Geological Oceanography 

Faculty

• Dr. Lewis Abrams: use of physical/chemical properties of subsurface marine sediments to detect paleoclimatic and volcanic cycles; tectonic, volcanic and sedimentary history of the Caribbean basin and western Pacific. 
• Dr. William J. Cleary: inlet morphology; shoreface sediment dynamics
• Dr. Doug Gamble: Climatology, hydrology
• Dr. Nancy Grindlay: morphology and tectonics of submarine transform, convergent, and divergent plate boundaries using high-resolution swathmapping and geophysical instrumentation. 
• Dr. Joanne Halls: Geographic Information Systems
• Dr. Eric Henry: Coastal hydrology, water resources
• Dr. Patricia Kelley: evolution and paleoecology of Coastal Plain molluscs, including escalation of predator-prey relationships from the Cretaceous through Recent.
• Dr. Richard A. Laws: biology and paleontology of marine phytoplankton and microphytobenthos.
• Dr. Lynn A. Leonard: dissolved and particulate fluxes in estuarine systems; depositional processes and evolution of tidal wetlands; sediment dynamics in estuarine systems.
• Dr. Craig Tobias: fate and transport of macroelements (e.g. carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen) in a variety of aquatic and near-shore marine habitats

Coastal and Marine Geophysics Laboratory

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