Jack Baldauf, ODASES Coordinator
Education: Ph.D. Paleontology, University of California-Berkeley, 1985
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: paleoceanography, micropaleontology, biochronology
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Peter Blum
Education: Ph.D. Geology
Department: IODP Staff Scientist
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Research interests: physical properties
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Bill Bryant
Education: Ph.D. Geology, University of Chicago, 1966
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: ocean engineering, marine sedimentation, archeological oceanography, geotechnical and geoacoustic properties of marine sediments, geology and geophysics of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, microfabrics of fine-grained marine sediments, geology and geophysics of the Russian Arctic
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John Firth
Education: PhD Geology, Florida State University, 1989
Department: IODP Curator
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Research interests: micropaleontology
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Ethan Grossman
Education: Ph.D. Geochemistry, University of Southern California, 1982
Department: Geology & Geophysics
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Research interests: Earth system history, stable isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of aquifer systems
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Robert Korty
Education: Ph.D. Climate Physics and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
Department: Atmospheric Sciences
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Research interests: equable climate dynamics of the Cretaceous and Paleogene; hurricane-ocean interactions; paleotempestology
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Annette Olivarez Lyle
Education: Ph.D. Oceanic Science, The University of Michigan, 1989
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: Cenozoic paleoclimate using the marine sedimentary record; pelagic organic carbon burial; sea-floor hydrothermal systems
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Mitch Lyle
Education: Ph.D. Oceanography, Oregon State University, 1978
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: paleoceanography from Cenozoic to Pleistocene, pelagic sedimentation, Cenozoic water cycle, paleoproductivity, climate-nutrient cycle interactions, tectonics and climate change
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Franco Marcantonio
Education: Ph.D. Columbia University, M.S. McMaster University
Department: Geology and Geophysics
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Research interests: radiogenic isotopic geochemistry
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Heath Mills
Education: Ph.D. Applied Microbiology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: molecular characterization of microbial community structure and function, deep subsurface life exploration, nitrogen cycling in marine system prokaryote populations,, iron and sulfate reducing prokaryote competition in salt marsh sediment, bioremediation of radionuclide contaminated sediments
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Katerina Petronotis
Education: Ph.D. Geophysics, Northwestern University, 1991
Department: IODP Staff Scientist
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Research interests: Pacific plate and hotspot motions using paleomagnetic data; magnetism of the ocean crust
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Mary Jo Richardson
Education: Ph.D. Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1980
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: increasing diversity in Geoscience disciplines and improving Geoscience education opportunities; dynamics and biogeochemistry of particle formation, sinking, resuspension, transport and deposition in the ocean
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Brendan Roark
Education: Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Department: Geography
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Research interests: trace element analysis and U-series dating in deep sea corals and tropical corals
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William Sager
Education: Ph.D. Marine Geophysics, University of Hawaii, 1983
Department:Oceanography
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Research interests: plate tectonics, tectonic reference frames, paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism, magnetostratigraphy and the magnetic polarity reversal time scale, Pleistocene-Holocene sea level variations, high-resolution geophysical methods, magnetic and gravity field interpretation
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Matthew Schmidt
Education: Ph.D. Geology, University of California, Davis, 2005
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: paleoceanography
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Scott Slough
Education: Ed.D. Science Education, University of Houston, 1998
Department: Teaching, Learning and Culture
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Research interests: chemical education, geoscience education, informal science learning, program evaluation, project-based learning
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Debbie Thomas
Education: Ph.D. Paleoceanography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002
Department: Oceanography
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Research interests: paleoceanography of the Cretaceous and Paleogene, particularly in using the deep-sea sedimentary record to investigate the relationship between global tectonism and the evolution of the earth's climate system
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Bugrahan Yalvac
Education: Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, Science Education, Pennsylvania State University, 2005
Department: Teaching, Learning and Culture
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Research interests: Authentic science versus classroom science; faculty development; impact of history, philosophy, & sociology of science on science education; research methods; science, technology, and society; sociology of scientific knowledge; teacher preparation in the nature of science; writing across the curriculum & writing in the disciplines
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