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JSR publishes work led by Udita
Mukherjee that test signal shredding
theory with field scale strata   
 

Reece et al. experimental
work on minibasins is
published in the GSA Bulletin   
 

TSDS collaborates with U. of Indiana
on stratigraphic modeling study   
 

JGR-Oceans publishes Reece work on
minibasins statistics in the GoM   
 

Kevin Reece and Abdul Wahab
are hooded PhDs   
 

Kevin Reece successfully
finishes his PhD degree   
 

Chloe Griffin successfully
defends her PhD thesis   
 

Silvestre presents on storage of
organic carbon rich sediment in
strata at SEPM Congress in Flagstaff   
 

Tulane news highlights Reece et al.
Nature Comms paper on turbidity
currents in minibasins   
 

JGR publishes Griffin work detailing
how stratigraphic completeness
effects environmental signal detection   
 

TSDS partners with Quantitative
Clastics Laboratory on approach
to analyze and visualize stratigraphy   
 

Chen Wu gives two TSDS
presentations at The 2023 Fall
Meeting of the AGU in San Francisco   
 

Sam Zapp led paper on compaction
in experimental deltas published
in JGR-Earth Surface   
 

TSDS paper on environmental signal
propagation led by Chloe Griffin
comes out in Science Advances   
 

Kelly Sanks et al. paper on
marsh induced backwater
published in ESurf   
 

New TSDS publication explores
mass balance framework in
floodplain dominated strata   
 

TSDS welcomes new postdoctoral
scholar: Chenliang Wu   
 

Chloe Griffin awarded top early
career oral presentation
at ICFS in Riva del Garda, Italy   
 

TSDS has 6 presentations at 2023
ICFS in Riva del Garda, Italy   
 

Silvestre leads experiment that
explores impact of deltaic
floods on organic sedimentation   
 

Congrats to Abdul Wahab who
just defended his thesis   
 

Specious Timescales from
Sedimentary Layers   
 

Wahab has collaborative study
with Hoyal & Shringarpure on submarine
fan form published in Nature Comms!   
 

GRL publishes group effort
research on marsh-deltaic channel
interactions led by Sanks   
 

Abdul Wahab wins Outstanding
Student Presentation Award from AGU   
 

Method to estimate environmental
signal storage in strata
published in Nature Comms   
 

TSDS has 6 presentations at
2021 AGU in New Orleans!   
 

JGR-E.S. publishes Barefoot work
on nonmonotonic response of
rivers to flood magnitudes   
 

TSDS welcomes a new student:
James Lopez   
 

Silvestre gives poster at EGU 2021,
one of four TSDS EGU presentations   
 

New paper led by Vamis Ganti on
hierarchy & stratigraphy is out in GRL   
 

TSDS welcomes a new student:
Kakonkwe Christian   
 

Chris Esposito's last PhD thesis
chapter, on morphodynamic impacts
of flow loss in deltaic channels, is out
in WRR   
 

Frontiers publishes new paper on
criteria for submarine channel avulsions   
 

AGU publishes Grand Challenge Review
Paper on interpreting the stratigraphic
record   
 

1st experiment on Marsh-delta
coupling nears completion, which
is part of collaborative project
with University of Arkansas   
 

TSDS welcomes a new student:
Jose Silvestre   
 

Frontiers in Earth Science publishes
TSDS work on shelf-edge deltas   
 

GRL publishes TSDS work led by Stephan Toby
on shredding sediment supply signals   
 

Experiment led by Eric Barefoot
from Rice University on hydroclimate
transitions nears completion   
 

Kevin Reece runs pilot mini-basin
experiments to quantify link between basin
shape and turbidity current-basin interactions   
 

JSR publishes Esposito et al.'s
work on floods and stratigraphy   
 

Paola et al. review of time in stratigraphy published in AREPS   
 

Geology publishes Li et al. work
on erosional signal propagation   
 

Geology publishes TSDS paper
on stratigraphic completeness   
 

Qi Li et al.'s paper on sediment cohesion
and stratigraphy comes out in JGR-E.S.   
 

