USGS PCMSC Contacts & Personnel

Knowledge Management; Sound Waves newletter assitant editor

Marine seismic reflection and refraction studies, Bering Sea, gas hydrates, crustal structure, mid-ocean ridge and transform systems, Law of the Sea.

Shipboard data acquisition, data acquistion systems design, maintanence, and training.

Sediment transport, ocean-bottom boundary layers, erosion, wave effects on coast, San Francisco Bay.

Geotechnical properties lab work.

Projects: Law of the Sea Article 76, Seismic Data Rescue, Information Systems and Development
Specialities: Seismic reflection data acquisition, processing and interpretation

Hawaii coral reef studies, including remote sensing of coral reefs, image analysis, ecosystem studies, web page creation.

Benthic Habitat Mapping; Southern California; Glacier Bay, Alaska.

Marine seismic reflection, seismic stratigraphy, crustal structure and glacial history of polar regions, gas hydrates, tectonics of Central California, Antarctic Seismic Data Library.

Computer Programmer/Analyst; Monterey and EEZ Information Coordinator; Web, Database, and GIS Team Member.

Computer Programmer/Analyst; data acquistion design and analysis for coastal and continental shelf instrument packages.

seafloor mapping systems, high-resolution terrain modeling, and computer-aided topographic analysis

Tsunami generation andearthquake mechanics; nonlinear modeling of tectonic processes; chaos and complexity in coastal and marine geology.

Sediment transport, large-scale coastal evolution, Southwest Washington.

Communications, outreach events, Sound Waves editor, geologic names review, manuscript tracking.

Coastal systems and erosion studies in West Central Florida, Hawaii, and Southwest Washington.

GIS, Benthic Habitat Mapping, and web development.

Tribal Liaison, USGS Natural Hazards Mission Area

Environmental marine geology. Coastal cliff retreat, shelf sand resources, marine geotechnics, mapping and analysis of polluted marine sediment.

Near-surface geophysical techniques, marine seismic reflection data acquisition and processing, seismic reflection analysis of gas hydrate zones.

System Integration, Microcontroller applications, and Software development with an emphasis on Geospatial data collection and Geographic Information Systems.

Marine mineral resources, global climate change, paleoceanography, environmental geochemistry.

Coastal biological, geological, chemical and physical oceanography, particularly short- and long-term system responses to episodic events.

Tsunami sediment transport and tsunami deposits
Historical sedimentation and geomorphic evolution of the San Francisco Estuary
Application of chaos theory and nonlinear system forecasting to surf zone sediment transport

Radio-chemistry and Geochemistry

Budget/Accounting. Personnel contact and vendor contact for the CMG team.

Geotechnical properties and stress-strain behavior of soils and sediment; earthquake engineering; slope stability; marine gas hydrate; and environmental geology.

Organic, environmental, and global change geochemistry.

Sediment transport, estuarine hydrodynamics, influence of physical processes on aquatic ecosystems.

Sediment and pollutant transport, geotechnical properties of marine sediment, submarine and coastal landslides.

Environmental, petroleum, and global change geochemistry.

Foraminiferal and pollen biostratigraphy, paleoecology and biogeography; sedimentary paleoenvironment mapping, Quaternary paleoclimatology; AMS C-14 chronostratigraphy.

Understanding current and sediment-transport patterns in estuaries and in the coastal ocean using a variety of acquired data and statistical data-analysis methods.

Hazard posed by earthquakes including: problems of earthquake probability, the effects of interactions between different faults, and modeling the effects of plate motions and Earth structure on fault stressing.

usSEABED lead implementation, surficial marine geology, shallow seismics interpretation and integration.

Holocene coastal evolution, large-scale coastal behaviour, effects of accelerated sea-level rise, erosion and coastal processes.

Geologist: Organic, environmental, and experimental geochemistry

Coastal seismology: offshore faults and seismicity, earthquake relocation techniques, acoustic seafloor mapping, seismic reflection analysis, seismicity of Puerto Rico and coastal California, Escanaba Trough spreading center.

Sedimentology (modern and ancient; marine, fluvial, and eolian), San Francisco Bay, Grand Canyon sedimentology, the role of turbulence in bedload transport.

Information Systems & Development

Impact of sea level rise on the west coast from tidal to decadal time scales. Neotectonics and earthquake hazards in southern California borderland.

CMG Program Data Management

Central California Hazards Team, GLORIA EEZ Atlas Team, Information Systems and Development Team.

USGS CMG InfoBank Computer Programmer/Analyst

Oceanography, sediment transport, benthic habitat mapping, MATLAB computer programming

Coral reef and rocky shoreface morphology, hydrodynamics, sediment distribution and the resulting modes of sediment transport; The influence of coastal hydrodynamics on nearshore rock and reef biologic communities; The interplay between geologic structure, climatic fluctuations and coastal processes; The influence of extreme storm events on the geomorphic evolution of rocky coasts; Coastal mapping and ground-truthing techniques
See also: USGS Professional Profile

Investigation of biogeochemical processes, integrated investigations of coastal aquifers

River plumes, Coastal watershed, Transport and fate of sediment in the coastal ocean, Coastal and fluvial geomorphology

Geographic Information Systems, sediment mineralogy.

Performing stratigraphic analysis of the Holocene and Pleistocene sediments of San Francisco Bay.

Sediment transport, boundary layer dynamics, submarine canyon processes.

Seabird Studies at WERC