ORAL PROGRAM
Monday, 11 March 2013
Oral Session 1: Microfossils of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Jason Crux (BHP Billiton) and Richard Denne (Marathon)
7:15
Don Van Nieuwenhuise, “Conference Welcome Address”
7:30
J. A. Crux, J. M. Casey and F. J. Peel - Invited Keynote Lecture, “Biostratigraphic Analysis of
Mass Transport Deposits and Turbidites in the Lower Miocene of the Gulf of Mexico”
8:00
Richard H. Fillon, “Identifying the Depositional Facies in Reservoir and Resource Play
Deposystems: A New Mapping Approach Based on Conventional Biostratigraphic Data”
8:15
Rui Da Gama and Brendan Lutz, “The late Jurassic Garantella and Reinholdella: A
paleoenvironmental proxy and potential tool for sweet-spotting in unconventional plays”
8:30
Walter W. Wornardt, “Genetic Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis: Using Calcareous Nannofossil
and Planktonic Foraminifers in the Eagle Ford-Austin, and Bossier-Haynesville Formations”
8:45
Richard A. Denne, Russell E. Hinote, Nancy Engelhardt-Moore, and Joan M. Spaw, “Thin
Section Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford Formation, South
Texas”
9:00
Christopher M. Lowery, Matthew Corbett, R. Mark Leckie, David Watkins, T. Scott Staerker,
and Art Donovan, “Foraminiferal Evidence of Paleoceanographic Transitions in the CenomanianTuronian Eagle Ford Shale Across Southern Texas”
9:15
Khalifa Elderbak, R. Mark Leckie, and Neil E. Tibert, “Paleoenvironmental and
paleoceanographic changes across the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary Event (Oceanic Anoxic
Event 2) as indicated by foraminiferal assemblages from the eastern margin of the Cretaceous
Western Interior Seaway”
9:30
Coffee Break
10:00
Richard A. Denne, Achim Herrmann, Russell E. Hinote, and Joan M. Spaw, “Multiple
‘Filament’ Events in the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford of South Texas: Global Correlation
and Possible Causal Factors”
10:15
Rui Da Gama and Brendan Lutz, “Biostratigraphic framework and paleoenvironments of the
Niobrara Formation: An integrated approach to reservoir characterization”
10:30
Daniel Michoux, “Rig-site palynology and salt tectonics: an example from the Oligocene,
offshore West Africa”
10:45
Ryan D. Weber and Lawrence Febo, “Potential industrial applications for nannofossil
paleoecological indices on input to deepwater reservoir characterization: examples from Miocene
Gulf of Mexico”
11:00
Sarah-Jane Jackett, Rui Da Gama, Brendan Lutz, Zane Jobe, Heidi Albrecht and Tushar Prasad,
“Detecting baffle shales using microfossils: An integrated working example from a Miocene
GoM development project”
11:15
Aristóteles de Moraes Rios-Netto, Daniela Santos Machado Brito, Fernanda Silva de Araújo,
and Carlos Jorge Abreu, “Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy Helps Understanding of the Evolution of
a Quaternary Deep-water Lobe Complex in Campos Basin Brazil”
12:00
Lunch, Conrad Hilton Ballroom – Poster Exhibit Area
Oral Session 2: Reconstruction of Past Environments and Biofacies Analysis
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Mark Leckie (University of Massachusetts) and David Watkins (University of Nebraska)
1:30
Felix M. Gradstein, I. Davydov and Øyvind Hammer, “Mid-Carboniferous cyclic sedimentation
on Bear Island (Arctic Norway)”
1:45
Issam Al-Barram, Randall Penney, and Herve Farran, “Resolving correlation complexity of the
Haushi Group, Oman”
2:00
Katrin Ruckwied and Annette E. Götz, “The palynological record of South Africa’s Permian
coal deposits: clue to decipher Gondwana’s climate history on high time resolution”
2:15
T. Danelian, A. Zambetakis-Lekkas, G. Asatryan, and A. Grigoryan, “Reconstructing Jurassic
and Cretaceous paleoenvironments in Armenia based on Radiolaria and Foraminifera;
implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Tethyan realm in the Lesser Caucasus”
