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A 3-D Seismic Investigation of the Nankai Trough Plate Boundary System in the Kumano Basin

Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment (AGASEA)

Antarctic Tectonic Evolution: CD-ROM

Central Scotia Seafloor and the Drake Passage Deep Ocean Current Gateway

Characterizing the onset of ice stream flow: A ground geophysical program

CMG: Advancement of Parameterization of Eddy-Topography Effects in Ocean Circulation Models

Constraining Fault Displacement Histories and Lithospheric Dynamics using Geology and Geophysics

A Coral-based Reconstruction and Analysis of Subdecadal- to Multidecadal-scale Climate Variability in the Cuban Sector of the Tropical North Atlantic/Caribbean Sea

Correlation of Seismic Structure with Observed Outcrop Geology: MCS/OBS Investigation of Hess Deep and Blanco Transform

Crust Mantle Interactions During Continental Growth and High Pressure Rock Exhumation at an Oblique Arc Continent Collision Zone: SE Caribbean Margin

Deep Moonquakes on the Far Hemisphere of the Moon

Distinguishing Tectonic Mechanisms of Extension and Forearc Translation Near the Central American Volcanic Arc by High-Resolution Seismic Profiling in Lakes Nicaragua and Managua - NicLakes

Dynamics and Climatic Response of the Taylor Glacier

Establishing Quaternary Climate/Terrestrial/Oceanic Linkages in southern Alaska and IODP Site Survey

GPS Network: Crustal Motions in the Bedrock of the WAIS - WAGN

Grounding Line Forensics

Holocene/Deglacial Abrupt Climate Change and Variability of the Western Pacific Warm Pool from Multidecadal to Century Scale Coral Climate Records

Imaging and Modeling Impact Generated Deformation at the Chicxulub Crater: Joint US/UK/Mexico Investigation and IODP Site Survey

The Importance of Meltwater to the Peripheral Thinning of Greenland

Integrated geophysical and geologic investigation of the crustral structure of western Canada Basin, Chukchi Borderland and Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean

An Integrated Tectonic Study of the Jamaica Strike-slip Restraining Bend and Gonave Microplate Using GPS, Geomorphologic, Seismic, and Gravity Data

An Inverse Model Study of Abrupt Climate Change

IPY: POLENET-Antarctica: Investigating Links between Geodynamics and Ice Sheets

MCS/OBS Investigation of Hess Deep

Nankai 3-D Subduction Study

Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic History of the Scottish Promontory of Laurentia

Neotectonic Structure of Terror Rift, Western Ross Sea

NicStrat: Effects of Eustatic and Tectonic Forcing on the Development of Forearc Basin Sequence Stratigraphy

The North West Shelf, Australia: The Next Step in a Global Approach to Understanding the Role of Eustasy in the Generation and Preservation of Stratigraphy

Oblique Arc Continent Collision Zone: SE Caribbean Margin (BOLIVAR)

Petrophysical interpretation data via Bayesian stochastic inversion

Quantifying the Contribution of Ocean Dynamics to SST Anomaly Formation

Regional Fault Striation Studies in the Circum-Caribbean Region

Research on September 22, 2003, M6.4 Dominican earthquake and its aftershocks

St. Elias Erosion/tectonics Project (STEEP)

Seabed Variability and its Influence on Acoustic Prediction Uncertainty

Seismic Acquisition on Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Seismic measurements of magma flux, arc composition, and lower-plate serpentinization in the Central American subduction factory

Seismic Profiling of Rapidly Subsiding Reefs on Sabine Bank, Vanuatu: Preparing for a Future Opportunity to Drill Ancient Reefs Representing Off-Peak and Lowstand Sea Levels During MIS 2-5

Seismic Study of the Offshore Portion of the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa

SGER: EarthScope: Texas Gulf Coast Pilot Study

Spatial variability and robust interpolation of seafloor sediment properties using the SEABED data bases

Stochastic Representation of Parameter Uncertainties Within Model Predictions of Future Climate

Stratigraphic and Geoacoustic Characterization of the Outer New Jersey Shelf

Stratigraphic Signatures of Orogeny: Assessing the Timing of Initial Andean Crustal Shortening

Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System

Tectonic origin, sequence stratigraphy and structure of the Bohai basin, eastern China

Terrestrial Analogs of Martian Radar Targets From the Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Tectonic Setting of the World's Giant Oil Fields

Towards an integrated understanding of regional seismic stratigraphy, age of deformation, basin subsidence, and petroleum systems of the northern offshore margin of Venezuela

Uncertainty in the Climate Modeling Process and Its Implications for Predictions of Global Warming and Water Resources

Ultra High Resolution 3D Seismic Surveying of Active Hydrate Ridge Vents to Complement Proposed CORKing

Uplift and faulting at the transition from subduction to collision - a field and modeling study of the Calabrian Arc

WAIS Projects

Western Divide West Antarctic Ice Cores (WAISCORES) Site Selection


Industry Sponsored Projects

Caribbean Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons (CBTH)

Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS)

Gulf Intraslope Basins Project (GIB)

PLATES

 

OTHER UTIG PROJECTS

Tectonic History Of Scotland

UTIG-Norway Collaboration

Montana Seismicity

UTIG-AGSO/Carnarvon Basin

CASP South Atlantic Project

Chile-UTIG Joint Projects

UTIG-Norway Aerogeophysical Surveys

PROD Testing



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