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Peter T. Harris is affiliated with Grid-Arendal in Norway and has contributed to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research topics focus on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Fisheries Research, Marine Animal Studies, Geological Formations and Processes, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Peter T. Harris has authored or coauthored recent papers covering various aspects of marine and geological sciences. Selected publications include:

  • Depositional and erosional signatures in sedimentary successions on the continental slope and rise off Prydz Bay, East Antarctica- implications for Pliocene paleoclimate (2020, Marine Geology)
  • How to Meet New Global Targets in the Offshore Realms: Biophysical Guidelines for Offshore Networks of No-Take Marine Protected Areas (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Rising snow line: Ocean acidification and the submergence of seafloor geomorphic features beneath a rising carbonate compensation depth (2023, Marine Geology)
  • Mapping anthropogenic impacts on marine benthic habits (2023, Continental Shelf Research)
  • Climate Change by Ocean Heat Exchange and the Advent of the Glacial Transition (2025, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Their frequent coauthors include Xiaoxia Huang, Anne Bernhardt, Laura De Santis, Shiguo Wu, and German Leitchenkov.

Peter T. Harris publishes often in venues such as Marine Geology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Marine Science, Continental Shelf Research, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

  • Global distribution of large submarine canyons: Geomorphic differences between active and passive continental margins

    Peter T. Harris;Tanya Whiteway

  • Geomorphology of the oceans

    P.T. Harris;M. Macmillan-Lawler;J. Rupp;E.K. Baker

  • The fate of microplastic in marine sedimentary environments: A review and synthesis.

    Peter T. Harris

  • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of a Tide-Dominated, Foreland-Basin Delta (Fly River, Papua New Guinea)

    Robert W. Dalrymple;Elaine K. Baker;Peter T. Harris;Michael G. Hughes

  • The distribution and formative processes of latent-heat polynyas in East Antarctica

    R. A. Massom;P.T. Harris;Kelvin J. Michael;M.J. Potter

  • Ecological Role of Submarine Canyons and Need for Canyon Conservation: A Review

    Ulla Fernandez-Arcaya;Eva Ramirez-Llodra;Jacopo Aguzzi;A. Louise Allcock

  • A preliminary study of sedimentation in the tidally dominated Fly River Delta, Gulf of Papua

    P.T. Harris;E.K. Baker;A.R. Cole;S.A. Short

  • Seafloor geomorphology as benthic habitat : GeoHAB atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats

    Peter T. Harris;Elaine K. Baker

  • Classification of Australian Clastic Coastal Depositional Environments Based Upon a Quantitative Analysis of Wave, Tidal, and River Power

    P.T. Harris;A.D. Heap;S.M. Bryce;R. Porter-Smith

  • Large-scale bedforms as indicators of mutually evasive sand transport and the sequential infilling of wide-mouthed estuaries

    Peter T. Harris

  • Late Quaternary sediment facies in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica and their relationship to glacial advance onto the continental shelf

    Eugene Domack;Phil O'Brien;Peter Harris;Fiona Taylor

  • Exposure of coastal environments to river-sourced plastic pollution

    P.T. Harris;L. Westerveld;B. Nyberg;T. Maes

  • Geomorphology of the Australian margin and adjacent seafloor

    A. D. Heap;P. T. Harris

  • A new 30 meter resolution global shoreline vector and associated global islands database for the development of standardized ecological coastal units

    Roger Sayre;Suzanne Noble;Sharon Hamann;Rebecca Smith

  • Classification of the Australian continental shelf based on predicted sediment threshold exceedance from tidal currents and swell waves

    R. Porter-Smith;P.T. Harris;O.B. Andersen;R. Coleman;R. Coleman

  • A Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Ocean Based on Environmental Data

    Roger G Sayre;Dawn J Wright;Sean P Breyer;Kevin A Butler

  • Sediment transport in distributary channels and its export to the pro-deltaic environment in a tidally dominated delta: Fly River, Papua New Guinea

    Peter T. Harris;Michael G. Hughes;Elaine K. Baker;Robert W. Dalrymple

  • Submerged banks in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, greatly increase available coral reef habitat

    Peter T. Harris;Thomas C.L. Bridge;Robin J. Beaman;Jody M. Webster

  • Late Quaternary Deltaic and Carbonate Sedimentation in the Gulf of Papua Foreland Basin: Response to Sea-Level Change

    P.T. Harris;Charitha Pattiaratchi;J.B. Keene;R.W. Dalrymple

  • A new depositional model for ice shelves, based upon sediment cores from the Ross Sea and the Mac. Robertson shelf, Antarctica

    Eugene W. Domack;Peter T. Harris

  • GeoHab Atlas of Seafloor Geomorphic Features and Benthic Habitats

    Peter T. Harris;Elaine K. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter N. Sedwick
Peter N. Sedwick Old Dominion University
Michael G. Hughes
Michael G. Hughes University of Wollongong
Mark Hemer
Mark Hemer CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Richard Coleman
Richard Coleman University of Tasmania
Scott L. Nichol
Scott L. Nichol Geoscience Australia
Charitha Pattiaratchi
Charitha Pattiaratchi University of Western Australia
Eugene W. Domack
Eugene W. Domack University of South Florida
Philip C. Robinson
Philip C. Robinson University of Queensland
Mark J. Costello
Mark J. Costello Nord University
Gary M. McMurtry
Gary M. McMurtry University of Hawaii at Manoa

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