Expeditions

The 2011 – Mw 9.0 – Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami was a catastrophic geological event with major societal consequences. Unexpected shallow and large coseismic slip contributed to the large tsunami. Short historical and even shorter instrumental records limit our perspective…

International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP³) Expedition 502 plans to drill the outer rise area of the Japan Trench, where the sediment layer above the acoustic basement is unusually thin. There is a hypothesis that this thin sediment is caused by…

Coastal hydrological systems provide significant freshwater to coastal communities around the world, and the offshore component of these systems is poorly understood. While volumetrically significant, onshore-offshore freshened water is also susceptible to contamination due to rising sea level. To date,…