Marine Geology and Geophysics
In The Field
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What makes a person choose Marine Geology & Geophysics over, say, biochemistry or finance or pre-med? The desire to be able to spend at least part of his/her working day out in the field certainly ranks as one of the primary reasons people choose to work in MG&G.
Jackson School researchers spend much of their time in the field, collecting data, studying earth systems where they occur in nature. Funded by NSF, ONR and other sponsors, our scientists traverse the globe to accomplish their goals, bringing their students along with them.
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JSG researchers have been collecting MG&G data for over 30 years. Shown here are high seas in the North Atlantic during an R/V Conrad 1973 cruise.
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JSG researchers travel far off the beaten path. Below are listed some of the places where they have conducted research over the past few years.
2009
- JSG scientists and students collaborated in TAIGER, a joint US-Taiwan research project to investigate the mountain building processes, plate boundary dynamics, and seismogenic processes on and around Taiwan.
- JSG scientists participated in the NanTroSEIZE project, drilling in the accretionary wedge of the Nankai Trough, offshore Japan.
2008
- The Gulf of Alaska was the setting as UTIG scientists and students joined other researchers on the R/V Marcus Langseth to acquire marine geophysical data across the Yakutat block.
- Researchers combined a marine geophysical survey and a geochemical study of dredged ocean floor basalts on board the R/V N.B. Palmer to study the opening of the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica. An elementary school teacher joined the cruise and documented it.
- JSG researchers sailed the Mississippi River, gathering data on the New Madrid Fault Line.
- On board the R/V Sonne, they acquired multichannel seismic data in order to investigate tsunamigenic rupture offshore Sumatra.
- They collected ultra-high-resolution 3D seismic data cubes across small areas around three different active methane venting systems along the Oregon margin.
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A JSG grad student contemplates Lake Nicaragua during the 2004 NicLakes project.
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In May, the Jackson School debuted the new Marine Geology & Geophysics (MG&G) Field Course, a unique course designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the collection and processing of MG&G data.
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2007
- Utilizing the R/V Knorr's facilities, they penetrated the stratigraphy of the New Jersey shelf to reveal its recent eustatic history.
2006
- On board the USCG Healy, they investigated the crustal structure of the Chukchi Borderland and Mendeleev Ridge in the Arctic Ocean.
