Program focuses attention on continental margins

Attention focuses on autism.

Statistical Characterization of Bathymetry and Stratigraphy on Continental Margins

A "realistic" interpolation or extrapolation of bathymetry, i.e., one that honors both the statistical character and the deterministic constraints of the data, is referred to as a "conditional simulation." The first step in generating a conditional simulation is derivation of a statistical model for bathymetry. We typically employ the anisotropic von Kármán model (Goff and Jordan, 1988), which ...

Super Bowl contest focuses national attention on Rice

BY DANA BLANKENHORN "The Game" comes to R i c e this Sunday at the Stadium. The Super Bowl has become, in its eight years, as much a tradition as the World Series or the Beer-Bike race. Rice's attempts to get the Super Bowl began three years ago. Bill Peterson, then the football coach, and A. M. (Red) Bale, the athletic director, prepared a proposal to talk to the NFL for a Super Bowl at Rice. ...

Global distribution of naturally occurring marine hypoxia on continental margins

Hypoxia in the ocean influences biogeochemical cycling of elements, the distribution of marine species and the economic well being of many coastal countries. Previous delineations of hypoxic environments focus on those in enclosed seas where hypoxia may be exacerbated by anthropogenically induced eutrophication. Permanently hypoxic water masses in the open ocean, referred to as oxygen minimum z...

Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Continental Convergent Margins