Dr. Michael Gurnis

California Institute of Technology

The churning interior of Planet Earth—A view of the Pacific over the Cenozoic

Dr. Joel Johnson

University of New Hampshire

Embrace diagenesis: The role of methane in carbon and sulfur sequestration in marine sediments

Dr. Kathleen Marsaglia

California State University Northridge

IODP drilling yields exciting insights into the workings of a young, obliquely rifted, active continental margin

Dr. Molly Patterson

Binghamton University SUNY

Catchment sensitivities of the West and East Antarctic Ice Sheets to orbital forcing during the Mid- to Late Pleistocene

Dr. Harold Tobin

University of Washington

Megathrust… or bust? The saga of the IODP NanTroSEIZE subduction zone ultradeep drilling project

Dr. Matthew Jones

United States Geological Survey, National Center

Anomalous volcanic carbon dioxide release and Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event 2

Dr. Adriane Lam

Binghamton University SUNY

She sieves sea shells from the sea floor: Plankton fossils reveal oceanic evolution and dispersal processes

Dr. Jonathan Lewis

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Inside IODP: Tales of tectonics at the Nankai trough and the culture of scientific ocean drilling

Dr. Donald Penman

Utah State University

Carbon and silica cycle coupling during Cenozoic warm periods

Dr. Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

What lies beneath: Who lives miles beneath the seafloor and what are they up to?

Dr. Peter Vrolijk

Stanford University

Massive earthquakes and tsunamis: Contributing factors revealed by IODP Exp. 362

Dr. Isla Castañeda

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Terrestrial molecules in ocean sediments: Lipids of soil bacteria and land plants reveal past continental climate variability

Dr. Ann G. Dunlea

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

What controls the long-term trajectory of Earth’s climate and ocean chemistry? 

Dr. Gregory Moore

University of Hawai’i

Hows and whys of great earthquakes and tsunamis: New understanding from recent IODP drilling

Dr. Donna Shillington

Northern Arizona University

Active faulting and environmental change in young rifts

Dr. Andreas Teske

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From magma to microbe: The deep hot biosphere of Guaymas Basin

Dr. Sonia Tikoo

Stanford University

Probing Earth’s seafloor to understand space: Impact craters, plumes and true polar wander

Dr. Samantha Bova

San Diego State University

It’s getting hot in here: Reinterpreted climate proxies alter understanding of interglacial warmth

Dr. Eric Ferré

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Red or green: Overprinting of the climatic signals in sediment

Dr. Karen Lloyd

University of Tennessee

The mysterious deep subsurface biosphere: What sustains one of the largest, slowest ecosystems on Earth?

Dr. Brendan Reilly

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Revealing rhythms of ice ages with paleomagnetism

Dr. Reed Scherer

Northern Illinois University

Inferring West Antarctic Ice Sheet history from diatoms offshore, nearhsore, downcore and beneath the ice sheet

Dr. Joann Stock

California Institute of Technology

Filling the void: Processes of creation of new crustal area during early seafloor spreading

DR. VALIER GALY

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The chilling effect of mountain growth: Cenozoic insights from the Asian submarine fans

DR. JESSICA LABONTÉ

Texas A&M, Galveston
Some like it hot! Microbial communities inhabiting hydrothermal systems

DR. DAVID W. PEATE

University of Iowa Magmatism at rifted margins: The story from drilling in the South China Sea

DR. LISA TAUXE

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hunting the magnetic field through ocean drilling

DR. JULIA WELLNER

University of Houston
Waxing and waning of an ice sheet: Records from the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

DR. JIM WRIGHT

Rutgers University
Development of modern ocean circulation during the Cenozoic

DR. BETH CHRISTENSEN

Rowan University
How plate tectonics drove continental climate change in Australia

DR. GINNY EDGCOMB

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Life at the edge of what is possible: Microbial biosignatures in the lower oceanic crust

DR. MATT HORNBACH

Southern Methodist University
Forecasting slope failure and slide-generating tsunami hazards with IODP data

DR. CHRIS LOWERY

University of Texas, Institute of Geophysics The Chicxulub impact and the resilience of life

