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  • Geological Oceanography
  • Coastal Processes

Dr. Timothy Dellapenna

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., College of William and Mary, 1999

M.S., Western Michigan University, 1993

B.S., Michigan State University, 1986

Research Interests

My research interests focus primarily on seabed dynamics and sedimentary processes in marine systems. My projects are divided between basic and applied research and much of my work is highly interdisciplinary.

Selected Publications

  • Dellapenna, T.M ., Majzlik, E.J., and Allison, M.A., in review. Modification and Recovery of the Shoreface of Matagorda Peninsula, Texas, following the Landfall of Hurricane Claudette:  The Role of Antecedent Geology on Short-Term Shoreface Morphodynamics, Continental Shelf Science.
  • Noll, C.J., Dellapenna, T.M., Gilkinson, A.K., Weltz, F.C., and Davis, R.W.,  in press.  A high resolution geophysical investigation of sedimentary processes in a turbid outwash fjord: Simpson Bay, Prince William Sound, AK, Geomarine Letters.
  • Dellapenna, T.M., Allison, M.A., Gill, G. A., Warnken, K., Lehman, R., 2006.  The impact of shrimp trawling on bottom character and sediment resuspension in shallow estuaries. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 69: 519-530.
  • Dellapenna, T.M., Kuehl, S.A., and Schaffner L.C., 2003.  Ephemeral deposition, seabed mixing, sediment transport and strataformation in an energetic microtidal estuary: the York River.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.  58: 621-643.