Any member can propose a Research Group by contacting Howard Harper. Research Groups are considered "active" if they have met within the last two years. If they have been inactive for two years, then the council must approve the reinstatement if there is renewed interest. Several Research Groups have been continually active for decades; others have gone from active to inactive several times.

ACTIVE RESEARCH GROUPS and CHAIRS:

• Carbonate Research: Jerry Bellian and Ted Playton
  2009 Meeting Announcement

• Clastic Diagenesis: Rosario Scheerhorn
  2009 Meeting Announcement
  
  
• CRER (Cretaceous Resources Events & Rhythms): Robert Scott and Paul Enos
  
  
• Deep Water Turbidites and Deep Marine Sedimentation: Andrea Fildani
  2009 Meeting Announcement
  
  
• GeoSystems: Gerilyn Soreghan
  2008 Meeting Summary (April 2008)
  
  
• Marine Authigenesis -- FROMAGE:  Craig Glenn and John Compton
  FROMAGE website
  
  
• Marine Micropaleontology: Ron Martin and Martin B. Farley (NAMS President and President-Elect)
  2008 Meeting Summary (April 2008)
  
  
• Paleosols: Lisa Griffith
  
  
• Quantitative Stratigraphy/Cyclostratigraphy:  Robert Scott and H. Richard Lane
  2008 Meeting Summary (April 2008)
  
  
• Sequence Stratigraphy: Piret Plink-Bjorklund
  2008 Meeting Summary (April 2008)
  2009 Meeting Announcement
  

• NEW Source-to-Sink: Piret Plink-Bjorklund and Mike Blum
  2009 Meeting Announcement

SEPM is looking for volunteers to lead the following Research Groups:

• Bedforms & Bedding Structures
• Coastal and Shelf Sedimentation
• Computer Technology
• Eolian Sediments & Processes
• Evaporites
• Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology
• Stable Isotopes  
• Trace Fossils