我们的部门在多孔介质中的流体研究方面投入了大量资金，从运移特性到含流体介质的物理特性，例如土壤，沉积物和岩浆悬浮液。研究主题包括陆地和沿海环境中的地下水流动，压实和成岩过程中的流体流动，碳氢化合物的迁移，流体对边坡稳定性的影响，气水合物动力学，增生棱镜中的流体流动，甚至融化的岩石中的迁移。我们使用数学建模以及地球物理，实验和地球化学技术探索这些问题。我们拥有用于测量各种土工材料的弹性，流变性，传输性和电导率的实验室。我们的工作在环境，工业和地质领域都有应用。
Carbonate and clastic depositional systems, and sequence stratigraphic studies provide insights into the transfer and storage of sediments in marine environments, and the larger climatic processes that drive them. These processes can be used to investigate changes in sea-level through time, ice-volume storage, and glacial retreat rates over large time and space scales. Ongoing marine geological research offshore of Antarctica focuses on climate in the region during the Holocene, to gain a better understanding of the factors that regulate climate change and how these changes have influenced glaciers and ice sheets. Coastal studies, for example, along the Texas coast, focus on predicting the response of coastal environments to climate change and accelerated sea-level rise. Other studies look at shallow basin systems to understand how ancient systems formed and evolved. Research programs in carbonate and mixed clastic-carbonate systems currently focus on late Quaternary and Cenozoic evolution of the shelf edges, platform margins, slopes and adjacent basins in Maldives, the Great Barrier Reef, the Western Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of Papua, and the Belize margin.