PRELIMINARY PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
GEOLOGICAL PROBLEM SOLVING WITH MICROFOSSILS II
Authors, please note: Scheduled presentations that are not made ("no shows" or last-minute withdrawals) will be removed from the final official proceedings volume of the meeting.
updated March 9, 2009
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~ ORAL PROGRAM ~
Monday, 16 March
Oral Session 1: Chronostratigraphy and High-Resolution Biostratigraphy
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Felix Gradstein and Richard Denne
8:00 Donald Van Nieuwenhuise, Conference Welcome Address
8:10 Session Welcome
8:15 James Bergen, "Microfossil definition of the Oligocene-Miocene boundary and its application in the Gulf of Mexico"
8:35 Andrew Bowman, "Applying statistical techniques to construct a refined Paleocene-Eocene calcareous nannofossil biozonation"
8:55 Richard Denne, "Detailed Oligocene correlations utilizing reticulofenestrid morphometric and abundance changes"
9:15 Gerald Ragan (Rob Campbell, presenter), "Towards a higher resolution Neogene biostratigraphic scheme for the Gulf of Mexico: coiling direction and abundances of selected planktonic foraminifera"
9:35 Holger Cremer (Linda Garming, presenter), "Biogenic silica in the Rotliegend: a new biostratigraphic tool for continental deposits"
9:55 Coffee Break
10:15 Felix Gradstein, "Recent developments in the geologic time scale, with special reference to Cenozoic and Cretaceous"
10:35 James Ogg, "The TS-Creator © stratigraphic database and visualization package"
10:55 Geraint Hughes, "Micropalaeontology for coiled-tube biosteering in a Saudi Arabian Late Permian carbonate reservoir"
11:15 Gregory Wahlman, "Correlation of Middle Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian fusulinid zonation and cyclothemic sequence stratigraphy in Midcontinent North America"
11:35 Felix Gradstein, "Norwegian Offshore Stratigraphic Lexicon (NORLEX)"
11:55 am - 1:30 pm: Lunch, Conrad Hilton Ballroom – Poster Exhibit Area
Oral Session 2: Oceanic Events and Paleoclimate
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Marie-Pierre Aubry and Werner Piller
1:30 Session Welcome
1:35 Svetlana Mizintseva, "Broken windows in the greenhouse: testing Late Cretaceous glacioeustasy"
1:55 Emma Sheldon, "Boreal high latitude Late Maastrichtian warming: evidence from the nannofossil record of Denmark"
2:15 Marie-Pierre Aubry, "Channeling associated with the PETM in Egypt: chemobiostratigraphic constraints on (?) tectono-eustasy"
2:35 Ashley Harris, "A regional study of the nannoplankton response to the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum: New Jersey Coastal Plain"
2:55 Coffee Break
3:20 Tadeusz Peryt, "Seawater incursions into the declining Middle Miocene Badenian evaporite basin of the Ukrainian Carpathian Foredeep and the onset of a new marine transgression"
3:40 Werner Piller, "Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the abyssal SE Atlantic: influence of microhabitat preferences, taphonomic processes, and changes in water mass characteristics"
4:00 Sophie Warny, "The use of palynology to better understand past Antarctic climate changes"
4:20 Karin Zonneveld, "Oxygen controlled selective degradation of palynomorphs; a new proxy to quantify past bottom-water [O2]"
4:40 End of Monday Oral Sessions
Tuesday, 17 March
Oral Session 3: Coastal and Environmental Micropaleontology
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chair: Malcolm Hart
8:00 Session Welcome
8:05 Jaroslaw Tyszka, "Foraminiferal proxies of hydrothermal vents in the Jurassic: case studies from the Western Tethys"
8:25 Stephen Nathan, "A microfossil evaluation of sediment deposits on the continental shelf, Merrimack Embayment, New England"
8:45 Malcolm Hart, "Re-colonisation of hostile environments by foraminifera: an example from Montserrat, Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc"
9:05 Pamela Buzas-Stephens, "Sedimentological and foraminiferal analysis of Baffin Bay, Texas: evidence for Holocene climate change"
9:25 Coffee Break
Oral Session 4: Microfossils, Paleoceanography, and Biotic Evolution
SEC Lecture Hall 100
Chair: Mark Leckie and Caterina Morigi
9:45 Session Welcome
9:50 Anand Gupta, "Silicoflagellate biostratigraphy and paleoclimatic variations in deep water Miocene sediments of Mahanadi Basin (India) and their utility in correlation"
10:10 Robert Speijer, "A new era for quantifying foraminiferal growth by means of high-resolution X-ray CT"
10:30 Malcolm Hart, "Tephrochronology of marine sediments adjacent to Montserrat, Caribbean Sea"
10:50 Carlos Alvarez Zarikian, "Ostracods in paleoceanography: an example from the deep subpolar North Atlantic at IODP Site U1314"
11:10 Caterina Morigi, "Benthic environmental changes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during sapropel S5"
