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John B. Anderson
Professor
W. Maurice Ewing Professorship in Oceanography
 
e-mail:johna@rice.edu
 
  • B. S. (1968) University of South Alabama
  • M. S. (1970) University of New Mexico
  • Ph. D. (1972) Florida State University
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    Primary Department
       Department of Earth Science
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    Websites
     Shaldril Research Cruise
     Dr. Anderson's Research
     
    Research Areas
     Stratigraphy/Sedimentology and Antarctic Marine Geology
     
    Examining the "Glacial Buzz Saw"
     Geologists have long recogized that erosion and denudation of mountains occurs at fast rates where glaciers are present. But how do glacial erosion rates vary with latitude? A recent NSF grant provides funding for a collaborative effort between Rice University and the Univesity of Washington that will focus on glacial erosion across a vast latitudinal transect that extends from the Antarctic Peninsula to the northern Patagonian glaciers. Additional collarboration is with Chilean scientists from a number of Chilean universities and institutions. The Rice efforts will focus on acquisition of marine geological data from fjords along the transect. We will use swath bathymetry data, seismic data and sediment cores to measure sediment flux to the fjords. Meanwhile, scientists from the University of Washington will conduct land-based studies to examine styles and rates of glacial erosion. The combined data sets should provide new constraints on rates of erosion and mountain lowering in glaciated regions.
     
    Shaldrill: Drilling the Antarctic Margin for Evidence of Climate Change
     The Antarctic Peninsula is believed to have been the last portion of Antarctica to become fully glaciated. As a result, it was the last refugia for plants and animals living on the continent. It is also the area that would have been most sensitive to climate change because of its higher latitude position, maritime and orogenic influence. Unfortunately, there is little in the way of an onshore sedimentary record from which climatic and ecosystem changes can be examined. The project will utilize the NSF polar research vessel, NB Palmer, to acquire shallow (less than 200 meter) drill core from the continental margin of the Antarctic Peninsula. The drilling objectives include the stratigraphic record for the Neogene, that interval of geological time when climate change was most pronounced. This is a cooperative project between Rice Univeristy, Florida State University, The University of California-Santa Cruz, and Middleburry College. Drilling will be conducted over two field seasons in 2005 and 2006.
     
    Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise and coastal response to rising sea level
     For over a decade glaciologists have recognized that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is unstable and capable of
    mass wasting resulting in sea-level rises of up to five meters in only a few centuries. There is theoretical
    evidence that the ice sheet will experience at least one more episode of mass wasting.



    This concept of rapid sea-level change must ultimately be tested by examining past eustatic events. My
    research is directed towards this end; over the past twelve years we have conducted a dozen Antarctic
    expeditions in search of evidence for or against large scale waxing and waning of marine ice sheets. More
    recently, we have undertaken a study of the Texas continental shelf record of Holocene sea level to assess the
    impact of rapid rises in sea level on the evolution of coastal systems. Currently, research concentrates on incised river valleys which contain an expanded sedimentary record of the
    Holocene.


    My other research interests include: 1) high resolution seismic stratigraphic studies of the Antarctic continental
    shelf aimed at assessing glacial, eustatic and tectonic controls on sedimentation and shelf evolution, and 2)
    studies that attempt to merge seismic stratigraphy and seismic facies on the Texas shelf and the facies
    architecture of shelf and coastal sand bodies as deduced from high resolution seismic data and cores. Our
    research vessel, the R/V Trinity, and geographic location provide excellent opportunities for this research.

     
    Mountain Denudation Rates in Glacial Settings: Results from southern Chile and the Antarctic Peninsula
     This research is aimed at determining erosion rates in alpine glacial environments. Seismic data, swath bathymetry data and sediment cores are being used to calculate sediment volumes of fjords in southern Chile and the Antarctic Peninsula. These data are being used, in conjunction with information about drainage basin area and climate, to examine rates of mountain denudation in mountainous settings. The study area spans a wide laditudinal transect that includes temperate, subpolar and polar glacial settings.
     
    Mountain Denudation Rates in Glacial Settings: Results from southern Chile and the Antarctic Peninsula
     This research is aimed at determining erosion rates in alpine glacial environments. Seismic data, swath bathymetry data and sediment cores are being used to calculate sediment volumes of fjords in southern Chile and the Antarctic Peninsula. These data are being used, in conjunction with information about drainage basin area and climate, to examine rates of mountain denudation in mountainous settings. The study area spans a wide laditudinal transect that includes temperate, subpolar and polar glacial settings.
     
    Geological Controls on Ice Sheet Stability
     This research utilizes geophysical and geological data from the Antarctic sea floor to increase our understanding of the interaction of ice streams and the substrate on which they rest. Current research focuses on geomorphic features that indicate organized meltwater conduits beneath the ice sheet and the role that meltwater may have played in ice stream instability during the most recent retreat of the ice sheet from the continental shelf.
     
    Coastal Response to Sea-Level Rise and Other Forcings
     Research of the evolution of Gulf Coast bays and coastal barriers focuses on the response of these systems to past changes in the rate of sea-level rise and sediment supply. This research is intended to improve our ability to predict future response to increasing sea-level rise and anthropogenic changes in sediment supply.
     
    Geological Controls on Ice Sheet Stability
     This research utilizes geophysical and geological data from the Antarctic sea floor to increase our understanding of the interaction of ice streams and the substrate on which they rest. Current research focuses on geomorphic features that indicate organized meltwater conduits beneath the ice sheet and the role that meltwater may have played in ice stream instability during the most recent retreat of the ice sheet from the continental shelf.
     
    Using the Sedimentary Record to Examine the Climate History of the Antarctic Peninsula
     While the Antarctic Peninsula is not considered a major player in terms of future seal-level rise scenarios, it is a global warming hot spot. Historical temperature records indicate that the Antarctic Peninsula region has been warming much more rapidly than the global mean (3.7 to 1.6 vs. 0.6 to 0.2 oC century-1, respectively) and sea ice coverage has decreased significantly on both sides of the Peninsula. Meanwhile, seven major ice shelves surrounding the Peninsula have retreated over the last few decades, with the largest collapse occurring in March of 2002 (Larsen B ice shelf). Finally, there has been a measurable increase in glacier flow rates with 87% of 244 glaciers examined throughout the Antarctic Peninsula region having retreated over the last 61 years. This trend has been causally linked to warming temperatures, however, the underlying driving mechanism(s) responsible for this warming trend remains uncertain. This raises many important questions including: is the recent rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula unprecedented or a natural part of the Earth's climate variability?
    One way to put this recent warming into perspective is to examine Late Pleistocene to Holocene proxy climate records contained in stratified deposits such as sediments and ice cores. Our research aims at examining century and millennial-scale climate variability in the Antarctic Peninsula region using longs sediment cores collected from bays and fjords of the region. These cores were collected during three separate cruises to the Peninsula region in 2004 through 2007 and provide regional coverage needed to examine the timing of climate events and their cause(s).
     
