Support a human-sustainable environment by studying dynamic oceanic-Earth processes related to natural hazards, climate change impacts, and alternative clean energy sources.

(a) Understand complex lithosphere-biosphere coupled mechanisms, (b) assist the global effort toward a long-term sensible energy transition, and (c) promote the burgeoning concept of a New Blue Economy.

We study mantle-to-surface structures to decipher dynamic processes using remote sensing marine electromagnetic (EM) methods, such as magnetotelluric (MT) and controlled-source EM (CSEM) techniques, constrained by seismic data and integrated with multiple datasets. Our data analysis employs geophysical inverse modeling, petrophysical correlations, and rigorous rock physics modeling. OCEEMlab pioneers new subsea technologies to study large-scale lithosphere-biosphere processes affected by climate change. In collaboration with industry partners, we develop physics-driven neural networks and surrogate AI architectures to simulate and characterize hydrothermal mineralization and natural hydrogen dynamic systems at mid-ocean spreading ridges and subduction zones.​​​