PEOPLE GRD DIRECTORY RESEARCHERS POSTDOCS	FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS
	Name Title   Interests ALUWIHARE, LIHINI Assistant Professor 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 ARRHENIUS, GUSTAF Professor of Oceanography Molecular evolution toward life Origin and early evolution of ocean-atmosphere Surface reactions on minerals BADA, JEFFREY Professor of Marine Chemistry 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 BERGER, WOLFGANG Professor of Oceanography, / Director of California Space Institute Multidecadal climate fluctuations from marine varves and tree rings Cenozoic paleoceanography based on deep-sea sediments Climate and ecosystem response BROWN, KEVIN Professor Aqueous and geochemical flux measurements in the marine environment Experimental investigations into the processes controlling fluid flow through sediments and rocks Structural geology CANDE, STEVEN Professor of Marine Geophysics 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 CASTILLO, PATERNO Professor of Geology Petrologic and tectonic evolution of the western Pacific Petrology and isotope geochemistry of MORB and OIB Mantle geodynamics CURRAY, JOSEPH Professor of Geology, Emeritus Tectonics and geological history of NE Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia DRISCOLL, NEAL Professor Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Sea-level fluctuations Lithospheric deformation FOSTER, THEODORE Research Associate / Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz Geophysics Physical oceanography, particularly of polar regions Geophysical fluid dynamics GEE, JEFFREY Professor in Residence 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 GUENTHER, PETER Specialist in Marine Chemistry 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 HAWKINS, JAMES Professor of Geology 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 HERGUERA, JUAN Research Associate Marine varves and variability of coastal circulation along the western shores of the Americas Pleistocene and Holocene paleoceanography and paleoproductivity HILDEBRAND, JOHN Professor of Oceanography / Adjunct Professor Electrical and Computer Engineer 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 HILTON, DAVID Professor of Geochemistry Hydrogeological applications of noble gases Noble gas geochemistry of mantle-derived rocks and fluids Volatile mass balance of subduction zones JACKSON, JEREMY Professor of Oceanography Paleobiology and macroevolution Speciation and extinction Ecology and paleoecology of coral reefs KASTNER, MIRIAM Professor of Earth Sciences 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 KEELING, RALPH Professor Paleoclimate theory Detection of ocean heat storage and transport using atmospheric gases Recent perturbations to the global carbon cycle LAL, DEVENDRA Professor of Nuclear Physics 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 LANGE, CARINA Researcher Phytoplankton (diatoms) Transport to the seafloor Burial in the sediment PARKER, DOROTHY Research Associate Adsorption of metals by microbes and polysaccharides Oxidation and reduction of metals by microbes Biology of cyanobacteria SANFILIPPO, ANNIKA Specialist in Paleontology Reassessment of paleogene radiolarian datum events Managing the DSDP/ODP Micropaleontological Reference Collection Magnetobiostratigraphic correlation; radiolarian taxonomy and evolution SCLATER, JOHN Professor of Geophysics 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. SEVERINGHAUS, JEFFREY Professor 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 WAHLEN, MARTIN Professor of Physics 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). WEISS, RAY Professor of Geochemistry / Associate Dean 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 WINTERER, EDWARD Research Professor of Geology, Emeritus 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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