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CURRICULUM VITÆ

CURRICULUM VITÆ

JOHN A. GOFF, Senior Research Scientist

Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin

JJ Pickle Research Campus, 10100 Burnet Rd. (R2200), Bldg. 196 (ROC)

(512) 471-0476; FAX: (512) 471-0999, Email: goff@utig.ig.utexas.edu

Web: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/staff/goff

 

Education        Brown University: Sc.B. Geology-Physics-Math, 1985

                       MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography: Ph.D. Marine Geophysics, 1990

 

Positions          Post-doctoral Investigator, MIT (6/90-12/91);

                       Guest/Visiting Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (9/90-12/92)

                       Research Associate, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (1/93-8/99)

                       Research Scientist, UTIG (9/99-8/04)

                       Senior Research Scientist, UTIG (9/04-present)

 

Sea-Going       1988    R/V Thomas Washington, Roundabout Leg 10, Sea Beam mapping

Field                1991    R/V Cory Chouest, ARSRP Acoustic Reconnaissance Cruise

Experience      1991    R/V Maurice Ewing, EW9105, Hydrosweep mapping (shore participation)

                       1992    R/V Maurice Ewing, ARSRP Geophys. Recon.   Hydrosweep mapping

                       1993    R/V Knorr, ARSRP Small-Scale Recon, AMS-120 and Jason ROV surveys

                       1994    R/V Knorr, DeepTAG 94, AMS-120 and ARGOII survey

                       1995    R/V Melville, SEIR Sea Beam 2000 multibeam survey

                       1995    R/V Pacific Hunter, Co-Chief Scientist, N. Calif. swath mapping

                       1996    CHS Creed; Co-Chief Scientist, New Jersey swath mapping

                       1996    R/V Wecoma; STRATAFORM high-res seismic reflection, N. California

                       1997    R/V Point Lobos MBARI ROV exploration of Eel margin

                       1998    R/V Onrust, Chief Scientist, sediment grab sampling on the NJ Margin

                       1999    R/V Onrust, Chief Scientist, chirp seismic reflection on the NJ Margin

                       2000    R/V Cape Hatteras, Co-Chief Scientist, chirp seismic on VA outer shelf

                       2001    R/V Alliance, Geoclutter acoustic reconnaissance

                       2001    R/V Cape Henlopen, Chief Scientist, Geoclutter sampling on NJ shelf

                       2001    R/V Endeavor, Co-Chief Scientist, Geoclutter chirp seismic on NJ shelf

                       2002    R/V Cape Henlopen, Chief Scientist, site survey for the Martha’s Vineyard

                                   coastal observatory (vibracoring, sampling, geotechnical and chirp seismic).

                       2002    R/V Knorr, AHC-800 drilling on the NJ shelf

                       2004    R/V Henlopen , Chief Scientist, swath mapping on the NJ shelf

                       2006    R/V Sharp, Co-chief Scientist, chirp survey on NJ shelf

                       2007    R/V Knorr, Chief Scientist, vibracoring on the NJ shelf

                       2008    R/V Acadiana, R/V Itasca, co-instructor for JSG MG&G field course.

                       2008    R/V Acadiana, co-PI, Hurricane Ike rapid response survey

                       2009    R/V Manta, co-instructor for JSG MG&G field course

 

Service            Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (1/95-12/97)

                       Director, Dec. 1995 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award

                             Committee, Tectonophysics section

                       Chair, AGU Tectonophysics Section Nominations Committee (9/98-6/02)

                       Earth Processes/Tectonophysics & Seismology Editor, Eos (1/99-1/03)

                       Eos Editorial Steering Committee (4/00-1/03)

                       IEEE-JOE guest editor (1/05 – 6/06)

 

Honors            Excellence in Reviewing, American Geophysical Union, 2008

                       Excellence in Reviewing, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2009

 

Students          A. Macario (LDEO), S. Dreher (IFREMER), J. Riter (UT), C. S. Duncan (UTIG),

Advised           L. LaFlame (Rice), S. Nordfjord (UTIG), V. Merwadi, (UT Civil Engineering),

