Faculty

Kyle M. Straub
Assistant Professor
Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career Endowed Professorship

Phone: 504-862-3273
Fax: 504-865-5199
Email: kmstraub@tulane.edu

Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Room 203 Blessey Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118

Further Information & Interests
Sediment Dynamics Laboratory

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Research Interests

Experimental Sedimentology
Quantitative Stratigraphy
Submarine Morphodynamics
Seismic Geomorphology

Selected Publications

Straub, K. M. and Esposito, C.R., "Influence of water and sediment supply on the stratigraphic record of alluvial fans and deltas: Process controls on stratigraphic completeness." Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v. 118, doi: 10.1002/JGRF.20061, 2013.

Straub, K.M. and Pyles, D.R., 2012, "Quantifying the hierarchical organization of compensation in submarine fans using surface statistics." Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 82, p. 889-898, DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.73

Straub, K. M., Mohrig, D., Pirmez, C., 2012, Architecture of an aggradational tributary submarine channel network on the continental slope offshore Brunei Darussalam, in Prather, B.E., Deptuck, M.E., Mohrig, D., Van Hoorn, B., and Wynn, R.B., eds., Application of the Principles of Seismic Geomorphology to Continental-Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems: Case Studies from Seafloor and Near-Seafloor Analogues, SEPM, Special Publication 99, pp. 13-30, DOI: 10.2110/pec.12.99.0061.

Straub, K. M., Ganti, V., Paola, C., and Foufoula-Georgiou, E., "Prevalence of exponential bed thickness distributions in the stratigraphic record: Experiments and theory." Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v. 117, doi: 10.1029/2011JF002034, 2012.

Wang, Y., Straub, K.M., Hajek, E.A., 2011, Scale dependant compensational stacking: an estimate of autogenic timescales in channelized sedimentary deposits: Geology, v. 39 (9), p. 811-814, DOI: 10.1130/G32068.1

Ganti, V., Straub, K. M., Foufoula-Georgiou, E. and Paola, C., "Space-time dynamics of depositional systems: Experimental evidence and theoretical modeling of heavy-tailed statistics." Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, v. 116, doi: 10.1029/2010JF001893, 2011.

Straub, K.M., Mohrig, D., Buttles, J., McElroy, B., Pirmez, C., Quantifying the influence of channel sinuosity on the depositional mechanics of channelized turbidity currents: A laboratory study: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 744-760, DOI:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.05.014, 2011.

Paola, C., Straub, K. M., Mohrig, D., Reinhardt, L., "The 'unreasonable effectiveness' of stratigraphic and geomorphic experiments." Earth-Science Reviews, v. 97, p. 1-43, 2009

Straub, K. M. and Mohrig, D., "Growth of constructional canyons via sheet flow turbidity currents: observations from offshore Brunei Darussalam." Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.79, p. 24-39, 2009.

Straub, K. M., Paola, C., Mohrig, D., Wolinsky, M.A., George, T., "Compensational stacking of channelized sedimentary deposits." Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2009.

Abrams, D.M., Lobkovsky, A.E., Petroff, A.P., Straub, K. M., McElroy, B., Mohrig, D.C., Kudrolli, A., Rothman, D.H., "Growth laws for channel networks incised by groundwater flow. "Nature Geosciences, v. 2(3), p. 193-196, 2009.

Straub, K. M. and Mohrig, D., "Quantifying the morphology and growth of levees in aggrading submarine channels." Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v. 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JF000896, 2008.

Straub, K. M., Mohrig, D., Buttles, J., McElroy, B., Pirmez, C.,"Interactions between turbidity currents and topography in aggrading sinuous submarine channels, A laboratory study." Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120(3/4), p. 368-385, 2008.

Straub, K. M., Jerolmack, D.J., Mohrig, D., Rothman, D.H., "Channel network scaling laws in submarine basins." Geophysical Research Letters, v.34, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030089, 2007.

Courses Taught

EENS 3270 – Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
EENS 4160 – Construction and Interpretation of 3D Stratigraphy
EENS 6080 – Depositional Mechanics
EENS 6160 – Construction and Interpretation of 3D Stratigraphy