Niall Slowey
  • Professor

Biography

  • Seafloor Imaging of Alacran Reef and Related Features (with P. Ardisson)
  • Corals at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary – monitors of environmental change
  • Collaborative research: Southern Hemisphere mid-depth water masses & the instability of the ocean’s conveyor circulation - the marine sediment record from Southwest Africa (with C. Charles and D. Thomas)
  • High-resolution mapping of reefs and banks in the Gulf of Mexico (with G.P. Schmahl)
  • Late Quaternary marine sedimentation and sea level change in the Gulf of Mexico

Research Interests

  • Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology
  • Continental slope and carbonate bank sedimentary processes
  • High-resolution seismic stratigraphy
  • Quaternary sea level history
  • Acoustic and physical properties of marine sediments

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Geological Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanography Institution/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, 1991
  • M.S., Geological Oceanography, University of North Carolina, 1986
  • Geology Field Camp in the Rocky Mountains, Indiana University, 1981 
  • B.S., Geology, Tufts University, 1980

Industry Experience

    • Professor, Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 2003 to Present
    • Associate Professor, Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 1997 to 2003
    • Assistant Professor, Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 1991 to 1997
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, 1990 to 1991
    • Participant on 19 oceanographic research cruises including 12 as chief scientist or principal investigator

Awards & Honors

  • Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching 2006
  • College of Geoscience Distinguished Achievement Award 2005
  • Faculty Fellow of Texas A&M University 2001–2006
  • Big 12 University Faculty Fellowship 2000
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory 1990
  • Alumni Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina 1981

Selected Publications

    • Slowey, N., and G. Henderson, 2011, Radiocarbon Ages Constraints on the Origin and Shedding of Bank Top Sediment in the Bahamas during the Holocene, Aquatic Geochemistry v. 17, p. 419-429.
    • Wagner*, A., and N. Slowey, 2010/11, Oxygen isotopes in seawater from the Texas-Louisiana Shelf, Bulletin of Marine Science, v. 87, p. 1-12, doi:10.5343/bms.2010.1004.
    • Giese, B., G. Compo, N. Slowey, P. Sardeshmukh, J. Carton, S. Ray*, and J. Whitaker (2010) The 1918/1919 El Niño. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v. 91, doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2903.1.
    • Wagner*, A. J., T. P. Guilderson, N. C. Slowey, and J. E. Cole (2009), Pre-bomb surface water radiocarbon of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean as recorded in hermatypic corals, Radiocarbon, v 51, p 947-954.
    • Slowey, N., T. Holcombe, M. Betts, and W. Bryant (2008) Habitat Islands along the Shelf Edge of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. In Ritchie, K., and Keller, B., (eds) A Scientific Forum on the Gulf of Mexico: The Islands in the Stream Concept. Proceedings, 23 January 2008, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL. Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series NMSP-08-04. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Marine Sanctuary Program, Silver Spring, MD. p. 19-24.
    • Tripsanas*, E., W. R. Bryant, N. C. Slowey, A. H. Bouma, and D. Berti*, 2007, Sedimentological history of Bryant Canyon area, northwest Gulf of Mexico, during the last 135 ky (Marine Isotope Stages 1-6): a proxy record of Mississippi River discharge, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 246, p. 137-161.
    • Malone, M.J., and Slowey, N. (2007) Oxygen isotopic composition of interstitial water, Demerara Rise. In Mosher, D., Erbacher, J., and Malone, M.J., (eds) Proceedings ODP, Scientific Results, 207.

    *graduate student