Leadership & Staff Jennifer B. Paduan Senior Research Specialist [javascript protected email address] Website ResearchGate Jenny is a member of the Seafloor Mapping group at MBARI. Her primary responsibilities involve processing of AUV, ROV, and ship-collected multibeam sonar mapping data and planning and participating in research expeditions. Her other contributions have included working with the Submarine Volcanism project, data visualization with geographic information systems (GIS), sample handling and curation, database development, video annotating, graphic design, photography, and web authoring.Recent newsR/V Sonne SO318 – Barite ventingRole of mapping technology in expedition to the Arctic; Cruise blogMBARI’s new flagship research vessel completes first science expeditionThousands of octopus brooding at Octopus GardenSearching for hydrothermal sites on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the R/V Falkor (too)Mapping the Canadian Beaufort Margin from the IBRV Araon ; cruise blogSur Ridge mapping animationMonterey Canyon mapping animationListening to an underwater eruptionHundreds of hydrothermal chimneys mapped at the Endeavour RidgeEducationMS degree in Biological Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, ORBA degree in Biochemistry, Smith College, Northampton, MASea Education Association’s Sea Semester, Woods Hole, MA
Paduan, J.B., D.A. Clague, D.W. Caress, R. Portner, M. Le Saout, and B. Dreyer. 2026. Voluminous inflated lobate flows on the distal rift zones of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Spreading Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 27(1): e2025GC012675. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012675
Hill, J.C., J.T. Watt, C.K. Paull, D.W. Caress, D.S. Brothers, K. Arizmendi, R. Gwiazda, J. Kluesner, E. Lundsten, N.M. Nieminski, J.S. Padgett, J.B. Paduan, and G. Snyder. 2026. Widespread abyssal turbidites record megathrust earthquake-triggered landslides and coseismic deformation in the Cascadia subduction zone. Science Advances, 12: eadx6028. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx6028
Portner, R. A., G. Xu, A. P. Murch, D. A. Clague, B. M. Dreyer, and J. B. Paduan. 2025. Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR) Ash Dispersal on Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(9): e2025GC012229. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012229
Caress, D.W., E. Martin, M. Risi, G. Troni, A. Hamilton, C. Kecy, J. Paduan, H. Thomas, S. Rock, M. Wolfson-Schwehr, R. Henthorn, B. Hobson, and L. Bird. 2025. The MBARI Low-Altitude Survey System for 1-cm-scale seafloor surveys in the deep ocean. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 50(3): 1573–1584. https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2024.3521256
Girard, F., D.W. Caress, J.B. Paduan, L.A. Kuhnz, S.Y. Litvin, E. Flattery, A.S. Kahn, A. DeVogelaere, E.J. Burton, C. Lovera, E.J. Martin, and J.P. Barry. 2025. Habitat heterogeneity over multiple scales supports dense and diverse megafaunal communities on a northeast Pacific ridge. Limnology and Oceanography, 70(2): 377–392. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12766
Coscia, A., H.M. Sapers, N. Deutsch, M. Khurana, J.S. Magyar, S.A. Parra, D.R. Utter, R.L. Wipfler, D.W. Caress, E.J. Martin, J.B. Paduan, M. Hendrie, S. Santiago Lombeyda, H. Mushkin, A. Endert, S. Davidoff, and V.J. Orphan. 2024. DeepSee: Multidimensional Visualizations of Seabed Ecosystems. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642001
Paull, C. K., J. K. Hong, D. W. Caress, R. Gwiazda, H. Kim, E. Lundsten, J. B. Paduan, Y. K. Jin, M. J. Duchesne, T. S. Rhee, V. Brake, J., Obelcz, and M.A.L. Walton. 2024. Massive Ice Outcrops and Thermokarst Along the Arctic Shelf Edge: By-Products of Ongoing Groundwater Freezing and Thawing in the Sub-Surface. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007719
