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The Source to Sink – Papua New Guinea Project

Coordinated by:
Chuck Nittrouer - School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Participants on the R/V Melville 17 February - 9 March, 2004

(Examining Clinoform Evolution)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Geosciences Research Division

East Carolina University

Department of Geology/Coastal Resources Management

Penn State University

Department of Geosciences

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary

Department of Physical Sciences

  • John Milliman (PI)

Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

  • Tim Keen (PI)

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Papua New Guinea and Australian Collaborators:

University of Papua New Guinea

Department of Geology

Australian Institute of Marine Science

GeoScience Australia

  • Peter Harris
  • Andrew Heap

Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea

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Research Groups

River Sediment Dynamics Research

University of California, Berkeley

Earth and Planetary Science

  • Bill Dietrich (PI)
  • Geoff Day
  • Joel Rowland

University of Minnesota

Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

  • Gary Parker (PI)
  • Wes Lauer

University of Washington 

Earth and Space Sciences 

Modern Marine Sediment Dynamics Research

University of Washington

School of Oceanography

University of South Florida

College of Marine Sciences

  • Dave Naar
  • Brian Donahue
Clinoform Evolution
  • As listed above
Modern and Ancient Carbonate Sedimentation

Rice University

Department of Earth Sciences 

Louisiana State University

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

University of Miami

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics

Diagenetic Biogeochemistry and Benthic Ecology Research

Stony Brook University

Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

  • Bob Aller (PI)
  • Josie Aller (PI)

University of South Carolina

Department of Geological Sciences

University of Otago

Department of Geology

  • Candace Martin

Oregon State University

COAS

  • Chris Moser
  • Dale Hubbard

Joint Oceanographic Institute

  • Matt Niemitz

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