Research




 
    Hydrology
    Subsurface fluid compositions and the origin of organic acids in Tertiary basins of Southern California.
James Boles, Steve Franks (ARCO, AEPT)
 
    Cementation related to fluid flow in faults and fractures, Southern California: constraining the timing, duration, magnitude, and origin of calcite cements.
James Boles
 
    Fluid/rock interaction in the Mission and Tecolote Tunnels: a 40 to 80 year record of carbonate cementation.
James Boles
, James Kennett
 
    Diagenesis of Mesozoic sandstone reservoirs, North Slope Alaska: the influence of meteoric water on marine sandstones.
James Boles, Jim Hicker (ARCO, AEPT)
 
    Sulfur hexafluoride tracer studies in Mono and Clear Lakes to estimate rates of vertical and lateral mixing.
Jordan Clark, Sally MacIntyre (UCSB Marine Science Institute), Bob Jellison (UCSB Marine Science Institute), Geoff Schladow (UC Davis)
 
  The impact of natural marine hydrocarbon seeps on ozone formation in the regional air near Santa Barbara.
Jordan Clark, Bruce Luyendyk, Thor Egland (Grad), Libe Washburn (UCSB Geography)
 
    Development of methods to use sulfur hexafluoride to trace artificial recharge in managed groundwater basins.
Jordan Clark
 
    Determination of a paleoclimate record from Iowa using groundwater proxies (dissolved noble gases, stable isotopes, and 36Cl).
Jordan Clark, Laura Rademacher (Grad), Bryant Hudson (LLNL), Lee Davison (LLNL)
 
    Paleohydrogeology and Diagenesis of the San Joaquin Basin, CA.
Alicia Wilson (Grad, Johns Hopkins University), Grant Garven (Johns Hopkins University),James Boles
 



 
    Ocean Ridge Geology
    Fine-scale tectonic and magnetic studies of spreading centers.
Tanya Atwater
 
    Structural Controls on Hydrothermal Activity at Very Fast Spreading Centers.
Rachel Haymon, Ken Macdonald, Joanna O'Neill (Grad)
 
    SeaBeam 2000/Gravity/Magnetic Study of the East Flank of the EPR, 15S-20S.
Ken Macdonald, Scott White (Grad)
 
    Tectonic deformation of the sea-floor and its relation to ridge segmentation.
Ken Macdonald, Marc Byrne (Grad)
 
    Origin of sea-floor topography.
Ken Macdonald
 
    Crustal structure of oceanic crust formed at 200 mm/yr spreading rate. A research cruise is tentatively scheduled for Jan.-Feb. 1999 in the Guatemala basin area of the Eastern Pacific, on the research vessel Maurice Ewing for surveying in preparation for possible future sampling by the Ocean Drilling Program.
Doug Wilson (Researcher), A. Harding, G. Kent (UCSD)



 
    Mineralogy
    Structural Controls on Hydrothermal Activity at Very Fast Spreading Centers.
Rachel Haymon, Ken Macdonald, Joanna O'Neill (Grad)
 



 
    Oceanography
    Evidence of two-way circulation flow through Sea of Marmara, Mediterranean.
James Kennett, V. Yanko, H. Doral, and J. Kronfeld
 
    Experimental verification of stable isotope and trace metal incorporation in living planktonic foraminifera.
David Lea
 
  The impact of natural marine hydrocarbon seeps on ozone formation in the regional air near Santa Barbara.
Jordan Clark, Bruce Luyendyk, Thor Egland (Grad), Libe Washburn (UCSB Geography)



 
    Paleoceanography
    Late Neogene planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and evolution of the California margin.
James Kennett, G. Rozo, M. Machain
 
    Processes of late Quaternary ventilation change of the California Margin.
James Kennett, Ingrid Hendy, Kevin Cannariato, Rick Behl
 
    Effects of salinity changes on restricted basins of the Yellow and Japan Seas in late Quaternary.
James Kennett, J-M. Kim
 
    Evidence of two-way circulation flow through Sea of Marmara, Mediterranean.
James Kennett, V. Yanko, H. Doral, and J. Kronfeld
 
    Inferred circum-polar deep water change during Holocene in Palmer Deep, Antarctica.
James Kennett, G. Domack, Amelia Shevenell
 
    Evolutionary processes in Neogene planktonic foraminifera.
James Kennett, Cindy Schneider
 
    Experimental determination of stable isotope variability in non-spinose foraminifera: Implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions.
David Lea, Peter von Langen (Grad)
 
    Using trace element and isotopic composition of fossil calcite shells of planktonic and benthic foraminifera to reconstruct a three-dimensional picture of the composition of the glacial oceans.
David Lea
 
    Radiometric dating of deep-sea corals to determine glacial ocean mixing rates.
David Lea
 
    Foraminiferal barium as a paleochemical tracer of the glacial oceans.
David Lea
 
    Calibration of paleoclimate proxies in planktonic foraminifera from the Santa Barbara Basin.
Dorothy Pak (Researcher), Jim Kennett, David Lea
 
    Determination of glacial/interglacial tropical sea surface temperatures using Mg/Ca paleothermometry in planktonic foraminifera.
Dorothy Pak (Researcher), David Lea
 
    Evidence of late middle Eocene deep water circulation and climate changes using stable isotopes of foraminifera from the western subtropical Atlantic.
Dorothy Pak (Researcher)
 
    The timing and magnitude of the latest Paleocene isotopic excursion and benthic foraminiferal extinction event in the subtropical Atlantic; implications for warm saline deepwater production.
Dorothy Pak (Researcher), Mimi Katz (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
 

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