Barry, J.P., S.Y. Litvin, A. DeVogelaere, D.W. Caress, C.F. Lovera, A.S. Kahn, E.J. Burton, C. King, J.B. Paduan, C.G. Wheat, F. Girard, S. Sudek, A.M. Hartwell, A.D. Sherman, P.R. McGill, A. Schnittger, J.R. Voight, and E.J. Martin. 2023. Abyssal hydrothermal springs—Cryptic incubators for brooding octopus. Science Advances, 9(34): 1–13. science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3247
Clague, D. A., R.A. Zierenberg, J.B. Paduan, D.W. Caress, B.L. Cousens, B.M. Dreyer, A.S. Davis, J. McClain, and S.L. Ross. 2022. Emplacement and impacts of lava flows and intrusions on the sediment-buried Escanaba Segment of the Gorda mid-ocean ridge. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 432(107701): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107701
Le Saout, M., D.A. Clague, and J.B. Paduan. 2022. Faulting and magmatic accretion across the overlapping spreading center between Vance Segment and Axial South Rift, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010082
Paduan, J., D. Clague, D. Caress, M. Le Saout, and B. Dreyer. 2021. Systematic variations in lava flow morphology along the north and south rift zones of Axial Seamount. AGU Meeting, Fall 2020: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505810.1
Vega-Ramirez, L.A., R.M. Spelz-Madero, R. Negrete-Aranda, F. Neumann, D.W. Caress, D.A. Clague, J.B. Paduan, J. Contreras, and J.G. Peña-Dominguez. 2021. A new method for fault-scarp detection using linear discriminant analysis in high-resolution bathymetry data from the Alarcon Rise and Pescadero Basin. Tectonics, 40(12): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006925
Ramirez, V., L. Angel, S. Madero, R. Michael, J. Contreras Perez, D. Caress, D. Clague, and J.B. Paduan. 2021. A new method for fault-scarp detection using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) in high-resolution bathymetry data From the Alarcón Rise and Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 23rd EGU General Assembly: EGU21–417. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021EGUGA..23..417V/abstract
Salcedo, D.L., L.A. Soto, and J.B. Paduan. 2021. Trophic interactions among the macrofauna of the deep-sea hydrothermal vents of Alarcón Rise, Southern Gulf of California. Deep Research Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers, 176(10609). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103609
Clague, D.A., J.B. Paduan, D.W. Caress, J. McClain, and R.A. Zierenberg. 2020. Lava flows erupted in 1996 on North Gorda Ridge Segment and the geology of the nearby Sea Cliff Hydrothermal Vent Field From 1-M resolution AUV mapping. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00027
Clague, D.A., J.F. Martin, J.B. Paduan, D.A. Butterfield, J.W. Jamieson, M. Le Saout, D.W. Caress, H. Thomas, J.F. Holden, and D.S. Kelley. 2020. Hydrothermal chimney distribution on the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 21: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC008917
Le Saout, M., D.R. Bohnenstiehl, J.B. Paduan, and D.A. Clague. 2020. Quantification of eruption dynamics on the north rift at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009136
Wheat, C. G., R.A. Zierenberg, J.B. Paduan, D.W. Caress, D.A. Clague, and W.W. Chadwick Jr. 2020. Changing brine inputs into hydrothermal fluids: Southern Cleft Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 21: 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009360
Clague, D.A., J.B. Paduan, D.W. Caress, C.L. Moyer, B.T. Glazer, and D.R. Yoerger. 2019. Structure of Lo‘ihi Seamount, Hawai'i and lava flow morphology from high-resolution mapping. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00058
Le Saout, M., D.A. Clague, and J.B. Paduan. 2019. Evolution of fine-scale segmentation at intermediate-spreading rate ridges. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 20(8): 3841–3860. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008218
Salcedo, D. L., L. A. Soto, and J.B. Paduan. 2019. Trophic structure of the macrofauna associated to deep-vents of the southern Gulf of California: Pescadero Basin and Pescadero Transform Fault. PLoS ONE, 14(11): e0224698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224698
