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Institute
of Arctic & Alpine Research
(INSTAAR)
University of Colorado at
Boulder
1560 30th Street, Campus Box 450
Boulder CO, 80309-0450
Tel: 303-735-5250 Fax:
303-492-6388
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Appointments, Qualifications
- Senior Research Fellow in Marine Geosciences, Ocean
Sciences Institute, Sydney
Univ, 1991-2001
- Consultancies and secondments with agencies and
companies, 1985-.
Marine geophysical acquisition, multibeam surveying,
marine
error analysis, marine tailings disposal monitoring,
marine platform
foundations sampling and analysis, linguistic data processing in
geology, shipboard database/GIS systems,
deep seafloor sediment
sampling and photography, marine shallow seismic interpretation.
- Research Fellow in Marine Geosciences, Ocean Sciences
Institute, Sydney Univ.,
1983-90
- Assistant Lecturer, Tutor in Stratigraphy, Australian
National University and James Cook University, 1980-1983.
- PhD (Cambridge,
UK) 1979
with Sidney Sussex College Scholarship for postgraduate study.
- BSc Hons (Sydney, Australia) 1974
with various scholarships and awards.
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Research Programs
dbSEABED - An Information Processing System
for the World's Seafloor
Seabed information processing
leading to mappings on local to global
scales; development of new data mining and linguistic processes,
development
of GIS visualizations for seabed data. dbSEABED is currently used in
labs on 3 continents. [Link to dbSEABED
]
Marine Substrates, Northern Gulf of Mexico
Characterize spatial and temporal
distribution patterns of
seafloor sediment, rock and shelled benthos for waters of the states of
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Funded by the Gulf
States Marine Fisheries Commission and supported by the US Geological
Survey, amongst others.
Sediments of the United States EEZ:
usSEABED
Sediment mapping of the US EEZ, supplying
software and methods to USGS Woods Hole, Santa Cruz, St Petersburg. [ Link
to recent USGS Data Publications: ATLANTIC_MARGIN
PACIFIC_MARGIN
GULF_OF_MEXICO
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Seafloor
patchiness spatial variability, and the problem of grid interpolation
The
University of Texas (Austin)
and INSTAAR are developing methods to: (i) characterise the patchiness
of seafloor environments, and (ii) develop software to generate the
best possible grid mappings of seafloor substrates for use in
environmental, navy, and other applications. [Link to UTIG
PROJECT DESCRIPTION ]
New Computing
Environments for Lake and Seabed Core Analysis
Corewall is a digital workbench for laboratory processing and
researching of seafloor cores. It is NSF-supported, coordinated with
the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), and collaborative between
the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Chicago, Lamont
Doherty Geological Observatory, and University of Colorado, amongst
others. INSTAAR's contribution is CoreNavigator, a VRML 3D visual
indexing for stratigraphic databases. [ Link to COREWALL Link to CORENAVIGATOR ]
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