2:30
C. J. Schröder-Adams, A.T. Pugh, J. Andrews, J. O. Herrle, J. W. Haggart, M. Hay, D.
Harwood and J.M. Galloway, “Contrasting paleoenvironments and paleoproductivity signals in
the Upper Cretaceous Boreal Sea: a multi-fossil approach”
2:45
Gerson Fauth, Alessandra da Silva dos Santos, Carlos Eduardo Lucas Vieira, Cristianini
Trescastro Bergue, Simone Baecker Fauth, Elizabete Pedrão Ferreira, Marta Cláudia Viviers,
Javier Helenes Escamilla, and Marcelo de Araújo Carvalho, “Ostracodes, charophytes and
palynomorphs integrated biostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous in Santos Basin, Brazil”
3:00
A. T. Pugh, C. J. Schröder-Adams, E. S. Carter, J. O. Herrle, J. W. Haggart, and J. M. Galloway,
“Upper Cretaceous Radiolarian Assemblages and Paleoenvironments of the Sverdrup Basin, Ellef
Ringnes Island, Nunuvut, Canada”
3:15
Coffee Break
3:45
T. Markham Puckett, “Ostracodes and Plate Tectonics: A Case from the latest Cretaceous of the
Caribbean Region”
4:00
Pankaj Khanna and Pramod Kumar, “Characterization of Shell Concentration and Taphonomic
Analysis of Maniyara Fort Formation in Kutch Basin, India”
4:15
J. Daneshian and L. Ramezani Dana, “Foraminifera of the Qom Formation as Paleoenviromental
indicators in north of Central Iran basin”
4:30
Marie-Pierre Aubry, Don Van Nieuwenhuise, William A. Berggren, Myriam E. Katz, and
Kenneth G. Miller, “Neogene Allostratigraphy and Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies in the
Northern Gulf of Mexico along a Depth Transect”
4:45
Nicholas Holmes, Patel Balwant, Nadine Bedayse, Mike Curtis, Roger Kimber, Tim Needham,
and Andrew Thurlow, “The role of foraminiferal biofacies in developing a geologically integrated
stratigraphic framework for the North Coast Marine area, Trinidad & Tobago”
5:00
Martin Gross, Werner E. Piller, and Marco Caporaletti, “The ostracod genus Cyprideis
(Crustacea) and its implication for Western Amazonia’s palaeoenvironments (Late Miocene;
Solimões Formation; Brazil)”
5:15
Ryan Verbanaz and Scott E. Ishman, “Paleoceanographic and paleoglacial reconstruction of
Barilari Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula from the benthic foraminiferal record”
5:30
Social Hour and Poster Sessions
Tuesday, 12 March
Oral Session 3: High Resolution Biostratigraphy, Taxonomy, and Evolution
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Anthony Gary (EGI, University of Utah) and Alicia Kahn (Chevron)
7:30
Bridget S. Wade - Invited Keynote Lecture, “The time has come: Advances in Cenozoic
tropical planktonic foraminiferal biochronology”
8:00
Isabella Raffi, Jan Backman, Domenico Rio, Claudia Agnini, Eliana Fornaciari, and Heiko
Pälike, “Biozonation and biochronology of Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils from low and
middle latitudes”
8:15
Marie-Pierre Aubry and David Bord, “Back to Basics: Coccolithophores Taxonomy and
phylogenetic reconstruction”
8:30
David Bord and Marie-Pierre Aubry, “Morphometric analysis on the Tribrachiatus Lineage:
Quantifying morphologic variability during speciation”
8:45
Osman Varol, “New structural observations within Coccolithus, Clausicoccus, Toweius, Prinsius
and Reticulofenestra”
9:00
Amy Taylor and Zach Ollerton, “A global perspective on local biostratigraphy: an example from
the Scotian Shelf”
9:15
Mike Bidgood and Monika Dlubak, “Large Paleontological Data Sets and the Early History of
