Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes. They are also an important component of continental growth both vertically and laterally. Accretionary prisms are seismically highly active…
As a city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find in an old boat, adrift in the middle of the Pacific. But when she meets Ivan, a handsome Argentinean intent on exploring the world, Torre has to face a hard decision: watch th…
Love can make a person do crazy things. . .A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat - total crew of two - struggling to keep an old boat, a new relation…
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Design and Artistic Merit: "This book is a work of art from every possible angle - from the exquisite photographs, to the book's design, to its flawless printing and production process. . . . Hall has everything right in this book. T…
"The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Paci…
"The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Paci…
"The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Paci…
"The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Paci…
Photosynthetic bacteria--Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus--are important components of phytoplankton biomass and primary production in the most warm open ocean. To determine the relative importance of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus to primary production in various oceanic ec…
Coral tissue and skeleton contain physical and chemical proxy signatures of the surrounding environment. The purpose of this thesis is to broaden or refine the use of corals as environmental recorders/tracers by examining the fidelity of both new and existing techniques. Corals …
The goal of my dissertation has been to test hypotheses for the origins of high-latitud eclimatic warmth and the subsequent global cooling in the middle Miocene, aimed primarily at understanding the oceanographic evolution of the Pacific realm. I attempted to constrain the exten…
Copepod fecal pellets can be an important vector for transporting organic carbon and amino acids from the surface waters to deep water and the sediments. Understanding the processes, e.g., fecal pellet production, organic carbon composition and concentration along with dissolved…
An ocean model is used in conjunction with tracer and hydrographic data to study the wind-driven circulation of the upper Pacific Ocean. The introductory chapter provides a descriptive overview of the physical and tracer oceanography for the upper Pacific Ocean. The second chapt…
A series of numerical model experiments were run to investigate the annual cycle of mass transport between the Pacific and Indian Oceans via the Indonesian throughflow (ITF). The 1{1\over 2}-layer, reduced-gravity model used in this study, forced by climatological wind stress, p…