DR. BRANDI REESE

Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Wanted dead or alive: On the hunt for microbes below the ocean floor

DR. LINDSAY WORTHINGTON

University of New Mexico
Buried alive? How sediments shut down faults in the Gulf of Alaska

DR. SARAH FEAKINS

University of Southern California Climate change and ecosystem transformation: plant wax evidence from Indian Ocean drilling

DR. LIVIU GIOSAN

Woods Hols Oceanographic Institution Drilling the monsoon: from mountain building to the fate of civilizations

DR. SIDNEY HEMMING

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Toward a 5 million year record of the greater Agulhas current system

DR. JULIA REECE

Texas A&M University
Mud and bugs under stress: compression of marine sediments beneath the seafloor

DR. BRIAN ROMANS

Virginia Tech Reconstructing deep ocean circulation during Cenozoic climate transitions from the marine sediment record

DR. EVAN SOLOMON

University of Washington
Revisiting the role of continental margin sediment diagenesis in marine geochemical cycles

DR. EMILY BRODSKY

University of California, Santa Cruz The JFAST Expedition: Getting Inside a Giant Fault

DR. TIM COLLETT

US Geological Survey
From Research to Discovery – The History and Future of Marine Gas Hydrate Research

DR. CECILIA MCHUGH

Queens College, CUNY Can Continental Margin Sediments be Globally correlated During Large Amplitude, Glacio-Eustatic Fluctuations?

DR. MARK REAGAN

University of Iowa The Early History of the Azu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction System as Revealed by Diving and Drilling

DR. HOWIE SCHER

University of South Carolina
Chasing Ice Through Space and Time – Reconstructing Polar Ice Sheets Through the Cenozoic Using the Marine Sediment Record

DR. JOSEPH STONER

Oregon State University
Geomagnetic Insights and Magneto-Stratigraphic Opportunities Provided Through IODP Drilling: New Results from the Southern Alaska Margin IODP EXP 341

DR. CATHY BUSBY

University of California, Davis
Anatomy of a Long-lived Oceanic Arc: Synthesis of Three IODP Expeditions in the Izu-Bonin-Marianas Arc

DR. ANDREW FISHER

University of California, Santa Cruz Subseafloor Experiments And Models Reveal Complex Patterns Of Coupled Fluid-Heat-Solute Transport Through The Ocean Crust

DR. JOHN JAEGER

University of Florida Building Mountains In An Icy World: Results From IODP Drilling In The Gulf Of Alaska

DR. KIRA LAWRENCE

Lafayette College Back To The Future? Insights Into Future Climate Change From Warm Climate Intervals Of The Past

DR. JIAN LIN

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution South China Sea – Drilling Back In Time To Determine The Evolution Of A Vital Marginal Sea

DR. JASON SYLVAN

Texas A&M University Those Rocks Are Alive! – Geomicrobiology Of The Deep Biosphere In Subseafloor Igneous Basement

DR. GARY ACTON

Sam Houston State University
A Dynamic Geomagnetic Field Revealed From Coring a Constellation of Paleomagnetic Stations in the Ocean Basins

DR. PATRICK FULTON

University of California – Santa Cruz Twenty-Five Thousand Feet Under the Sea: Taking the Temperature of the 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-oki Earthquake Fault

DR. ERIC HELLEBRAND

University of Hawaii at Manoa Melt, Mantle, and Mid-ocean Ridges: Insights from Refractory Peridotite

DR. BETH ORCUTT

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Buried Alive: Life Beneath the Seafloor

DR. AMELIA SHEVENELL

University of South Florida The Southern Ocean Reveals its Climate Secrets: Paleotemperatures from Antarctic Margin Marine Sediments

DR. JENNIFER BIDDLE

University of Delaware
Microbial Life in the Subsurface: Letting the Sequences Tell the Story

DR.FREDERICK CHESTER

Texas A&M University
Sampling the Source of the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

DR. PETER CLIFT

Louisiana State University
The Asian Monsoon and its links to Cenozoic Orogenesis and Global Climate Change

