Brandi Lenz and Nick Rodgers spent much of their 2016 summer at Ohio State’s field camp in Utah. One week involved exploring glacial cut canyons in Alta and the next week they were traversing basalt flows and climbing cinder cones in Marysvale. They learned many important skills including mapping, recognizing lithologies in the field, and interpreting geologic history. Ohio State’s field camp is led by Professor Terry Wilson and is based out of Ephraim Utah for the past several decades.

Immediate opening: Seeking a postdoctoral scholar position to work with Dr. Ann Cook and I on a Gulf of Mexico gas hydrates project. The project is funded by the US Department of Energy with collaborators at UT Austin and Lamont-Doherty (Columbia University).

For Fall 2017: I am seeking a doctoral student to join my research group to work on submarine landslides.

I work on a wide variety of marine geology and geophysics projects. Currently, the major projects that we have ongoing are:

Deepwater:

Geohazards and gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico

Role of earthquakes on underwater landslides

Role of microfossils and volcanic ashes in submarine landslides

Retrogressive submarine landslides offshore North Carolina (GeoPRISMS ENAM)

Slope stability of channel-levee systems

Shear strength of marine sediments

Coastal:

Sediment dynamics in mixed siliciclastic-carbonate systems, St. John, US Virgin Islands

Tsunami deposits preserved in coastal salt ponds, St. John, US Virgin Islands

Lake floor sedimentary processes in Lake Erie.

The Basin Research Lab says goodbye to Josh DeVore but we welcome new graduate student Paul Russell to the team. Paul graduated from the University of Washington School of Oceanography and just completed a summer in Alaska with the Bureau of Land Management.