                       Andrew Green (University of KwaZulu-Natal), M. Santra (UTDGS), Stanley

                       Stackhouse (UTDGS)

 

Courses

Taught             Marine Geology and Geophysics Field Course

 

Professional Societies:  American Geophysical Union, International Association of

                       Sedimentologist, Acoustical Society of America

   

Research         Marine geophysics; seabed mapping and characterization; quantitative

                       Geomorphology (bathymetry, stratigraphy, sea ice, crustal heterogeneity)

 

Refereed Publications:

 

Goff, J. A., E. A. Bergman, and S. C. Solomon, Earthquake source mechanisms and transform fault tectonics in the Gulf of California, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 10,485-10,510, 1987.

Goff, J. A., and T. H. Jordan, Stochastic Modeling of Seafloor Morphology: Inversion of Sea Beam data for second-order statistics, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 13,589-13,608, 1988.

Goff, J. A., and T. H. Jordan, Stochastic Modeling of Seafloor Morphology: a parameterized, Gaussian model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 16, 45-48, 1989a.

Goff, J. A., and T. H. Jordan, Stochastic Modeling of Seafloor Morphology: resolution of topographic parameters by Sea Beam data, IEEE J. Ocean Eng., 14, 326-337, 1989b.

Goff, J. A., and T. H. Jordan, Pacific and Atlantic models of small-scale seafloor topography, Office of Naval Research S. R. P. on Acoustic Reverberation, Technical Report No. 1, 1990.

Goff, J. A., Stochastic Modeling of Seafloor Morphology (Ph.D. Thesis), Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cambridge, 266 pp., 1990a.

Goff, J. A., Comment on "Fractal mapping of digitized images: application to the topography of Arizona and comparison with synthetic images" by J. Huang and D. L. Turcotte, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 5159, 1990b.

Goff, J. A, T. H. Jordan, M. H. Edwards, and D. J. Fornari, Comparison of a stochastic seafloor model with SeaMARC II bathymetry and Sea Beam data near the East Pacific Rise 13° - 15° N, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 3867-3885, 1991.

Goff, J. A., A global and regional stochastic analysis of near-ridge abyssal hill morphology,J. Geophys. Res., 96, 21,713-21,737, 1991.

Goff, J. A., and M. C. Kleinrock, Quantitative comparison of bathymetric survey systems, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 1253-1256, 1991.

Goff, J. A., H. F. Webb, and T. H. Jordan, Stochastic interpolation of a wide-beam bathymetric profile within the ONR-ARSRP corridor, Office of Naval Research S. R. P. on Acoustic Reverberation, Technical Report No. 2, 1992.

Goff, J. A., Quantitative characterization of abyssal hill morphology along flow lines in the Atlantic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 9183-9202, 1992a.

Goff, J. A., Monostatic shadowing of homogeneous fractal surfaces, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 92, 1008-1016, 1992b.

Goff, J. A., A. Malinverano, D.J. Fornai, and J.R. Cochran, Abyssal hill segmentation: Quantitative analysis of the East Pacific Rise flanks 7°S-9°S, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 13,851-13,862, 1993.

Goff, J. A., A utilitarian approach to modeling non-Gaussian characteristics of a topographic field, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 19,635-19647, 1993b.

Goff, J, A., D. J. Fornari, J. R. Cochran, C. Keeley, and A. Malinverno, Wilkes transform system and "nannoplate", Geology, 21, 623-626, 1993.

Cochran, J. R., J. A. Goff, A. Malinverno, D. J. Fornari, C. Keeley, and X. Wang, Morphology of a 'superfast' mid-ocean ridge crest and flanks: The East Pacific Rise, 7°-9°S, Mar. Geophys. Res., 15, 65-75, 1993.

Holliger, K., A.R. Levander, and J.A. Goff, Stochastic modeling of the reflective lower crust: petrophysical and geological evidence from the Ivrea Zone (Northern Italy), J. Geophys. Res., 98, 11,967-11,980, 1993.

