Mailing and Contact Information: 304 Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex Coastal Studies Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel:225-578-2964 Fax:225-578-2520 E-mail: hrober3@lsu.edu	Harry Roberts Boyd Professor

Education:

Ph. D. Louisiana State University (Geology)
M. Sc. Louisiana State University (Geology)
B. Sc. Marshall University (Physics)

Grants:

Recent Publications:

1. Roberts, H.H., R. Fillon, B. Kohl, J. Robalin, and J. Sydow, 2004, Depositional architecture of the Lagniappe (Mobile River) delta: Sediment characteristics, timing of depositional events, and temporal relationship with adjacent shelf-edge deltas, in J.B. Anderson and R. Fillon (eds.), Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin, SEPM Special Publication No. 79, p. 141-186.
   
   
2. Lugo-Fernandez, A., H.H. Roberts, and W.J. Wiseman, Jr., 2004, Currents, water levels, and mass transport over a modern Caribbean coral reef: Tague Reef, St. Croix, USVI: Continental Shelf Research, v. 24, p. 1989-2009.
   
   
3. McBride, R.A., T.F. Moslow, H.H. Roberts, and R. Diecchi, 2004, Late Quaternary geology of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico shelf: Sedimentology and depositional history of a major sheet sand within the transgressive systems tract in J.B. Anderson and R. Fillon (eds.) Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin, SEPM Special Publication No. 79, p. 55-82.
   
   
4. Roberts, H. H. and J. Sydow, 2003, Late Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology of the offshore Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan (Indonesia): Tropical Deltas of southeast Asia-Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Geology: SEPM Special Publication No. 76, p. 125-145.
   
   
5. Roberts, H.H., J. Sydow, R.H. Fillon, and B. Kohl, 2003, Late Quaternary shelf-edge deltas from northeastern Gulf of Mexico and eastern Borneo (Indonesia): A comparison: in H.H. Roberts, N.C. Rosen, R.H. Fillon, and J.B. Anderson (Eds.) Shelf Margin Deltas and Linked Downslope Petroleum Systems: 23rd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 843-848.
   
   
6. Roberts, H.H., N.C. Rosen, R.H. Fillon, and J.B. Anderson (eds.), 2003, Shelf margin deltas and linked down slope petroleum systems: Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential: 23rd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, 870 p.
   
   
7. Roberts, H.H., R.T. Beaubouef, N.D. Walker, G.W. Stone, S.J. Bentley, A. Sheremet, and I. van Heerden, 2003, Sand-rich bayhead deltas in Atchafalaya Bay (Louisiana): Winnowing by cold forcing: Proceedings, Coastal Sediment ’03, p. 1-14.
   
   
8. Sassen, R, H.H. Roberts, R Carney, A.V. Milkov, D.A. DeFreitas, B. Lanoil, C. Zhang, 2003, Free hydrocarbon gas, gas hydrate, and authigenic minerals in chemosynthetic communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope: relation to microbial processes: Chemical Geology, v. 205, p. 195-217.
   
   
9. Sassen, R., A.V. Milkov, E. Ozgul, H.H. Roberts, J. Hunt, M. A. Beeunas, J. Chanton, S.T. Sweet, and D. A. DeFreitas, 2003, Gas venting and subsurface charge in the Green Canyon area, Gulf of Mexico continental slope: evidence of a deep bacterial methane source? : Organic Geochemistry, v. 34, p. 1555-1464.
   
   
10. Sassen, R., A.V. Milkov, H.H. Roberts, S.T. Sweet, and D.A. DeFreitas, 2003, Geochemical evidence of rapid hydrocarbon venting from a seafloor-piercing mud diapir, Gulf of Mexico continental shelf: Marine Geology, v. 198, p. 319-329.