Mead A. Allison, PhD

Mead A. Allison, PhD

I received my PhD in Coastal Oceanography from the State University of New York (Stony Brook) in 1993. Following a position as post-doctoral scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution I became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University late in 1994. I came to Tulane in 1999 to join the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. My research is in the field of riverine and coastal geology and oceanography with a particular focus on processes that transport and deposit sediments in nearshore environments. I have conducted research along the Gulf Coast, nationally and internationally in a variety of settings including river channels, estuaries, floodplains, marshes and mangrove swamps, and the continental shelf.

Sediment in the Mississippi River: The “Supply-Side” of Coastal Restoration

My talk will be a summary of the historical and ongoing research into the sediment budget of the lower Mississippi-Atchafalaya River including work that is presently being carried out in my lab. This issue is critical to coastal restoration in Louisiana as the river is being called upon as a sediment source for potential large-scale diversions and long-distance pipeline conveyance of sediments.