Kathryn Moran
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Educational Background
Ph.D., Civil Engineering
M.S., Ocean Engineering
B.S., Civil Engineering
Dalhousie University
University of Rhode Island
University of Pittsburgh
1995
1981
1977
Areas of Specialization
Research
I also have a joint appointment as Professor in the College of Engineering, Department of Ocean Engineering. My research focuses on marine geotechnics, in particular the application of geotechnical techniques in paleoceanography, tectonics, and seafloor stability. I also research the best practices for marine drilling, in situ testing, and site investigations. Recently, I have focused efforts on marine geotechnics for the design of offshore wind turbines.Teaching
I have a joint appointment in the College of Engineering, Department of Ocean Engineering. I teach marine geotechnics (OCE 585), the ocean engineering senior design course (OCE 495/495), Introduction to Ocean Engineering (OCE 101), and participate in OCE 311, Coastal Measurements and OCG/OCE 506, Numerical Models and Data Analysis in Ocean Sciences.Outreach
In 2004 and 2005, over 180 articles and stories in global media on the Arctic coring expedition and SEATOS in print, web, radio, and television media. Highlights are as follows: Press conferences: Tromso, Norway; Bremen, Germany; London, England; San Francisco, US. Television interviews: BBC World News; Swedish National Television News; German National Television News Radio interviews: CBC National Radio Newspaper interviews: New York Times (cover story in Science Times, Nov. 2004 and story in the Science Times, June 2005), Providence Journal, Narragansett Times, Boston Globe, and many other local newspapers. Magazines: National Geographic (May 2005 issue), Science (AAAS, September 2004), Nature online (September 2004), Geotimes (August 2005). ACEX and SEATOS stories were also featured in COE alumni magazine and URI alumni news. SEATOS was part of a television production aired in December 2005 on Discovery Channel USA (2 hours) and BBC1 (1 hour).Students
Veith Altman
Ines Waltham
Jennifer Henderson
Matthew O'Regan
Meghan Paulson
Cristin Ashmankas
Jason Fahy
Michael Cost
Tania Lado
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Publications:
Moran, K., Backman, J. et al., 2006, The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean, Nature, Vol 441, 1 June 2006, doi:10.1038/nature04800.
Moran, K. Backman, J. and Farrell, J.W., 2006, The Arctic Coring Expedition: Drilling at the Top of the World, Paper No. OTC 18114, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, May.
Moran, K., Backman, J. and Farrell, J., 2006, Deepwater drilling in the Arctic Ocean’s permanent sea ice, in Proc. IODP, Exp. Rep. 302. (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc., College Station TX).Moran, K. et al., 2006, The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean, Nature, 441, 601-605.
Wang, J., Moran, K., and Baxter, C.D.P. Correlation between the Shear Wave Velocity and the Liquefaction Resistance of Offshore Saturated Sands and Silts, 2006, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 132-12, 1574-1580.
Sluijs, A. Schouten,S., Pagani M., Woltering, M., Pedentchouk, N., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damste, J., Dickens, G., Huber, M., Reichart, G-J., Stein, R., Matthiessen, J., Lourens, l., Backman, J., Moran, K. and the Expedition Scientists, 2006, Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 441, 610 - 613.
Brinkhuis, H., Schouten, S., Collinson, M., Sluijs, A., Sinninghe-Damste, S., Dickens, G., Huber, M., Cronin, T., Onodero, J., Takahashi, K., Bujak, J., Stein, R., van der Burgh, J., Matthiessen, J., Eldrett, J., Harding, I., Lotter, A., Sangiorgil, F., de Leeuw, J. Backman, Moran, K. and the Expedition Scientists, 2006, Episodic fresh surface waters in the early Eocene Arctic Ocean, Nature, 441, 606-609.Pagani, M., Pedentchouk, N., Huber, M., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Damste ́, J., Dickens G., Backman, J., Clemens, S., Thomas Cronin, T., Eynaud, F., Gattacceca, J., Jakobsson, M., Jordan, R., Kaminski, M., King, J., Koc, N., Martinez, N., Matthiessen, J., McInroy, D., Moore, TC, Moran, K., O’Regan, M., Onodera, J. Paelike, H., Rea, B., Rio, D., Sakamoto, T., Smith, DC, Stein, R., St John, K., Suto, I., Suzuki, N., Takahashi, K. Watanabe, M. & Yamamoto M., Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum, 2006, Nature 442, 671–675.
