The marine program within the Jackson School of Geosciences boasts a number of cutting edge facilities including laboratories on main campus and at the Pickle Research Campus, high-resolution geologic and geophysical equipment for at-sea research, a small coastal research vessel the R/V Itasca, and an active Ocean Bottom Seismometer program with a long history of deployments around the world. We also host a Seismic Data Center that makes center data collected over multiple projects throughout the years is accessible by the community.

Facilities

• Marine High-Res Geophysics Center
• Sub-bottom Profiling Systems
• Multibeam Bathymetry and Sidescan Sonar Systems
• Portable High-Resolution Multichannel Seismic System
• Itasca
• OBS Program
• Marine Seismic Data Center

OBS being deployed during a cruise.

An Ocean-Bottom Seismograph, deployed from the R/V Langseth during the 2008 STEEP cruise, drifts by the St. Elias Mountains of southern Alaska.