Curriculum Vitae
Matthew Pruis

NorthWest Research Associates
P.O. Box 3027
Bellevue, WA 98009-3027

email: matt@nwra.com or mpruis@ocean.washington.edu

phone: (425) 644-9660
web: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/mpruis/

fax: (425) 644-8422

Personal Information:
Birth: 06 Aug 1973

Marital Status: Married, one child
Flint, MI
Education:

B.S. Applied Geophysics, Michigan Technological University, (Summa Cum Ladde), 1995.
M.S. Oceanography (Marine Geology and Geophysics), University of Washington, exp. 3/98.

Research Interests:
Shipboard / submersible potential field measurements - grav, mag, and heat flow.
Rock magnetism - paleointensity of the Earth's magnetic field.
Sediment / pollutant transport mechanisms in the coastal environment.
Geophysical forward and inverse modeling techniques and time-series analysis.
 Professional Experience:

NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, WA - Support Scientist, 4/97-Present.

University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Research/Teaching Assistant, 6/95-Present.

United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ - NASA (Undergrad) Fellow, Spring, 1994.

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI - Teaching Assistant, Winter, 1994.

Teaching Experience:

Winter, 1997 Teaching Assistant, OC202 - Physical Oceanography (44 students).
Fall, 1996 Coordinator of the MaGIC web site that allowed 3 grade school classes to interact with scientists aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson.
Winter, 1994 Teaching Assistant, GE204 - Environmental Geology (26 students).
1992-1995 Mathematics Tutor, peer tutored 72 (total) students, 000-400 level

Field Experience:

Land/Beach Experience:

16-22 Aug 1997

Copalis Beach, WA. Initial field-testing of Beach Probing System.

Fall, 1994

Calumet, MI. Seismic refraction survey for Great Lake Mining Co.

01 Jul - 31 Aug 1994

Juneau Icefield, AK. Seismic reflection experiment.

Sea Experience:

27 Sept - 15 Oct 1997

R/V ATLANTIS / ALVIN. 15 Alvin dives (1 dive; stbd). Cruise to Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges, and four DSDP drill holes. Astoria-Astoria. Co-Chief Scientists: H.P. Johnson and K. Becker.

01-20 Sep 1996

R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON / JASON / ABE. 10 Jason dive days. Cruise to the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges. Seattle-Seattle. Co-Chief Scientists: H.P. Johnson and M. Tivey.

26 Aug - 10 Sep 1995

R/V ATLANTIS II / ALVIN / ABE. 13 Alvin dives (2 dives; stbd). Cruise to Juan de Fuca Ridge. Astoria-Astoria. Co-Chief Scientists: H.P. Johnson and M. Tivey.

Totals:
Land/Beach Programs: 3
Research Cruises: 3
Submersible Dives: 3
Cruises using ROV: 1
Cruises using AUV: 2

Publications:

 List of 1 peer-reviewed publication and 5 abstracts since 1995.

Journals:

Pruis, M.J. and H.P. Johnson, Porosity of very young oceanic crust from seafloor gravity measurements, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett., 1998.

Johnson, H.P., D. Van Patten, M.A. Tivey and M.J. Pruis, Density of upper oceanic crust from seafloor gravity measurements, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett., 1997.

Recent Abstracts:

Pruis, M.J., H.P. Johnson and M.A. Tivey. Acquisition of oceanic crustal magnetization: in situ sea floor measurements, EOS Trans. abstracts, 78(46), 646, 1997.

Oltman-Shay, J., U. Putrevu, R. Fraser, M.J. Pruis and J. Booker. On the deduction of beach topography from edge-wave observations, EOS Trans. abstracts, 78(46), 341, 1997.

Pruis, M.J. and H.P. Johnson. Time dependent porosity of very young upper oceanic crust from ocean bottom gravity measurements, EOS Trans. abstracts, 77(46), 706, 1996.

Pruis, M.J. and H.P. Johnson. In situ measurement of the acquisition of crustal magnetization. Magnetization of Oceanic Crust Conference, Oct, 1996.

Pruis, M.J. and K.L. Tanaka. The Martian Northern Plains did not result from plate tectonics, Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 26(3), 1147-1148, 1995.

Recent Collaborators:

Maurice Tivey (WHOI), Joan Oltman-Shay (NWRA), Ken Tanaka (USGS)

Graduate Advisor:

H. Paul Johnson