Paduan, J.B., R.A. Zierenberg, D.A. Clague, R.M. Spelz, D.W. Caress, G. Troni, H. Thomas, J. Glessner, M.D. Lilley, T. Lorenson, J. Lupton, F. Neumann, M.A. Santa Rosa del Rio, and C.G. Wheat. 2018. Discovery of hydrothermal vent fields on Alarcón Rise and in Southern Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19: 4788–4819. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007771
Clague, D.A., D.W. Caress, B.M. Dreyer, L. Lundsten, J.B. Paduan, R.A. Portner, R. Spelz-Madero, J.A. Bowles, P.R. Castillo, R. Guardado-France, M. Le Saout, J.F. Martin, M.A. Santa Rosa-del Rio, and R.A. Zierenber. (2018). Geology of the Alarcon Rise, Southern Gulf of California. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 19: 807–837. http://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007348
Clague, D., K.M. Marsaglia, B.L. Cousens, and J.B. Paduan. 2018. Oligocene and Miocene volcanics in the sedimentary forearc of the Outer California Borderland. Society for Sedimentary Geology, 110. https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.04
Clague, D., J. Paduan, B. Dreyer, W.W. Chadwick Jr., K. Rubin, M.R. Perfit, and A.T. Fundis. 2018. Chemical variations in the 1998, 2011, and 2015 lava flows from axial seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Cooling during ascent, lateral transport, and flow. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 19(9): 2915–2933. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018GC007708
Clague, D.A., J.B. Paduan, D.W. Caress, W.W. Chadwick Jr., M. Le Saout, B. Dreyer, and R.A. Portner. 2017. High-resolution AUV mapping and targeted ROV observations of three historical lava flows at Axial Seamount. Oceanography, 30: 82–99. http://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.426
Goffredi, S.K., S.B. Johnson, V. Tunnicliffe, D. Caress, D. Clague, E. Escobar, L. Lundsten, J.B. Paduan, G. Rouse, D.L. Salcedo, L.A. Soto, R. Spelz-Madero, R. Zierenberg, and R. Vrijenhoek. 2017. Hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California clarify role of habitat in augmenting regional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284: 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0817
Sanborn, K.L., J.M. Webster, Y. Yokoyama, A. Dutton, J.C. Braga, D.A. Clague, J.B. Paduan, D. Wagner, J.J. Rooney, and J.R. Hansen. 2017. New evidence of Hawaiian coral reef drowning in response to meltwater pulse-1A. Quaternary Science Reviews, 175: 60–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.022
Paduan, J.B., D.A. Clague, D.W. Caress, and H. Thomas. 2016. High-resolution AUV mapping and ROV sampling of mid-ocean ridges. Marine Technology Society / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Oceans Conference, 2016: 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2016.7761264
Chadwick, W.W., J.B. Paduan, D.A. Clague, B.M. Dreyer, S.G. Merle, A.M. Bobbitt, D.W. Caress, B.T. Philip, D.S. Kelley, and S.L. Nooner. 2016. Voluminous eruption from a zoned magma body after an increase in supply rate at Axial Seamount. Geophysical Research Letters, 43: 12063–12070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071327
Puga-Bernabéu, Á., J.M. Webster, J.C. Braga, D.A. Clague, A. Dutton, S. Eggins, S. Fallon, G. Jacobsen, J.B. Paduan, and D.C. Potts. 2016. Morphology and evolution of drowned carbonate terraces during the last two interglacial cycles, off Hilo, NE Hawaii. Marine Geology, 371: 57–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.10.016
Portner, R.A., D.A. Clague, C. Helo, B.M. Dreyer, and J.B. Paduan. 2015. Contrasting styles of deep-marine pyroclastic eruptions revealed from Axial Seamount push core records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 423: 219–231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.043
