Mead Allison

Associate Director,
Senior Research Scientist

B.S. College of William and Mary, VA, 1985
M.S. East Carolina University, NC, 1988
Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 1993

Telephone 512-471-8453
Email: mallison@ig.utexas.edu

Research Interests
Mead's interests are in sedimentology of the upper continental margin focusing on:

- Quaternary geologic evolution and sedimentary processes of deltas
- Microfabric of modern sediments
- Use of radioisotopes as tracers of sediment accumulation and mixing
- Sediment transport in high-concentration suspended sediment regimes
- Remote sensing (satellite and aerial) image analysis for examining coastal geological processes
- Seafloor mapping with high-resolution sidescan, swath bathymetry, and subbottom acoustics
- Behavior of light in sediments
- Contaminated sediment depocenters and transport mechanisms