2023-2024 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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Dr. Matthew Jones
United States Geological Survey, National Center
Anomalous volcanic carbon dioxide release and Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event 2
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Dr. Adriane Lam
Binghamton University SUNY
She sieves sea shells from the sea floor: Plankton fossils reveal oceanic evolution and dispersal processes
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Dr. Jonathan Lewis
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Inside IODP: Tales of tectonics at the Nankai trough and the culture of scientific ocean drilling
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Dr. Donald Penman
Utah State University
Carbon and silica cycle coupling during Cenozoic warm periods
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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?
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Dr. Peter Vrolijk
Stanford University
Massive earthquakes and tsunamis: Contributing factors revealed by IODP Exp. 362
2022-2023 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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Dr. Isla Castañeda
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Terrestrial molecules in ocean sediments: Lipids of soil bacteria and land plants reveal past continental climate variability
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Dr. Ann G. Dunlea
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
What controls the long-term trajectory of Earth’s climate and ocean chemistry?Â
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Dr. Gregory Moore
University of Hawai’i
Hows and whys of great earthquakes and tsunamis: New understanding from recent IODP drilling
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Dr. Donna Shillington
Northern Arizona University
Active faulting and environmental change in young rifts
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Dr. Andreas Teske
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From magma to microbe: The deep hot biosphere of Guaymas Basin
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Dr. Sonia Tikoo
Stanford University
Probing Earth’s seafloor to understand space: Impact craters, plumes and true polar wander
2021-2022 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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Dr. Samantha Bova
San Diego State University
It’s getting hot in here: Reinterpreted climate proxies alter understanding of interglacial warmth
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Dr. Eric Ferré
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Red or green: Overprinting of the climatic signals in sediment
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Dr. Karen Lloyd
University of Tennessee
The mysterious deep subsurface biosphere: What sustains one of the largest, slowest ecosystems on Earth?
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Dr. Brendan Reilly
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Revealing rhythms of ice ages with paleomagnetism
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Dr. Reed Scherer
Northern Illinois University
Inferring West Antarctic Ice Sheet history from diatoms offshore, nearhsore, downcore and beneath the ice sheet
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Dr. Joann Stock
California Institute of Technology
Filling the void: Processes of creation of new crustal area during early seafloor spreading
2020-2021 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. VALIER GALY
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The chilling effect of mountain growth: Cenozoic insights from the Asian submarine fans
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DR. JESSICA LABONTÉ
Texas A&M, Galveston
Some like it hot! Microbial communities inhabiting hydrothermal systems
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DR. DAVID W. PEATE
University of Iowa Magmatism at rifted margins: The story from drilling in the South China Sea
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DR. LISA TAUXE
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hunting the magnetic field through ocean drilling
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DR. JULIA WELLNER
University of Houston
Waxing and waning of an ice sheet: Records from the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
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DR. JIM WRIGHT
Rutgers University
Development of modern ocean circulation during the Cenozoic
2019-2020 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. BETH CHRISTENSEN
Rowan University
How plate tectonics drove continental climate change in Australia
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DR. GINNY EDGCOMB
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Life at the edge of what is possible: Microbial biosignatures in the lower oceanic crust
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DR. MATT HORNBACH
Southern Methodist University
Forecasting slope failure and slide-generating tsunami hazards with IODP data
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DR. CHRIS LOWERY
University of Texas, Institute of Geophysics The Chicxulub impact and the resilience of life
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DR. BRANDI REESE
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Wanted dead or alive: On the hunt for microbes below the ocean floor
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DR. LINDSAY WORTHINGTON
University of New Mexico
Buried alive? How sediments shut down faults in the Gulf of Alaska
2018-2019 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. SARAH FEAKINS
University of Southern California Climate change and ecosystem transformation: plant wax evidence from Indian Ocean drilling
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DR. LIVIU GIOSAN
Woods Hols Oceanographic Institution Drilling the monsoon: from mountain building to the fate of civilizations
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DR. SIDNEY HEMMING
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Toward a 5 million year record of the greater Agulhas current system
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DR. JULIA REECE
Texas A&M University
Mud and bugs under stress: compression of marine sediments beneath the seafloor
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DR. BRIAN ROMANS
Virginia Tech Reconstructing deep ocean circulation during Cenozoic climate transitions from the marine sediment record
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DR. EVAN SOLOMON
University of Washington
Revisiting the role of continental margin sediment diagenesis in marine geochemical cycles
2017-2018 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. EMILY BRODSKY
University of California, Santa Cruz The JFAST Expedition: Getting Inside a Giant Fault
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DR. TIM COLLETT
US Geological Survey
From Research to Discovery – The History and Future of Marine Gas Hydrate Research
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DR. CECILIA MCHUGH
Queens College, CUNY Can Continental Margin Sediments be Globally correlated During Large Amplitude, Glacio-Eustatic Fluctuations?
