Barun  Sen Gupta 

Emeritus Professor

Fellow, Geological Society of America (GSA)

Telephone: 225- 578-5984
E-mail:  glbarun@lsu.edu 

Office: 359 Howe-Russell Building

Area of Interest

  • Benthic Foraminifera of hydrocarbon seeps: Ecology, taphonomy, and fine-scale stratigraphic record.
  • Effect of seasonal oxygen depletion on the benthic Foraminifera of coastal waters: Present-day and historical evidence.
  • Colonization of petroleum platforms by sessile and vagrant Foraminifera.

Selected Publications

  • Sen Gupta, B. K., and Smith, L. E., 2013. Foraminifera of petroleum platforms, Louisiana shelf, Gulf of Mexico. Marine Micropaleontology 101:161–179.
  • Eichler, P. P. B., Eichler, B. B., Sen Gupta, B. K., and Rodrigues, A. R., 2012. Foraminifera as indicators of marine pollutant contamination on the inner continental shelf of southern Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin 64:22–30.
  • Machain-Castillo, M. L., Gio-Argaez, F. R., Cuesta-Castillo, L. B., Alcala-Herrera, J. A., and Sen Gupta, B. K., 2010. Last Glacial Maximum deep water masses in southwestern Gulf of Mexico: Clues from benthic Foraminifera. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 62:453-467.
  • Sen Gupta, B. K., and Smith, L. E., 2010. Modern benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico: A census report. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 40:247-265.
  • Sen Gupta, B. K., Smith, L. E., and Machain-Castillo, M. L., 2009. Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico, Its Origins, Waters and Biota: v. 1, Biodiversity (D. L. Felder and D. K. Camp, eds.), Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, pp. 87-130.
  • Eichler, P. P. B., Sen Gupta, B. K., Eichler, B. B., Braga, E. S., and Campos, E. J., 2008. Benthic foraminiferal assemblages of South Brazil: Relationship to water masses and nutrient distributions. Continental Shelf Research 28:1674-1686.
  • Panieri, G., and Sen Gupta, B. K., 2008. Benthic Foraminifera of the Blake Ridge hydrate mound, western North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Micropaleontology 66:91-102.