Steven Carey

URI Graduate School of Oceanography geological oceanographer Steven Carey is an internationally recognized expert on explosive volcanism. During the past three decades he has studied volcanoes in 12 different countries including Mt. St. Helens in the United State, Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, and Krakatau in Indonesia. He has authored more than 100 publications in the field of volcanology and is active on committees of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior. Currently he serves on the Science Advisory Committee for the Ocean Exploration Trust and sails frequently as the chief scientist on the research vessel E/V Nautilus. This summer he will be co-leading a cruise of the Nautilus to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.