    Coastal Response to Sea-Level Rise and Other Forcings
     Research of the evolution of Gulf Coast bays and coastal barriers focuses on the response of these systems to past changes in the rate of sea-level rise and sediment supply. This research is intended to improve our ability to predict future response to increasing sea-level rise and anthropogenic changes in sediment supply.
     
    Using the Sedimentary Record to Examine the Climate History of the Antarctic Peninsula
     While the Antarctic Peninsula is not considered a major player in terms of future seal-level rise scenarios, it is a global warming hot spot. Historical temperature records indicate that the Antarctic Peninsula region has been warming much more rapidly than the global mean (3.7 to 1.6 vs. 0.6 to 0.2 oC century-1, respectively) and sea ice coverage has decreased significantly on both sides of the Peninsula. Meanwhile, seven major ice shelves surrounding the Peninsula have retreated over the last few decades, with the largest collapse occurring in March of 2002 (Larsen B ice shelf). Finally, there has been a measurable increase in glacier flow rates with 87% of 244 glaciers examined throughout the Antarctic Peninsula region having retreated over the last 61 years. This trend has been causally linked to warming temperatures, however, the underlying driving mechanism(s) responsible for this warming trend remains uncertain. This raises many important questions including: is the recent rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula unprecedented or a natural part of the Earth's climate variability?
    One way to put this recent warming into perspective is to examine Late Pleistocene to Holocene proxy climate records contained in stratified deposits such as sediments and ice cores. Our research aims at examining century and millennial-scale climate variability in the Antarctic Peninsula region using longs sediment cores collected from bays and fjords of the region. These cores were collected during three separate cruises to the Peninsula region in 2004 through 2007 and provide regional coverage needed to examine the timing of climate events and their cause(s).
     
    Teaching Areas
     Sedimentology,stratigraphy, marine geology
     
    Selected Publications
     Abstracts
     Allen, C., Oakes, L., and Anderson, J.B., 2007. A record of Holocene paleoclimatic variability from Neny Fjord, Antarctic Peninsula, U.S. Geological Survey and the National Academies, USGS OFR-2007.
     
     Milliken, K.T., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2007, Incised valley fill of the Sabine and Calcasieu fluvial systems, Texas and Louisiana: comparison of sediment flux during sea-level rise. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Corpus Christi, TX
     
     Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K., Rodriguez, A., and Simms, A., Holocene evolution of western Louisiana-east Texas bays punctuated by rapid flooding events and environmental changes, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J., Smith, T., Wise, S., Kulhanek, D., Manley, P., and Bohaty, S., SHALDRIL II, Record of climate, cryosphere and ecological changes in the Antarctic Peninsula Region during the late Paleogene and Neogene, American Geophysical Union, San Fransisco, CA, 2006.
     
     Boyd, B., Anderson, J., and Wellner, J., 2006, Holocene climate record from Marinelli Fjord, Chile, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
     
     Boyd, B. and Anderson, J.B., Holocene denudation in southern Patagonia tidewater glacier system: response to climate variability, Marinelli Fjord, Chile, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
     
     Minzies, J., Wellner, J., and Anderson, J., Micromorphologic analysis of tills in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: demonstrating deformation and correlation to ice behavior, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
     
     Rodriguez, A.B. Mathews, R., and Anderson, J.B., Measuring estuarine sediment flux and accommodation space creation to calculate evolutionary thresholds of depositional environments: an example from Mobile Bay, Alabama, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
     
     Smith, T., and Anderson, J.B., Evolution and extensional history of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet from the NW Weddell Sea continental shelf, Antarctica, American Geophysical Union, San Fransisco, CA, 2006.
     
     Articles
     Anderson, J.B., 2007, Ice sheet stability and sea-level rise, Science, v. 315, p. 1803-1804.
     
     Wellner, J.S., Anderson, J.B., and Wise, S.W., "The inaugural SHALDRIL expedition to the Weddell Sea, Antarctica." Scientific Drilling, Inaugural Issue, 1 (2005) : 40-43.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A., Fletcher, C., and Fitzgerald, D. "Researchers focus attention on coastal response to climate change." EOS, 82 (2001) : 513-520.
     
     Bindschadler, R.B., Alley, R.B., Anderson, J.B., Shipp, S.S., Borns, H., Fastook, J., Jacobs, S., Raymond, C.F., and Shuman, C.A. "What is Happening with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." EOS, 79 (1998) : 257-265.
     
     Books
     Anderson, J.B., 2007, Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast, Texas A&M Press, 163 pp.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Antarctic Marine Geology, Cambridge University Press, 289, 1999.
     
     Editor of books
     Roberts, H., N. Rosen, R. Fillon, and J. Anderson (eds.), "Shelf Margin Delta and Linked Down Slope Petroleum Systems: Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential." 23rd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, 23 (2003) : 760.
     
     Other
     Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A., Abdulah, K., Banfield, L.A., Bart, P., Fillon, R., McKeown, H., and Wellner, J., "Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the northern Gulf of Mexico: a synthesis." Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 1-24.
     
     Shipp, S.S., Wellner, J.S., and Anderson, J.B. "Retreat significance of a polar ice stream: sub-glacial geomorphic features and sediments from the Ross Sea, Antarctica." Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-Latitude Continental Margins, Geological Society of LondonSpecial Pub. 203 (2003) : 277-304.
     
     Recordings
     Milliken, K.T., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, Tracking the Holocene evolution of Sabine Lake through the interplay of eustasy, antecedent topography, and sediment supply variations, Texas and Louisiana, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., (eds.), Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 65-88.
     
     Simms, A.R., Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A.B., and Taviani, M., 2008, Mechanisms controlling environmental change within an estuary: Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA, in, editors, Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 121-146.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J., Wise, S., Bohaty, S., Manley, P. Smith, T., Weaver, F., and Kulhanck, D., 2007, Seismic and chronostratigraphic results from SHALDRIL II, northwestern Weddell Sea, U.S. Geological Survey and the National Academies, USGS OFR-2007.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J., Wise, S., Bohaty, S., Manley, P. Smith, T., Weaver, F., and Kulhanck, D., 2007, Seismic and chronostratigraphic results from SHALDRIL II, northwestern Weddell Sea, U.S. Geological Survey and the National Academies, USGS OFR-2007.
     
     Refereed Articles
     Milliken, K.T., Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J.S, Bohaty, S. M. Manley, P.L., in revision, High-resolution climate history of Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Geological Society of America Bulletin
     
     Smith, T.R., and Anderson, J.B., 2009. Ice sheet evolution in James Ross Basin, Weddell Sea margin of the Antarctic Peninsula: the seismic stratigraphic record, Geological Society of America Bulletin, in revision.
     