Clague, D.A., B.M. Dreyer, J.B. Paduan, J.F. Martin, D.W. Caress, J.B. Gill, D.S. Kelley, H. Thomas, R.A. Portner, J.R. Delaney, T.P. Guilderson, and M.L. McGann. 2014. Eruptive and tectonic history of the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge, based on AUV mapping data and lava flow ages. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15: 3364–3391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GC005415
Portner, R.A., D.A. Clague, and J.B. Paduan. 2014. Caldera formation and varied eruption styles on North Pacific seamounts: the clastic lithofacies record. Bulletin of Volcanology, 76: 845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00445-014-0845-3
Yeo, I.A., D.A. Clague, J.F. Martin, J.B. Paduan, and D.W. Caress. 2013. Pre-eruptive flow focussing in dikes feeding historic pillow ridges on the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14: 3586–3599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20210
Thompson, D., D. Caress, D. Clague, D. Conlin, J. Harvey, E. Martin, J. Paduan, C. Paull, J. Ryan, H. Thomas, and Y. Zhang. 2013. MBARI Dorado AUV's scientific results. Proceedings of Marine Technology Society/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Oceans 2013, San Diego, 23–27 September 2013.
Clague, D., B.M. Dreyer, J.B. Paduan, J.F. Martin, W.W. Chadwick, D.W. Caress, R.A. Portner, T.P. Guilderson, M.L. McGann, H. Thomas, D.A. Butterfield, and R.W. Embley. 2013. Geologic history of the summit of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14: 4403–4443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20240
Chadwick Jr., W.W., D.A. Clague, R.W. Embley, M.R. Perfit, D.A. Butterfield, D.W. Caress, J.B. Paduan, J.F. Martin, P. Sasnett, S.G. Merle, and A.M. Bobbitt. 2013. The 1998 eruption of Axial Seamount: New insights on submarine lava flow emplacement from high-resolution mapping. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14: 3939–3968. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20202
Caress, D.W., D.A. Clague, J.B. Paduan, J.F. Martin, B.M. Dreyer, W.W. Chadwick Jr., A. Denny, and D.S. Kelley. 2012. Repeat bathymetric surveys at 1-metre resolution of lava flows erupted at Axial Seamount in April 2011. Nature Geoscience, 5: 483–488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1496
Clague, G.E., W.J. Jones, J.B. Paduan, D.A. Clague, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 2011. Phylogeography of Acesta clams from submarine seamounts and escarpments along the western margin of North America. Marine Ecology, 33: 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2011.00458.x
Clague, D.A., J.B. Paduan, D.W. Caress, H. Thomas, W.W. Chadwick Jr., and S.G. Merle. 2011. Volcanic morphology of West Mata Volcano, NE Lau Basin, based on high-resolution bathymetry and depth changes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12: QOAF03. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GC003791
Lundsten, L., K.L. Schlining, K. Frasier, S.B. Johnson, L. Kuhnz, J. Harvey, G. Clague, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 2010. Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 57: 1573–1584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.09.003
Faichney, I.D.E., J.M. Webster, D. Clague, J. Paduan, and P.D. Fullagar. 2010. Unraveling the tilting history of the submerged reefs surrounding Oahu and the Maui-Nui Complex, Hawaii. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11: 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003044
Davis, A., D. Clague, J. Paduan, B. Cousens, and J.J. Huard. 2010. Origin of volcanic seamounts at the continental margin of California related to changes in plate margins. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11: 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003064
Clague, D., L. Lundsten, J. Hein, J. Paduan, and A. Davis. 2010. Spotlight 6: Davidson Seamount.. Oceanography, 23: 126–127.
Clague, D., and J. Paduan. 2009. Submarine basaltic volcanism. In Submarine Volcanism and Mineralization—Modern through Ancient, edited by B.L. Cousens and S.J. Piercey, 41–60. St. John's, N.L.: Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, 2009.