Hajek and Straub review of Autogenics published
in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences   
 

Science Advances publishes study by Foreman &
Straub on resolution of proxy records in strat   
 

JSR Publishes study by Yu et al. on relative
sea-level's influence on stratigraphy   
 

TSDS work featured in Earth Magazine   
 

Congrats to Dr. Esposito who just completed his thesis   
 

TSDS experimental data now available online   
 

JGR-E.S. publishes Trampush work on
measuring stratigraphic compensation   
 

New Wave Story on TSDS Research   
 

3 TSDS student presentations at AGU   
 

Congrats to Lizhu!   
 

Geology publishes Fernandes et al.
work on Backwater Sedimentology   
 

Stephan Toby from Liverpool conducts experiments
on Sediment supply cycles with TSDS   
 

TSDS welcomes a new member   
 

Congrats to Dr. Qi Li who just defended his thesis!   
 

Congrats to Meg Harlan on her graduation and
completing a undergrad honors thesis with TSDS   
 

Geology publishes TSDS work on relative sea level
influence on stratigraphy   
 

GRL publishes TSDS work on sediment cohesion   
 

TSDS Welcomes 2 new members   
 

Straub Promoted to
Associate Professor with Tenure   
 

NSF to fund Signal Shredding work   
 

TSDS travels to Grand Junction, CO to
attend SEPM Research Conference on
Autogenic Dynamics in Sedimentary Systems   
 

Esposito and Straub travel to Siberia
to attend the 2014 International Deltas
Meeting held on the shores of Lake Baikal   
 

Li starts TDB_14_1 experiment: The first in a
sequence of experiments aimed at defining
signal shredding of base-level cycles   
 

Chris Esposito receives two honors this spring   
 

Anjali Fernandes starts NCED2
synthesis postdoc with TSDS & others   
 

TSDS launches YouTube channel   
 

JSR publishes TSDS work on channel
steering experiments in Jurassic Tank   
 

Sedimentary Geology publishes joint UT Austin & TSDS work
on channel steering in Mississippi Delta seismic stratigraphy   
 

Geophysical Research Letters publishes joint CSM
& TSDS work on hydraulic fractionation in turbidites   
 

American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research
Fund does web story on Sed. Dynamics Lab   
 

Diana Di Leonardo joins Sediment Dynamics Group   
 

Fernandes startes TDWB-13-1, experiment focused on
shelf-edge deltas and associated deepwater fans   
 

EOS features work by Straub &
Wang in Research Spotlight   
 

EOS features work by Straub &
Esposito in Research Spotlight   
 

New Wave article on James Lee Wilson Award   
 

Qi Li presents research at this year's AAPG meeting   
 

Straub to serve as GeoPRISMS Distinguised Lecturer   
 

All 3 Sediment Dynamics
Group students receive awards   
 

Li and Benson start new delta basin
experiment focused on sediment cohesion   
 

JSR publishes work by Straub &
Pyles on stratigraphic hierarchy   
 

Anjali Fernandes joins Sediment Dynamics Group   
 

Matt Benson joins Sediment Dynamics Group   
 

Sediment dynamics laboratory featured in
departmental newsletter   
 

I just received a new appointment at Tulane:
The Ken and Ruth Arnold Professor in
Earth and Ecological Sciences   
 

SEPM (Society for Sedimentology) awards
James Lee Wilson Young Scientist Award   
 

JGR-Earth Surface publishes work by
Straub et al. on bed thickness statistics   
 

Jane Stammer from Colorado School of Mines visits
Sediment Dynamics lab to conduct fractionation
experiments in deep water basin   
 

SEPM publishes special volume on shallow seismic
geomorphology including paper by Straub et al.   
 

Tulane's New Wave article on Sediment Dynamics Lab   
 

Sed Dynamics lab receives funding to study
fractionation in turbidity currents   
 

Tulane's Deepwater basin goes live!   
 

JSR Compensation paper wins
Outstanding paper of the year award from SEPM   
 

'Geology' to publish Yinan Wang's work
on stratigraphic architecture   
 

More Grant success with NSF   
 

Grant Success with
NSF's GeoPRISMS Program   
 

Abramson Science Fair Success   
 

Grant Success with ACS-PRF   
 

The first experiment in Tulane's Delta Basin   
 

Construction has begun on
our new deepwater basin   
 

Modeling compensational stacking
of sedimentary deposits   
 

Unearthing the physics
of landscape erosion   
 

Last modified: 18 April 2024