     Wallace, D.J., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2009. Natural versus anthropogenic mechanisms of erosion along the upper Texas Coast, Geological Society of America, in press
     
     Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A.B., Milliken, K., and Taviani, M., 2008, The Holocene Evolution of the Galveston Bay complex, Texas: Evidence for rapid change in estuarine environments, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., editors, Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 89-104.
     
     Anderson, J.B., and Oakes-Fretwell, L., 2008, Geomorphology of the onset area of a paleo-ice stream, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, , v. 33, p. 503-512.
     
     Boyd, B., Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J., and Fernandez, R., 2008. Post LGM Response of Marinelli Glacier, Southern Patagonia, Southern Hemisphere climate forcing, Holocene versus Modern retreat rates, Marine Geology, in press
     
     Dowdeswell, J.A., Ottesen, D., Evans, J., O'Cofaigh, C.O., and Anderson, J.B., 2008. Submarine glacial landforms and rates of ice stream collapse, Geology, v. 36, p. 819-822.
     
     Garcia, M., Ercilla, G., Anderson, J.B., and Alonso, B., 2008, New insights on the post-rift sedimentary evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula margin (Central Bransfield Basin), Marine Geology, v. 251, p. 167-182.
     
     Heroy, D.C., Sjunneskog, C., and Anderson, J.B., 2008, Holocene climate change in the Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from sediment and diatom analysis, Antarctic Science, v. 20, p. 69-87.
     
     Maddox, J., Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, The Holocene Evolution of the Matagorda and Lavaca Bay estuary complex, Texas, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., (eds.) Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 105-119.
     
     Milliken, K., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, A new composite Holocene sea-level curve for the northern Gulf of Mexico, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez A.B., eds., Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of American Special Paper 443, p. 1-11.
     
     Milliken, K., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, Record of dramatic Holocene environmental changes linked to eustasy and climate change in Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, USA, , in Anderson, J.B. and Rodrgiguez, A.B., editors, Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 43-63.
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Duran, D.N., Mattheus, C.R., and Anderson, J.B., 2008, Sediment accommodation control on estuarine evolution: An example from Weeks Bay, Alabama, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., editors, Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 31-42.
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Greene, L.D., Anderson, J.B., and Simms, A.R., 2008, Response of Mobile Bay and eastern Mississippi Sound, Alabama to changes in sediment accommodation and accumulation, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., (eds.) Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 13-29.
     
     Taha, P.Z., and Anderson, J.B., 2008, The influence of valley aggradation and listric normal faulting on styles of river avulsion: A case study of the Brazos River, Texas, USA" Geomorphology, v. 95, p. 429-448.
     
     Greene, D.L., Jr. Rodriguez, A.B., and Anderson, J.B., 2007, Seaward-branching coastal plain and piedmont incised valley systems through multiple sea level cycles: late Quaternary examples from Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, U.S.A., Journal of Sedimentary Research. V. 77, p. 139-158.
     
     Heroy, D.C., Sjunneskog, C., and Anderson, J.B., Holocene climate change in the Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from sediment and diatom analysis, Antarctic Science, in press.
     
     Heroy, D.C., and Anderson, J.B., 2007. Radiocarbon constraints on Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet retreat following the Last Glacial Maximum, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, p. 3286-3292.
     
     Mattheus, C.R., Rodriguez, A.B., Greene, L.D., Simms, A.R., and Anderson, J.B., 2007, Controls of upstream variable on incised-valley dimension, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, No. 3, p. 213-224..
     
     Simms, A.R., Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K.T., Taha, Z.P., and Wellner, J.S., 2007, Geomorphology and age of the oxygen isotope stage 2 (last lowstand) sequence boundary on the northwestern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf, in Davies, R.J., Posamentier, H.W., Wood, L.J., and Cartwright, J.A., eds. Seismic Geomorphology: Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 277, p. 29 - 46.
     
     Simms, A.R., Anderson, J.B., Taha, P.Z., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2007, Over-filled versus under-filled incised valleys: examples from the Quaternary Gulf of Mexico, in Dalrymple, R., Leckie, D., and Tillman, R., (eds), Incised Valleys in Time and Space, Society of Sedimentary Research Special Publication 88, p. 117-139.
     
     Simms, A.R., Lambeck, K., Purcell, A., Anderson, J., and Rodriguez, A., 2007, Sea-level history for the Gulf of Mexico since the Last Glacial Maximum with implications for the melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, p. 920-940.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J., Wise, S., and shipboard scientific party, U.S. Antarctic Program Shallow Drilling Project (SHALDRIL) Cruises Completed, EOS, November, 2006
     
     Dowdeswell, J.A., Evans, J., O’Cofaigh, C., and Anderson, J.B., 2006, Morphology and sedimentary process on the continental slope off Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 606-619.
     
     Evans, J., Dowdswell, J.A., O’Cofaigh, C., Benham, T.J., and Anderson, J.B., 2006, Extent and dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the outer continental shelf of Pine Island Bay during the last glaciation, Marine Geology, v. 230, p. 53-72.
     
     Greene, D.L., Jr. Rodriguez, A.B., and Anderson, J.B., in press, Seaward-branching coastal plain and piedmont incised valley systems through multiple sea level cycles: late Quaternary examples from Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, U.S.A., Journal of Sedimentary Research.
     
     Mosola, A.B., and Anderson, J.B., 2006, Expansion and rapid retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Eastern Ross Sea: possible consequence of over extended ice streams?, Quaternary Science Reviews, v.25, p. 2177-2196.
     
     Simms A.B., Anderson, J.B., and Blum, M., 2006, Mustang Island, an example of an aggradational barrier island, Sedimentary Geology, v. 187, p. 105-125.
     
     Wellner, J.S., Heroy, D.C., and Anderson, J.B., 2006, The death mask of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: comparison of glacial geomorphic features across the continental shelf: Geomorphology, v. 75, p. 157-171.
     
     Evans, J., Dowdswell, J.A., O’Cofaigh, C., Benham, T.J., and Anderson, J.B. "West Antarctic ice sheet extent, flow and sedimentation on the outer continental shelf of Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea during the last glaciation." Marine GeologyIn Press
     
     Heroy, D., and Anderson, J.B., 2005. Ice sheet extend n the Antarctic Peninsula during the last glacial maximum (LGM) - insights from glacial geomorphology. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 1497-1512.
     
     Mosola, A.B., and Anderson, J.B. "Expansion and rapid retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Eastern Ross Sea: possible consequence of over extended ice streams." Quaternary Science ReviewsIn Press
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., and Simms, A.R., "Terrace inundation as an autocyclic mechanism for parasequence formation: Galveston Estuary, Texas." Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75 (2005) : 608-620.
     