DR. ANTHONY KOPPERS

Oregon State University Drilling Hotspots to Unravel the Mantle Wind

DR. ALBERTO MALINVERNO

Columbia University Gas Hydrates, Methanogenesis, and Carbon Cycling at Continental Margins

DR. SANDRA PASSCHIER

Montclair State University
Reconstructing the Footprint of an Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Continental Margin

NATHAN BANGS

University of Texas at AustinSeeing What’s at Fault in Subduction Zones: Examining Great Earthquake Megathrusts

BRANDON DUGAN

Rice University
Origin, Evolution, and Impacts of Large Submarine Landslides

MIRIAM KATZ

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Impact of Antarctic Circumpolar Current evolution on global ocean circulation and climate

CRAIG MOYER

Western Washington University Zetaproteobacteria and their associated microbial communities found in hydrothermal systems from the Okinawa Trough subsurface biosphere

REBECCA ROBINSON

University of Rhode Island Evidence for the expansion of oxygen minimum zones in the face of Early Pleistocene cooling

DOUG WILSON

University of California, Santa Barbara Probing mid-ocean ridge processes through deep crustal drilling

DR. STEVEN D’HONDT

University of Rhode Island Life in the Subseafloor Ocean

DR. CRAIG FULTHORPE

University of Texas at Austin
Deciphering the Long-Term History of Global Sea-Level Change

DR. ROBERT HARRIS

Oregon State University
Drilling Subduction Zones: Temperature, Fluid Flow, and Earthquakes

DR. BÄRBEL HÖNISCH

Columbia University Estimating Cenozoic Atmospheric CO2 and Ocean Carbonate Chemistry

DR. CLIVE NEAL

University of Notre Dame Origins, Evolution, and Environmental Impacts of Large Igneous Provinces

DR. STEPHEN PEKAR

Queens College Past Climate Changes in Antarctica: Looking Back to Our Future

DR. IVANO AIELLO

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Diatom Oozes in Marine Sediments: Archives of Past Climate Change and Habitats for Microbial Life

DR. GAIL CHRISTESON

University of Texas at Austin The Chicxulub Structure: What an Impact!

DR. JAMES COWEN

University of Hawaii at Manoa Life in the Vast Subseafloor Basaltic Aquifer

DR. TIMOTHY HERBERT

Brown University The Ice Age-Climate Experiment

DR. DEMIAN SAFFER

Pennsylvania State University Western Pacific Warm Pool Sensitivity to Climate Change

DR. WILLIAM SAGER

Texas A&M University Changing Perspectives of Hotspots, Seamount Chains, and Ocean Plateaus

DR. JEFFREY ALT

University of Michigan Magma Chambers and the Subsurface Structure of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems

DR.FREDERICK COLWELL

Oregon State University Biogeochemical Exhalations: Microbial Methane in Marine Sediments

DR. KATRINA EDWARDS

University of Southern California Intraterrestrial Microbial Life Below the Bottom of the Ocean

DR. JENNIFER LATIMER

Indiana State University The Role of Iron Fertilization and Past Climate Change: Where Does All that Dirt Come From?

DR. KENNETH MACLEOD

University of Missouri-Columbia Inoceramid Bivalves, Benthic Ecology, and Sources of Intermediate Waters

DR.ELIZABETH SCREATON

University of Florida From the Seafloor to the Seismogenic Zone: Fluid Flow in Earthquakes

DR. ADAM KENT

Oregon State University Exploring Oceanic Magmatism Through Silicate Melt Inclusions

DR. MARK PAGANI

Yale University A Cenozoic History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

DR. ADINA PAYTAN

University of California – Santa Cruz Marine Barite: A Recorder of Ocean Chemistry and Productivity

DR. GLENN SPINELLI

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Fluid and Heat Circulation in the Subseafloor Ocean

DR. HUBERT STAUDIGEL

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Microbes and Volcanoes: A Tale From the Seafloor

DR. DEBBIE THOMAS

Texas A&M University Deep-Ocean Circulation During Extremely Warm Climates

DR. PETER FLEMINGS

Pennsylvania State University Pore Pressure, Sedimentation, and Submarine Landslides

