Conference Program
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
as of 5 March, 2013
** Preliminary Oral
Program (PDF here) **
** Preliminary Poster
Program (PDF here) **
==> Pre-Conference Abstract and Program Volume (large 6MB PDF)
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** Revised Floor Plan for Posters and Sponsors (March 5 - PDF here) **
Important Notice to Delegates:
1. All talks are limited to 15 minutes, with
the exception of our three invited keynote lectures. Please plan on 12
minutes for your presentation with a couple of minutes for questions.
2. Poster panels are 8 ft. wide (2.4 m) by 4 ft. high (1.2 m). Each presenter will be limited to a single panel. Please plan your poster layout accordingly.
PRE-MEETING FIELD TRIP
Saturday, 9 March 2012
Field Trip 1: K/Pg Boundary in Core and Outcrop
7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Leaders: Kirt Campion, John Breyer, Erik Scott,
Richard Denne (Marathon Oil)
CONFERENCE AND TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Sunday, 10 March 2013
3:00-7:00 pm: CONFERENCE CHECK-IN
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
HILTON HOTEL – 2ND FLOOR MEZZANINE
Check in will also be
open on Monday and Tuesday
7:00-9:00 pm: ICE-BREAKER
HILTON HOTEL – 2ND FLOOR MEZZANINE
AND POSTER EXHIBITION
Monday,
11 March
ORAL SESSION
University of Houston
Campus – Science and Engineering Lecture Hall 100
7:15 am: Oral Sessions Begin: Welcome by General
Chair
7:30 am: Microfossils of Conventional and
Unconventional
Reservoirs
9:30 am: Break with Coffee:
11:30 am: End of
Morning Session
12:00 – 1:15 pm: LUNCH: Shamrock
Ballroom
POSTER EXHIBITION: Conrad Hilton
Ballroom
1:30 pm : Reconstruction of Past Environments and
Biofacies
Analysis:
3:15 pm: Break with Coffee
5:30 pm : End of Monday Oral Sessions
6:00 pm -8:00 pm: POSTER EXHIBITION AND ICE-BREAKER
Conrad Hilton Ballroom
Tuesday, 12-March
ORAL SESSION
University of Houston
Campus – Science and Engineering Lecture Hall 100
7:30 am: High Resolution Biostratigraphy,
Taxonomy, and
Evolution
9:30 am: Break with Coffee
11:30 am: End of Morning Session
12:00 – 1:15 pm: LUNCH: Shamrock
Ballroom
LAST POSTER EXHIBITION: Conrad
Hilton Ballroom
Presenters should remove
posters between 1:15 and 4:00 pm.
1:30 pm: Environmental Monitoring and
New
Techniques and Technologies:
3:15 pm: Break with Coffee
5:30 pm: End of Tuesday Oral Sessions
7:00 pm -10:30 pm: EVENING SOCIAL
Plenary Dinner With The Dinosaurs
Houston Museum of Natural
Science, Morian Hall of Paleontology
Followed by Lecture in Moran Lecture
Hall
“Wildfire Paleoecology
on the Cretaceous Coast, Arlington Archosaur Site”
Guest Speaker: Derek J. Main
Director of the Arlington Archosaur
Site,
University of
Texas at Arlington
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
ORAL SESSION
University of Houston
Campus – Science and Engineering Lecture Hall 100
7:30 am: Microfossils in
Paleoclimatology and
Paleoceanography:
9:30 am: Break with Coffee
11:30 am: End of Oral Sessions,
Farewell From
General Chair
POST-MEETING WORKSHOPS
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The instructors intend to offer a hands on session for participants with laptops at the end of their workshop.
Room 2. Overview of Paleozoic Microfossils: Conodonts, Graptolites, and Acritarchs
Instructors: Daniel Goldman and others.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
8:30 am – 11:30 am
Room 2. TimeScale Creator and the 2012 Time Scale Instructors: Jim Ogg and Felix Gradstein
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
POST-MEETING FIELD TRIP
Thursday 14 March through Saturday 16 March
Field Trip 2: Eagle Ford Shale, Del Rio, Texas, area
1:00 pm Thursday, 14 March – 7:00 pm Saturday, 16 March, 2013
Leaders: Scott Staerker and Lawrence Febo (BP)