DAVID W. CARESS

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

7700 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039

caress@mbari.org

Education:

1984 B.S., Physics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

1989 Ph.D., Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

Graduate Advisors: John A. Orcutt and Richard N. Hey

Professional Experience:

1998-Present Senior Research Specialist, MBARI, Moss Landing, CA

2001-Present Adjunct Research Associate, MLML, Moss Landing, CA

1997-1998 Geophysicist, SAIC, Newport, RI

1994-1997 Geophysicist, SeaBeam Instruments, East Walpole, MA

1994-Present Adjunct Associate Research Scientist

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO), Palisades, NY

1989-1994 Associate Research Scientist, L-DEO

1985-1989 Graduate Research Assistant

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), La Jolla, CA

1984-1985 Regents Fellow, SIO

Summer 1983 Undergraduate Research Fellow, L-DEO

Major Software Projects:

1993-Present: Responsible for development, and maintenance of MB-System, an open source Unix package for the processing and display of swath sonar data. Funded by NSF (1993-1994, 1995-2000, 2001-2005). With D. N. Chayes.

1995-1997: Responsible for conception, design, and development of SeaView realtime display and post-processing software for SeaBeam Instruments, includng advanced 3D displays of sonar data and data analysis and editing tools.

Research Cruises and Field Work:

1984 R/V Thomas Washington MRTN04; SeaBeam and magnetics survey in NE Pacific.

1986 R/V Thomas Washington PPTU04; SeaBeam, magnetics, dredging in Lau Basin.

1986 R/V Thomas Washington PPTU05; SeaBeam, hydrocast, dredging in Lau Basin.

1986 R/V Gordon Sproul Chovy Expedition; OBS seismic noise experiment.

1987 R/V Thomas Washington TUGA01; OBS microseismicity near Galapagos.

1987 R/V Thomas Washington TUGA02; Sea Beam, gravity, magnetics near Galapagos.

1988 RRS Charles Darwin 33B; GLORIA sidescan, magnetics, SCS in Havre Trough.

1991 R/V Maurice Ewing EW9103; MCS reflection survey of Society and Marquesas Is.

1992 R/V Maurice Ewing EW9204; OBS tomographic imaging of the Marquesas Is.

1993 R/V Maurice Ewing EW9301; Software/hardware installation.*

1993 R/V Maurice Ewing EW9302; Coring, SCS, Hydrosweep in N. Atlantic.

1993 R/V Maurice Ewing EW9305; Hydrosweep, SCS, dredging, deep-tow, etc at Vema FZ.

1994 BARGE, Lake Mead, Nevada; Seismic reflection/refraction work in Lake Mead.*

1996 R/V Maurice Ewing EW9602; Dredging, MCS, Hydrosweep survey of Austral Is.*

1997 R/V Seis Surveyor; commercial SeaBeam survey in Gulf of Mexico.

1998 R/V Ocean Alert, EM300 survey in Monterey Bay.

2000 R/V Point Lobos and ROV Ventana, OBS deployment / benthic surveys in Monterey Bay.

2001 R/V Western Flyer and ROV Tiburon; Submarine canyons and coral reefs around Hawaii.

2002 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Seatrials of EM120 multibeam sonar offshore Chile.

2002 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Seatrials of EM120 multibeam sonar offshore Los Angeles.

2003 R/V Point Lobos and ROV Ventana, Submarine canyon surveys in Monterey Bay.

2003 R/V Western Flyer and ROV Tiburon; Submarine canyons in the Gulf of California.

· Co-Principal Investigator

Professional Activities:

1984-Present Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

1984-1985 University of California Regents Fellow

1992 L-DGO award for best AGU abstract by MG&G Junior Staff

1993-1996 Ocean Drilling Program Lithosphere Panel

1994 NSF OCE Proposal Review Panel, January and July Panels

1994 Lecturer, Multibeam Course, US/Canada Hydrographic Commission

1999-Present Chair, MBARI Data User’s Committee

1999 NSF SBIR Remote Sensing Proposal Review Panel, September Panel

1999 Swath Mapping Sonar Short Course for AAPG meeting (w/G. Greene)

2000-2002 Ocean Drilling Program Site Survey Panel

2002-Present Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site Survey Panel