TEXAS A&M AT GALVESTON

Timothy M. Dellapenna

 

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.

 

Academic Background:

  • B.S., Michigan State University, 1986.

  • M.S., Western Michigan University, 1993

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

 

Teaching:

  • Geological Oceanography

  • Coastal Processes

 

Selected Publications

  • 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.

  • Warnken, K., Gill, G., Dellapenna, T.M., Harper, D.E., Allison, M.A., and Lehman, R., 2003.  The effects of shrimp trawling on sediment oxygen consumption and the fluxes of trace metals and nutrients from estuarine sediments.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 57:25-42.

  •  Robb, B.K., Allison, M.A., and Dellapenna, T.M., 2003.  Anthropogenic and natural controls on shoreface evolution along Galveston Island, Texas. Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Sediments 2003. CD-ROM Published by World Scientific Publishing Corp. and East Meets West Productions, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. ISBN 981-238-422-7, 13p.

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy M. Dellapenna

Marine Sciences

Texas A&M University at Galveston

dellapet@tamug.edu  

Phone: (409)740-4952  

Fax: (409)740-4787