地表，环境和能源哲学博士-沉积学，地层学和地表过程

碳酸盐岩和碎屑沉积系统以及层序地层学研究提供了对海洋环境中沉积物的转移和存储以及驱动这些沉积物的较大气候过程的见识。这些过程可用于调查海平面在较大的时空范围内随时间的变化，冰量的存储以及冰川的退缩速度。正在进行的南极洲海洋地质研究集中在全新世期间该地区的气候，以更好地了解调节气候变化的因素以及这些变化如何影响冰川和冰盖。例如，德克萨斯州沿岸的沿海研究侧重于预测沿海环境对气候变化和加速的海平面上升的反应。其他研究着眼于浅盆地系统，以了解古代系统是如何形成和演化的。碳酸盐岩和混合碎屑碳酸盐岩系统的研究计划目前
Carbonate and clastic depositional systems, and sequence stratigraphic studies provide insights into the transfer and storage of sediments in marine environments, and the larger climatic processes that drive them. These processes can be used to investigate changes in sea-level through time, ice-volume storage, and glacial retreat rates over large time and space scales. Ongoing marine geological research offshore of Antarctica focuses on climate in the region during the Holocene, to gain a better understanding of the factors that regulate climate change and how these changes have influenced glaciers and ice sheets. Coastal studies, for example, along the Texas coast, focus on predicting the response of coastal environments to climate change and accelerated sea-level rise. Other studies look at shallow basin systems to understand how ancient systems formed and evolved. Research programs in carbonate and mixed clastic-carbonate systems currently focus on late Quaternary and Cenozoic evolution of the shelf edges, platform margins, slopes and adjacent basins in Maldives, the Great Barrier Reef, the Western Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of Papua, and the Belize margin.