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Dr. H. Gary Greene
Dr.
H. Gary Greene is a marine geologist who has studied the geology of
the Monterey Bay region for the past 35 years. He received a Bachelor
of Science degree (Geology/Paleontology) from Long Beach State University
in 1966, a Master of Science Degree (Geology/Geophysics) from San Jose
State University/Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in 1969, and a Ph.D.
Degree (Geology/Marine Geology) from Stanford University in 1977. His
doctoral thesis was on the geology of the Monterey Bay region and since
then he has explored of the offshore areas of California, including
Point Lobos.
Gary retired from the United States Geological Survey after more than
28 years of service in 1994 when he took up the directorship of Moss
Landing Marine Laboratories. Presently, he is professor of Marine Geology
and Head the Center for Habitat Studies, which he founded in 1994. Gary
is also a part-time senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute. He is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and
a member of Sigma Xi, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, American
Geophysical Union, and is a registered geologist with the State of California
and Washington. He is also president of the Monterey Bay Geological
Society and vice president of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy
and Mineral Resources.
Through the years Gary has traveled the world while in pursuit of answers
to critical scientific questions. He has been Chief Scientist or Co-Chief
Scientist on over 60 oceanographic cruises including the National Science
Foundation Ocean Drilling Program. His expertise lies in the study of
active plate margins; both transform margins like California and New
Zealand and subducting margins such as along South America and the Aleutian
Islands. He spent over 10 years investigating the island-arc regions
of the South Pacific.
Presently, Gary's research involves the characterization of marine benthic
habitats and the study of underwater landslides. Much of his time is
now spent in working to standardize the way the scientific community
describes and maps marine benthic habitats. He also has several graduate
students.
Dr. Robert E. Garrison
Dr.
Bob Garrison is an Adjunct Professor at MLML and a Professor Emeritus
of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, where he taught for nearly
30 years. His major scientific interests are in sedimentology and diagenesis
of pelagic sediments, particularly those deposited beneath coastal upwelling
systems. His work on these deposits has focused on outcrop studies of
ancient deposits as well as on sediment cores taken beneath modern upwelling
regions such as the Peru continental margin. A long-term interest has
been the Neogene upwelling sediments of the Pacific Rim, including the
well-known Monterey Formation of California. Deposits of this kind contain
abundant opaline silica in diatom shells along with substantial amounts
of organic matter. Both of these components are chemically unstable,
hence these kinds of sediments are particularly susceptible to post-depositional
alteration to form diagenetic phases such as phosphorites, authigenic
carbonates, and hydrocarbons. By studying their primary composition
and sedimentary structures, he seeks to understand the sedimentary processes
dominant during their deposition. Recent research projects have focused
on fluid seepage and seep structures associated with these kinds of
sediments and rocks.
