novelist Junot Diaz, war correspondent David Finkel and filmmaker Natalia Almada in this year’s batch of MacArthur Fellows, who will receive $100,000 a year for five years, no strings attached. Maria Chudnovsky, a mathematician at Columbia’s Engineering School who studies the fundamentals of graph theory, also received a genius grant.
Waiting For Death Valley’s Big Bang

January 23, 2012

In California’s Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently than previously thought—and that conditions for a sequel may exist today.
Imagining the Hudson before Humans

October 07, 2011

The Hudson River that explorer Henry Hudson sailed some 400 years ago had no power plants on its shores. No trains, bridges, factories or houses. Those innovations changed the river, leaving a legacy of PCBs, sewage and other pollutants. But pollution is just one way that humans have transformed the river. A small way, it turns out.
Climate Record Suggests Drier Times for Pacific Northwest

February 23, 2011

We may think of the Pacific Northwest as rain-drenched, but new research led by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh shows that the region could be in for longer dry seasons, and is unlikely to see a period as wet as the 20th century any time soon.


	Sediment Flux and the Anthropocene	Earth Science Colloquium
	New York's Piermont Marsh	A 7,000-year Archive of Climate Change, Human Impact and Uncovered Mysteries
	A Library of Mud	NPR Science Friday, Jan. 31, 2009