Goff, J. A., K. Holliger, and A. R. Levander, Modal fields: A new method for characterization of random velocity heterogeneity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 493-496, 1994.

Macario, A., W. F. Haxby, J. A. Goff, W. B. F. Ryan, S. C. Cande, and C. A. Raymond, Flow line variations in abyssal hill morphology for the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge at 65°S, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 17,921-17,934, 1994.

Levander, A., R.W. England, S.K. Smith, R.W. Hobbs, J.A. Goff, and K. Holliger, Stochastic characterization and seismic response of upper and middle crustal rocks based on the Lewisian gneiss complex, Scotland, Geophys. J. Int., 119, 243-259, 1994

Goff, J. A., The relationship between local- and global-scale scattering functions for fractal surfaces under a separation of scales hypothesis, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 97, 1586-1595, 1995a.

Goff, J. A., Quantitative analysis of sea-ice draft I: Methods for stochastic modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6993-7004, 1995b.

Goff, J. A., W. K. Stewart, H. Singh, and X. Tang, Quantitative analysis of sea-ice draft II: Application of stochastic modeling to intersecting topographic profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 7005-7017, 1995a.

Goff, J. A., B. E. Tucholke, J. Lin, G. E. Jaroslow, and M. C. Kleinrock, Quantitative analysis of abyssal hills in the Atlantic Ocean: A correlation between inferred crustal thickness and extensional faulting, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 22,509-22,522, 1995b.

Goff, J. A., A. Levander, Incorporating "sinuous connectivity" into stochastic models of crustal heterogeneity: Examples from the Lewisian gneiss complex, Scotland, the Franciscan formation, California, and the Hafafit gneiss complex, Egypt, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 8489-8501, 1996.

Goff, J. A., and J. R. Cochran, The Bauer scarp ridge jump: a complex tectonic sequence revealed in satellite altimetry, Earth and Plan. Sci. Lett., 141, 21-33, 1996.

Goff,. J. A., L. A. Mayer, J. Hughes-Clarke, and L. F. Pratson, Swath mapping on the continental shelf and slope: The Eel River basin, northern California, Oceanography, 9, 178-182, 1996.

Steckler, M. S., D. J. Swift, J. P Syvitski, J. A. Goff, and A. W. Niedoroda, Modeling the sedimentology and stratigraphy of continental margins, Oceanography, 9, 183-188, 1996.

Kleinrock, M. C., Humphris, Susan E.; Shaw, P.; Bowen, A.; Crook, T.; Davis, C.; Elder, R.; Gleason, D.; Goff, J.; Goldstein, L.; Handley, W.; Howland, J.; Hussenoeder, S.; Koga, K.; Lerner, S.; Nakamura, Ko-ichi; Rashid, M.; Reiser Wetzel, L.; Sellers, W.; Sulanowska, M.; Van Dover, C.; and, Whitcomb, L, Detailed structure and morphology of the TAG active hydrothermal mound and its geotectonic environment, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Part A: Initial Reports, Vol. 158, pp. 15-21, 1996.

Larkin, S. P., A. Levander, D. Okaya, and J. A. Goff, A deterministic and stochastic velocity model for the Salton Trough/Basin and Range transition zone and contraints on magmatism during rifting, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,883-27,897, 1996.

Austin, J. A., M. Field, C. Fulthorpe, J. Goff, L. Mayer, G. Mountain, A. Niederoda, D. Orange, M. Steckler,  and D. Swift, Continental terraces hold clues to the generation and preservation of the stratigraphic record, Eos Trans. AGU, 78, 1-2, 1997.

Goff, J. A., and B. E. Tucholke, Multi-scale spectral analysis of bathymetry on the flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Modification of the seafloor by mass wasting and sedimentation, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15,447-15,462, 1997.

Goff, J. A., Y. Ma, A. Shah, J. R. Cochran, and J.-C. Sempéré, Stochastic analysis of seafloor morphology on the flank of the Southeast Indian Ridge: The influence of ridge morphology on the formation of abyssal hills, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15,521-15,534, 1997.

