This page contains various documents supporting my defense. Updated Feb 1, 2014!

UPDATE: I successfully defended my dissertation on January 9, 2014 at Oregon State University, Burt Hall Room 193.

Dissertation

• The final version of my dissertation is here. (~80MB pdf file)

• The extra appendices are here. (~105MB pdf file)

Chris Goldfinger and I after my defense, but before I changed back into my shorts. Bob Yeats showed up half hour early, before i changed into the suit. He wondered why I was not defending in my shorts.

Defense

• Here is a 45 minute video of my presentation (~180 MB wmv).
• Sedimentary and Geophysical Investigations Offshore Sumatra: Riddling the Seafloor for Evidence of Earthquakes and Submarine Landslides 185 MB pptx file

These videos are in the PowerPoint and you need to download them independently:

• Here is the video of coring offshore Sumatra (8 MB)
• Here is the video showing a turbidity current in an aquarium (7.1 MB)
• Here is the video showing tsunamigenesis from an earthquake in Sumatra (7 MB)
• Here is a video of waves off the starboard side of the R/V Roger Revelle (~70 MB wmv)