My current research focuses primarily on turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer, air-sea interaction, micrometeorology, dispersion and diffusion, and submeso and mesoscale motions. My interests include extensive ongoing international collaboration. I have worked in Europe as a visiting scientist from one month to one year on 10 different occasions in 6 different countries and have presented invited papers/talks in 22 different countries.
Bob Lillie - Natural and Cultural History Interpretation
Geophysics; Tectonics; Public Interpretation, Geology of National Parks.
Structure and evolution of collisional mountain ranges; Presenting geology to the public in parks, museums, and other free-choice learning environments.
Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Spectrometry
Exploration for hydrothermal activity; geochemistry of sediment and pore water; particle-metal interaction; application of trace metals as paleoproxies; chemical analysis of geological materials; design of chemical sensors for environmental and oceanographic studies; geochemistry of the rare Earth elements; development of paleoproxies for paleo-oceanographic applications.
Geography
North Pacific Long Term Observation Program
Venrick, E., S. J. Bograd, D. Checkley, R. Durazo, G. Gaxiola-Castro, J. Hunter, A. Huyer, K. D. Hyrenbach, B. E. Lavaniegos, A. Mantyla, F. B. Schwing, R. L. Smith, W. J. Sydeman, P. A. Wheeler. 2003. The state of the California Current, 2002-2003: Tropical and Subarctic influences vie for dominance. CalCOFI Rep., 44, 28-60.
Beach processes; measurements of near-shore waves and currents; models of sandbar generation and morphology; application of remote sensing to near-shore processes, large-scale coastal behavior.
Interactions of waves with near-shore morphology; measurement and modeling of sandbar morphology climatology; remote-sensing signatures in the near-shore. For more information about the research program, see Coastal Imaging Lab.
I am interested in using thermal processes to understand the Earth. All geologic processes involve the transfer of energy. Heat (energy) and temperature are fundamental to many earth processes, and quantifying the flow of energy and thermal budgets leads to an appreciation and understanding of Earth dynamics. These interests have led me along three paths.
BS Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1990
MS Hydrogeology, Stanford University, 1993
PhD Hydrogeology, Stanford University, 1996
Igneous petrology, volcanology, geochemistry
A.B. Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977
PhD Geology, Stanford University, 1986
GEO 407/507/607 - Topical Seminars
GEO 427/527 - Volcanology
GEO 495 - Field Geology
GEO 622 - Advanced Petrology
Walker, Barry A., 2011, The Geochemical Evolution of the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster: Prolonged Magmatism and its Crustal Consequences. Ph D. Thesis.