Lendl, C., A. M. Trehu, J. A. Goff, A. R. Levander, and B. C. Beaudoin, Synthetic seismograms through synthetic Franciscan: Insights into factors affecting large-aperature seismic data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 3317-3320, 1997.

Tucholke, B., J. Lin, M. Kleinrock, M. Tivey, T. Reed, J. Goff, and G. Jaroslow, Segmentation and crustal structure of the western Mid-Atlantic Ridge flank, 25°25'-27°10'N and 0-29 m.y., J. Geophys. Res., 102, 10,203-10,223, 1997.

Goff, J. A., Finding chaos in abyssal hills, Nature, 392, 224-226, 1998.

Goff, J. A., D. L. Orange, L. A. Mayer, and J. E. Hughes-Clarke, Detailed investigation of continental shelf morphology using a high-resolution swath sonar survey: The Eel margin, northern California, Mar. Geol., 154, 255-269, 1999.

Borgeld, J. C., J. E. Hughes-Clarke, J. A. Goff, L. Mayer, and J. A. Curtis, Acoustic backscatter of the 1995 flood deposit on the Eel River shelf, Mar. Geol., 154, 197-210, 1999.

Goff, J. A., and J. W. Jennings, Jr., Improvement of Fourier-based unconditional and conditional simulations for band limited fractal (von Kármán) statistical models, Math. Geol., 31, 627-649, 1999.

Goff, J. A., and K. Holliger, Nature and origin of upper crustal seismic velocity fluctuations and associated scaling properties: combined stochastic analysis of KTB velocity and lithology logs, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 13,169-13,182, 1999

Goff, J. A., D. J. P. Swift, C. S. Duncan, L. A. Mayer, and J. Hughes-Clarke, High resolution swath sonar investigation of sand ridge, dune and ribbon morphology in the offshore environment of the New Jersey Margin, Mar. Geol., 161, 309-339, 1999.

Goff, J. A., Simulation of stratigraphic architecture from statistical and geometrical characterizations, Math. Geol., 32, 765-786, 2000.

Driscoll, N., J. Weissel and J. A. Goff, En echelon cracks along the outer continental shelf: Implications for submarine landslides and tsunamis, Geology, 28, 407-410, 2000.

Goff, J. A., H. C. Olson and C. S. Duncan, Correlation of sidescan backscatter intensity with grain-size distribution of shelf sediments, New Jersey margin, Geo-Marine Letters, 20, 43-49, 2000.

Duncan, C. S., J. A. Goff, J. A. Austin, and C. S. Fulthorpe, Tracking the last sea level cycle: seafloor morphology and shallow stratigraphy of the latest Quaternary New Jersey middle continental shelf, Mar. Geol., 170, 395-421, 2000.

Goff, J. A., How sick is the Spring AGU meeting? Eos Trans. AGU, 81, 563, 2000.

Duncan, C. S., and J. A. Goff, Relict iceberg keel marks on the New Jersey outer shelf, southern Hudson Apron, Geology, 29, 411-414 , 2001.

Goff, J. A., Quantitative classification of canyon systems on continental slopes and a possible relationship to slope curvature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4359-4362, 2001.

Goff, J. A.,Wheatcroft, R. A., Lee, H., Drake, D. E., Swift, D. J. P., and Fan, S., Spatial Variability of Shelf Sediments in the STRATAFORM Natural Laboratory, Northern California, Cont. Shelf Res., 22, 1199-1223, 2002.

Kraft, B. J., L. A. Mayer, P. Simpkin, P. Lavoi, E. Jabs, E. Lynskey, and J. A. Goff, Calculation of in situ acoustic wave properties in marine sediments, in Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability on Acoustic Prediction and Sonar Performance, N. G. Pace and F. B. Jensen, eds., Kluwer Academic, Netherlands, pp. 123-130, 2002.

Goff, J. A., and K. Holliger, eds., Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper Mantle: Nature, Scaling and Seismic Properties, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 349 pp., 2003.

