Kelly Hattori

Kelly Hattori serves as a Researcher at the Bureau of Economic Geology within the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in carbonate stratigraphy and sedimentology with emphasis on Gulf Coast Cretaceous systems and salt-sediment interactions.

Her academic foundation includes a Master of Science in Geosciences from the University of Texas at Austin and dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Geology and Marine Biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Hattori's research spans carbonate sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and paleoenvironmental impacts, with specific expertise in mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems, halokinetic carbonate structures, reef complexes, and ocean anoxic event effects on carbonate deposition. Her work examines unique environments including post-perturbation recovery systems and drowned carbonate platforms.

Publication trends from 2014-2021 reveal evolving focus from fossil bivalve predation studies to sophisticated analyses of Cretaceous carbonate systems, particularly salt-influenced depositional environments in the East Texas Basin and global paleoenvironmental reconstructions during oceanic anoxic events.

As a key member of the STARR research group at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Hattori conducts advanced research on carbonate system dynamics within active salt tectonic settings.