the South Atlantic”
9:30
Coffee Break
10:00
Paul N. Pearson and Eleanor H. John, “Greenhouse climates, pelagic ecosystems, oxygen
minimum zones, and the metabolic hypothesis”
10:15
Maria Rose Petrizzo, Francesca Falzoni, and Brian T. Huber, “Progress in the accuracy and
resolution of the Late Cretaceous planktonic foraminiferal biozonation: diversification of
Dicarinella and Marginotruncana and biostratigraphic implications”
10:30
Francesca Falzoni, Maria Rose Petrizzo, Brian T. Huber, and Kenneth G. MacLeod,
“Santonian–Campanian (Late Cretaceous) planktonic foraminiferal turnover, depth ecology and
paleoceanographic implications”
10:45
Shari L. Hilding-Kronforst and Bridget S. Wade, “Revising middle Eocene planktonic
foraminiferal bioevents – integrating bio-magneto-chronology”
11:00
R. Mark Leckie, Lyndsey Fox, Andrew Fraass, Richard Olsson, Paul Pearson, Isabella Premoli
Silva, Silvia Spezzaferri, and Bridget Wade, “Status and Phylogeny of Paragloborotalia during
the Oligocene to early Miocene”
11:15
Mostafa M. Hamad, “Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Miocene
sequence in the area between Wadi Gharandal and Bir Haleifiya, Gulf of Suez region, Egypt”
12:00 Lunch and Poster Sessions
Oral Session 4: Environmental Monitoring and New Techniques and Technologies
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Thomas Demchuk (ConocoPhillips) and Iain Prince (Shell)
1:30
Nicolas Barbarin, Luc Beaufort, Yves Gally, and Jean-Marc Moron, “Automated recognition
system of Cenozoïc calcareous nannofossils”
1:45
Gunilla Gard and Anthony Gary, “Automated Fossil Analysis – Advances in Technology Allow
for a Paradigm Shift in Biostratigraphic Data Collection and Analysis”
2:00
Andrew J. Fraass, Serena Dameron, Jonathan Dameron, Christopher Lowery, Stephen A.
Nathan, and R. Mark Leckie, “FACTbase: A new solution for foram identification”
2:15
A. C. Gary, E. Yu, and G.W. Johnson, “A Web-based Paleoecological Database for
Microfossils”
2:30
David H. McNeil, Emily Matys, and Tanja Bosak, “Raman spectroscopic indicators of thermal
maturation and graphitization of organic cement in fossil agglutinated foraminifera”
2:45
Christopher James Duffield and Elisabeth Alve, “Feeding habits of deep water benthic
foraminifera: An experiment with propagules”
3:00
Kenneth L. Finger, “Benthic foraminifers as paleodepth indicators in the Miocene of Chile: a
review of the traditional method and conflicting interpretations”
3:15
Coffee Break
3:45
Malcolm B. Hart and Christopher W. Smart, “Test deformation in foraminifera: variable impacts
caused by metal contamination and/or lowered pH in estuarine and marine environments”
4:00
Ali T. Haidar, “Time resolution and trace detection when a distinction between vertical
deposition and lateral transport is not possible in the stratigraphic record”
4:15
Lawerence Febo, “Integrated biostratigraphy in shallow geological hazard assessments”
4:30
J. O. Herrle, C. Gebühr, J. Bollmann, A. Giesenberg, and P. Kranzdorf, “Reconstructing
Holocene salinity changes in the Aegean Sea using morphological variations of Emiliania
huxleyi-coccoliths”
4:45
Sumedh K. Humane, Thierry Adatte, Samaya S. Humane, and Nandeshwar Borkar, “Diatoms
and Geochemical Records of anthropogenic impacts in sediments of the Tarna-Satighat Lake,
Umrer Taluka, Nagpur District, Maharashtra, India: Implications as indicator of trophic status and
