Oceanography & Paleoclimate
Interactions of oceanography and climate with geologic processes; coastal and marine records of changing environments.
Faculty
 | Heimbach's research group (Computational Research in Ice and Ocean Systems -- (CRIOS)), in the Oden Institute is engaged in a number of projects, with main funding from NASA, NSF, and ONR.
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Research Faculty
 | Stratigraphic evolution of a wide range of marine and lacustrine environments around the world
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 | Carbonates sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, petrophysics of carbonate, seismic signature of carbonate rock, seismic modeling, carbonate modern depositional environment
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| Source Rock Characterization
Geochemistry (Organic, Biomarker, Gas Isotope)
Mudrock Characterization
Petrography, SEM
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 | Near-surface geophysics in hydrogeology and environmental and Quaternary geology; coastal geology; Quaternary geology and geomorphology; computer applications in the geological sciences
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 | Paleoclimate, Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry, climate change
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Emeritus
 | Marine geophysics, plate tectonics, magnetics, gravity, heat flow, seismic studies, paleogeographic reconstructions of Gondwana, the Polar Regions, East Asia, and the Western Pacific
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Research Staff
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| I specialize in utilizing calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera to solve geologic problems, i.e., biostratigraphy. Recently, I have focused on Mesozoic organic-rich mudstones of the Gulf Basin, but I am also an expert on deep-water systems.
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