DR. SEAN P. S. GULICK

University of Texas at Austin One Rock to Change the World: The Story of the Chicxulub Impact Crater

DR. JAMES KENNETT

University of California – Santa Barbara The Earth’s Turmoil of the Last Deglacial Period

DR. ELLEN MARTIN

University of Florida Tales of Deep Ocean Circulation Told by Tiny Fish Teeth

DR. PHILIP MEYERS

University of Michigan Cretaceous Black Shales, Mediterranean Sapropels, and Greenhouse Climate

DR. ANDREAS TESKE

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Subsurface Biosphere

DR.KATHARINA BILLUPS

University of Delaware Exploring the Application of Foraminiferal Mg/Ca Ratios to Questions of Early Cenozoic Climate Change

DR.DONNA BLACKMAN

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Discoveries, Hypotheses, and Drilling Surprises: Adventures in Studying the Formation and Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere

DR.CHRISTOPHER HOUSE

Pennsylvania State University Probing the Microbiology of Deeply Buried Marine Sediments

DR. LARRY KRISSEK

Ohio State University Iceberg-Rafted Sediment in the Deep Ocean — An Ice Volume Story or Not?

DR. KEN MILLER

Rutgers University The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-level Change: ODP Constrains the Last 100 Million Years

DR. TERRENCE QUINN

University of Texas at Austin Estimating the Level and Taking the Temperature of the Tropical Seas Over the Past 25,000 Years

DR. JAMES ZACHOS

University of California – Santa Cruz A Rapid Rise in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations 55 Million Years Ago: A Deep Sea Perspective on the Causes and Consequences

DR. GABRIEL FILIPPELLI

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis A Cure for Global Warming? A Critical Look at Iron Fertilization’s Role in Climate Change

DR. ALBERT C. HINE

University of South Florida Big Waves, Extreme Aridity, Strange Reefs, and Poisonous Gas All Seen in the Cool Water Carbonate Sediments of the Great Australian Bight

DR. BARBARA E. JOHN

University of Wyoming Understanding Slow Spreading Ridges: How Do They Work?

DR. TED C. MOORE JR.

University of Michigan The Once and Future Warm Earth: A Paleoceanographic View

DR. KATHRYN MORAN

University of Rhode Island Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): A North Pole Discovery

DR. HAROLD TOBIN

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Getting Inside the Plate Boundary: Subduction Zone Megathrusts in IODP

DR. KEVIN BROWN

Scripps Institution of Oceanography What Causes Transience in Fluid Flow in Subduction Zones and in Other Oceanic Margin Environments?

DR. R. MARK LECKIE

University of Massachusetts-Amherst Linking Tectonics, Climate Change, and Biotic Evolution: The Oceanic Anoxic Events of the Mid-Cretaceous (~120-90 MA)

DR. KYGER C. LOHMANN

University of Michigan Unraveling the Archive of Climate Change from the Marine Record: Integration of Isotopic and Elemental Proxies in Molluscan Carb

DR. JERRY MCMANUS

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Pleistocene Climate Instability: Oceans, Ice and Insolation

DR. ELLEN THOMAS

Wesleyan University Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environment and Biota: The Earth 55 Million Years Ago

DR. MARTA E. TORRES

Oregon State University Methane-Ice in Marine Sediments: Where, How and Why We Study These Deposits

DR. RUTH E. BLAKE

Yale University The Deep Biosphere: Microbes in the Mud

DR. STEVEN C. CLEMENS

Brown University Solar Forcing or Climate System Feedbacks: Who’s the Boss of Plio-Pleistocene Variations in Asian Monsoon Strength?

DR. FRED FREY

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Formation of the Kerguelen Large Igneous Province, Gondwana Breakup, Lost Continents and Growth of the Indian Ocean

DR. MITCHELL LYLE

Boise State University The Pacific Ocean and Climatic Change, from Eocene Extreme Warmth to Pleistocene Glacial Cycles

DR. JULIA MORGAN

Rice University Marine Sediments Go To Prism

DR. PAUL WALLACE

University of Oregon Formation and Environmental Effects of Giant Oceanic Plateaus