Greg checking out a thrust fault
on the Boso Peninsula, Japan
Photo by Yujiro Ogawa
During 2006-2008, Greg worked at JAMSTEC in Yokohama, Japan as Advisor to Asahiko Taira, Director General of the Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX). In November, 2007, we completed the first expedition of IODP drilling with D/V Chikyu in the NanTroSEIZE area south of Honshu, Japan.
Greg's main research interest is in
the highly deformed belts of rock that develop along convergent plate
margins. This is, in large part, a study of the processes responsible
for mountain building and for the generation of continental crust.
Because most convergent plate margins are expressed as trench-arc
systems in which the zones of active deformation are beneath very deep
water, we must rely largely on marine geological and geophysical remote
sensing techniques. These have included seismic reflection profiling,
high-resolution multibeam bathymetric mapping, and ocean drilling. He
is also interested in giant landslides off the Hawaiian Islands.
During April-May, 2006, we conducted a 3D seismic reflection cruise to the new IODP drilling transect in the Nankai Trough. The data set was collected by PGS using the Nordic Explorer with 4 x 4500m streamers. a full 3D pre-stack time migration (PSTM) was completed by CGG in November, 2006, and an
initial results paper appeared in Science in November, 2007.
For more details on Research, scroll to the bottom of
this page.
This is a joint study with Nathan Bangs and Tom Shipley at the University of Texas and Casey Moore at UC Santa Cruz. We collected an 8 x 80 km 3-D seismic data volume over the lower slope of the Nankai Trough during June, July and August of 1999.
To see a first description of the data set, click here.
The 3D volume has now been processed through pre-stack time
migration by our UTIG colleagues and several papers have been
published ( Heffernan et al.;
Gulick et al. ;
Bangs et al. )
Additional funding has been received for 3D pre-stack depth migration
of the frontal portion of the 3D volume.
See Costa Pisani et al. for a description of the 3D PSDM work.
This is a joint project with Harold Tobin (New Mexico Tech) and Demian Saffer (Penn State).
During summer of 2000, Greg was co-chief scientist on ODP Leg 190, which drilled into the Nankai accretionary prism.
To check out the Leg 190 Initial Report, click here.For a summary paper published in the AGU on-line publication G-cubed, click here.
And for the Leg 190/196 Scientific Results Volume, click here.
Also, check out the Leg 190/196 Synthesis.
Underwood et al. (2003) presents additional Leg 190 results.
This is a joint project with Juli Morgan. We collected 2000 km of 160-channel seismic reflection data off Kilauea's south flank and 250 km of data off Ko`olau's (Oahu) northeast flank in January- February, 1998.
A preliminary paper, published in 2000 in Geology can be found by clicking here.
A more comprehensive analysis of the seismic reflection lines is presented in an AGU Monograph published in 2001 (see Hills et al. citation below).
Details of the Hilina slump were presented in a 2003 paper that can be seen by clicking here.
A paper that appeared in 2002 in Marine Geology discusses sedimentation adjacent to the Big Island. Click here to see it.
Click here to see a paper that
describes the internal structure of Puna Ridge.
Click here to see a paper on the Wai`anae slump.
A paper by Mike Garcia and others on the Nu`uanu slump can be found here.
This is a joint project with Brian Taylor, Andy Goodliffe and Patty Fryer of U.H., Simon Klemperer of Stanford Univ., Doug Wiens of Washington Univ., John Hildebrand of Scripps and Kiyoshi Suyehiro, Yoshiyuki Kaneda and Shuichi Kodaira of JAMSTEC.
Click here for the report of the March-April, 2002 cruises on the R/V Ewing.
This is a joint project with JAMSTEC, which provided more than 25 seismic lines across the Nankai Trough and northern Shikoku Basin for graduate student Toshihiro Ike's Ph.D. dissertation.
This is a joint project with JAMSTEC/CDEX in which we are performing 2D PSDM of new seismic lines in the proposed NanTroSEIZE drilling transect of IODP.
The Hui Nalu Sr. Master crew (right) caught a great wave to win by 0.15
sec in the 2004 McFarlane Regatta at Waikiki.
Note the crew in the background that was swamped by the same wave a
minute earlier (photo by T. Ike).
Greg catches a small wave as he
cruises past Koko Crater in his
one-man canoe during a Spring '99
race around Makapu`u to Hawaii Kai.
Photo courtesy of Pacific Paddler Magazine.
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