Snapshots of COAS research:

• Microbe community deep beneath Arctic permafrost needs study
  
  
• 2004 Oregon quakes in "locked" area of tectonic plate boundary
  
  
• Looking inside a volcano's magma chambers
  
  
• Satellite data could provide immediate warnings
  
  
• On the seamount trail
  
  
• Gulf Coast seabed is another Katrina victim
  
  
• Earthquake pulses help predict tsunami impact
  
  
• Discovery: Arctic hydrothermal vents
  
  
• Deep sea sediments point to the future
  
  
• Clues to stirring the Earth's mantle
  
  

Louisville seamount trail in the Pacific Ocean. Dated rocks from these underwater volcanoes hold keys to plate movements and Earth's mantle convection. Map from EarthRef.org.



Miguel Goñi works with a multi-core system off the Mississippi Delta. The extremely soft mud filling the core barrels was mobilized and deposited following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.