Area of Interest:

Coastal and Fluvial Geology
Rodriguez lab
McKee Lab

Education:

Bachelor or Science in Geology, Minor in Environmental Science from the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at Hope College (2007)

Master's of Science in Marine Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2009)

Research & Activities:

Assessing mechanisms (i.e. sea-level rise, storm frequency/ intensity, anthropogenic influence) for coastal estuarine sediment erosion and transport in a changing world - (Concentrations: Coastal Sedimentology, Geomorphology and Geochronology).

Selected Publications:

Timmons, E.A., Rodriguez, A.B., Mattheus, C.R., and DeWitt, R. Transition of a regressive to a transgressive barrier island as a function of back-barrier erosion, climate change, and low sediment supply, Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA. Marine Geology. 278: 100-114.

Timmons, E.A., Fisher, T.G., Hansen, E.C., Eisaman, E., and Daly, T. Elucidating aeolian dune history from lacustrine sand records in the Lake Michigan coastal zone USA. The Holocene. 17 (6): 789-801.