Tectonics
Photo of coral off Haiti
Research Staff
| Name | Area of Interest | Project Location |
| Austin, Jamie | stratigraphy | marine and lacustrine environments |
| Bangs, Nathan | structure, tectonic processes | convergent margins |
| Christeson, Gail | crustal structure | Gulf of Alaska, SE Caribbean, Hess Deep, Blanco Fracture Zone |
| Dalziel, Ian | global tectonic processes, geography of ancient Earth | Antarctica, Africa |
| Flemings, Peter | Stratigraphy, basin analysis, basin-scale fluid flow, pore pressures in seafloor sediments, submarine landslides, oil and gas migration, methane hydrates, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) | Gulf of Mexico |
| Frohlich, Cliff | deep earthquakes, Texas earthquakes, moonquakes, and the statistical analysis of earthquake catalogs | global, Texas |
| Gulick, Sean | tectonic processes, glacial interactions, impact structures, geohazards | Alaska, Haiti, Sumatra, Japan |
| Hayman, Nick | faults, structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics | Japan, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Northwest, Tierra del Fuego |
| Horton, Brian | tectonics of sedimentary basins | Andes, Tibet, Zagros |
| Lavier, Luc | tectonics, structural & geodynamic evolution | continental & oceanic rifts, collisional environments |
| Lawver, Lawrence | paleogeographic reconstructions, paleo-seaways, aerogeophysics | Arctic, Antarctica, Southeast Asia |
| McIntosh, Kirk | Structure and tectonics of continental margins and continental interiors | Central America, Taiwan and the South China Sea, Mississippi River |
| Norton, Ian | structure, regional-scale plate reconstructions | continental margins |
| Sen, Mrinal | seismic wave propagation including anisotropy, geophysical inverse problems, synthetic seismograms in heterogeneous media, seismology and inverse theory | |
| Shipley, Tom | seismic reflection methods | convergent margins |
| Taylor, Fred | geochemistry of the annual density bands in living and fossil corals as inferences to late Quaternary paleoclimate | western tropical Pacific (Western Pacific Warm Pool) |
| Van Avendonk, Harm | deep crustal structure | plate boundaries, Arctic, Gulf of Mexico |