Curriculum vitae

Mark A. Kulp

Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New Orleans

Director
Coastal Research Laboratory
Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences

2000 Lakeshore
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70122
Phone: (504) 280-1170, Fax: (504) 280-7396
E-mail: mkulp@uno.edu

Education

Ph.D., Geology, 2000, University of Kentucky
M.S., Geology, 1995, University of Kentucky
B.S., Geology 1992, Juniata College

Research Interests

Dr. Kulp's  research interests concern the geology of the northern Gulf Coast with a special emphasis on the sedimentary framework of the Mississippi River delta system and evolution of the Louisiana coastal plain in response to changes in sediment supply, sea-level rise, and subsidence.

Selected Publications

Kulp, M.A., FitzGerald, D., Penland, S., Miner, M., and Mobley, C.R., 2006, Sedimentary framework and antecedent topographic control of a transgressive barrier island inlet: Raccoon Pass, Louisiana: Journal of Coastal Research, SI 39, p. 1731-1736.

Kulp, M.A., FitzGerald, D., and Penland, S., 2006, The impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana: America's coasts under eiege, Geological Society of America Connection, February, 2 pp.

Kulp, M.A., Penland, S., Williams, S.J., Jenkins, C., Flocks, J., and Kindinger, J., 2005, Geologic framework, evolution, and sediment resources for restoration of the Louisiana Coastal Zone: Journal of Coastal Research, no. 44, p. 56-71.

Kulp, M., FitzGerald, D., and Penland, S., 2005, Sand-rich lithosomes of the Holocene Mississippi River delta plain, in Bhattacharya, J.P and Giosan, L., eds., River Deltas-Concepts, Models, and Examples, Society of Economic Mineralogists and Paleontologists Special Publication, no. 83, p. 277-291.

FitzGerald, D., Kulp, M.A., Penland, S., Flocks, J., and Kindinger, J., 2004, Morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of muddy ebb-tidal deltas along a subsiding coast: Barataria Bay, Mississippi River delta, Sedimentology, v. 51, no. 6, p. 1157-1178.