Geophysicist
Senior Scientist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(tel) (508)-457-2574
(fax) (508)-457-2023
(email) hschouten@whoi.edu

 B.S.  University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1961
             	Geology and Geophysics
 Ph.D. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1970

  Research Associate, 1965-January 1967; Assistant Scientist, January 1967-January 
	1971; Associate Scientist, January 1971-January 1975, University of Utrecht
      (Vening Meinesz Laboratory) Department of Marine Geophysics
  Associate Scientist, May 1975 to May 1989, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  Senior Scientist, May 1989 to present, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Member, American Geophysical Union
  Honors, Vening Meinesz Award 1972

  Research:  
      Participated in VML cruises since 1964 aboard H.Neth. M. Navy ships and 
	K.N.S.M. freight ships; participated in the NAVADO project onboard H. Neth. 
	M.S. SNELLIUS, seismic refraction studies in the North Sea basin and the 
	Netherlands-Surinam geotraverse aboard a variety of K.N.S.M. freight ships.  
	Spent 9 months at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in 1971 on a grant 
	from the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (ZWO).

  Interests:
      High resolution analysis of marine magnetic anomalies and their bearing on plate 
	motions, reorganization of plate motions, evolution of accreting boundaries and 
	fracture zones, the nature of the seafloor spreading magnetic anomaly source layer 
	and its emplacement.  The statistical relationship between magnetics, gravity and 
      bathymetry in the oceans.  Detailed reconstruction of the North Atlantic history of 
	seafloor spreading.  Stochastic processes of sea floor formation.  Ridge crest 
	processes.  Microplate tectonics. Virtual ocean crust simulations.

Selected Publications

Schouten, H., M.A. Tivey, D.J. Fornari, and J.R. Cochran, The central anomaly magnetic high: Constraints on volcanic construction of seismic layer 2A at a fast-spreading midocean ridge, the East Pacific Rise at 9°30-50'N, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 169, 37-50, 1999.

Hooft, E.E.E., Schouten, H., & Detrick, R.S., 1996. Constraining crustal emplacement processes from the variation in seismic layer 2A thickness at the East Pacific Rise. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 142, 289-309, 1996.

Hussenoeder, S.A., M.A. Tivey, H. Schouten and R.C.Searle, 1996, Near-bottom magnetic survey of the mid-Atlantic Ridge axis, 24°-24°40'N: implications for crustal accretion at slow spreading ridges, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 22,051-22,069.

Schouten, Hans, Kim D. Klitgord and John A. Whitehead, Segmentation of mid-ocean ridges, Nature 317, 225-229.

Schouten, H., and Klitgord, K.D., 1994. Mechanistic solutions to the opening of the Gulf of Mexico, Geology 22, 507-510.

Schouten, H., Klitgord, K.D., & Gallo, D.G., 1993. Edge-driven microplate kinematics. J. Geophys. Res. 98, 6689-6701.

Klitgord, Kim D., and Hans Schouten, 1986. Plate kinematics of the Central Atlantic, in: Vogt, P.R. and Tucholke, B.E., eds., The Western Atlantic Region: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, M, 351-378.

Whitehead, John A., Henry J.B. Dick and Hans Schouten, 1984. A mechanism for magmatic accretion under spreading centers, 1985. Nature 312, 146-148.

Schouten, Hans and Charles R. Denham, 1979. Modeling the oceanic magnetic source layer, In: Deep drilling results in the Atlantic Ocean: Ocean crust, M. Talwani et al., eds. Maurice Ewing Series 2, Am. Geophys. Un., 151-159.

Schouten, Hans, and Keith McCamy, 1972. Filtering Marine Magnetic Anomalies, J. Geophys. Res., 77, 7089-7099.