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DR. MARK REAGAN
University of Iowa The Early History of the Azu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction System as Revealed by Diving and Drilling
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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
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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
2016-2017 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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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
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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
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DR. JOHN JAEGER
University of Florida Building Mountains In An Icy World: Results From IODP Drilling In The Gulf Of Alaska
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DR. KIRA LAWRENCE
Lafayette College Back To The Future? Insights Into Future Climate Change From Warm Climate Intervals Of The Past
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DR. JIAN LIN
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution South China Sea – Drilling Back In Time To Determine The Evolution Of A Vital Marginal Sea
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DR. JASON SYLVAN
Texas A&M University Those Rocks Are Alive! – Geomicrobiology Of The Deep Biosphere In Subseafloor Igneous Basement
2014-2015 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. GARY ACTON
Sam Houston State University
A Dynamic Geomagnetic Field Revealed From Coring a Constellation of Paleomagnetic Stations in the Ocean Basins
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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
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DR. ERIC HELLEBRAND
University of Hawaii at Manoa Melt, Mantle, and Mid-ocean Ridges: Insights from Refractory Peridotite
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DR. BETH ORCUTT
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Buried Alive: Life Beneath the Seafloor
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DR. AMELIA SHEVENELL
University of South Florida The Southern Ocean Reveals its Climate Secrets: Paleotemperatures from Antarctic Margin Marine Sediments
2013-2014 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. JENNIFER BIDDLE
University of Delaware
Microbial Life in the Subsurface: Letting the Sequences Tell the Story
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DR.FREDERICK CHESTER
Texas A&M University
Sampling the Source of the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
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DR. PETER CLIFT
Louisiana State University
The Asian Monsoon and its links to Cenozoic Orogenesis and Global Climate Change
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DR. ANTHONY KOPPERS
Oregon State University Drilling Hotspots to Unravel the Mantle Wind
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DR. ALBERTO MALINVERNO
Columbia University Gas Hydrates, Methanogenesis, and Carbon Cycling at Continental Margins
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DR. SANDRA PASSCHIER
Montclair State University
Reconstructing the Footprint of an Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Continental Margin
2012-2013 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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NATHAN BANGS
University of Texas at AustinSeeing What’s at Fault in Subduction Zones: Examining Great Earthquake Megathrusts
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BRANDON DUGAN
Rice University
Origin, Evolution, and Impacts of Large Submarine Landslides
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MIRIAM KATZ
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Impact of Antarctic Circumpolar Current evolution on global ocean circulation and climate
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CRAIG MOYER
Western Washington University Zetaproteobacteria and their associated microbial communities found in hydrothermal systems from the Okinawa Trough subsurface biosphere
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REBECCA ROBINSON
University of Rhode Island Evidence for the expansion of oxygen minimum zones in the face of Early Pleistocene cooling
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DOUG WILSON
University of California, Santa Barbara Probing mid-ocean ridge processes through deep crustal drilling
2011-2012 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. STEVEN D’HONDT
University of Rhode Island Life in the Subseafloor Ocean
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DR. CRAIGÂ FULTHORPE
University of Texas at Austin
Deciphering the Long-Term History of Global Sea-Level Change
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DR. ROBERTÂ HARRIS
Oregon State University
Drilling Subduction Zones: Temperature, Fluid Flow, and Earthquakes
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DR. BÄRBEL HÖNISCH
Columbia University Estimating Cenozoic Atmospheric CO2 and Ocean Carbonate Chemistry
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DR. CLIVE NEAL
University of Notre Dame Origins, Evolution, and Environmental Impacts of Large Igneous Provinces
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DR. STEPHEN PEKAR
Queens College Past Climate Changes in Antarctica: Looking Back to Our Future
2010-2011 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. IVANO AIELLO
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Diatom Oozes in Marine Sediments: Archives of Past Climate Change and Habitats for Microbial Life
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DR. GAIL CHRISTESON
University of Texas at Austin The Chicxulub Structure: What an Impact!
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DR. JAMES COWEN
University of Hawaii at Manoa Life in the Vast Subseafloor Basaltic Aquifer
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DR. TIMOTHY HERBERT
Brown University The Ice Age-Climate Experiment
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DR. DEMIAN SAFFER
Pennsylvania State University Western Pacific Warm Pool Sensitivity to Climate Change
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DR. WILLIAM SAGER
Texas A&M University Changing Perspectives of Hotspots, Seamount Chains, and Ocean Plateaus
2009-2010 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. JEFFREY ALT
University of Michigan Magma Chambers and the Subsurface Structure of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems
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DR.FREDERICKÂ COLWELL
Oregon State University Biogeochemical Exhalations: Microbial Methane in Marine Sediments
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DR. KATRINA EDWARDS
University of Southern California Intraterrestrial Microbial Life Below the Bottom of the Ocean
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DR. JENNIFER LATIMER
Indiana State University The Role of Iron Fertilization and Past Climate Change: Where Does All that Dirt Come From?