     Simms, A., Anderson, J., and Blum, M. "Mustang Island, an example of an aggradational barrier island." Sedimentary GeologyIn Press
     
     Simms, A.R., Anderson, J.B., Taha, P.Z., and Rodriguez, A.B., Over-filled versus under-filled incised valleys: examples from the Quaternary Gulf of Mexico. Dalrymple, R., Leckie, D., and Tillman, R.eds. Society of Sedimentary Research Special Publication, 84 In Press
     
     Abdulah, K.C, Anderson, J.B., Snow, J.B., and. Holdford-Jack, L., "The Late Quaternary Brazos and Colorado Deltas, Offshore Texas - Their Evolution and the Factors That Controlled Their Deposition." Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 237-270.
     
     Anderson, J.B.,"Diachronous Development of late Quaternary Shelf-Margin Deltas in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy and Deep Water Reservoir Occurrence," Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research (2004)
     
     Banfield, L., and Anderson, J.B., "The Late Quaternary Evolution of the Rio Grande Delta." Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 289-306.
     
     Bart, P., and Anderson, J.B., "Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the Alabama-West Florida outer continental shelf." Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 43-54.
     
     Eckles, B., Fassell M., and Anderson, J.B., "Late Quaternary Evolution of the wave/storm-dominated Central Texas Shelf." Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 271-288.
     
     McKowen, H., Bart, P., and . Anderson, J.B., "High Resolution Stratigraphy of a sandy, ramp-type margin: offshore Apalachicola, Florida." Special Publication, Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 25-42.
     
     Rodriguez A., and Anderson, J.B., "Contourite origin for shelf and upper slope sheet sand, offshore Antarctica." Sedimentology, 51 (2004) : 699-711.
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Siringan, F.P., and Taviani, M., "Holocene evolution of the east Texas coast and inner continental shelf: along-strike variability in coastal retreat rates." Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74 (2004) : 406-422.
     
     Wellner, J.S., Sarzalejo, S., Logoe, M., and Anderson, J.B., "The Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the west Louisiana/East Texas continental shelf." Special Publication,Society of Sedimentary Research, 79 (2004) : 217-236.
     
     Eckles, B., Fassell M., and Anderson, J.B., "Late Quaternary Evolution of the wave/storm-dominated Central Texas Shelf." in Anderson, J.B., and Fillon, R. H., eds., Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin, Society of Sedimentary Research, Special PublicationIn Revision
     
     Lowe, A.L. and Anderson, J.B., "Evidence for abundant subglacial meltwater beneath the paleo-ice sheet in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica." Journal of Glaciology, 49 (2003) : 125-138.
     
     McKeown, H., Bart, P., and Anderson, J. "High Resolution Stratigraphy of a sandy, ramp-type margin: offshore Apalachicola, Florida." in Anderson, J.B., and Fillon, R. H., eds., Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin, Society of Sedimentary Research, Special PublicationIn Revision
     
     Rodriguez, A. B., and Anderson, J.B. "Contourite origin for shelf and upper slope sheet sand, offshore Antarctica." SedimentologyIn Press
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Siringan, F.P., and Taviani, M. "Holocene evolution of the east Texas coast and inner continental shelf: along-strike variability in coastal retreat rates." Journal of Sedimentary ReseachIn Press
     
     Anderson, J.B., Shipp, S.S., Lowe, A.L., Wellner, J.S., and Mosola, A.B. "The Antarctic ice sheet during the last glacial maximum and its subsequent retreat history: a review." Quaternary Science Reviews, 21 (2002) : 49-70.
     
     Lowe A.L., and Anderson, J.B. "Late Quaternary advance and retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica." Quaternary Science Reviews, 21 (2002) : 1879-1897.
     
     Wellner, J.S., Lowe, A.L., Shipp, S.S., and Anderson, J.B "Distribution of glacial geomorphic features on the Antarctic continental shelf and correlation with substrate: implications for ice behavior." Journal of Glaciology, v. 47, (2002) : p. 397-411.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J.S., Lowe, A.L., Mosola, A.B., and Shipp, S.S. "The footprint of the expanded West Antarctic Ice Sheet: ice stream history and behavior." GSA Today, 11 (2001) : 4-9.
     
     Anderson, J.B., and Shipp, S.S. "Evolution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." in The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and Environment, R. Bindschadler, and R. Alley, eds., Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., v. 77, p. 45-57.W, 77 (2001) : 45-57.
     
     Bart, P. J., and Andeson, J.B., "Relative stability of the Antarctic ice sheets during the Plio- Pleistocene from the perspective of the continental shelf ." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 182 (2001) : 259-272.
     
     Lowe A.L., and and Anderson, J.B. "Late Quaternary advance and retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica ." Quaternary Science Reviews
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Fassell, M.L., and Anderson, J.B., "Variations in shoreface progradation and ravinement along the Texas coast, Gulf of Mexico ." Sedimentology, 48 (2001) : 837-853.
     
     Van Heijst,, W.I.M., Postma, G., Meijer, X.D., Snow, J.N., and Anderson, J.B., "Quantitative analogue flume-model study of the late Quaternary Colorado river-delta evolution." Basin Research, 13 (2001) : 243-268.
     
     Bart, P.J., Anderson, J.B., Trincardi, F., and Shipp, S.S. "Seismic data from the Northern Basin, Ross Sea record multiple expansions of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during the late Neogene." Marine Geology, 166 (2000) : 31-50.
     
     Rodriguez, A, Anderson, J.B., Banfield, L., Snow, J., and Taviani, M. "Position of the Middle Wisconsin Shoreline on the East Texas Shelf: Discrepency between the oxygen isotope record and sea-level datum." Paleaocean. Paleoclimat. Paleobiol., 158 (2000) : 25-43.
     
     Rodriguez, A., Anderson, J.B., and Hamilton, M. "Evolution and facies architecture of the modern Brazos Delta, Texas: wave versus flood influence." Journal Sedimentary Research, 70 (2000) : 283-295.
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Siringan, F.P., and Taviani, M. "Sedimetary Facies and Genesis of Holocene Sand Banks on the East Texas Inner Continental Shelf." SEPM Spec. Pub. No. 64, 64 (2000) : 165-178.
     
     Ferro, C.E., Droxler, A.W., Anderson, J.B., and Mucciarone, D. "Late Quaternary Shift of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Environments Induced By Glacial Eustatic Sea-Level Fluctuations (Northern Part of the Southern Shelf Lagoon, Belize)." SEPM, 63 (1999) : 385-411.
     
     Abreu, V., and Anderson, J.B. "Glacial Elustasy During the Cenozoic: Sequence Stratigraphic Implications." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 82 (1998) : 1385-1400.
     
     Anderson, J.B. and Andrews, J.T. "Radiocarbon constraints on ice sheet advance and retreat in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica." Geology, 27 (1999) : 179-182.
     
     Bentley, M.J., and Anderson, J.B. "Glacial and Marine Geological Evidence for the Extent of Grounded Ice in the Weddell Sea-Antarctic Peninsula Region During the Last Glacial Maximum." Antarctic Science, 10 (3) (1998) : 307-323.
     
