Gary Greene

Gary Greene is a marine geologist who has been mapping the sea floor of the Salish Sea for more than two decades. He served as Director — and is currently Professor Emeritus — of the Moss Landing Marine Labs on Monterey Bay in California and was a research faculty member at Friday Harbor Labs. Now heading the Tombolo Mapping Lab at the SeaDoc Society on Orcas Island, he has pioneered sophisticated sonar techniques to map the sea floor in many regions of the Pacific Ocean, discovering previously unknown benthic habitats and geological features such as submarine faults and folding.

The Cracked and Broken Plate on Which Our Islands Rest

By Gary Greene

Marine geologist and Orcas Currents lecturer Gary Greene provides an overview of the dynamic, tectonic forces at play in the San Juan Islands Archipelago and how they have shaped the geological environment of the islands we call home.
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