Dallas Abbott

Who is Dallas Abbott?

Dallas Abbott is a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and is part of the Holocene Impact Working Group. The primary focus of her present research is on submarine impact craters and their contribution to climate change and megatsunamis. She also has presented research regarding a large impact crater in the Gulf of Maine.

Abbott received her B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974; her M.S. from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in 1978; and her Ph.D. from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in 1982.