     Domack, E.W., Jacobson, E.A., Shipp, S., and Anderson, J.B "Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Signature of the Late Pleistocene/Holocene Fluctuations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Ross Sea: A New Perspective Part 2." Geological Society of America Bulletin
     
     Shipp, S., Anderson, J.B., and Domack, E.W. "Seismic Signature of the Late Pleistocene Fluctuation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Ross Sea: A New Perspective, Part I." Bulletin Geological Society of America
     
     Refereed Conference Papers
     Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J.S., Abdulah, K., and Sarzalejo, S., "Late Quaternary shelf-margin delta and slope-fan compelxes of the east Texas-western Louisiana margin: variable response to eustasy and sediment supply." Shelf Margin Deltas and Linked Down Slope Petroleum Systems: Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential, 23rd Annual GSSEPM Foundation, 23 (2003) : p. 67-78.
     
     Fraticelli, C.M., and Anderson, J.B., "The impact of the Brazos deltaic system on upper slope stratigraphic sequence evolution." Shelf Margin Deltas and Linked Down Slope Petroleum Systems: Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential, 23 (2003) : 325-357.
     
     Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, R.A. "Contrasting styles of sediment delivery to the east Texas shelf and slope during the last glacial-eustatic cycle: implications for shelf-upper slope reservoir formation." Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies (2000)
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., and Anderson, J.B. "Mapping bay-head deltas within incised valleys as an aid for predicting the occurrence of barrier shoreline sands: an example from the Trinity/Sabine incised valley ." Gulf Coast Assoc. Geological Societies Transactions, 50 (2000)
     
     Fassell, M.L., and Anderson, J.B. "Processes affecting preservation potential of coastal lithosomes along the central Texas coast." Gulfcoast Geological Societies Transactions, XLVII (1998) : 539-540.
     
     Rodriguez, A., Anderson, J.B.,and Bradford, J. "Holocene deltas of the Trinity Valley: analogs for exploration and production." Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, XLVIII (1998) : 373-380.
     
    Presentations
     Conference Committee Member
     "Evidence for organized subglacial meltwater drainage beneath the Pine Island and Marguerite paleo-ice streams, Antarctica following the Last Glacial Maximum." American Geophysical Union, San Fransisco, CA. (December, 2007) With Clarke, G., and Wellner, J.)
     
     Warney, S., Askin, R., Anderson, J., Wellner, J., Wise, W., Bohaty, S., and Smith T., 2008, Palynology as a tool to reconstruct past climatic variation recorded in four major stratigraphic intervals sampled by the Antarctic 2006 Shaldril campaign, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Milliken, K.T., Taha, P., Simms, A., Rodriguez, A., Maddox, J., and Anderson, J., 2008, Sediment flux variations correlated with climate zones of the Gulf of Mexico for the past 10 kyr: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
     
     Anderson, J.B., Antarctica’s glacial history: how do isotopic and sequence stratigraphic records of eustasy match the geological record? Sea Level changes: Records, Processes and Modelling Conference, Giens, France, 2006.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Antarctica’s glacial history: how do isotopic and sequence stratigraphic records of eustasy match the geological record? Sea Level changes: Records, Processes and Modelling Conference, Giens, France, 2006.
     
     Invited Papers
     "Offshore Sand Resouces of Texas." General Land Office of Texas Sand Workshop, Galveston, Texas. (November, 206)
     
     Faculty advisor.  "A revised facies model for incised valleys." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas. (4/04) With Simms, A.)
     
     "Flooding and dramatic environmental change in east Texas/west Louisiana bays during the late Holocene." Geological Society of America, Denver. (November, 2004) With Milliken, K., and Rodriguez, A)
     
     "How did the Quaternary submarne fans of the Antarctic region form and what do they tell us about the role of sediment mass transport in fan evolution." American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver. (4/04)
     
     "Incised-valley parasequence formation and implications for estuarine evolution:Galveston Estuary, Texas." Geological Society of America, Denver. (November, 2004) With Rodriguez, A., and Simms, A.)
     
     "Non-symetric respnse to base level rise and fall: a case study of two adjacent fluvial/deltaic systems along the east Texas coast." Geological Society of America, Denver. (November, 2004) With Taha, P., and Simms, A.)
     
     "Rapid changes in estuary evolution within Corpus Christi Bay, Texas." Geological Society of America, Denver. (November, 2004) With Simms, A., Rodriguez, A., and Taviani, M.)
     
     "Results from a decade of marine geological research into the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop, Washington, D.C. (9/04)
     
     "Linked Falling Stage-Lowstand valley /delta/fan complexes of the Late Quaternary Northern Gulf of Mexico: the exception rather than the rule." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City. (April, 2003)
     
     "Texas Beach Nourishment." Texas Shore and Beach Association, Houston, Texas. (November, 2002)
     
     Invited Talks
     Anderson, J.B., 2008, Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum, American Quaternary Association Biannual Meeting, University Park, PA.
     
     History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Leverhulme Climate Symposium, Cambridge, England, March 2008
     
     Long-term coastal subsidence and its impacts on the Texas Coast-Subsidence Workshop-Geodetic Monitoring Techniques, Texas A&M Univeristy, Corpus Christi (invited talk) April, 2008 (invited)
     
     Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K.T., 2008, Using the record of sea-level rise along the west Louisiana and Texas coasts to predict coastal response to accelerating sea-level rise: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
     
     "Geomorphic evidence of an organized paleo-subglacial meltwater drainage system in Marguerite Bay and Pine Island Bay: Implications for Ice Sheet Stability." WALSE-West Antarctic Links to Sea-Level Estimation, Austin, Texas. (April, 2007)
     
     "Evolution and Destiny of Corpus Christi Bay and Mustang Island Coastal System." Corpus Christi Geological Society, Corpus Christi, Texas. (December, 2006)
     
     "Rapid Changes on the Texas Coast." Houston Philosophical Society, Houston, Texas. (November, 2006)
     
     "The Evolution of the Galveston Bay and Barrier Complex." Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi, 2005. (April, 2005) With Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "The Quaternary record of subsidence along the western Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast." Houston Geological Society Confernce -Gulf Coast Subsidence, Houston, Texas. (October, 2005) With K. Milliken)
     
     Faculty advisor.  "Evolution of the eastern Louisiana coast." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas. (4/04) With K. Tramp)
     
     "Antarctica's Contribution to Eustasy." AAPG distinguished Lecture Series, Tulane University, New Orleans Geological Society, University of Minnesota-Duleth, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, University, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ohio State University, University of Iowa, Michigan Basin Geological Society, University of Toronto, P. (Spring, 2003)
     
     "Diachronous retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. (November, 2003) With Mosola, A.B.)
     
