Christopher Stevenson

About

Lecturer in quantitative sedimentology. My research focuses on understanding the processes that underpin the dynamics of submarine gravity flows, and how these processes dictate the extent and style of deposits left behind in the geological record. I use a range of approaches and data types including: modern seafloor shallow seismic data and sediment cores; subsurface data such as 3D seismic, drill cores and wireline logs; ancient turbidite systems in the field, and; physically scaled experiments in flume tanks. Specialties: Deep-water clastic sedimentologist, core, field geology, experiments, shallow seismic interpretation, bio and oxygen isotope stratigraphy

Experience

• Lecturer in Quantitative Sedimentology at University of Liverpool
  Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

• Postdoctoral Researcher on Buzzard oilfield project at The University of Manchester
  Jan 2016 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  Reassessing the sedimentology of the Buzzard oilfield, North Sea. Using a suite of cores, wireline logs, chemostratigraphy, and 3D seismic data.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Leeds
  Apr 2013 - Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  Deep-water clastic systems research with particular emphasis on transitional flows and their resulting deposits.

• Postdoctoral Marine Geologist at National Oceanography Centre Southampton
  Oct 2012 - Mar 2013 · 6 mos

  Conducted research into deep-water clastic systems, which involved analysis of sediment cores from core archives both in the UK and Europe, and publishing my research in internationally recognized journals.

• PhD Student in Deep-water clastic systems at University of Southampton
  Oct 2008 - Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  I studied deep-water gravity flows and submarine landslides. How they transport and deposit large volumes of sediment onto the abyssal plains of the ocean.