This PIRE project brings together an international team of U.S., Bangladeshi, Indian, German, and Italian scientists to further our understanding of the dynamics of the world's largest delta, the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Michael S. Steckler (PI, geophysics, tectonics and stratigraphy) Leonardo Seeber (Co-PI, neotectonics and seismology) Won-Young Kim (Co-PI, seismology) Meredith Reitz (postdoc) Ellie Ferguson (graduate student) Mike Howe (graduate student) Jonathan Gale (graduate student) Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University Steven Goodbred (sedimentology and stratigraphy) Carol Wilson (postdoc) Jennifer Pickering (graduate student) Lauren Williams (graduate student) Chris Myers (graduate student) Thomas Hartzog (graduate student) Haley Briel (undergraduate student) St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Univ. of Minnesota Christopher Paola (fluvial stratigraphy) Andy Petter (postdoc) School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York Cecilia McHugh (sedimentology and paleontology) Dhiman Ranjan Mondal (graduate student) Department of Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington Scott Nooner (geophysics) Department of Geology, Dhaka University, Bangladesh Syed Humayun Akhter (structural geology and geophysics)Kazi Matin Ahmed (hydrogeology and stratigraphy) Muhammed Azizul Huque (sedimentology and environmental geology) Marine Technology - Environmental Research Department, Bremen University, Germany Ashok K. Singhvi (luminescence dating) Department of Geology, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Calcutta, India Ananya Biswas (stratigraphy) Bhabani Prasad Mukhopadhyay (stratigraphy) |
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The collaborating institutions in the U.S. are Columbia University (NY), Vanderbilt University (TN), the University of Minnesota, and City University of New York, Queens College. Collaborating foreign institutions are the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), Bremen University (Germany), Physical Research Laboratory (India), the Bengal Engineering and Science University (India) and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy).
This project is co-funded by the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Earth Sciences.