Eric’s research focuses on dynamic Earth processes, particularly lithosphere-biosphere feedback interactions. His group at OCEEMlab specializes in marine electromagnetic (EM) imaging techniques, augmented by seismic and potential field methods and coupled with rock physics modeling. These techniques are analyzed jointly with other datasets, including sediment cores, bathymetric, oceanographic, and biogeochemical data.

RESEARCH THEMES​

• Dynamics of melting ice sheets, methane, and oceanic carbon cycle

• Slab rollback and toroidal/poloidal mantle flow role in intraplate volcanism   

• Volcanic hot-spot plume convection dynamics

• GeoH2 generation beneath ultraslow-spreading and subduction zones

• Interplay between volcanic plumes, groundwater flux, and marine biodiversity

• Quasi-periodic earthquake cycles of oceanic transform faults 

• Onshore-offshore hydraulic functioning of submarine freshwater

• Hydrothermal circulation and seafloor mineralization

• Time-lapse monitoring of subsea CO2 storage sites

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ACADEMICS

Ph.D., Geophysics, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, UK
MRes., Geology & Geophysics, University of Southampton, UK
B.Sc., Oceanography (Magna Cum Laude), Ruppin College, IL

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2023-current 

Guest Investigator, Geology & Geophysics, WHOI,  2023-2024

Research Associate III, Geology & Geophysics, WHOI, 2022

Research Affiliate Faculty, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Hawai‘i, 2020–2022  

Visiting Scientist, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Hawai‘i, 2018–2020

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Senior geophysicist, Japan. Seafloor minerals mapping using an AUV Plume Hunter sensor suite, Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc., 2022

Senior geophysicist, Norway. Seabed mineral exploration at mid-ocean ridge using an AUV-Self-Potential (SP) system, Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc., 2021
Senior geophysicist, Japan. Seafloor massive sulphide exploration using an AUV-SP system, Ocean Floor Geophysics  Inc., 2019

Scientific consultant, Japan. Gas hydrate 3-D marine CSEM experiment, Ocean Floor Geophysics  Inc., in collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2017

Field geophysicist, Japan. Marine CSEM gas hydrate survey, Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc.,  in collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2015

ROV Pilot/Tech, Mediterranean Sea,  Oceaneering International Inc., 2011-2012

Senior hydrographer, Tanzania. Hydrographic survey at Dar Es Salaam marine port,  EDT Offshore, 2008-2010