11:30 Ron Martin, "Marine biodiversification in response to evolving phytoplankton stoichiometry"
11:50 am - 1:30 pm: Lunch, Conrad Hilton Ballroom – Poster Exhibit Area
Oral Session 5: Microfossils and Biofacies
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chair: Yow-yuh Chen and Josh Miller
1:30 Session Welcome
1:35 Walter Wornhardt, "Seismic sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Amoco 24-1, North Darag Block, Gulf of Suez, Egypt"
1:55 Donald Van Nieuwenhuise, "Recognition of open versus closed drainage systems with microfossils from two intermontane basins in southwestern Montana"
2:15 Shamsudin Jirin, "Integration of high resolution biofacies and sedimentology for reservoir-scale application in the Malay Basin"
2:35 Mahani Mohamed, "The use of agglutinated foraminiferal as a tool to define the biofacies zones in the marginal marine environments, Malay Basin"
2:55 Coffee Break
Oral Session 6: Technology, Tectonics, and Provincialism
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chair: Martin Farley
3:20 Session Welcome
3:25 Brian Huber, "CHRONOS online taxonomic dictionaries for planktonic foraminifera"
3:45 Anthony Gary, "Positioning micropaleontology for the semantic technology future"
4:05 Sylvain Rigaud, "First dated occurrence of Carnian platform carbonates from the Wallowa terrane (Oregon, USA)"
4:25 Mark Puckett, "On the relationship between plate tectonics and phylogeny in ostracodes"
4:45 Glen Merrill, "Advances in Lower and Middle Pennsylvanian conodont biostratigraphy in southeastern Ohio"
5:05 End of Tuesday Oral Sessions
Wednesday, 18 March
Oral Session 7: From hydrocarbon reservoirs to climate and sea-level change:
Insights from microfossils
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Mimi Katz, Francine McCarthy, Alicia Kahn
8:00 Session Welcome
8:05 Gitte Vestergaard Laursen (presented by David Hulks), "A case story of a multi-disciplinary approach from deep-water clastic deposits offshore Nigeria; methodology and applications"
8:25 Elisa Guasti, "The Hanze field (Dutch offshore): unraveling the petroleum system in the Chalk by means of foraminifera"
8:45 Mohamed Rashad Abdel-kireem, "Nile Delta offshore palynological and foraminiferal studies of the Messinian sequence, Nile Delta, Egypt"
9:05 William Krebs, "Less than meets the eye: The Middle Miocene Unconformity (MMU) of the South China Sea"
9:25 Guillermo Rodriguez Forero, "Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic biostratigraphy of Catatumbo Area: a key knowledge for geological models on oil exploration"
9:45 Coffee Break
10:10 Lineth Contreras, "Paleocene-Eocene transition in northern South America: from previous palynological barren interval to new calibrated biostratigraphic events"
10:30 David McNeil, "Foraminifera, hydrocarbon-related diagenesis, and leaky petroleum systems"
10:50 Lisa Ann Neville, "Using thecamoebians (testate amoebae) as proxies of ecosystem health in Oil Sands impacted regions of NE Alberta: Difflugia spp. as "canaries in the coalmine""
11:10 Peter van Hengstum, "Benthic Foraminifera and testate amoebae (thecamoebians) in subterranean cave systems: potential indicators of aquifer paleohydrology and sea level"
11:30 End of Wednesday Oral Sessions
~ POSTER PROGRAM ~
Monday, 16 March 2009 and Tuesday, 17 March 2009
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Poster Area, Conrad Hilton Ballroom, Hilton University of Houston
Chairs: Rob Campbell and Nancy Engelhardt-Moore
Poster Group 1: Microfossil Biostratigraphy
- David Bord, "Morphometric analysis shows the different evolutionary courses for Ellipsolithus macellus and Discoaster mahmoudii"
- Khaled Gaddah, "Palynofloral dynamics of the Cretaceous of the southeast Sirte Basin, Libya"
- Chengjie Liu, "Phylogenetic reconstruction of Paleocene-Eocene planktonic foraminifera and implications for high resolution biostratigraphy"
- Malakhat A. Efendiyeva, "The modern integrated approach to study the deposits of the Maikopian Series"
- Peter McLaughlin, "Micropaleontology "Light": the application of quick-and-dirty micropaleontology to basic subsurface geological mapping"
- Daniel Michoux, "Microplankton from the Early Cretaceous Mannville Group, Northeastern Alberta"
- Merlynd Nestell, "Biostratigraphic significance of radiolarians, conodonts, and foraminifers from the Williams Ranch Member of the Cutoff Formation (Roadian, Middle Permian), Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas"
- Paula Noble, "Stratigraphy and structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon, NV, USA, clarified by radiolarian biostratigraphy"
- Keith Richards, "The modern Volga delta: an analogue for the Pliocene Productive Series in the offshore Caspian Sea?"
