Continental Margin Sedimentation

Charles A. Nittrouer is a Professor in the School ofOceanography and in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences atthe University of Washington. His research interests include themodern and ancient formation of sedimentary strata incontinental-margin environments, and the effects of physical andbiological oceanic processes on sedimentary characteristics.James A. Austin, Jr., is a Senior Research Scientist inthe University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, which is part ofthe Jackson School of Geosciences. James uses a variety ofgeophysical tools to examine the stratigraphic evolution of a widerange of marine and lacustrine environments around the world,including the latest Pleistocene-Holocene geology of the New Jerseycontinental shelf.Michael E. Field is a Senior Marine Geologist with theUSGS Pacific Science Center in Santa Cruz, California. His researchhas investigated sedimentation on many of the continental marginsaround the United States and the world, and recently he hasexpanded his focus to include the effects of watershed changes andsedimentation patterns on coral reef systems of Pacific highislands.Joseph H. Kravitz spent many years as a program directorof Marine Geology and Geophysics at the US Office of NavalResearch, and is now associated with the George WashingtonUniversity. His research interests include the study of sedimentsand sedimentary processes in high-latitude glacial-marineenvironments, as well as the application of marine geotechnique togeological problems.James P.M. Syvitski is Director of INSTAAR, an Earth andEnvironmental Systems Institute, and is Professor of GeologicalSciences at the University of Colorado. James investigates thedischarge dynamics of global rivers and the sediment load theycarry, the morphology and deposits of continental margins, theimpact of high-energy weather events on coastlines; and the impactof ice sheets on high-latitude shelves and slopes.Patricia L. Wiberg is a Professor in the Department ofEnvironmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her currentresearch topics include storm-driven transport and the formation ofsedimentary strata on the continental shelf, sediment dynamics ontidal salt marshes and in coastal lagoons, modeling fine-grainedsediment dynamics, sediment-associated contaminant transport, andthe evolution of continental-margin morphology.