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ALUWIHARE, LIHINI
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Assistant Professor
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Natural abundance d15N measurements of marine dissolved compounds
Natural abundance 14C dating of marine dissolved organic compounds
Chemistry and biology of marine polysaccharides and proteins
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ARRHENIUS, GUSTAF
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Professor of Oceanography
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Molecular evolution toward life
Origin and early evolution of ocean-atmosphere
Surface reactions on minerals
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BADA, JEFFREY
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Professor of Marine Chemistry
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Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon measurements of bomb 14C in mammalian tissues
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic chronologies obtained from animal teeth
Detection of extraterrestrial organic compounds on Earth
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BERGER, WOLFGANG
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Professor of Oceanography,
/ Director of California Space Institute
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Multidecadal climate fluctuations from marine varves and tree rings
Cenozoic paleoceanography based on deep-sea sediments
Climate and ecosystem response
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BROWN, KEVIN
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Professor
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Aqueous and geochemical flux measurements in the marine environment
Experimental investigations into the processes controlling fluid flow through sediments and rocks
Structural geology
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CANDE, STEVEN
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Professor of Marine Geophysics
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Geomagnetism, geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale, magnetization of the oceanic crust, paleo-intensity variations of the geomagnetic field.
Plate tectonics, global plate reorganizations, Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, structure of the Ross Sea, tectonics of the South Pacific
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CASTILLO, PATERNO
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Professor of Geology
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Petrologic and tectonic evolution of the western Pacific
Petrology and isotope geochemistry of MORB and OIB
Mantle geodynamics
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CURRAY, JOSEPH
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Professor of Geology, Emeritus
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Tectonics and geological history of NE Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia
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DRISCOLL, NEAL
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Professor
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Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
Sea-level fluctuations
Lithospheric deformation
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FOSTER, THEODORE
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Research Associate
/ Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz
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Geophysics
Physical oceanography, particularly of polar regions
Geophysical fluid dynamics
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GEE, JEFFREY
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Professor in Residence
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Quantitative analysis of silicate and magnetic fabrics in cumulate rocks
Processes of remanence acquisition in igneous rocks and the origin of associated magnetic anomalies
Application of paleomagnetic/anomaly data to crustal accretionary processes
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GUENTHER, PETER
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Specialist in Marine Chemistry
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Physical and analytical chemistry of inorganic carbon in seawater
Time series measurements of total dissolved inorganic carbon in seawater
High precision gas analyses and manometry
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HAWKINS, JAMES
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Professor of Geology
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Evolution of convergent plate margins of western Pacific, and origin of back-arc basins such as Parece Vela Basin, Lau Basin, and Mariana Trough
Origin and emplacement of ophiolites on convergent plate margins
Crustal evolution, western Pacific Basin, and western North America
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HERGUERA, JUAN
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Research Associate
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Marine varves and variability of coastal circulation along the western shores of the Americas
Pleistocene and Holocene paleoceanography and paleoproductivity
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HILDEBRAND, JOHN
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Professor of Oceanography
/ Adjunct Professor Electrical and Computer Engineer
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Field studies in: southern California, Gulf of California, Hawaii, offshore Washington, Bering Sea, Arctic, Southern Ocean
Marine mammal population census using acoustics
Impact of anthropogenic sound on marine mammals
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HILTON, DAVID
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Professor of Geochemistry
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Hydrogeological applications of noble gases
Noble gas geochemistry of mantle-derived rocks and fluids
Volatile mass balance of subduction zones
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JACKSON, JEREMY
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Professor of Oceanography
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Paleobiology and macroevolution
Speciation and extinction
Ecology and paleoecology of coral reefs
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KASTNER, MIRIAM
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Professor of Earth Sciences
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The role of fluids in the transport of heat and solutes and into the ocean, atmosphere, and mantle in subduction zones
Gas hydrates and global change
Chemical paleoceanography
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KEELING, RALPH
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Professor
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Paleoclimate theory
Detection of ocean heat storage and transport using atmospheric gases
Recent perturbations to the global carbon cycle
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LAL, DEVENDRA
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Professor of Nuclear Physics
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Utilization of natural nuclear processes to understand planetary physical and chemical processes and their rate constants
Cosmic ray-produced radioisotopes in diverse terrestrial environments, atmosphere, lakes, oceans, and sediments, and of nuclear tracks in moon, meteorites, and terrestrial samples
Development of quantitative methods for the study of process geomorphology including continental weathering and erosion processes, evolutionary history of diamonds, and phosphorus biodynamics in oceans using cosmogenic 32P, 33P, and 7Be radionuclides
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LANGE, CARINA
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Researcher
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Phytoplankton (diatoms)
Transport to the seafloor
Burial in the sediment
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PARKER, DOROTHY
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Research Associate
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Adsorption of metals by microbes and polysaccharides
Oxidation and reduction of metals by microbes
Biology of cyanobacteria
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SANFILIPPO, ANNIKA
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Specialist in Paleontology
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Reassessment of paleogene radiolarian datum events
Managing the DSDP/ODP Micropaleontological Reference Collection
Magnetobiostratigraphic correlation; radiolarian taxonomy and evolution
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SCLATER, JOHN
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Professor of Geophysics
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History of science
Thermal models of old ocean floor
Tectonic History of the Southwest Indian Ridge with emphasis on the Andrew Bain Mega-transform Fault.
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SEVERINGHAUS, JEFFREY
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Professor
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Reconstructing changes in atmospheric noble gas composition over the past million years from air trapped in glacial ice
Radiocarbon of methane in late glacial-age ice as a test of the sedimentary methane clathrate degassing hypothesis.
Isotopic fractionation of air in polar firn (snow) due to gravitational settling and thermal diffusion, with implications for gas age-ice age differences and leads and lags of climate versus greenhouse gases in ice core records
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WAHLEN, MARTIN
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Professor of Physics
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Reconstruction of paleoatmospheres from ice core records in Greenland and Antarctica back to > 500,000 years covering at least 5 glacial/interglacial cycles; main emphasis is to reconstruct atmospheric CO2 and d13CO2
Global biogeochemical cycles of radiatively important atmospheric trace gases; biosphere-atmosphere interaction
Stable isotopes in atmospheric CO2 (d13C and d18O) to arrive at improved global carbon cycle budgets (in collaboration with C. D. Keeling).
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WEISS, RAY
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Professor of Geochemistry
/ Associate Dean
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Distributions of trace gases in the atmosphere and in the sea, with emphasis on halocarbons, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane
Geochemical tracers of ocean circulation and mixing
Chemical limnology
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WINTERER, EDWARD
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Research Professor of Geology, Emeritus
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Plate stratigraphy and the subsidence of ocean crust, oceanic atolls, and continental margins
Comparisons between oceanic pelagic sediments and their analogues in folded mountain belts
Geologic history of the Pacific, including stratigraphy, sedimentation, seamount chains and tectonics
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