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Advanced Technology for Radar Sounding in Ice (ATRS)

Accretionary Prism Plumbing in 3D: Fluid Pathways and Fluid-Structure Interaction Using the Costa Rica 3D Seismic Volume

Active continental extension of eastern Papua New Guinea: Geologic Studies of Emerged Coral Reefs and Marine Sedimentary Rocks

Anisotropic Earth Model Calculations

Buried Channel Systems, New Jersey

Byrd Subglacial Basin

Cataclysms and Catastrophes - The Role of Science in Natural and Human-induced Disasters

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

Chirp Sonar, New Jersey Margin

Chortis Block: Integration of Onshore Geological and Offshore Well and Seismic Data from Eastern Honduras

Collaborative Research: 3-D Seismic Imaging of an Active Margin Hydrate System - Oregon Continental Margin

Collaborative: Combined 230Th and 231Pa Dating: Establishing the Absolute Timing of Late Quaternary Climate Change and Calibrating the 14C Timescale

Collaborative Research: Aerogeophysics in the Canada Basin

Collaborative Research: Geophysical Investigation of En Echelon Cracks Along the Outer Shelf Off Virginia/North Carolina - Implications for Slope Stability

Collaborative Research on the Sumatran Subduction Zone and Great Sumatran Fault

Collaborative Research: US-ROC Deep Seismic Imaging Study of the Taiwan Arc Continent Collision

Collaborative Research UTIG and USGS/Menlo Park: Towards an Integrated Understanding of Late Holocene Fault Activity in Western Puerto Rico: Offshore Geophysical Survey

Collaborative Research UTIG and USGS/Menlo Park: Towards an Integrated Understanding of Late Holocene Fault Activity in Western Puerto Rico: Onland Scarp Mapping and Fault Trenching

Collaborative Research: What is Subducted Along the Southern Middle American Trench?

Comparison of Observed and Synthetic Waveforms for Seismic Event Location and Phase Association

Constraints on Mesoproterozoic Supercontinent Assembly and Plate Dynamics - Studies on the 1.1 Ga Umkondo Large Igneous Province in Southern Africa

Contrasting Architecture and Dynamics of the Transantarctic Mountains

Corridor Aerogeophysics of the South East Ross Transect Zone (CASERTZ)

The Effect of Gas Hydrates on Seismic Properties of Sediments and the Relation Between the Occurrence of Bottom Simulating Reflectors and Vertical Tectonics A Study on the Peruvian Margin

Geological Record of Southern Ocean Sedimentation

Geology, Meteorology, and Oceanography ("From Texas To Antarctica")

Geosciences in the Classroom

Geophysical and Geological Reconnaissance for the ONR Geoclutter Program

Geologic and Geophysical Support for the Geoclutter Acoustic Reconnaissance Field Program

Global and Local Controls on Depositional Cyclicity: The Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

A GPS Study of Caribbean Plate Kinematics and Distributed Deformation Between the Caribbean and North American Plates

Huston-Tillotson University and UTIG Collaborate on Geology, Meteorology and Oceanography Teacher Training

Hybrid Linear/Nonlinear Methods of Seismic Waveform Inversion

Ice sheet surface characteristics from RADARSAT imagery

Investigation of Upper Plate Response to Subducting Plate Morphology and Seamounts at Subduction Zone Asperities: Cooperative German, Costa Rican and United States Project

Late Cenozoic Rift Sedimentation, Volcanism and Tectonism in the Southern Red Sea-Northern Danakil Regions, Eritrea

Laurentia: SE Pacific Continent?

Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone

Methane Hydrate Deposit and Methane Gas Reservoir, Blake Ridge

Neogene Evolution of the Middle Atlantic Margin

Neotectonic Evolution of Antarctic Peninsula/Scotia Sea Region: Multi-Beam, Sidescan Sonar, Seismic, Magnetics and Gravity Studies

Neural Computing in Geophysics

Observational Analysis of the Origin of Non-Double Couple Seismic Sources

ODP Leg 156, Barbados Accretionary Prism

ODP Leg 183 - Kerguelen Plateau/Broken Ridge

ODP Leg 192 - Ontong Java Plateau

ODP Leg 204: Hydrate Ridge VSPs

ONR Mine Burial Program

Paleo-seismic Investigation of the North American-Caribbean Strike-Slip Plate Boundary, Dominican Republic

Parameter Estimation In Anisotropic Media

A Partial Support Toward the Cost of Streckeisen STS-1 Seismometer

Penrose Conference on "Tectonic Development of the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean"

Quantitative Characterization of Crustal Heterogeneity: Implications for Seismic Wave Propagation

Quaternary Paleoclimatic Evolution, Larsen Basin, Offshore Seymour Island, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula

Rock Property Estimation from Marine Seismic Data by AVO Inversion

The S Reflector and Rifting Processes: Iberia Abyssal Plain/Galicia Bank

Safe Science Along the Mid-Atlantic Transect

Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Summer Program

Scotia Arc GPS Project (SCARP)

Sequence Stratigraphy of the NE Gulf of Mexico: An Integrated Seismic, Well Log and Biostratigraphic Approach

SLOSEIS

Stochastic Modeling of Abyssal Hill Morphology: New Seafloor Models Based on Analysis of Fine Scale Basement Topography and Separate Characterization of Tectonic and Volcanic Morphology

Stratigraphic Responses, Northern California Shelf and Slope

Stratigraphy, Structure & Depositional Processes, Offshore Eastern Trinidad & Venezuela (DM2)

Structure of the Chicxulub KT Impact Crater, Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico

Structure of the Nicaragua/Costa Rica Subduction Zone: A Framework for the Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Initiatives (NicSeis)

A Study of the Feasibility, Logistics and Cost of Establishing a Broadband Seismographic Network in Texas

Terrestrial Radar Sounding Studies of Thermal, Compositional and Structural Horizons Analogous to Those Hypothesized for Europa's Icy Mantle

Subduction to Strike-slip Transitions on Plate Boundaries: Geological Society of America Penrose Conference

Subduction Zone Asperities, Costa Rica

Technical Alliance for Computational Stratigraphy (TACS)

Temperature History of Western Pacific Warm Pool

Three-Dimensional Seismic Reflection Investigation of Fluid Flow and Structural Evolution: Northern Barbados Ridge

Time-Transgressive Deformational Effects of Oblique Underthrusting of Aseismic Ridges on the Puerto Rico Trench and Island Margin: Sidescan, Seismic Reflection, Gravity and Magnetic Studies

Transform and Subduction Tectonics Along the Macquarie Ridge: Sidescan, Seismic Reflection, Earthquake & Gravity Studies

US-Japan Marine Geophysical Study of the Solomon Island Arc - Ontong Java Convergent Zone, Southwest Pacific Ocean

USA-Japan OJP Geophysical Study

U.S. Participation in Australian Shipboard Program on the Kerguelen Plateau: ODP Site Survey in Support of Large Igneous Province Objectives

Underthrusting Of Aseismic Ridges, Puerto Rico Trench

WAIS Ice Divide Migration

WAIS Western Divide Ice Core Site (WAISCORES)

WAIScores Inland Site Selection

Young Marginal Basin as a Key to Understanding the Rift-Drift Transition and Andean orogenesis: OBS Refraction profiling for Crustal Structure in Bransfield Strait


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