Patrick A. Hesp
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6244 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: pahesp@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., University of Sydney, 1981.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Coastal Geomorphology
Aeolian Geomorphology and Dune Dynamics
Coastal Management
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Shepherd, M.J. and P.A. Hesp, 2003. New Zealand coastal barriers and dunes. Chpt. 8 In: H. Rouse, J. Goff and S. Nichol (Editors), The New Zealand Coast: Te Tai O Aoteoroa. Dunmore Press in assoc. with Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brasell Associates Ltd., Palmerston North, NZ: 163-190.
Hesp, P.A., 2004. Coastal dunes in the Tropics and Temperate Regions: Location, formation, morphology and vegetation processes. In: M. Martinez and N. Psuty (editors), Coastal Dunes, Ecology and Conservation. Ecological Studies v. 171. Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 29-49.
Hesp, P.A., I. Walker, R. Davidson-Arnott, and J. Ollerhead, 2005. Flow dynamics over a vegetated foredune at Prince Edward Island, Canada. Geomorphology 65: 71-84.
Hesp, P.A., S. R. Dillenburg, S.R., et al., 2005. Beach Ridges, Foredunes or Transgressive Dunefields? Definitions and Initiation, and an examination of the Torres to Tramandaí Barrier System. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences): 77 (3): 493-508.
Hesp, P.A., 2005. Topographic steering of offshore winds and dynamics of foredunes and climbing dunes on a leeward east coast, New Zealand. Zeit fur Geomorphologie Supple. Vol. 141 Coasts Under Stress II (N.P. Psuty, D.J. Sherman and K. Meyer-Arendt [Editors]):123-134.
Walker, I, P.A. Hesp, R. Davidson-Arnott, and J. Ollerhead, 2006. Topographic steering of alongshore flow over a vegetated foredune: Greenwich dunes, Prince Edward Island, Canada. J. Coastal Research 22 (5): 1278-1291.
P.A. Hesp. 2002. "Foredunes and Blowouts:
Initiation, Geomorphology and Dynamics." Geomorphology
48: 245-68.
P.A. Hesp and A. Pringle. 2001. "Wind
Flow and Topographic Steering within a Trough Blowout." J.
Coastal Research Special Issue 34: 597-601.
P.A. Hesp. 2001. "The Manawatu Dunefield:
Environmental Change and Human Impacts." New Zealand Geographer
57 (2): 41-47.
P.A. Hesp. 1999. "The Beach Backshore
and Beyond." In A.D. Short, ed.,
Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics, pp.145-70
(New York : John Wiley, 1999).
P.A. Hesp and A.D. Short. 1999. "Barrier
Morphodynamics." In A.D. Short, ed., Handbook of Beach and Shoreface
Morphodynamics, pp. 307-33 (New York: John Wiley).
P.A. Hesp and A.D. Short. 1999. " Beach
Ecology." In A.D. Short, ed., Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics,
pp. 271-78 (New York: John Wiley).
A.D. Short and P.A. Hesp. 1999. "Beach
and Dune Stratification." In A.D. Short, ed., Handbook of
Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics, pp. 279-92 (New York: John
Wiley).
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2006. Journal of Coastal Research Editorial Board
2001. Richard J. Russell Award by the
American Association of Geographers
1998. New Zealand Geographer Editorial Board
1995. Journal of Coastal Conservation Editorial Board
COURSES TAUGHT
Introductory Physical Geography
Coastal Resources and Management
Coastal and Estuarine Resources
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