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DR. KENNETH MACLEOD
University of Missouri-Columbia Inoceramid Bivalves, Benthic Ecology, and Sources of Intermediate Waters
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DR.ELIZABETHÂ SCREATON
University of Florida From the Seafloor to the Seismogenic Zone: Fluid Flow in Earthquakes
2008-2009 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. ADAM KENT
Oregon State University Exploring Oceanic Magmatism Through Silicate Melt Inclusions
![Pagani_DLS](https://usoceandiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Pagani_DLS-125x150.jpg)
DR. MARK PAGANI
Yale University A Cenozoic History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
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DR. ADINA PAYTAN
University of California – Santa Cruz Marine Barite: A Recorder of Ocean Chemistry and Productivity
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DR. GLENN SPINELLI
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Fluid and Heat Circulation in the Subseafloor Ocean
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DR. HUBERTÂ STAUDIGEL
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Microbes and Volcanoes: A Tale From the Seafloor
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DR. DEBBIE THOMAS
Texas A&M University Deep-Ocean Circulation During Extremely Warm Climates
2007-2008 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. PETER FLEMINGS
Pennsylvania State University Pore Pressure, Sedimentation, and Submarine Landslides
![Gulick_DLS](https://usoceandiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gulick_DLS-125x150.jpg)
DR. SEAN P. S. GULICK
University of Texas at Austin One Rock to Change the World: The Story of the Chicxulub Impact Crater
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DR. JAMES KENNETT
University of California – Santa Barbara The Earth’s Turmoil of the Last Deglacial Period
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DR. ELLEN MARTIN
University of Florida Tales of Deep Ocean Circulation Told by Tiny Fish Teeth
![Meyers_DLS](https://usoceandiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Meyers_DLS-125x150.jpg)
DR. PHILIP MEYERS
University of Michigan Cretaceous Black Shales, Mediterranean Sapropels, and Greenhouse Climate
![Teske_DLS](https://usoceandiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Teske_DLS-125x150.jpg)
DR. ANDREAS TESKE
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Subsurface Biosphere
2006-2007 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR.KATHARINA BILLUPS
University of Delaware Exploring the Application of Foraminiferal Mg/Ca Ratios to Questions of Early Cenozoic Climate Change
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DR.DONNA BLACKMAN
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Discoveries, Hypotheses, and Drilling Surprises: Adventures in Studying the Formation and Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere
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DR.CHRISTOPHERÂ HOUSE
Pennsylvania State University Probing the Microbiology of Deeply Buried Marine Sediments
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DR. LARRYÂ KRISSEK
Ohio State University Iceberg-Rafted Sediment in the Deep Ocean — An Ice Volume Story or Not?
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DR. KENÂ MILLER
Rutgers University The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-level Change: ODP Constrains the Last 100 Million Years
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DR. TERRENCEÂ QUINN
University of Texas at Austin Estimating the Level and Taking the Temperature of the Tropical Seas Over the Past 25,000 Years
![Zachos_DLS](https://usoceandiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Zachos_DLS-125x150.jpg)
DR. JAMESÂ 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
2005-2006 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. GABRIELÂ FILIPPELLI
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis A Cure for Global Warming? A Critical Look at Iron Fertilization’s Role in Climate Change
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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
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DR. BARBARA E. JOHN
University of Wyoming Understanding Slow Spreading Ridges: How Do They Work?
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DR. TED C. MOORE JR.
University of Michigan The Once and Future Warm Earth: A Paleoceanographic View
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DR. KATHRYNÂ MORAN
University of Rhode Island Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): A North Pole Discovery
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DR. HAROLD TOBIN
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Getting Inside the Plate Boundary: Subduction Zone Megathrusts in IODP
2004-2005 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. KEVINÂ BROWN
Scripps Institution of Oceanography What Causes Transience in Fluid Flow in Subduction Zones and in Other Oceanic Margin Environments?
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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)
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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
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DR. JERRY MCMANUS
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Pleistocene Climate Instability: Oceans, Ice and Insolation
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DR. ELLENÂ THOMAS
Wesleyan University Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environment and Biota: The Earth 55 Million Years Ago
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DR. MARTA E. TORRES
Oregon State University Methane-Ice in Marine Sediments: Where, How and Why We Study These Deposits
2003-2004 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
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DR. RUTH E. BLAKE
Yale University The Deep Biosphere: Microbes in the Mud
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DR. STEVEN C. CLEMENS
Brown University Solar Forcing or Climate System Feedbacks: Who’s the Boss of Plio-Pleistocene Variations in Asian Monsoon Strength?
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DR. FRED FREY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Formation of the Kerguelen Large Igneous Province, Gondwana Breakup, Lost Continents and Growth of the Indian Ocean
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DR. MITCHELL LYLE
Boise State University The Pacific Ocean and Climatic Change, from Eocene Extreme Warmth to Pleistocene Glacial Cycles
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DR. JULIA MORGAN
Rice University Marine Sediments Go To Prism
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DR. PAUL WALLACE
University of Oregon Formation and Environmental Effects of Giant Oceanic Plateaus