Jason D. Chaytor

Jason D. Chaytor received the graduate degree (with first-class honors) in geology from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in geological oceanography from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, in 2006. He is currently a Research Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Reston, VA, USA. Between 2006 and 2009, he was a postdoctoral scholar with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, MA, USA. He conducts research on issues related to marine geohazards including submarine landslides, tsunamis, earthquakes, and plate tectonics, and shallow- and deep-water sedimentary processes on Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific margins of the United States and in the northeast Caribbean. He is the Principal Scientist for the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sediments Laboratory.