Research
Slawek Tulaczyk and British colleague John Woodward set up a GPS station on the Whillans Ice Stream to help study subglacial lakes that regularly drain and fill, a process that appears to speed ice flow.
The major research areas in Earth & Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz are briefly described below. For more information on a specific research program, click on the faculty member listed or the highlighted links.
Tectonics and Landform Processes
Active tectonics, continent formation, and mountain building
Finnegan, Hourigan,
Marine tectonics and marine hydrogeology
Fisher, Brodsky
Hydrology and hydrogeology
Fisher, Finnegan, Paytan, Brodsky
Geomorphology, surface processes, and glacial studies
Finnegan, Pico, Tulaczyk
Coastal processes
Griggs
Thermochronology
Blackburn
Global Environmental Change
Experimental and observational atmospheric chemistry
Chuang, Paytan
Biogeochemistry
Paytan
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, and modern climate change
Chuang, Feldl, Hain, Koch, Paytan, Pico, Tulaczyk
Paleontology, paleoecology, and biogeochemistry
Clapham, Hain, Koch, Paytan
Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects
Kreslavsky
Atmospheres
Chuang, Feldl, Zhang
Cosmochemistry
Telus
The Moon, Mars, and Venus
Nimmo, Garrick-Bethell, Kreslavsky, Zhang
Planetary interiors and dynamics
Garrick-Bethell, Nimmo, Williams, Zhang
Seismology
Brodsky, Savage, Steven Ward, Ru-Shan Wu, and Xiao-bi Xie
Early Solar System Accretion
Blackburn
Paleomagnetism and Earth's magnetic field
Garrick-Bethell
Experimental geophysics and mineral physics
Williams
Marine geophysics
Fisher
For more information on campuswide resources in Planetary Sciences, consult the Planetary Sciences website.
High-Temperature Geochemistry and Geology
Geochronology
Blackburn
Structural geology, tectonic hydrogeology, and marine geology
Hourigan
Thermochronology
Hourigan
