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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.
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.
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.
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.
COURSES TAUGHT
Geomorphology
General
Fluvial
Quaternary
Environmental
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