DESCRIPTION: The Medium Capacity Mooring Spooler (MCMS) is a mobile, self-contained winch system that can be installed on ships of opportunity. The system is designed to deploy, tow, and recover ...

Hydroacoustic signals captured by the world’s international nuclear monitoring system suggest an underwater landslide may ...

Measuring the movement of defined points on the earth's surface to better understand the stresses and strains affecting the crust and upper mantle.

The study of the oceans and ecology of marine organisms in the geologic past, largely through the marine sedimentary record. The Human Ecology Laboratory groups together students and researchers to ...

Tracking the flow of natural and manmade elements through the environment to better understand physical systems.

Understanding the chemical processes affecting minerals, water, and air at or just below the earth's surface, typically below about 200 degrees C.

Collecting and processing data on the earth, oceans, and atmosphere using cameras, lasers, and a variety of electromagnetic sensors.

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

Cryosphere and polar science study the frozen water part of the Earth system, ranging from the glaciers of Greenland to the ice sheets of the Antarctic. Antarctica photo by Jack Pan.

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

Using radioactive isotope systems to determine the age and origins of minerals and rocks, primarily as tracers of magmatic processes and the evolution of the earth. Organic molecules in natural waters ...