Holliger, K., J. A. Goff, A generic model for the 1/f nature of seismic velocity fluctuations, in: Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper Mantle: Nature, Scaling and Seismic Properties, J. A. Goff and K. Holliger, eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, pp. 131-154, 2003.

Goff, J. A., and W. H. F. Smith, A correspondence of altimetric gravity texture to abyssal hill morphology along the flanks of the Southeast Indian Ridge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 2269, doi:10.1029/2003GL018913, 2003

Goff, J. A., W. H. F. Smith and K. M Marks, The contributions of abyssal hill morphology and noise to altimetric gravity fabric, Oceanography, 17, 24-37, 2004.

Goff, J. A., and S. Nordfjord, Interpolation of fluvial morphology using channel-oriented coordinate transformation: A case study from the New Jersey Shelf, Math. Geol., 36, 643-658, 2004.

Goff, J. A., B. J. Kraft, L. A. Mayer, S. G. Schock, C. K. Sommerfield, H. C. Olson, S. P. S. Gulick, and S. Nordfjord, Seabed characterization on the New Jersey middle and outer shelf: Correlability and spatial variability of seafloor sediment properties, Mar. Geol., 209, 147-172, 2004.

Hill, J. C., Driscoll, N. W., Weissel, J. K., and Goff, J. A.  Large-scale elongated gas blowouts along the U.S. Atlantic margin. J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2004JB002969, 2004.

Goff, J. A., L, A. Mayer, P. Traykovski, I. Buynevich, R. Wilkens, R. Raymond, G. Glang, R. L. Evans, H. Olson, C. Jenkins, Detailed investigation of sorted bedforms, or “rippled scour depressions,” within the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, Massachusetts, Cont. Shelf Res., 25, 461-484,2005.

Nordfjord, S., J. A. Goff, J. A. Austin, Jr., and C. K. Sommerfield, Seismic geomorphology of buried channel systems on the New Jersey outer shelf: Assessing past environmental conditions, Mar. Geol., 214, 339-364, 2005.

Goff, J. A., J A. Austin, Jr., S. Gulick, S. Nordfjord, B. Christensen, C. Sommerfield, and H. Olson, C. Alexander, Recent and modern marine erosion on the New Jersey outer shelf , Mar. Geol., 216, 275-296, 2005.

Gulick, S. P. S., J. A. Goff, J. A. Austin, Jr., C. R. Alexander, Jr., S. Nordfjord, and Craig S. Fulthorpe, Basal inflection-controlled shelf-edge wedges off New Jersey track sea-level fall, Geology, 33, 429-432, 2005.

Ratilal P., Lai Y., Symonds D.T., Ruhlmann L.A., Preston J.R., Scheer E.K., Garr M.T., Holland C.W., Goff J.A., Makris N.C.,  Long range acoustic imaging of the continental shelf environment: The Acoustic Clutter Reconnaissance Experiment 2001, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 117, 1977-1988, 2005.

Nordfjord, S., J. A. Goff, J. A. Austin, Jr., S. P. S. Gulick, Seismic facies of incised valley-fills, New Jersey continental shelf: Implications for erosion and preservation processes acting during late Pleistocene/Holocene transgression, J. Sed. Res., 76, 1284-1303, 2006.

Goff, J. A., C. Jenkins, B. Calder, Maximum likelihood resampling of noisy, spatially correlated data, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys, doi:10.1029/2006GC001297, 2006.

Merwade, V. M., D. R. Maidment, and J. A. Goff, Anisotropic considerations while interpolating river channel bathymetry, J. Hydrol., 331, 731-741, 2006.

Livingston, E.S, Goff, J. A., Finette, S., Abbot, P., Lynch, J.F. and Hodgkiss, W. S, Capturing uncertainty in the tactical ocean environment, IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 31, 245-248, 2006.