land-use change”
5:00
Flavia Fiorini and Stephen W. Lokier, “Changes in benthic foraminifera and sedimentary facies
distribution of the Abu Dhabi (UAE) coastline over the last 50 years”
5:15
R. D. Lewis, H. R. Tichenor, O. C. Turner, and J. L. Morgan, “The use of taphonomic grade and
biovolume data to supplement relative abundance: Benthic foraminifera from San Salvador,
Bahamas”
5:30
Social Hour and Poster Session
Wednesday, 13 March
Oral Session 5: Microfossils in Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography
University of Houston Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Lecture Hall 100
Chairs: Gunilla Gard (BHP Billiton) and Lawrence Febo (BP America)
7:30
Benjamin Horton - Invited Keynote Lecture, “Microfossils in tidal settings as indicators of
sea-level change, paleoearthquakes, tsunamis and tropical cyclones”
8:00
Martine Boswell, Ben Horton, Steve Culver, Andrew Kemp, Daria Nikitina, Jessica Pilarczyk,
and Chris Vane, “Benthic foraminifera from the White Sea, Russia and their implications for high
resolution sea-level studies”
8:15
M. A. Godoi, P. L. Gibbard, and M. A. Kaminski, “Correlating shallow marine Holocene records
across the Strait of Magellan (53°S), Chile”
8:30
Crystal Pletka and Laurel S. Collins, “Diversity of Caribbean benthic foraminiferal assemblages
through the closure of the Central American Seaway”
8:45
Lyndsey Fox, Bridget Wade, Ann Holbourn, and Melanie Leng, “20,000 Forams under the Sea:
Reconstructing Climate Variability in the Middle Miocene using Planktonic Foraminifera from
the Equatorial Pacific Ocean (IODP Site U1338)”
9:00
Christopher M. Lowery, Emily Browning, R. Mark Leckie, and Cedric M. John, “Foraminifera
as Proxies for Miocene Sea Level Change and Sequence Boundaries: Observations from the
Marion Plateau, ODP Leg 194”
9:15
Patrick Grunert, Werner E. Piller, and Mathias Harzhauser, “Benthic foraminiferal assemblages
reveal the history of the Burdigalian Seaway”
9:30
Coffee Break
10:00
Werner E. Piller, Markus Reuter, Marco Brandano, and Mathias Harzhauser, “Correlating
Mediterranean shallow water deposits with global Oligocene–Miocene stratigraphy and oceanic
events”
10:15
A. J. P. Houben, S. M. Bohaty, A. Sluijs, and H. Brinkhuis, “Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts
as tracers of oceanographic reorganization in the Southern Ocean before the onset of full-scale
Antarctic glaciation”
10:30
Peter K. Bijl, Alexander J. P. Houben, Jörg Pross, Appy Sluijs, Paolo Stocchi, B. L. A.
Vermeersen and Henk Brinkhuis, “Relative sea level changes of the Paleogene Southern Ocean
inferred from organic-walled dinocysts: a synthesis from ODP Leg 189, Tasmania, Australia”
10:45
Lizette Leon-Rodriguez, Gerald R. Dickens, and R. Mark Leckie, “Carbonate and planktic
foraminiferal accumulation in the early Paleogene: The record at ODP Site 1215, eastern
equatorial Pacific Ocean”
11:00
Richard H. Fluegeman and Michele A. Chezem, “Foraminiferal paleoecology across the earlymiddle Eocene transition (EMET) in the western Caribbean”
11:15
Kendra R. Clark, Serena Dameron, and R. Mark Leckie, “Diachroneity and dissolution in the
Maastrichtian of Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific”
12:00 End of Oral Sessions
ORAL PROGRAM PLAN
SEC Building Room 100
PLEASE NOTE THIS PLAN IS AS OF MARCH 1, 2013 AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.