Moran, K., Backman, J., and the IODP Expedition 302 Science Party, 2006, The Arctic coring expedition recovers a Cenozoic History of the Arctic Ocean, Oceanography, 19-4, 162-167.
Moran, K., Altmann, V., O’Regan, M. and Ashmanka, C., Acoustic Compressional Wave Velocity as a Predictor of Glaciomarine Sediment Grain Size, 2007, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, 30-4, 267-273.Jakobsson, M., Backman, J., Rudels, B., Nycander, J., Frank, M., Mayer, L., Jokat, W., Sangiorgi, F., Brinkhuis, H., King, J., and Moran, K., 2007, The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean, Nature, 447, 986-990.
O'Regan, M., and Moran, K., Compressibility, permeability, and stress history of sediments from Demerara Rise, 2007, In Mosher, D.C., Erbacher, J., and Malone, M.J. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 207: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–35. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.207.114.Fisher D., Mosher D., Austin J.A., Gulick S.P., Masterlark T., and Moran, K., 2007, Active deformation across the Sumatran forearc over the December 2004 Mw9.2 rupture. Geology: Vol. 35, No. 2, 99–102.
Backman, J., and Moran K. Introduction to special section on Cenozoic Paleoceanography of the Central Arctic Ocean, 2008, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2007PA001516.
O'Regan, M., Moran, K., Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Sangiorgi, F., Brinkhuis, H.,Pockalny, R.A., Skelton, A., Stickley, C., Koc, N. and Brumsack H. Mid-Cenozoic tectonic and paleoenvironmental setting of the central Arctic Ocean, 2008, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2007PA001559.
O'Regan, M., King, J.W., Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Moran, K., Heil, C., Sakamoto, T., Cronin, T., and Jordan, R. Constraints on the Pleistocene chronology of sediments from the Lomonosov Ridge, 2008, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2007PA001551.Presentations:
The Arctic Coring Expedition at the ‚Launch of UK IODP and the Arctic Coring Expedition‚ June 2004, Royal Society, London.
Drilling at the Top of the World, Rutgers University, Feb. 2005.
Drilling at the Top of the World, the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, May 2005.
2005-2006, JOI Distinguished Lecturer where I lectured at: Standford, University of Alaska, Byrn Mawr, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, University of Massachusetts and the Five Sisters, and the US Geological Survey Menlo Park.
The Unstoppable Wave, November, 2006, NIST
Over 180 articles and stories in global media on the Arctic coring expedition and SEATOS in print, web, radio, and television media. Highlights are as follows:
Press conferences: Tromso, Norway; Bremen, Germany; London, England; San Francisco, US.
Television interviews: BBC World News; Swedish National Television News; German National Television News
Radio interviews: CBC National Radio
Newspaper interviews: New York Times (cover story in Science Times, Nov. 2004; Science Times, June 2005; front page, June 2006), Providence Journal, Narragansett Times, Boston Globe, and many other local newspapers.
Magazines: National Geographic (May 2005 issue), Science (AAAS, September 2004), Nature online (September 2004), Geotimes (August 2005; September 2007).
ACEX and SEATOS stories were also featured in COE alumni magazine and URI alumni news.
SEATOS was part of a television production aired in December 2005 on Discovery Channel USA (2 hours) and BBC1 (1 hour).
Television production (Canadian) on Arctic science to be aired in 2007-2008.
"The Climate-Change Beat Goes on." Providence Journal. May 18, 2007. Op-Ed.
"Global Warming Targets Rhode Island." Providence Journal. February 22, 2007. Op-Ed.