Austin J. A., S. Nordfjord, L. Duncan, C. S. Fulthorpe, J. Goff, and S. P. S. Gulick, Deciphering the modern seafloor and seismic geomorphology of the latest pleistocene, Seal' AIX06, Sea Level Changes: Records Processes and Modeling, 25-29, 2006

Green A.N., J. A. Goff, and R. Uken, Geomorphological evidence for upslope canyon-forming processes on the northern KwaZulu-Natal shelf, SW Indian Ocean, South Africa, Geo-Marine Lett.,DOI 10.1007/s00367-007-0082-2, 2007.

Tang, D., J.N. Moum, J.F. Lynch, P. Abbot, R. Chapman, P.H. Dahl, T.F. Duda, G. Gawarkiewicz, S. Glenn, J.A. Goff, H. Graber, J. Kemp, A. Maffei, J.D. Nash, and A. Newehall, Shallow Water ’06: A joint acoustical propagation/nonlinear internal wave physics experiment, Oceanography, 20, 156-167, 2007.

Goff, J. A., C. Jenkins and S. Jeffries Williams, Characterization of seabed sediment variability using the usSEABED data base, Cont. Shelf Res., 28, 614-633, 2008

Miselis, J., P.T. Gayes., J.A. Goff, T. Rodriguez, D. Krantz, J. McNinch, J. Hill and C. Alexander.  Synthesizing regional shallow-water geophysical data for shoreline evolution models, Eos Trans. AGU, 89, doi:10.1029/2008EO410007, 2008. 

Knobles, D.P., P.E. Wilson, S. Cho, and J.A. Goff, Seabed acoustics of a sand ridge on the New Jersey continental shelf, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Exp. Lett., 124, EL151-EL156, 2008.

Choi, J.W., P.H. Dahl and J.A. Goff, Observations of the R-reflector and sediment interface reflection at the Shallow Water 06 Central Site, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Exp. Lett., 124, EL128-EL134, 2008.

Goff, J. A., Statistical characterization of Geosat altimetry noise: Dependence on environmental parameters, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 10, Q08007, doi:10.1029/2009GC002569, 2009.

Goff, J. A., and C. S. Duncan, Reexamination of sand ridges on the middle and outer New Jersey shelf based on combined analysis of multibeam bathymetry and backscatter, seafloor grab samples and chirp seismic data, In Press, IAS Special Publication on Shelf Sedimentology.

Ballard, M.S., Beker, K.M., and Goff, J.A., Geoacoustic inversion for the New Jersey Shelf: Three dimensional sediment model, In Press, IEEE J. Ocean Eng.

Nordfjord, S., J. A. Goff, L. S. Duncan, and J. A. Austin, Jr., Shallow stratigraphy and transgressive ravinement on the New Jersey shelf: implications for sedimentary lobe deposition and latest Pleistocene-Holocene sea level history, In Press, Marine Geology.

Goff, J. A., and J. A. Austin, Seismic and bathymetric evidence for four different episodes of iceberg scouring on the New Jersey outer shelf: possible correlation to Heinrich events, In Press, Marine Geology.

Goff, J. A., M. A. Allison, and S.P.S. Gulick, Offshore transport of sediment during Hurricane Ike, Texas Gulf Coast, USA, submitted to Geology.

Goff, J. A., and B. K. Arbic, Global prediction of abyssal hill roughness statistics for use in ocean models from digital maps of paleo-spreading rate, paleo-ridge orientation, and sediment thickness, submitted to Ocean Modelling.

 


John A. Goff

UTIG Grants Received

 

Agency

Title

Start Date

End Date

Award

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Stochastic Modeling of Abyssal Hill Morphology (balance transferred from WHOI)

1 Mar 93

31 Dec 93

46,433

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

2-D Analysis of Ice-Canopy Morphology and Acoustic-Scattering Provinces

15 Apr 93

14 Apr 95

39,938

 

 

 

 

 

Rice U. (AFOSR subcon)

Quantitative Characterization of Crustal Heterogeneity Implications for Seismic Wave Propagation

1 Jan 94

31 Dec 97

82,643

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Stochastic Modeling of Abyssal Hill Morphology: New Seafloor Models Based on Analysis on Fine-Scale Basement Topography and Separate Characterization of Tectonic and Volcanic Morphology

