Laboratory manager: Supervise and train lab personnel and students in the operation of laboratory equipment and instrumentation. Develop new techniques which entails designing and building extraction systems and other equipment. Responsible for the maintenance, repair, and operation of equipment and instrumentation in the lab and field.

 Marine seismic acquisition and computers: Collect and process high resolution single and multichannel seismic using Triton-Elics, EdgeTech Digital Acquisition System. Set up PC's/Mac's, network computers and printers.

 Research science: Publish and present results. Write cruise and field reports, and lab manuals. Prepare results for publication and presentations.

 Logistical coordinator and field technical support for field programs and provide field technical support which includes coring, seismic acquisition, chemical analyses, CTD/Niskin operation, deployment of sediment traps, current meters, temperature/salinity probes.

 Build/design instruments: Automated IR-TDIC for measuring concentrations based on the Li-cor 7000, automated titration-TDIC for measuring concentrations based on the UIC 5011 and 5014 (SOMMA replacement), automated H2O/CO2 equilibration system for oxygen isotopes on a Finnigan 252. Designed numerous manual extraction lines for stable isotope applications

 Isotope ratio mass spectrometers: Presently a Finnigan MAT 252 equipped with 24X multiport and Kiel III carbonate device and a Finnigan Delta plus with continuous flow coupled to a Carlo Erba NA 1500 elemental analyzer, Delta plus XL coupled to a Gas Bench II, TC/EA, and Costech EA (Stanford University), previously a VG Micromass 602E (Rice University), VG Micromass 602D and SIRA24 (South Carolina).

 Seismic gear: Triton-Elics seismic digital acquisition and processing system. Datasonics and EdgeTech X-Star chipper digital acquisition systems. Applied Acoustic Engineering CSP 1000, EG&G, and Huntec uniboom systems. Seismic energy sources (SIG-100/200 sparker, SSI S15 and S80 water gun, SSI GI air gun series, Bolt air guns).

 Misc lab equipment: Numerous vacuum lines for collection of gases for oxygen and carbon isotope analyses, spectrophotometer, UIC coulometer, Li-cor 7000.

 Misc field equipment: Tech2000 underwater hydraulic drill, McLane and OSU time series sediment traps, RDI ADCP, EdgeTech and InterOcean acoustic releases, Aanderra and InterOcean current meters, SBE CTD units, Guildline Autosal .