Richard F. Viso
Assistant Director,
Center for Marine and Wetlands Studies
Lecturer, Dept. of Marine Science
Contact Information:
Center for Marine and Wetland Studies
1270 Atlantic Avenue
Conway, SC 29526
(843) 349-4022 (tel)
(843) 349-4042 (fax)
rviso@coastal.edu
Education:
University of Rhode Island - Ph.D. 2005
West Virginia University - M.S. 1999
Virginia Tech - B.S. 1995
Research Interests:
Seafloor Imaging
Submarine Groundwater Discharge
Plate Tectonics
Teaching:
MSCI 4xx/5xx Applied Geophysics
MSCI 487 Topics in Coastal Geology (seminar course team advised with Dr. Jenna Hill)
Ongoing Research:
- Electrical Characterization of Submarine Groundwater Seeps on the South Carolina Continental Shelf. Sponsored by South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium.
- MRI: Acquisition of Marine Geophysical Instrumentation Suite for Seafloor Mapping and Bottom Boundary Layer Analysis. Supported by National Science Foundation.
- Geochemical Characterization of Submarine Groundwater Seeps on the South Carolina Continental Shelf. Supported by South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium.
Student Research:
- Dimitri Quafisi (B.S. 2007):
Quafisi, D.*, Viso, R., Gayes, P.T., McCoy, C. and Koepfler, E., 2007, Geological Controls on Submarine Ground Water Discharge, Long Bay, South Carolina, South Carolina, Geological Society of America-Southeast Regional Meeting, Savannah, Georgia.
* Denotes student author
Recent Manuscripts:
Viso, R., Paul Gayes, Clay McCoy, Dimitri Quafisi, Geological Controls on Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Long Bay, SC, submitted to GRL.
Viso, R. F., Roger L. Larson, and Robert A. Pockalny (2005) Tectonic evolution of the Pacific-Phoenix-Farallon triple junction in the South Pacific Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.004. (1.4 M pdf)
Pockalny, R. A., R. L. Larson, R. F. Viso, and L. J. Abrams, Bathymetry and Gravity Profiles Across a Mid-Cretaceous Triple Junction Trace in the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Implications for the Accretion of Oceanic Crust, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 29, No. 1, 2002.
Larson, R. L., R. A. Pockalny, R. F. Viso, E. Erba, L. J. Abrams, B. P. Luyendyk, J. M. Stock, and R. W. Clayton, Mid-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Tongareva triple junction in the southwestern Pacific basin, Geology, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 67-70, 2002.