1 Jan 94

31 Dec 95

44,165

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Swath Mapping of the New Jersey and Northern California Margins and Statistical Charactization of the Shelf and Slope Bathymetry

1 Oct 94

30 Sep 96

145,000

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Stochastic Modeling of Abyssal Hill Morphology: Development of Sea Floor Models for use in Acoustic Reverberation Experiments

1 Jan 96

30 Jun 97

20,000

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

ONR STRATAFORM proposal for FY97 and FY98: Statistical characterization of bathymetry and stratigraphy on continental margins

1 Oct 96

30 Sep 98

154,999

 

 

 

 

 

DOD

AASERT: Integration of high-resolution multichannel seismic and swath bathymetry surveys, New Jersey and northen California margins, in support of STRATAFORM (with Fulthorpe)

1 Jun 97

31 May 00

143,742

 

 

 

 

 

JOI

JOI/USSSP ODP Site Survey Augmentation:  Ultra-High Resolution Swath Mapping, CHIRP Sonar, Bottom Photography and Grab Sampling in Support of a Shallow Water (Jack-Up Drilling) Extension of the Mid-Atlantic Sea Level Transect (with Olson)

1 Jul 98

30 Jun 99

41,338

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

ONR STRATAFORM proposal for FY99 and FY00: Statistical characterization of bathymetry and stratigraphy on continental margins

1 Oct 98

30 Sep 00

140,000

 

 

 

 

 

NSF

Collaborative Research: Geophysical investigation of en echelon cracks along the outer shelf off Virginia/North Carolina - Implications for slope stability

1 May 99

30 April 01

60,287

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Geological and geophysical support for the “Geoclutter” acoustic reconnaissance field program (with Austin)

1 Sep 99

31 Aug 00

49,040

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Realistic interpolation of buried channel systems within the New Jersey Geoclutter natural laboratory

1 June 00

30 June 01

75,000

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Geophysical and Geological Reconnaissance for the ONR Geoclutter Program (with Austin)

15 June 00

31 Dec 03

693,218

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Building a Statistical Framework for Mine Burial Predictions

1 Jan 01

31 Dec 01

39,909

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Seabed Variability and its Influence on Acoustic Prediction Uncertainty

1 July 01

31 Aug 04

190,766

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Site Survey of the Mine Burial/Coastal Processes Experiment Site at the WHOI Coastal Observatory, Martha’s Vineyard

1 Jan 02

31 Dec 04

188,729

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

ONR Geoclutter Program: Final Analysis of Geophysical and Geological Data (with Austin)

1 Oct 03

31 Dec 04

205,000

 

 

 

 

 

DURIP

Completion of a Heave Compensation System for a Small Off-Shore Drilling Rig (with Austin)

1 May 04

30 April 05

232,080

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Spatial variability and robust interpolation of seafloor sediment properties using the SEABED data bases

1 Oct 04

30 April 07

59,899

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Stratigraphic and Geoacoustic Characterization of the Outer New Jersey Shelf

1 May 05

30 Sep 07

99,756

 

 

 

 

 

JSG, ONR & Industry

AHC-800 (Active Heave Compensation to 800 m) Drilling on the New Jersey Shelf: Investigating the Stratigraphic Response to ~50,000 Years of Eustasy (with Austin and Steel)

1 Oct 06

30 Sept 09

625,000

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Effects of small-scale bathymetric roughness on the global internal wave field (with Arbic)

1 April 07

30 Sept 09

244,017

 

 

 

 

 

ONR

Stratigraphic and Geoacoustic Characterization of the Outer New Jersey Shelf

1 Oct 07

30 Sep 09

157,776

 

 

 

 

 

ONR/SSCI

Interpolation Techniques with Minimal Data Density Analysis for Seafloor and Sub-seafloor Characteristics

15 Aug 08

31 Aug ‘10

64,220

 

 

 

 

 

JSG

Rapid Response to Hurricane Ike

25 Sept. 08

31 Mar 09

45,996

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

3,888,951

 

 

 

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