     "Evidence for rapid ice sheet retreat since the last glacial maximum in the eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica." Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, Colorado. (October, 2002) With Mosola, A.B. and Anderson, J.B.)
     
     "Facies architecture and Holocene evolution of the Trinity incised-valley system, Texas." American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston, Texas. (March, 2002) With A. Rodriguez)
     
     "Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin: Implications for Fan Evolution." Exxon/Mobil Fans Conference, Houston, Texas. (September, 2002)
     
     "Late Quaternary delta evolution in the northern Gulf of Mexico." Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. (October, 2002)
     
     "Response of Texas Rivers to later Quaternary sea-level variations." American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston, Texas. (March, 2002)
     
     "The LGM ice sheet reconstruction for the Antarctic Peninsula: can the data satisfy geophysical models." NSF-sponsored workshop-Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability, Hamilton, New York. (April, 2002)
     
     "Variable Response of Texas Rivers to Sea-Level Change." Society for Sedimentary Research-Research Conference, Casper, Wyoming. (August, 2002)
     
     "Diachronous Response of Late Quaternary Deltas of the Northern Gulf of Mexico to Eustasy and Climate Change ." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. (April, 2001) With Fraticelli, C., Wellner, J., Andeson, H., Abdulah, K., Banfield, L., and Sarzalejo, S.)
     
     Keynote Speaker
     Using the record of sea-level rise along the western Louisiana and Texas coast to predict coastal response to accelerated sea-level rise, SSPEED (Conference, Rice University, October, 2008
     
     "Cenozoic Eustasy and the Glacial History of Antarctica ." International Association of Micropaleontologists, Houston, Texas.
     
     "Geomorphology of the IOS 2 Sequence Boundary on the Texas- East Louisiana Continental Shelf." SEPM-IAG Symposium 8211; Seismic Geomorphology, Houston, Texas. (June, 2005)
     
     "The Geomorphic Record of Past Ice Streams." International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes, Whales. (August, 2005)
     
     Lectures
     Michalchuk, B., Anderson, J., Wellner, J., Manley, P.Bohaty, S., and Majewski, W., 2008, A high-resolution record of glacial and climate history of the Firth of Tay, northeastern Antarctic Peninsula, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Milliken, K.T., Anderson,J.B., and Wellner, J.S. 2008, Comparing Holocene sediment flux of coastal plain rivers to low relief glaciers, northwestern Gulf of Mexico and South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Wallace, D.J., and Anderson, J.B., 2008, Comparison of long-term versus historical erosion rates and sediment distribution patterns for the Texas Coast, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Milliken, K.T., Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J.S., Manley, P., Bohaty, S., and Michalchuck, B., 2007, High-resolution record of glacial retreat in an Antarctic fjord, Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
     
     Wellner, J.S., Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K.T., Fernandez, R., Michalchuck, B., and Boyd, B., 2007, Holocene sediment accumulation rates in fjords and bays of Chilean Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
     
     Warney, S., Askin, R., Anderson, J., Wellner, J., Wise, W., Bohaty, S., and Smith T., 2008, Palynology as a tool to reconstruct past climatic variation recorded in four major stratigraphic intervals sampled by the Antarctic 2006 Shaldril campaign, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Milliken, K.T., Anderson, J.B., and Weight, R., 2008, Quantifying episodic sediment flux and redistribution during the previous transgression, northwestern Gulf of Mexico shelf, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Manley, P., Klein, A., Aichalchuk, B., Dawson, E., Fredston-Hermann, K., Anderson, J., and Wellner, J., 2008, Quantitative x-ray diffraction (QXRD) proxy for determining biogenic content, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K.T., Rodriguez, A.B., and Simms, A.R., 2008, Rapid, episodic change in Gulf Coast estuaries during the Holocene, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
     
     Smith, T., Anderson, J., Wellner, J., Wise, W., Bohaty, S., and Warney, S., The Rosetta Stone of Antarctic drilling: Continuous Neogene shelf/slope stratigraphic succession sampled by SHALDRIL, SCAR Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia, August, 2008.
     
     "Evolution of the Corpus Christi Bay Complex." Corpus Christi Geological Society, Corpus Christi, Texas. (January, 2007)
     
     "The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast." Galveston Sierra Club, Galveston, Texas.
     
     "The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast." SEACAP, Clear Lake, Texas. (December, 2007)
     
     "The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast." City of Galveston Planning Commission, Galveston, Texas. (November, 2007)
     
     "The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast." Galveston City Council, Galveston, Texas. (November, 2007)
     
     "The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast." Rice University Women's Alumni Group, Houston, Texas.
     
     "The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast." Rice University Men's Alumni Association, Houston, TX.
     
     "Deciphering fluvial response to climatic and base level controls: a case study of two incised valleys along the east Texas coast." Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi. (April, 2005) With Taha, P.)
     
     "Evolution of eastern Louisiana bays and coastal systems." Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi. (April, 2005) With Milliken, K. and Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "Fluvial response to base level change: a case study of two incised valleys along the east Texas coast." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta. (May, 2005) With Taha, P., Simms, A., and Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "Fluvial terraces as an autocyclic mechanism for incised valley fill parasequence formation: examplesz from the late Quaternary, northern Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta. (May, 2005) With Rodriguez, A., Greene, L., and Simms, A.R.)
     
     "Holocene flooding history linked to the interplay of eustasy, sediment supply, and climate change of a west Louisiana Bay." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta. (May, 2005) With Milliken, K.T. and Rodriguez, A.B.)
     
     "Rapid Environmental Change Events in Alabama Estuaries." Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi. (April, 2005) With Rodriguez, A., Greene, L., Mattheus, R., Duran, D.)
     
     "Rapid changes in estuary formation within Corpus Christi Bay, Texas." Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi. (April, 2005) With Simms, A., and Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "The evolution of the Matagorda/Lavaca Bay complex, central Texas coast." Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi. (April, 2005) With Maddox, J.and Rodriguez, A.)
     
     Faculty advisor.  "ENSO controlled sediment supply to the modern Brazos Delta." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas. (4/04) With Fraticelli, C.)
     
     "Evolution of Morgan Peninsula, Alabama." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas. (4/04) With Meyer, C., Rodriguez, A., Anderson, J., and Simms, A)
     
     Faculty advisor.  "Expansion and Retreat of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet." Antarctic Peninsula Climate Change Conference, Cambridge, England. (9/04) With D. Heroy)
     
     "Multiple stages of valley fill and incision during the most recent transgression: an example for Mississippi Sound." Society of Sedimentary Research Symposium ? Advances in Shoreline and Shelf Sedimentology, Grand Junction, Colorado. (8/04) With Greene, L., Rodriguez, A., and Anderson, J)
     
     Faculty advisor.  "The importance of glacial isostasy in the Quaternary Gulf of Mexico: Implications for sequence stratigraphy and coastal evolution." Society of Sedimentary Research Symposium ? Advances in Shoreline and Shelf Sedimentology, Grand Junction, Colorado. (8/04) With Simms, A.)
     
