Dr. Isla Castañeda
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Terrestrial molecules in ocean sediments: Lipids of soil bacteria and land plants reveal past continental climate variability
Past Distinguished Lecturers
2022-2023 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2021-2022 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2020-2021 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2019-2020 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2018-2019 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2017-2018 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2016-2017 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2014-2015 Distinguished Lecturers
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. Amelia Shevenell
University of South Florida
The Southern Ocean Reveals its Climate Secrets: Paleotemperatures from Antarctic Margin Marine Sediments
2013-2014 Distinguished Lecturers
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. 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
2012-2013 Distinguished Lecturers
Nathan Bangs
University of Texas at Austin
Seeing What’s at Fault in Subduction Zones: Examining Great Earthquake Megathrusts
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
2011-2012 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2010-2011 Distinguished Lecturers
Dr. Ivano Aiello
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Diatom Oozes in Marine Sediments: Archives of Past Climate Change and Habitats for Microbial Life
Dr. Demian Saffer
Pennsylvania State University
In Situ Stress and Pore Pressure from Riser Drilling: NanTroSEIZE Stage 2
Dr. William Sager
Texas A&M University
Changing Perspectives of Hotspots, Seamount Chains, and Ocean Plateaus
2009-2010 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2008-2009 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2007-2008 Distinguished Lecturers
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. 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
2006-2007 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2005-2006 Distinguished Lecturers
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. 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
2004-2005 Distinguished Lecturers
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
2003-2004 Distinguished Lecturers
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
