Research

GLOBAL MID-OCEAN RIDGES (대양저 중앙해령) East Pacific Rise; Reykjanes Ridge Polar mid-ocean ridges (as part of InterRidge-Korea) Back-arc basins

STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF SUBDUCTION SYSTEM (섭입 시스템의 구조와 진화) Mature versus immature arc-trench systems (with Yoon-Mi Kim) Philippine Sea Plate evolution Initiation of subduction

MARINE HEAT FLOW MEASUREMENT AND THERMAL MODELING (지열의 측정과 모델링) Development of marine heat flow probes (Click to see prototype)  (with Young-Gyun Kim, and in collaboration with M. Yamano and O. Matsubayashi) Assessment of gas hydrate stability field (Click for recent poster)

WESTERN PACIFIC MARGINAL BASINS (서태평양 대륙주변 분지) Development of sedimentary basins Development of back-arc spreading systems (AGU Geophysical Monograph 166)

MAPPING OF CAROLINE PLATE AND ITS BOUNDARIES (캐롤라인 판과 경계부에 대한 해양탐사) Ayu Trough; Sorol Trough and Yap Trench; Mussau Trench Making of IODP proposal

DEEPTOW MAGNETICS (해저면 근접자기장 관측) Manus Basin Hydrothermal Vent Fields Jurassic Quiet Zone, Pigafetta Basin (with Maurice Tivey and Will Sager)

ODP LEG 193 ROCK MAGNETICS (열수광상 암석자기 관측 및 실험) Construction and destruction of magnetite TRM versus CRM

GEODYNAMIC MODELING (지구동역학 모델링)

RESEARCH FACILITY SUN workstations; 16 CPU LINUX cluster Marine heat flow probe (Ewing type)