     "Diachronous shoreline retreat along the east Texas coast." Geological Society of American Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. (November, 2003) With Rodriguez, A.B.,Taviani, M., and Siringan, F.)
     
     "Do ice streams self destruct." International Antarctic Earth Sciences Meeting, Potsdam, Germany. (September, 2003)
     
     "Holocene changes as recorded in a coastal, estuary, central Texas: possible implications for global warming." Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. (November, 2003) With Simms, A.)
     
     "Ice sheet reconstruction and glacial retreat of Antarctic Peninsula." Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. (November, 2003) With Heroy, D.C.)
     
     "Late Quaternary Avulsion events preserved I Mobile Bay, Alabama." Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Baton Rouge, LA. (November, 2003) With Rodriguez, A., and Meyer, C.)
     
     "Retreat History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." West Antarctic Ice Sheet Symposium, Washington, D.C. (September, 2003) With Mosola, A.B.)
     
     "Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico." New Orleans Geological Society, New Orleans, La. (August, 2002)
     
     "Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico." Tulane University, New Orleans. (August, 2002)
     
     "Response of central Texas rivers to sea-level change." , Society of Sedimentary Research Research Conference, Casper, Wyoming. (August, 2002) With Simms, Alex and Anderson, John)
     
     Other
     "(Keynote Address) Climate Versus Eustatic Controls on Late Quaternary Strata Formation on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Margin:Results of GULFSTRAT ." American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference, Ponce, Puerto Rico. (June, 2001)
     
     "(Keynote Address) The Geomorphic Footprint of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet ." Symposium-Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High Latitude Continental Margins, Bristol, England. (March, 2001)
     
     "Changes in the Texas Coastal Environment During the Holocene Used to Predict Response to Global Change." National Marine Fisheries Service, Galveston, Texas. (June, 2001)
     
     "In Search of Sand Reousces for Beach Nourishment, Offshore Texas." General Land Office, Austin, Texas. (September, 2001)
     
     "Influence of the Subglacial Bed on Ice Stream Behavior ." University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz. (Spring, 2001)
     
     "Shoreface progradation and ravinment on the Texas coast and inner shelf: ." American Geophysical Union, Chapman Conference, Ponce, Puerto, Ponce, Puerto Rico. (June, 2001) With Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "The Episodic evolution of Galveston Bay; Implications for future response to global change ." State of the Bay Symposium, Galveston Estuary program Symposium V, Galveston, Texas, p. 125-131. (May, 2001) With Rodriguez, A.B.)
     
     "The Holocene evolution of Galveston Bay, Texas ." Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.. (November, 2001) With Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "The late Quaternary Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (Keynote Address) ." ANTOSTRAT (Antarctic Stratigraphy) Symposium, Sicily. (September, 2001)
     
     "Variations in shoreface progradation and ravinement along the Texas Coast, Gulf of Mexico ." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. (April, 2001) With Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability: Influence of Subglacial Bed Deformation." University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. (May, 2001)
     
     "Control of Antecedent Topography on Galveston Bay/Wetland Evolution: Future Predictions For Wetland Submergence." Forecasting Coastal Change: An NSF Workshop, Rice University. (November, 2000)
     
     "Diachronous response of late Quaternary systems of the northern Gulf of Mexico to base level and climate change." University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. (April, 2000)
     
     "Efficasy of climate variations on sediment yield: a comparison of the Brazos/Colorado, western Louisiana, and Rio Grande fluvial systems during the last glacial eustatic cycle." Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies, Houston. (November, 2000) With J. Wellner)
     
     "Evolution of Holocene bay complexes in the Trinity incised valley, Texas." Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies, Houston. (November, 2000) With A. Rodriguez)
     
     "High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Studies of Northern Gulf of Mexico Quaternary Strata Provide Reliable Models for Predicting Reservoir Character and Occurrence on the Shelf and Upper Slope." Chevron, New Orleans. (October, 2000)
     
     "Influence of subglacial beds on ice stream behavior." University of Texas- Insitute for Geophysics, Austin, Texas. (March, 2000)
     
     "Influence of subglacial geology on West Antarctic ice stream location and behavior." Geological Society of America, Reno, Nevada. (November 2000) With H. Campbell, A. Lowe, A. Mossala, and S. Shipp)
     
     "Late Quaternary depositional systems of the northern Gulf of Mexico." Unocal, Lafayette, La. (June , 2000)
     
     "Marine evidence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse." Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. (March, 2000)
     
     "WAIS Configuration During the Last Glacial/Interglacial Cycle ." West Antarctic Ice Sheet Conference, Washington, D.C. (September 2000)
     
     "Antarctica's contribution to Quaternary sea level change." Coastal Research Conference, Honolulu, HI. (Nov. 8-12, 1999)
     
     "Coastal Response to sea-level rise." Coastal Research Confernce, Honolulu, HI. (Nov. 8-12, 1999) With Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "Deep water sand body formation by contour currents: examples from Antarctica." AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. (April 12-16, 1999) With Rodriguez, A.B.)
     
     "Development of a large-scale delta lobe on the western Louisiana continental shelf during the late highstand of the last glacial-eustatic cycle." AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. (April 12-16, 1999) With Wellner, J.S.)
     
     "Geometry and distribution of late Pleistocene to recent highstand sand-prone coastal lithosomes, central Texas shelf, Gulf of Mexico." AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. (April 12-16, 1999) With Fassell, M.L.)
     
     "Glacial history of Pine Island Bay." West Antarctic Ice Sheet Conference, Washington, D.C.. (Sept. 5-7, 1999) With Lowe, A.L.)
     
     "Glacial history of the Northern Victoria Land shelf." West Antarctic Ice Sheet Conference, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 5-7, 1999) With Wellner, J.S.)
     
     "High Latitude Programs." Seismic Reflection Acquisition Workshop, San Diego, CA. (Oct. 18-20, 1999) With (Keynote))
     
     "High Resolution Sequence Stratigrapy Studies of Northern Gulf of Mexico Quaternary Strata." GCAGS Convention, (1999) With (Keynote))
     
     "Ice sheet grounding off of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica." GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. (Oct. 25-28, 1999) With Wellner, J.S.)
     
     "Mid-Wisconsin shoreline position on the east Texas shelf." Coastal Research Conference, Honolulu, HI. (Nov. 8-12, 1999) With Rodriguez, A.)
     
     "Observations of subglacial channelized drainage system in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica." GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. (Oct. 25-28, 1999) With Lowe, A.L.)
     
     "Quaternary Clastic Depositional Systems of the Northern Gulf of Mexico." Houston Geological Society Depositional Systems Symposium, Houston, TX. (June 7, 1999) With (Keynote))
     
     "Systems tract relationships on a low subsidence shelf: offshore eastern Alabama/Florida." AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. (April 12-16, 1999) With Richmond, R.V., and Bart, P.J.)
     
