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    Department of Geology and Geophysics

  

 

Emeritus Faculty

Barun Sen Gupta, H. V. Howe Professor of Geology

Mailing Address:
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Office: 359 Howe-Russell
Telephone: (225) 578-5984
Fax: (225) 578-2302
Current Research Interests

Benthic Foraminifera of hydrocarbon seeps: Ecology, taphonomy, and fine-scale stratigraphic record.

Effect of seasonal oxygen depletion on the benthic Foraminifera of coastal waters: Present-day and historical evidence.

Colonization of petroleum platforms by sessile and vagrant Foraminifera.

Selected Recent Publications

Sen Gupta, B. K., L. E. Smith, and M. K. Lobegeier, 2007. Attachment of Foraminifera to vestimentiferan tubeworms at cold seeps: Refuge from seafloor hypoxia and sulfide toxicity. Marine Micropaleontology 62: 1-6.

Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, B. K. Sen Gupta, E. Platon, and M. L. Parsons, 2007. Sediments tell the history of eutrophication and hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Applications 17(5) Supplement: S129-S143.

Sen Gupta, B. K., and E. Platon, 2006. Tracking past sedimentary records of oxygen depletion in coastal waters: Use of the Ammonia-Elphidium foraminiferal index. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 39: 1351-1355.

Sen Gupta, B. K., and E. Platon, 2006. Tracking past sedimentary records of oxygen depletion in coastal waters: Use of the Ammonia-Elphidium foraminiferal index. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 39: 1351-1355.

Denne, R. E., and B. K. Sen Gupta, 2003. The benthic foraminiferal record from the bathyal Gulf of Mexico during the last glacial - postglacial transition. In Micropaleontological Proxies for Sea-Level Change (H. C. Olson and M. Leckie, eds.), Special Publication 75, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Tulsa,, pp. 63-79.