Summary
Biography
- Professor of Earth Sciences: 2013-present
- Head of Section (E2M2) 2011-present
- Reader: Imperial College 2008-2013
- Director of Undergraduate Studies: 2001-2005
- Lecturer then Senior Lecturer: Imperial College: 1997-2008
- Lecturer University of Reading: 1989-1996
- Post-doc Kochi University Japan: 1989
- Post-doc University of Washington: 1987-1988
- PhD University of Bristol: 1984-1987
Research Interests
- Ocean modelling, modern and ancient
- Palaeobiology
- Fossil preservation
- Evolutionary change in benthic faunas
- Epi-continental seas
Recent Measures of Esteem
- Co-editor (with Dave Bottjer, USC) of "Taphonomy: Bias and Process Through Time (2011) published as part of the "Topics in Geolobioloy Series" (Springer)
- SEPM awarded us 'Honorable Mention' (2008) for our paper: Wells, M.R., Allison, P.A., Piggott, M.D., Gorman, G.J., Hampson, G.J., Pain, C.C., and Fang, F., 2007, Numerical modeling of tides in the late Pennsylvanian Midcontinent seaway of North America with implications for hydrography and sedimentation: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 843-865.
- Guest co-editor of issue 270 (issues 3-4, 2008) of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Biotic Sediment Interactions), pages 217-406.
- 2006 Invited Key-note speaker 'Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography' at Cambridge
- 2006 Invited Key-note speaker at "The Application of Earth System Modelling to Exploration" Snowbird, USA.
- 2006 Co-chair 'Epi-continental Seas in the Geological Record' Geological Society of America
- 2005 Co-chair ‘Taphonomy' Geological Society of America
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Lyster SJ, Whittaker AC, Allison PA, et al., 2020, Predicting sediment discharges and erosion rates in deep time—examples from the late Cretaceous North American continent, Basin Research, Vol:32, ISSN:0950-091X
Chiarenza A, Farnsworth A, Mannion PD, et al., 2020, Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol:117, ISSN:0027-8424, Pages:17084-17093
Jones LA, Mannion PD, Farnsworth A, et al., 2019, Coupling of palaeontological and neontological reef coral data improves forecasts of biodiversity responses under global climatic change, Royal Society Open Science, Vol:6, ISSN:2054-5703
Chiarenza A, Mannion P, Lunt D, et al., 2019, Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, Nature Communications, Vol:10, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-14
Collins DS, Avdis A, Allison PA, et al., 2017, Tidal dynamics and mangrove carbon sequestration during the Oligo–Miocene in the South China Sea, Nature Communications, Vol:8, ISSN:2041-1723