Emeritus
Albert C. Hine
Emeritus, Professor
Geological Oceanography
PhD, University of South Carolina-Columbia, 1975
Email: hine@usf.edu
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Research: Carbonate Platforms and Reefs; Coastlines and Continental Shelves; Geologic
History of Florida, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean; Geology of Continental Margins;
High Resolution Seismic Reflection Profiling; Phosphate Deposits; Sea Level Changes
of the Geologic Past; and Seafloor Mapping and Imaging.
Dr. Hine is fundamentally a broadly-trained geological oceanographer who has addressed
sedimentary geology/stratigraphy problems from the estuarine system out to the base
of slope鈥攑rimarily in carbonate or mixed siliciclastic/carbonate environments. He,
his associates and graduate students have defined the response of coastal and shelf
depositional systems to sea-level fluctuations, climate changes, western boundary
currents, antecedent topography, and sediment supply. Specifically this includes geologic
origin and evolution of submerged paleo-shorelines, reefs (relict and active), shelf
sand bodies, open marine marsh systems, barrier islands, and back-barrier environments.
Hine鈥檚 primary research tools are high-resolution seismic reflection profilers, side-scan
sonars, swath bathymetric systems, geoacoustic seafloor-classification systems, and
ROV鈥檚. Additionally, they have used a variety of submersibles including the DSRV Alvin
and Clelia.
Dr. Hine has participated in >75 research cruises including the JOIDES Resolution
(Co-chief scientist鈥擫eg 182, and sedimentologist鈥擫eg 194). Dr. Hine won the Francis
P. Shepard Medal for excellence in marine geology in 2009.