Dr. David Mallinson

Professor

Education

  • S Geology, East Carolina University, 1984
  • S Geology, East Carolina University, 1988
  • D., Marine Science, University of South Florida, 1995
  • Post-doctoral Research, University of South Florida, 1995-1997

Research Interests

I study coastal and shallow marine environments to understand the stratigraphic and morphological evolution to forcing agents (waves, tides, storms, sea-level rise) that vary as a function of climate conditions.  So, I integrate geophysical data (seismic, ground penetrating radar, side-scan sonar, etc.) with core data (sediments, fossils, geochemistry, age data) and hydrodynamic modeling to reconstruct conditions in the past; especially as they apply to sea-level changes during the Quaternary Period (the last 2.6 million years).  These, in turn, aid in the understanding of how coastal conditions may change in the future.  Much of my work has been done in eastern North Carolina on the Outer Banks and the various estuaries, but I have also done significant work in Florida and Malaysia, as well as offshore southern Australia.

Recent Publications (* indicates students)

*Conery, I., Walsh, J.P., Mallinson, D., Corbett, D.R., 2021.  Marine Geology and Sand Resources of the Southern North Carolina Inner Shelf.  Marine Georesources & Geotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1064119X.2021.1967531

Mallinson, D.J., 2021.  Buried Secrets of the North Carolina Coast, In Culver, S.J., (Editor) Troubled Waters: Understanding the Science Behind our Coastal Crisis. Springer, 267 p.

Culver, S.J., *Sutton, S.R., Mallinson, D.J., Buzas, M.A., Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J. 2021. Miocene neritic benthic foraminiferal community dynamics, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA: species pool, patterns and processes. Palaios, 36: 1-13.

*Twarog, M.R., Culver, S.J., Mallinson, D.J., Leorri, E., *Donovan, B., *Harrison, E.I., *Hindes, H., *Reed, D., Horsman,E., Shazili, N.A.M., Parham, P.R., 2021. Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of post-last glacial maximum incised valley-fill, Malay Basin, northern Sunda Shelf.  Marine Geology 436, 106457.

Culver, S.J., *Twarog, M.R., Mallinson, D.J., Shazili, N.A.M., and Bidai, J. 2020.  Distribution of Foraminifera off the Terengganu River mouth, east coast peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 50: 330-341.

Moore, C., Brooks, M., Goodyear, A., Ferguson, T., Perrotti, A., Mitra, S., *Listecki, A., *King, B., Mallinson, D., Lane, C., Kapp, J., West, A., Carlson, D., Wolbach, W., Them, T., Harris, M., Pyne-O’Donnell, S., 2019.  Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a Platinum Anomaly, Pyrogenic Carbon Peak, and Coprophilous Spore Decline at 12.8 ka.  Nature Scientific Reports, 9:15121, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51552-8.

Mulligan, R.P., Mallinson, D.J., Clunies, G.J., Rey, A., Culver, S.J., *Zaremba, N., Leorri, E., Mitra, S., 2019.  Estuarine Responses to Long-Term Changes in Inlets, Morphology, and Sea Level Rise.  Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans 10.1029/2018JC014732

Culver, S.J., Mallinson, D.J., Buzas, M.A., *Twarog, M., Shazili, N.A.M. 2019, Rapid change of foraminiferal distribution in the Setiu Estuary, Terengganu, Malaysia: natural and anthropogenic drivers. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 49: 206-228.

Grammatikopoulos, T., Howard, S., Alexander, C., Luciano, K., Mallinson, D., Corbett, D.R., Walsh, J.P., 2019.  Investigation of low-grade REE offshore sands from North and South Carolina, and Georgia, USA, using automated mineralogy.  Journal of Geochemical Exploration, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.106398.

Mallinson, D., Culver, S., Leorri, E., Mitra, S., Mulligan, R., Riggs, S., 2018.  Barrier Island and Estuary Co-evolution in Response to Holocene Climate and Sea-Level Change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks Barrier Islands, North Carolina, USA. In Moore, L., and Murray, B. (eds.), Barrier Dynamics and the Impact of Climate Change on Barrier Evolution.  Springer Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68086-6_3
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