Karen Bemis

GSLB 115 Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-2044
bemis@rci.rutgers.edu

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Education

• Ph.D.    Rutgers University    1995    Geological Sciences - A morphometric study of volcanoes in Guatemala, Iceland,
  the Snake River Plain, and the South Pacific
• M.S. MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, 1991 - Oceanography Geothermal heat flux from hydrothermal plumes on the Juan de Fuca Ridge
•  B.A. Rice University - 1988 - Geophysics (magna cum laude)

Research Interests

• Marine Geophysics - hydrothermal plume behavior, heat flux
• Volcanology - volcano morphology, cinder cone eruption dynamics, grain flow 
• Visualization - applications of 3D visualization to volcanology and marine geophysics 

Recent Publications

• Bemis, K.G., P.A. Rona, D. Jackson, C. Jones, D. Silver, K. Mitsuzawa, A
  comparison of black smoker hydrothermal plume behavior at Monolith Vent
  and at Clam Acres vent field: dependence on source configuration, Marine
  Geophys. Res., in press.
• Bemis, K. G., D. Silver, P. A. Rona, and C. Feng, Case study: a
  methodology for plume visualization with application to real-time
  acquisition and navigation, IEEE Visualization 2000, IEEE, 481-484+595,
  2000.