Geological Oceanography is Fun!

 

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)

 

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Welcome to MLML’s Geological Oceanography Lab!

Dear visitor,

MLML’s Geological Oceanography website is slowly coming together and soon many of the links will be up and running.

If you are a student interested in joining our program at MLML you can contact Prof. Ivano Aiello directly at:

iaiello@mlml.calstate.edu

 

If you want to know more about what we are doing in the lab you can checkout two Youtube videos.

One is an interview with Ivano on marine sediments done during an oceanographic cruise on the ship Joides Resolution in the Bering Sea:

The other video is an interview/documentaryby Cassandra Brooks on the origin of oil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykfnz9yQ0I8

 

 

Thanks for visiting!

Ivano

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Welcome to MLML’s Geological Oceanography Lab!

Dear Visitor,

The site is presently under construction and only few of the links are working. Our hope is to have the new site completed by the end of the summer 2011 if not earlier.

The new site will offer a comprehensive and updated view of the research activities, tools and people that are part of our lab.

If you are a student interested in joining the lab in Fall 2012 or if you have any other questions concerning our lab feel free to contact Dr. Ivano Aiello either via e-mail or phone, more information concerning graduate and undergraduate student opportunities will be posted soon.

I wish you a wonderful summer time and I hope to see you back soon!

Ivano Aiello

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