CURRENT PROJECTS

BRAZOS DELTA/TEXAS MUD BLANKET, TX, USA

  • Identify and track flood deposits on the Brazos River subaqueous delta from the 2015/2016 floods

  • Link mud blanket deposition to Brazos River floods

  • Develop record of Brazos River flooding preserved in mud blanket sediments

MONTEReY BAY, CA, USA

  • Characterize modern shelf sedimentation throughout the bay

  • Investigate changes in upwelling and primary productivity through the Holocene

  • Identify source to sink characteristics from the Salinas River to mid shelf mud belts

Northern California, USA

  • Identify regional wet/dry climatic periods throughout the Holocene from alpine lake cores

  • Assess the position and strength of the California precipitation dipole

  • Reconstruct the position of the California dipole transition zone throughout the Holocene

San Francisco Bay, CA, USA

  • Determine seasonal and decadal sedimentation rates across different habitats within a coastal wetland in San Francisco Bay

  • Integrate sedimentation rates with atmospheric carbon fluxes from the wetlands

  • Improve carbon budget estimates for the wetland

SEAL BEACH WETLANDS, CA, USA

  • Identify paleo-seismic events along the Newport Inglewood Fault Zone

  • Characterize co-seismic subsidence in the wetlands

  • Qualify and quantify marsh recovery to rapid changes in sea level resulting from co-seismic subsidence

UPPER NEWPORT BAY, CA, USA

  • Investigate drivers for mudflat sedimentation on seasonal time scales

  • Measure salt marsh accretion over the past century

  • Assess marsh sustainability by comparing decadal marsh accretion to relative sea level rise