     "The Future of Sequence Stratigraphy." Margins Workshop, Seattle, WA. (1999) With (Keynote))
     
     "The late Quaternary evolution of the Rio Grande system, offshore south Texas: differentiating the controls of sediment supply and eustasy." AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. (April 12-16, 1999) With Banfield, L.A.)
     
     "Vertical sediment fabric and its relation to megaflutes in the central Ross Sea, Antarctica." GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. (Oct. 25-28, 1999) With Licht, K., Shipp, S., and Andrews, J.)
     
     Panelist
     "Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and the Impact on Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Global Climate Change Forum, Corpus Christi, Texas." Global Climate Change Forum, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Corpus Christi, Texas. (October, 2007)
     
     Posters
     Wallace, D.J., and Anderson, J.B., 2008, Facies assemblages for two transgressive barrier islands: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
     
     Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K.T., and Simms, A.R., 2008, Threshold response of estuaries to climate change and sea-level rise: American Quaternary Association Biannual Meeting, University Park, PA.
     
     Faculty advisor.  "Base level and climate influence on fluvial deposition: the Brazos valley of Texas." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas. (4/04)
     
     Co-author.  "Connections across the shelf-slope transition, Late Quaternary Rio Grande deltaic system, Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential." 23rd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Houston. (12/03) With J.K. Wellner)
     
     Faculty advisor.  "Reconstructing the glacial retreat history of Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum." Antarctic Peninsula Climate Change Conference, Cambridge, England. (9/04) With Oakes, L.)
     
     "Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ice sheet extent and glacial retreat history of Antarctic Peninsula: preliminary results from Nathanial B. Palmer 2002 Cruise." Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. (October, 2002) With Heroy, D., Oakes, L., and Anderson, J. B.)
     
     Seminar Speaker
     Cenozoic History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
     
     "Coastal Response to Accelerated Sea-Level Rise." University of Durham, Durham, England. (March 2008)
     
     Mountain Denudation by Patagonian Glaciers
     
     University of Durham, March 2008 Post-LGM History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
     
     Response of Gulf Coast Estuaries to Accelerated Sea-Level rise and climate change-Louisiana State University (November, 2008).
     
     "Response of Texas Coast to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise." Oklahoma State University. (December, 2008)
     
     "Response of the Texas Coast to Climate Change and Sea-level Rise." Texas A&M Univeristy-Corpus Christi, (November, 2008)
     
    Editorial Positions
     Associate Editor, Marine Geology. (9/02)

     Associate Editor, Sedimentology. International Association of Sedimentologists. (6/04)

     Associate Editor, Sedimentology. International Association of Sedimentologists. (6/04)

     Associate Editor, Marine Geology. Elsevier. (1999)

     Associate Editor, Sedimentology. Elsevier. (1999)

     Associate Editor, American Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.. (1994 - 2000)

    Supervised Theses & Dissertations
     Amanda Mosola, PhD Post-LGM Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. (2003) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Carmen Fraticelli, PhD Eustastiic and Climatic Influence on Upper Slope Depostion, Offshore Texas. (2003) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     David Heroy, PhD Climate and Glacial History of the Antarctic Peninsula: LGM to Present. (2004) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Alison Henning, Ph.D. Tectonics of the West Iberia Continental Margin from Seismic Reflection Data. (2004) (Committee Member)

     Deanna C. Borchers, M.S, Mauna Loa's Submarine Western Flank: Evidence for Deep Volcanic Spreading and Hydrothermal Alteration. (2004) (Committee Member)

     Charlotte Kelchner, M.A. Transfer of Organic Matter from Surface Waters to the Sea Floor: Fecal Pellet Flux in the Ross Sea. (2004) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Lisa Oakes, PhD LGM to Recent Glacial History and Subglacial Meltwater Role in Ice Stream Mechanics: Marguerite Bay, Antarctica. (2004) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Alexander Ray Simms, Ph.D. Late Quaternary/Holocene Evolution of the Nueces Incised Valley, Central Texas. (2005) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Alex Simms, PhD Holocene Evolution of the Corpus Christi Bay/Barrier Complex. (2005) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Alex Simms, PhD Holocene Evolution of the Corpus Christi Bay/Barrier Complex. (2005) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Jessica Kneupper Maddox, M.S. Holocene Evolution of the Matagorda/Lavaca Bay Complex, Central Texas Coast. (2005) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Lisa Oaks Fretwell, Ph.D. Reconstructing the glacial history of Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, since the Last Glacial Maximum: A combined geomorphologic and sedimentologic approach. (2005) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     David Carlson Heroy, Doctor Of Philosophy The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Since the Last Glacial Maximum. (2006) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Lisa Oakes Fretwell, Doctor Of Philosophy Reconstructing the glacial history of Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, since the Last Glacial Maximum: A combined geomorphologic and sedimentologic approach. (2006) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Alexander Ray Simms, Doctor Of Philosophy Late Quaternary/Holocene Evolution of the Nueces Incised Valley, Central Texas. (2006) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Jessica Kneupper Maddox, Master of Science Holocene Evolution of the Matagorda/Lavaca Bay Complex, Central Texas Coast. (2006) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

     Zaid Patrick Taha, Doctor of Philosophy Fluvial Response to Base Level Change: A Case Study of the Brazos River, East Texas, U.S.A.. (2006) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

    Awards, Prizes, & Fellowships
     Francis Shepard Medal, Society of Sedimentary Research (April, 2007)

     Graduate Menoring Award, Rice University (May, 2004)

     President-Society for Sedimentary Research, Society for Sedimentary Research (5/03-5/04)

     Honorable Mention 2003 SEPM Excellence in Oral Presentation Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2003)

     AAPG Distinguished Lecture Series-Haas-Pratt Distinguished Lecturer, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2003)

     President of the Society of Sedimentary Research, Society of Sedimentary Research (2003)

     President-Elect, Society for Sedimentary Research (March 2000)

     AAPG Distinguished Lecture Series-Haas-Pratt Distinguished Lecturer, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2002-03)

     Councilor for Research, Society of Sedimentary Research (Spring 2000-Spring 2001)

     Steering Committee-West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program, (2001)

     Steering Committee-Antarctic Shallow drilling Program, (2001)

     National Science Foundation Panel-Earth Sciences, (Fall, 2001)

     Steering Committee-US academic seismic reflection facilities, (2000)

     Chaired NSF workshop-forcasting coastal change at Rice University, (November, 2000)

     Steering Committee, Academic Seismic Reflection Facilities

     Member, Society of Sedimentary Research

     Steering Committee, West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program

     Fellow, Geological Society of America

     Member, American Geophysical Union

     Best Paper Award, GCAGS (1999)

     Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologists

     Member, Gulf Coast Section, SEPM

     Member, Houston Geological Society