Mailing and Contact Information: 302 Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex Coastal Studies Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel: 225-578-2954 Fax: 225-578-2520 E-mail: sjb@lsu.edu	Samuel Bentley Associate Professor

Education:

Ph. D. SUNY Stony Brook, Marine Science Research Center, 1998
M. S. University of Georgia, Department of Geology, 1992
B. A. University of Georgia, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude

Grants:

• Building the Sedimentary Record: Physical and Biological Processes of Stratal Formation. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Funding Level: $564,000. Duration: May 2001-May 2006.
  
  
• Late Quaternary Siliciclastic and Carbonate Sediment Fluxes on the Slopes and Basin Floors of the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea. Principal investigators Andre Droxler, Larry Peterson, Sam Bentley, Gerry Dickens, and Brad Opdyke. Funding agency: National Science Foundation Margins program. Funding Level: $750,000. Duration: October 2003-September 2006.
  
  
• Fisheries Habitat of Juvenile Red Snapper in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Principal investigators: James Cowan, Will Patterson, Sam Bentley, and Chuck Wilson. Funding Agency: National Sea Grant. Funding Level: $171,000. Duration: May 2002-April 2004.
  

Recent Publications:

1. Bentley, S.J., and Sheremet, A., 2003, A new model for the emplacement, bioturbation, and preservation of sedimentary strata. Geology 31: 725-728.
   
   
2. Bentley, S.J., and Nittrouer, C.A., 2003, Emplacement, modification, and preservation of event stratigraphy on a flood-dominated continental Shelf: Eel River Shelf, Northern California. Continental Shelf Research 23: 1465-1493
   
   
3. Fan, S., Swift, D.J.P., Traykovski, P., Bentley, S.J., and Reed, C.W., Dynamics of cross-shelf sediment transport, northern California Shelf: Role of high and low concentration suspensions in the formation of flood beds. In press, Marine Geology.
   
   
4. Bentley, S.J., 2002, Dispersal of fine sediments from river to shelf: process and product. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions v. 52, p. 1055-1067
   
   
5. H.H. Roberts, S. Bentley, J.M. Coleman, S.A. Hsu, O.K. Huh, K. Rotondo, M. Inoue, L.J. Rouse, Jr., A. Sheremet, G. Stone, N. Walker, S. Welsh, and W.J. Wiseman, Jr, 2002, Geological Framework and Sedimentology of Recent Mud Deposition on the Eastern Chenier Plain Coast and Adjacent Inner Shelf, Western Louisiana. In Press, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions v. 52, p. 849-859.