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LSU  Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching

James Lee Wilson Award , Society for Sedimentary Geology,

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences

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American Geophysical Union

Society for Sedimentary Geology

Capture Timescale of an Uncontrolled Mississippi–Atchafalaya Bifurcation with Future Lower River Strategy Implications

Morphodynamic modeling of Fourleague Bay in Mississippi River Delta: Sediment fluxes across river-estuary-wetland boundaries

Sedimentary Processes and Instability on the Mississippi River Delta Front near the Shipwreck of the SS Virginia

Temporal Scales of Mass Wasting Sedimentation across the Mississippi River Delta Front Delineated by 210Pb/137Cs Geochronology

Sedimentary Dynamics & Deltaic Systems

Dr. Samuel J. Bentley is a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he holds the Billy and Ann Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and is an adjunct professor at the LSU College of the Coast and Environment. He formerly held the Canada Research Chair in Seabed Processes and Seabed Imaging at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and recently served as Vice President of Research and Economic Development at LSU. He received his Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from the University of Georgia in 1985 and 1992, respectively, and his PhD in coastal geological oceanography from Stony Brook University in 1998. Dr. Bentley served as Associate Editor of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy for the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences from 2009 to 2012. He has been working at Louisiana State University since 2011. He received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001, the James Lee Wilson Award from the Society for Sedimentary Geology in 2003 and has been a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2022. Dr. Bentley's research interests include coastal and marine sedimentology, sediment radiochemistry, continental shelf fine sediment dynamics, bioturbation, and analysis and predictive modeling of sedimentary structures.

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Marine Sedimentology

Sediment Radiochemistry

Coastal Sedimentology

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Continetal Sheld Fine Sentiment Dynamics

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WATCH: Tipping Point – The Mighty Mississippi | A PBS News Special

Scientists face ecological and economic hurdles to save Mississippi River Delta

Louisiana's Bird's Foot Delta is disappearing. This new grant will help plan for its future.

Louisiana Coastal Loss Drives 'Environmental Disenfranchisement'

DELTA SEES: Sustainability of Deltaic Coastlines

Sediment Accumulation and Bioturbation in a tropical-carbonate mangrove forest on a Pacific atoll: Ouvéa, New Caledonia

Sediment transport and geomorphologic response in multiple dredge pits near Ship Shoal of coastal Louisiana

Louisiana Sediment Management Plan (LASMP): Central Coast Regional Sediment Inventory and Sediment Budget Program

Challenge Subaward -  H2theFuture: A Transformative Energy Cluster Strategy to Decarbonize the South Louisiana Industrial Corridor

Digital Twin: Building next-generation visualization talent and technology for NASA manufacturing

Professor and Billy and Ann Harrison Chair

AGU TV sits down with Sam Bentley of LSU to learn about how Coastal Louisiana is losing land at a faster rate than anywhere in the U.S. and why this is happening. He also speaks of the new ways in which global subsidence is being tackled.

Samuel Bentley, Billy &amp; Ann Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology, Louisiana State University

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