G. Paul Kemp

Position: Instructor
Email: gpkemp@lsu.edu

 

Degrees

PhD, LSU Coastal Studies Institute, 1971

Masters, LSU, 1978

Bachelor's, Cornell University, 1975

 

 

Research Interests

Coastal oceanography, coastal geology, sediment transport, coastal policy

 

Awards & Honors

Lipsey Award

NOAA/Sea Grant Congressional Fellow (Office of Sen. Ted Kennedy 1984)

Commissioner, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (2011-2018)

Team Louisiana (State Forensics Investigation on New Orleans Levee Failures precipitated by Hurricane Katrina, 2005-2007),

Member, National Research Council Marine Board Committee on Pipeline Safety (1994),

Advisor, Louisiana Governor's Office of Coastal Activities, Expert Witness on hydrology and sediment

 

Courses Taught

DOCS 4465, Coastal Zone Management (with James Wilkins)

 

Selected Publications

Kemp, G.P., McDade, E.C., Day, J.W., Lane, R.R., Dawers, N.H., and J.N. Day. 2021. Recovery and Restoration of Biloxi Marsh in the Mississippi River Delta. Water 13(22), 3179; DOI: org/10.3390/w13223179

Kemp, G.P., Day, J.W., Yanez-Arancibia, A., and N.M. Peyronnin. 2016. Can continental shelf river plumes in the northern and southern Gulf of Mexico promote ecological resilience in a time of climate change? Water 8(3); doi:10.3390/w8030083.

Kemp, G.P., Day, J.W., Rogers, J.D., Giosan, L., and N.M. Peyronnin. 2016. Enhancing mud supply from the Lower Missouri River to the Mississippi River Delta, USA: dam bypassing and coastal restoration. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2016.07.008.

Kemp, G.P., Willson, C.S., Rogers, J.D., and K.A. Westphal. 2014. Adapting to change in the lowermost Mississippi River: Implications for navigation, flood control and restoration of the Delta ecosystem. IN Day, Jr., J.W., Kemp, G.P., Freeman A.M., and D.P. Muth (eds). Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: The Once and Future Delta. Springer, Dordrecht. 51-84

Van Heerden, I. Ll., Kemp, G.P., Mashriqui, H., Sharma, R., Prochaska, W., Capozzoli, L., Theis, A., Binsalem, A., Streva, K., and E. Boyd. 2006. The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System during Hurricane Katrina.

Final Team Louisiana Technical Report to Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, December, 2006, State Project No. 704-92-0022, 20. Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Baton Rouge, 476 pp. DOI: 10.1314/RG.2.2.27877.19681.