Clague, D., J. Paduan, R.A. Duncan, J.J. Huard, A.S. Davis, P. Castillo, P. Lonsdale, and A. DeVogelaere. 2009. Five million years of episodic alkalic volcanism built Davidson Seamount atop an abandoned spreading center. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10: 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GC002665
Clague, D.A., J.B. Paduan, and A.S. Davis. 2009. Widespread strombolian eruptions of mid-ocean ridge basalt. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 180: 171–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.08.007
Paduan, J., D.W. Caress, D.A. Clague, C.K. Paull, and H. Thomas. 2009. High-resolution mapping of erosional, tectonic, and volcanic hazards using the MBARI mapping AUV. Rendiconti Online Società Geologica Italiana, 7: 181–186.
Paduan, J., D.W. Caress, D.A. Clague, C.K. Paull, and H. Thomas. 2009. High-resolution mapping of mass wasting, tectonic, and volcanic hazards using the MBARI mapping AUV. Proceedings of the International Conference on Seafloor Mapping and Geohazards Assessment.
Paduan, J., D. Clague, and A.S. Davis. 2009. Evidence that three seamounts off southern California were ancient islands. Marine Geology, 265: 146–156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.07.003
Davis, A.S., D.A. Clague, B.L. Cousens, R. Keaten, and J.B. Paduan. 2008. Geochemistry of basalt from the North Gorda segment of the Gorda Ridge: Evolution toward ultra-slow spreading ridge lavas due to decreasing magma supply. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GC001775
Caress, D.W., H. Thomas, W.J. Kirkwood, R. McEwen, R. Henthorn, D.A. Clague, C.K. Paull, J.B. Paduan, and K.L. Maier. 2008. High-resolution multibeam, sidescan, and subbottom surveys of seamounts, submarine canyons, deep-sea fan channels, and gas seeps using the MBARI AUV D. Allan B.. Marine Habitat Mapping Technology for Alaska: 47–70.
Paduan, J.B., D.A. Clague, and A.S. Davis. 2007. Erratic continental rocks on volcanic seamounts off the U.S. West Coast. Marine Geology, 246: 1–8.
Davis, A.S., D.A. Clague, and J.B. Paduan. 2007. Diverse origins of zenoliths from seamounts at the continental margin, offshore central California. Journal of Petrology, 48: 829–852.
Clague, D.A., J.B. Paduan, W.C. McIntosh, B.L. Cousens, A.S. Davis, and J.R. Reynolds. 2006. A submarine perspective of the Honolulu Volcanics, Oahu. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 151: 279–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.07.036
Paull, C.K., B. Schlining, W. Ussler, J.B. Paduan, D. Caress, and H.G. Greene. 2005. Distribution of chemosynthetic biological communities in Monterey Bay, California. Geology, 33: 85–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g20927.1
Stakes, D.S., D. Orange, JB. Paduan, K.A. Salamy, and N. Maher. 1999. Cold-seeps and authigenic carbonate formation in Monterey Bay, California. Marine Geology, 159: 93–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00200-X
Stakes, D., D. Orange, J. Paduan, K. Salamy, and N. Maher. 1999. Origin of authigenic cold-seep carbonates from Monterey Bay. Marine Geology, 159: 93–109.
Pilskaln, C.H., C. Lehmann, J.B. Paduan, and M.W. Silver. 1998. Spatial and temporal dynamics in marine aggregate abundance, sinking rate and flux: Monterey Bay, central California. Deep-Sea Research II, 45: 1803–1837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(98)80018-0
Pilskaln, C.H., J.B. Paduan, F.P. Chavez, R.Y. Anderson, and W.M. Berelson. 1996. Carbon export and regeneration in the coastal upwelling system of Monterey Bay, central California. Journal of Marine Research, 54: 1149–1178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1357/0022240963213772