On this page we are providing an overview of the variety of projects we are currently working on. Below that we also give a summary of the larger projects we carried about with our students and post-docs over the last 30 years.
Current Projects
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program cores from the Louisville seamount trail, IODP Expedition 330 on the D/V JOIDES Resolution
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program cores from the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, IODP Expedition 324 on the D/V JOIDES Resolution
- Dredged rocks from the Walvis Ridge seamounts, Expedition MV1203 on the R/V Melville
- Dredged rocks from the Rurutu hotspot in the Tuvalu seamounts, Expedition scheduled for the Summer of 2013 on the R/V Revelle
- Dredged rocks and land samples from the Marquesas Islands
- Land samples from the Caribbean large igneous province at Curacao Island, Lesser Antilles
- Acid-leaching effects on 40Ar/39Ar groundmass age dating
Geochronology of Volcanic Rocks from
the World’s Ocean Basins
- Dredged rocks from the Rano Rahi seamounts near the super-fast spreading East Pacific Rise
- Ocean Drilling Program cores from the Emperor Seamounts, ODP Leg 197
- Dredged rocks from the Line Islands and Easter-Salas y Gomez seamount chains
- Dredged rocks from the Gilbert Ridge and Tokelau Seamounts, Expedition AVON02 on the R/V Melville
- Dredged rocks from the Samoan Seamounts, Expedition AVON03 on the R/V Melville and Expedition ALIA on the R/V Kilo Moana
- Dredged rocks from the Louisville seamount trail, IODP Site Survey Expedition AMAT02 on the R/V Revelle
- Submersible-collected rocks from the Gorda Escarpment and Mendocino Fracture Zone
Geochronology of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs)
- North Atlantic Igneous Province (East and West Greenland, Faeroe Islands)
- Kerguelen Plateau, ODP Leg 183
- Caribbean Plateau (Costa Rica, Haiti, Curacao, Colombia, Beata Ridge)
- Karoo Igneous Province (South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Antarctica)
- Chronology of basin formation on the Moon, through radiometric dating of lunar impact glasses returned by the Apollo 16 mission
Geochronology of Ash Layers in Marine Sediments
- Eocene-Oligocene boundary and Pacific NW flora assemblages
- Pliocene-Miocene sections from ODP Legs 185 and 191
Geochronology of Terrestrial Sediments
- Total fusion ages for feldspar grains from glacial tills
- Clay formation ages to identify river drainages contributing to Pacific NW margin sediments on glacial-interglacial timescales
Geochronology of Mineralization and Ore Formation
in Economic Ore Deposits
- Vein adularia in the Hishikari gold deposit, Japan
- Timing and duration of mineralization at the Yanacocha district, Peru