Sean Higgins

Sean Higgins is a Senior Research Scientist at LDEO and has served as Director, Office of Marine Operations for the Columbia-owned  R/V Marcus G. Langseth since 2010 that operates as part of the US Academic Reseach Fleet. Prior to that, he worked as part of the Bore Research Group at LDEO and as Associate Director of the US Ocean Drilling Program in Washington DC.  He received his B.S. in Geology from University of Nebraska-Omaha , his  M.S. in Geology  from Univ. of Maine-Orono and his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Columbia University. His research interests range from glacial geology to marine geology and paleoceanography to sedimentary marine geochemistry.