- Sylvain Rigaud, "Micropaleontological and environmental analysis of the Black Marble Quarry, Wallowa terrane, Oregon"
- Jean Self-Trail, "Testing new methods for halting calcareous microfossil dissolution in freshly cored sediments"
- Sudhir Shukla, "Larger benthic foraminiferal indices of the Indian Paleogene"
- Robert Speijer, "Benthic turnover (foraminifera and ostracoda) across the K/T boundary at Brazos River, Texas"
- Eva Tuzzi, "Beyond conventional biostratigraphy: improving resolution through deterministic and probabilistic approaches on multi-proxy datasets"
- Svetlana P. Yakovleva-O’Neill (Felix Gradstein, presenter), "Jurassic benthic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and palaeoecology at the Shtokman structure, Barents Sea"
Poster Group 2: Sea level, paleoceanography, and paleoclimate
- Emily Browning, "Testing the possible linkages between the Miocene Reticulofenestra Event (MRE), the biogenic bloom, tropical gateways, and sea level"
- Muhong Chen, "Preservation of radiolarian in surface sediments of the South China Sea and its environmental implication"
- Kendra Clark, "The Mid-Maastrichtian event in the subtropical North Pacific, Shatsky Rise"
- Serena Dameron, "Benthic foraminiferal changes associated with the end of the EECO in the North Pacific"
- Khalifa Elberdak, "Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Colorado Group in southeastern and east central Alberta, Canada"
- Gerson Fauth, "The evolution of transitional environments in Brazilian marginal basins based on Fossocytheridea-Afrocytheridea ostracode association"
- Malcolm Hart, "Tephrochronology of marine sediments adjacent to Montserrat, Caribbean Sea" (supplementary to talk)
- Shari Hilding-Kronforst, "A multiple proxy approach to subtropical North Pacific sea surface temperature analysis: implications for climate change"
- Denise Kulhanek, "North Atlantic calcareous nannoplankton response during MIS 11-12: evidence from IODP Site U1313"
- R Mark Leckie, "Age determination for deep-sea cores: inquiry-based learning with authentic scientific ocean drilling data"
- R Mark Leckie, "Teaching about rapid climate change using examples from the deep-sea record: a discovery-based learning module for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)"
- Ron Martin, "Did repeated freshwater discharges stimulate rapid Black Sea-level changes during the Holocene?"
- Yvonne Milker, "Sea-level reconstruction based on statistical assessment of benthic foraminifer associations (Holocene, Western Mediterranean Sea)"
- Caterina Morigi, "Benthic foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton evidences for the Holocene Black Sea evolution"
- Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen (Robert Speijer, presenter), "Experimental evidence of differential dissolution in early Paleogene planktonic foraminifera"
- Werner Piller, "Upwelling in the sedimentary record - a case study from the Early Miocene Central Paratethys"
- Anna Sabatini (Caterina Morigi, presenter), "Evaluation of planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca as a proxy for past oceanic condition in the Mediterranean Sea: a methodological overview and preliminary data compilation"
- Jorinde Sprong (Robert Speijer, presenter), "Was the Latest Danian Event a precursor of the PETM?: a comparison at Gebel Qreiya, Egypt"
Poster Group 3: Microfossils and Sequence Stratigraphy
- Emily Browning, "Calcareous nannofossil and foraminiferal biostratigraphy of Miocene glacio-eustatic sequences on the Marion Plateau, northeastern Australia"
- Walter Wornhardt, "Seismic sequence stratigraphic analysis in Algeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal, Africa"
- Walter Wornhardt, "New ages of maximum flooding surfaces in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic following Gradstein et al., 2004"
Poster Group 4: Coastal and Environmental Micropaleontology
- David Christie, "Thecamoebian faunas along a transect across Alberta: refining the utility of thecamoebians as proxies of environmental quality in oil sands-impacted ecosystems"
- Malcolm Hart, "Foraminifera from Restronguet Creek: monitoring recovery from the Wheal Jane pollution incident"
- Francine McCarthy, "Distinguishing between Wendat and Euro-Canadian impact in Georgian Bay"
- Stephen Nathan, "A microfossil evaluation of sediment deposits on the continental shelf, Merrimack Embayment, New England" (supplementary to talk)
Poster Group 5: Petroleum Application of Micropaleontology
- Erik Anthonissen, "Integrated microfossil characterization of the Neogene sand members of Offshore Norway"
- Victor Giraldo-Gomez, "The impact of biostratigraphy on oil new discoveries in Colombia"
- Ersy Guerrero, "Dinoflagellate cyst as a tool in paleoenvironment reconstruction, middle Miocene-Falcon Basin"
- Geraint Hughes, "Micropalaeontological high-grading of areas for exploration, an example from the Oxfordian Hanifa Formation of Saudi Arabia"
- Olga Rodriguez, "Defining stratigraphic model using nannofossils and foraminifera in Eastern Venezuelan Basin "
- Lucio Tokutake (Gerson Fauth, presenter), "Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological considerations about Mucuri Member, Espirito Santo basin, Brazil"
- Mohamed Zobaa, "Palynofacies and Hydrocarbon Potential of DSDP Leg 10 (Site 94), Yucatan Platform, Gulf of Mexico"