Upcoming Meetings: of possible interest to NAMS members
Past Meetings: programs and abstracts from past NAMS conferences and sessions
Upcoming Meetings
UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT: Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils II . March 15-18, 2009, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
The North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of SEPM invites you to attend the second international conference on Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils, "Microfossils II".
"Microfossils II" is intended to bring together a diverse range of geoscientists to showcase the problem-solving power of microfossils across a broad variety of geologic settings. The planning committee is dedicated to developing a strong program and stimulating the “cross-fertilization” of ideas that result when a diverse group of scientists gather in a common venue.
Please see the NAMS M2 meeting page at this link for more information -- registration information will be available on the SEPM web site at www.sepm.org.
Other Meetings of Interest to Micropaleontologists
- Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 5-9, 2008, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas . The GSA Annual Meeting includes sessions organized by the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research and, in some years, a NAMS-organized evening program of the SEPM Marine Micropaleontology Research Group . See the GSA web site for more information.
- Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) and American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Joint Meeting, June 7-10, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. The SEPM/AAPG Annual Meeting includes at least one technical session organized by the NAMS, a NAMS-organized evening program of the SEPM Marine Micropaleontology Research Group, and social activities. See the AAPG web site for more information.
Past Meetings
2008 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 20-23
Three NAMS sponsored activities made for a productive meeting: poster sessions; a Marine Maicropaleontology Research Group meeting, jointly with the Quantitative Stratigraphy Research Group; and a NAMS Council meeting.
NAMS organized two concurrent poster sessions: Advances in Chronostratigraphic and Paleoecologic Analysis: Case Studies I & II. The sessions, co-chaired by Nancy Engelhardt-Moore and Ron Waszczak, attracted high quality presentations that illustrated the contribution of micropaleontology to solving geological problems related to age, depositional environment, and paleooceanography. Special mention must go to Martin Crundwell and Malcolm Arnot, who were awarded the SEPM poster presentation prize, and to Jamie Shamrock and David Watkins, who received an SEPM honorable mention.
The poster presentations are here listed in alphabetic order. Abstracts are available from AAPG.
- AlShuaibi, A. A.: Coniacian to Lowermost Campanian Stratigraphy of the Austin Chalk, Northeast Texas.
- Aubry M. J., Bonnemaison M., VanCouvering J. A.: Typhoon: A Web Integrated Micropaleontological Database System.
- Browning E., Leckie R., McClain P., Nathan S., John C.: Testing the Possible Linkages between the Miocene Reticulofenestra Event, the Biogenic Bloom, Tropical Gateways and Sea Level Changes.
- Cheng J., Laurel C.: Using Benthic Foraminifera to Understand Seagrass Abundance, Salinity and Sea Level Variation in Florida Bay.
- Crundwell M. P., Arnot M. J.: Sub-Millennial Anatomy of Late Miocene Deep-Water Mass-Transport Deposits: Case Studies of the Use of Foraminifera to Decipher the Stratigraphic Architecture of the Mount Messenger Depositional System, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand.
- Gary A., Johnson G., Yu E.: Reducing Uncertainty in Paleoecological Models Using Fuzzy Logic.
- Huber B. T., Cervato C., Fils D.: Chronos Online Taxonomic Databases for Planktonic Foraminifera.
- Jaramillo C., Rueda M., Torres V.: A Quantitative Palynological Zonation for Eastern Colombia.
- Martin R. E., Leorri E., McLaughlin P. P.: Ecostratigraphic Expression of Holocene Parasequence Boundaries in Incised Valleys along Delaware Bay: Response to Rapid Sea-Level and Climate Change.
- Medina J.: Paleoenvironments and Biofacies Based on Eocene Foraminifera of the Pauji Formation of the Area Zulia East, Western Venezuela.
- Mizintseva S. F., Browning J. V., Miller K. G.: Integrated Late Santonian-Early Campanian Sequence Stratigraphy New Jersey Coastal Plain: Implications to Global Sea-Level Studies.
- Nebrigic D. D.: Bioprovinciality within Foraminiferal Assemblages- Cenomanian/Turonian Texas Gulf Coast.
- Schmieder J., Fritz, S.: Evidence of Regional Holocene Climate Change Based on Four Different Diatom Records across the Nebraska Sand Hills.
- Shamrock J. L., Watkins D. K.: Evolution of the Cretaceous Calcareous Nannofossil Genus Eiffellithus and Its Biostratigraphic Significance.
- Winter D., Sjunneskog C., Scherer R.: Pliocene Diatom Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Andrill Mcmurdo Ice Shelf Core AND-1.
2005 Geological Problem Solving with Microfossils Conference
NAMS hosted the SEPM Research Conference “Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils - An International Conference in Memory of Garry D. Jones “ from March 6-11, 2005, at Rice University, Houston, Texas. The conference attracted 150 attendees from industry, academia and government from 23 countries.
The technical program was comprised of 48 oral and 51 poster presentations that collectively covered the various microfossil groups that have utility to solve geologic problems, and addressed topics as diverse as Eustacy and Tectonics,
Paleooceanography, Biochronologic Correlation, Reservoirs and Drilling, Ecologic Analogs, and Tools and Techniques.
SEPM has made the Conference Abstract with Program available on their website in PDF format (please CLICK HERE)
The conference also was an excellent opportunity for interaction among micropaleontologists from industry, academia, and government. NAMS gratefully acknowledges the support of our corporate sponsors and co-sponsoring societies for their role in making this conference a great success.
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