Marine and Coastal Geology at FSU
RESEARCH AREAS
Students may focus on deepwater or coastal marine geology or geophysics. Current research includes: sediment transport,
especially in beaches, shallow seas, rivers, lakes, and dunes; Recent and late Pleistocene coastal evolution; measurement and
forecasts of beach erosion; environmental geology and geochemistry; sea-level fluctuations and global change; modern and ancient
depositional environments; tectonic controls on sedimentologic processes in convergent and collisional margins; lithofacies and
provenance of synorogenic deposits; marine micropaleontology; shipboard participation on Ocean Drilling Program cruises to the
Southern and Pacific oceans; and structural and isotope geology applied to sedimentary deposits.
FACILITIES
The department houses or has available various kinds of equipment, including research vessels, a marine seismic profiling
system, sidescan sonar, mass spectrometers, alpha and gamma spectrometers, Coulter counter, magnetic separator, computerized
image-capture system, automated settling tube, SEM, and TEM. Many other items of equipment and an extensive library of bathymetric
charts, topographic maps and aerial photographs, are available.
FACULTY
Anthony J. Arnold
Micropaleontology, macropaleontology, stratigraphy, distribution and diversity of benthic
foraminifera as environmental indicators in the coastal marine environment.
Joseph F. Donoghue
Geology of coastal environments and continental margins; causes and
effects of sea-level change; Quaternary geology and geochronology;
environmental geology; contaminants in sediments.
Sergio Fagherazzi
Geomorphology, surface hydrology, coastal processes, numerical methods for earth sciences.
Jennifer Georgen
Geophysics of the deep ocean and nearshore environments.
Neil Lundberg (emeritus)
Convergent margin tectonics and sedimentation; synorogenic sedimentation at collision zones;
petrology of clastic deposits in tectonically active settings; and deformational fabrics at active margins.
William C. Parker
Carbonate sediments, their depositional environments, and their evolution.
Vincent Salters
Investigations of mantle evolution and MORB magma generation using isotopic tracers.
Lu-Hf isotopic systematics and the evolution of the continental crust.
Yang Wang
Causes and consequences of sea level change on coastal ecosystems and the carbon cycle;
sea level-ecosystem feedback processes.
Sherwood W. Wise
Micropaleontology, stratigraphy, continental margin and deep-sea marine geology.
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