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Overview

Steven A. Kuehl is a researcher affiliated with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research centers on various topics including coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, soil erosion and sediment transport, aeolian processes and effects, marine and coastal ecosystems, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Steven A. Kuehl are:

  • "Amazon Sediment Transport and Accumulation Along the Continuum of Mixed Fluvial and Marine Processes," 2020, published in Annual Review of Marine Science
  • "Anthropogenic impacts on mud and organic carbon cycling," 2024, published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Fate of Ayeyarwady and Thanlwin Rivers Sediments in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal," 2020, published in Marine Geology
  • "Anthropogenic impact on the organic carbon sources, transport and distribution in a subtropical semi-enclosed bay," 2021, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Asia's Mega Rivers: Common Source, Diverse Fates," 2020, published in Eos

Steven A. Kuehl frequently publishes research in venues such as Marine Geology, Annual Review of Marine Science, Nature Geoscience, The Science of The Total Environment, and Eos.

Collaboration is an aspect of their career, with several frequent co-authors including Courtney K. Harris, Evan R. Flynn, Charles A. Nittrouer, David J. DeMaster, and Alberto G. Figueiredo.

Best Publications

  • The significance of large sediment supply, active tectonism, and eustasy on margin sequence development: Late Quaternary stratigraphy and evolution of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta

    S.L. Goodbred;S.A. Kuehl

  • Enormous Ganges-Brahmaputra sediment discharge during strengthened early Holocene monsoon

    Steven L. Goodbred;Steven A. Kuehl

  • Stratigraphic evolution of the late Holocene Ganges–Brahmaputra lower delta plain

    M.A. Allison;S.R. Khan;S.L. Goodbred;S.A. Kuehl

  • Nature of sediment accumulation on the Amazon continental shelf

    Steven A. Kuehl;David J. DeMaster;Charles A. Nittrouer

  • Holocene and modern sediment budgets for the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system: Evidence for highstand dispersal to flood-plain, shelf, and deep-sea depocenters

    Steven L. Goodbred;Steven A. Kuehl

  • Floodplain processes in the Bengal Basin and the storage of Ganges–Brahmaputra river sediment: an accretion study using 137Cs and 210Pb geochronology

    Steven L Goodbred;Steven A Kuehl

  • Controls on facies distribution and stratigraphic preservation in the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta sequence

    Steven L. Goodbred;Steven A. Kuehl;Michael S. Steckler;Maminul H. Sarker

  • Subaqueous delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system

    Steven A. Kuehl;Beth M. Levy;Willard S. Moore;Mead A. Allison

  • The deltaic nature of Amazon shelf sedimentation

    C. A. Nittrouer;S. A. Kuehl;D. J. Demaster;R. O. Kowsmann

  • Shelf sedimentation off the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system: Evidence for sediment bypassing to the Bengal fan

    Steven A. Kuehl;Tina M. Hariu;Willard S. Moore

  • The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta

    Steven A. Kuehl;Mead A. Allison;Steven L. Goodbred;Hermann Kudrass

  • An introduction to the geological significance of sediment transport and accumulation on the Amazon continental shelf

    Charles A. Nittrouer;Steven A. Kuehl;Richard W. Sternberg;Alberto G. Figueiredo

  • Sediment export from the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: evidence for a divergent sediment plume

    G.C Kineke;K.J Woolfe;S.A Kuehl;J.D Milliman

  • Importance of flood-plain sedimentation for river sediment budgets and terrigenous input to the oceans: Insights from the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River

    Mead A Allison;S. A. Kuehl;T. C. Martin;A. Hassan

  • Sediment deposition, accumulation, and seabed dynamics in an energetic fine-grained coastal environment

    Steven A. Kuehl;Steven A. Kuehl;Charles A. Nittrouer;Mead A. Allison;L. Ercilio C. Faria

  • Mineralogy of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: implications for river switching and Late Quaternary climate change

    David C. Heroy;Steven A. Kuehl;Steven L. Goodbred

  • Sediment deposition and accretion in a Mid-Atlantic (U.S.A.) tidal freshwater marsh

    S. C. Neubauer;I. C. Anderson;José Antonio Constantine;S. A. Kuehl

  • The geological record preserved by Amazon shelf sedimentation

    Charles A. Nittrouer;Steven A. Kuehl;Alberto G. Figueiredo;Mead A. Allison

  • Effects of suspended sediments on geochemical processes near the mouth of the Amazon River: examination of biological silica uptake and the fate of particle-reactive elements

    David J. DeMaster;Steven A. Kuehl;Charles A. Nittrouer

  • Non-steady-state 210Pb flux and the use of 228Ra/226Ra as a geochronometer on the Amazon continental shelf

    David A. Dukat;Steven A. Kuehl

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Nittrouer
Charles A. Nittrouer University of Washington
David J. DeMaster
David J. DeMaster North Carolina State University
Steven L. Goodbred
Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University
Mead A. Allison
Mead A. Allison Tulane University
Lionel Carter
Lionel Carter Victoria University of Wellington
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Rebecca M. Dickhut
Rebecca M. Dickhut Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Brent A. McKee
Brent A. McKee University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth A. Canuel
Elizabeth A. Canuel Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Neal E. Blair
Neal E. Blair Northwestern University

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