Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
David Caress
Senior Research Specialist

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
Phone: (831) 775-1775
Fax: (831) 775-1620
email: caress

Technical Focus:

  • Techniques for the processing of swath mapping sonar data
  • Modeling and inversion of seismic refraction data

Current Science Interests:

  • Morphology and sediment transport processes in submarine canyons.
  • Apparent plunge pool features in submarine canyons.
  • Morphology and history of seamounts in French Polynesia.
  • Deep crustal structure of the Bermuda Swell.

Current Development Projects:

  • MB-System - a public domain software package for the processing and display of swath mapping sonar data.
  • The MBARI Mapping AUV - an autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with multibeam, sidescan, and subbottom profiler sonars for high resolution mapping of the deep ocean.

Committee Work:

  • M-DUC - MBARI Data Users Committee.
  • IODP SSP: the Site Survey Panel of the integrated Ocean Drilling Program

The Usual Stuff:

Last updated: Jul. 08, 2008