The major research areas in Earth & Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz are briefly described below. For more information on a specific research program, click on the faculty member listed or the highlighted links. Additional research opportunities are available through the UCSC branch of IGPP (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics).
Tectonics and Landform Processes
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Active tectonics of the circum-Pacific subduction zones, continent formation, mountain building
• Coe, Finnegan, Hourigan, S. Schwartz, Silver, Gill
Marine tectonics and marine hydrogeology
• Fisher, Moore, Silver, Gill
Hydrology and hydrogeology
• Fisher
Geomorphology, surface processes and glacial studies
• Finnegan, Tulaczyk
Coastal processes
• Griggs
Remote sensing
• Silver |
Global Environmental Change
Geophysics and Planetary Physics
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Asteroid, comet and planetary impactor studies
• Asphaug
Martian and Lunar hydrology and geophysics
• Asphaug, Nimmo, Garrick-Bethell
Planetary interiors and dynamics and geodynamics
• Garrick-Bethell, Glatzmaier, Nimmo
Seismology
• Brodsky, Lay, S. Schwartz,
Paleomagnetism and Earth's magnetic field
• Coe, Garrick-Bethell, Glatzmaier
Experimental geophysics and mineral physics
• Knittle, Williams
Marine geophysics
• Fisher, McNutt, Moore, Silver
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High-Temperature Geochemistry and Geology
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Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arc
• Gill
Structural geology, tectonic hydrogeology, marine geology
• Hourigan, Moore
Thermochronology
• Hourigan |
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