Thank you for visiting MLML’s Geological Oceanography web site.
If you are a interested in our program, the next few paragraphs will offer brief descriptions of faculty, students and education and research activity in the Geology lab at MLML.
The lab is directed by Ivano Aiello, Associate Professor of Geological Oceanography at San Jose State University. At MLML, Ivano teaches several graduate courses on different topics and methodologies concerning Marine Geology and cross-disciplinary fields in marine sciences (link to CV/publication).
Ivano advises several graduate students whose Master projects include a variety of field based marine and coastal geological studies.
The lab is multidisciplinary is the sense that students combine to different degrees geology with a variety of other disciplines in marine sciences (e.g. marine ecology, biology).
Ivano research has also a general interdisciplinary approach:
Sedimentology/paleoceanography of upwelling biogenic sediments in Europe and the Pacific Rim (e.g. Monterey Fmt.), eastern equatorial Pacific and Peru Margin (ODP Leg 201), the sub-Arctic (IODP Expedition 323 in the Bering Sea).
Relationships between geology and microbial activity in deeply buried marine sediments recovered by IODP;
Geologic/geomorphology of central California rapidly changing costal environments including Elkhorn Slough, beaches and sea cliffs of Monterey Bay. Use of terrestrial laser scanning and 3D data analysis to asses small-scale geomorphologic change.
Ivano teaches several graduate and undergraduate classes in Geological Oceanographyas well as courses on interdisciplinary Marine Science topic (link to CV/publications), and mentored and co-advised graduate and undergraduate students.
MLML’s Geological Oceanography Lab research equipment allows the conduct a large range of laboratory-based, and marine- and field-based analyses (Geo Lab).
For further information about the Geological Oceanography Lab at MLML and for potential students feel free to contact me (iaiello@mlml.calstate.edu)