Richard H. Kesel

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-5880 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: gakesel@lsu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph. D., University of Maryland, 1972.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Human-induced Changes to River Systems with Emphasis on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries.
Tectonic Influence of Tropical Alluvial Fan Formation.
Influence of Base-level Changes on Bluffland Tribuataries of the Mississippi River.
Ox-bow Lake Formation and Meander Belt Chronology in the Lower Mississippi River Valley.

PUBLICATIONS

Kesel, Richard H. with Paul Hudson. 2000. "Channel Migration and Meander-bend Curvature in the Lower Mississippi River Prior to Major Human Modification." Geology 28:531-34.

Kesel, Richard H. and seven others. 1995. "Local Case Studies of Wetland Loss." In Status and Trends of Hydrologic Modification, Reduction in Sediment Availability and Habitat Loss/Modification in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuarine System, D.Reed, ed., Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary Program 20:237-82.

Kesel, Richard H. with E.Y. Yodis. 1993. "The Effects and Implications of Base-level Changes to Mississippi River Tributaries." Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, N.F. Bd. 37:385-402.

Kesel, Richard H., E.Y. Yodis, and D.J. McCraw. 1992. "An Approximation of the Sediment Budget of the Lower Mississippi River Prior to Major Human Modification." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 17:711-22.

Kesel, Richard H. and E.Y. Yodis. 1992. "Some Effects of Human Modifications in Sand-bed Channels in Southwestern Mississippi." Environmental Geology and Water Sciences 20:93-104.

Kesel, Richard H. 1989. "The Role of the Mississippi River in Wetland Loss in Southeastern Louisiana, U.S.A." Environmental Geology and Water Sciences 13:183-93.

SUPPORTED RESEARCH

1985. "Historic Changes in the Sediment Discharge of the Lower Mississippi River." Department of Interior (MMS) Contract 14-12-0001-30252.

1989. "Isotope Stratigraphy of Lower Mississippi Valley Loess, Implications for the Late Quaternary Climatic Changes in the Gulf Coast." (with D. McCraw). National Science Foundation.

1990. "Changes in the Sediment Regime and Channel Morphology of the Lower Mississippi River." National Science Foundation.