The Cape Verde Archipelago - the type-example of a hotspot in a stationary plate environment with respect to its melting source - exhibits ubiquitous evidence for quaternary uplift.
What is a plate? We undertake a comprehensive analysis designed to significantly advance our understanding of the structure and evolution of oceanic plates.
Our project will focus on the subduction zone off southern Alaska, which produces large and destructive earthquakes.
Mineral carbonation in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
Seismic imaging of active UHP exhumation in eastern Papua New Guinea
Lamont scientists utilize a variety of observational and computational techniques to image and model the deep interior of the Earth, from crust to core.
Virtual Ocean integrates the GeoMapApp tool suite and the NASA World Wind 3-D
The MOOS experiment seeks to understand the structure and dynamics of subduction in the region of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, one of the three largest recorded (Mw 9.2), where terrane collision is
Deployment of a wide-band OBS in the Gulf of California from the R/V New Horizon in Oct 2005. Seismometer is housed in the green sphere, while recording, power, and communications devices are
Methodology for simulating basin stratigraphy and structure.
Provides a suite of tools and services for free public access to marine geoscience research data acquired throughout the global oceans and adjoining continental margins.
Find, map and download marine geoscience and other data by ship, region, program, investigator, data and more.
Continental margins are the Earth's principal loci for producing hydrocarbon and metal resources, for earthquake, landslide, volcanic and climatic hazards, and for
| Name | Title | Fields of interest | |
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| Maheenuz Zaman | Graduate Student | Geophysical controls of icy satellite habitability | |
| William Hawley | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | ||
| Xiaochuan (Kelvin) Tian | Graduate Student | Geodynamics modeling; Tectonics and magmatism at Large Igneous Provinces and Divergent Plate Boundaries | |
| Alexander Evans | Postdoctoral Research Scientist | Understanding the evolutionary, global-scale tectonic, geodynamic, and geophysical processes of solid planets | |
| Kate Selway | Associate Research Scientist | I am interested in the formation and evolution of the continents. How did the continents originally form? Why are some continental regions stable for billions of years while others are repeatedly deformed? How does the composition of the deep lithospheric | |
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Ricardo Ramalho | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | My research interests are mostly focused on oceanic hotspot dynamics and the origins and evolution of ocean island volcanoes. I am particularly interested on long-term ocean island uplift reconstructions using relative sea-level tracers, in order to gain |
| Annabelle Batista | Graduate Student | ||
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Elizabeth Ferriss | Associate Research Scientist | |
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Christine McCarthy | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Material response of Earth and Planetary materials via laboratory experiment |
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Yang Zha | Graduate Research Assistant | Marine Geophysics; Ocean bottom seismology; Seismic Interferometry; Geodynamics of oceanic spreading centers |
| Ge Jin | Graduate Research Assistant | Seismology | |
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Einat Lev | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Physical volcanology, lava flow, numerical modeling, analog experiments, natural hazards, volcanic eruptions, magma, fluid mechanics, UAVs, photogrammetry, aerial photography, planetary volcanism |
| Tobias Diehl | Postdoctoral Research Scientist | Seismology, Earthquake Location, Local Earthquake Tomography, Signal Processing, Tectonophysics, Geodynamics | |
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Leonardo Seeber | Special Research Scientist | |
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Garry Karner | Adjunct Senior Research Scientist | |
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James Gaherty | Lamont Research Professor | Earthquake Seismology, Geodynamics |
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Donna Shillington | Adjunct Senior Research Scientist | Rifted margins, rifts, subduction zones, wide-angle reflection/refraction seismology, multi-channel seismic reflection data |
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Cornelia Class | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Solid Earth Geochemistry and Dynamics |
Christopher Scholz is being awarded the Harry Fielding Reid Medal for his pioneering work in rock mechanics and his skill at communicating earthquake science. The Seismological Society of America cites Scholz’s wide range of contributions over a nearly 50-year career.
In their quest to unravel the physical and chemical processes controlling volcanic eruptions, Einat Lev and colleagues headed to South America and the volcanoes of Chile. She writes about the trip and what they hope to learn from their work, and shares video from their drone flights over the lava flows.
Deep beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, down where the pressure and temperatures have become so high that rock starts to flow, new continental crust is being born. Scientists have long believed that continental crust forms in volcanic arcs – they know the magma brought up in the arcs’ volcanoes is geochemically very similar to continental crust. The lingering question has been how exactly that happens. While the magma that reaches the surface is similar to continental crust, the lower crust beneath volcanic arcs is quite different from the lower half of continental crust.
Over the last six years, seismologists Göran Ekström and Colin Stark have been perfecting a technique for picking out the seismic signature of large landslides from the stream of seismic data from earthquakes and other activity around the world. The details they are able to extract could one day help governments sound tsunami warnings, help rescuers find landslide-struck villages faster, and warn of risks such as landslide-dammed rivers that could soon burst through.
When the most recent eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano started last June, Melvin Sugimoto at first did not think much of it. Hawaii, where he has lived all his life, is made entirely of hardened lava, and Kilauea, perhaps the world’s most active volcano, has been adding more off and on for the last 300,000 years. “Lava is everywhere, but I never thought in a million years it would come through here,” said Sugimoto, who lives in the small town of Pahoa.
Earth’s magnetic field has been getting weaker, leading some scientists to think that it might be about to flip, but the field may simply be coming down from an abnormally high intensity rather than approaching a reversal, scientists write in a new paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have ended a nine-year debate over whether the Earth's inner core is undergoing changes that can be detected on a human timescale.
