In-person: Biostratigraphy, conventional and beyond
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FORCE biostratigraphy Group invites you to a meeting on 6-7 March 2024. Topics for the seminar is biostratigraphy and its applications, the focus is on both conventional and ‘less conventional’ applications of biostratigraphy. Don't miss out on this great event.
| Date | Time | Duration | Register by | Location |
| 6 - 7 March 2024 | 12:00 | 2 Days | 29 February 2024 | Tor auditorium |
The meeting will be in person at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate in Stavanger.
Program
| WEDNESDAY 6 March 2024 | Presenter | Duration | |
| 12:00 | Lunch/ice-breaker | 60 min | |
| 13:00 | Welcome & First Session (Chair: Paul Milner) | 10 min | |
| 13:10 | StrataBugs: what have we done, where are we now, and where are we going? | Paul Britton | 20+5 min |
| 13:35 | The Last of Us: palynology/biostratigraphy at the geoscience department @UIO | Wolfram Michael Kürschner | 20+5 min |
| 14:00 | The first 40 million years of planktonic foraminifera - industrial applications | Felix Gradstein | 20+5 min |
| 14:25 | The application of biostratigraphic studies in the energy and subsurface-storage industries. An example from the Ainsa Basin, Spain | Lizette Leon-Rodriguez | 20+5 min |
| 14:50 | Scampi - Answering the 3-billion fossil question | David Wade, Sissa Stefanowicz, Erik Anthonissen & Alex Cullum | 20+5 min |
| 15:15 | Break | 30 min | |
| Second Session (Chair: Manuel Vieira) | |||
| 15:45 | Biostrat AI - a new artificial intelligence-assisted tool to analyse palynology slides | Gil Machado, Laurenz Strothmann & Frederik Strothmann | 20+5 min |
| 16:10 | Leaves and leafy bodies of liverworts in palynological samples from the Mesozoic of NW Europe | David Bailey | 20+5 min |
| 16:35 | Middle Miocene dinoflagellate cysts assemblages along a shallow water (onshore Denmark) – deep water (Norwegian North Sea) transect with a focus on the transition to the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum | Laura Kellner (student), Manuel Vieira, Karen Dybkjær, Kasia K. Sliwinska, Lígia Castro | 20+5 min |
| 17:00 | A revised Jurassic biozonation scheme for the North Sea and adjacent areas” | Phil Copestake | 20+5 min |
| 17:25 | Wrap up (Manuel Vieira) | 15 min | |
| 17:40 | End of Day 1 | ||
| 18:30 | Dinner @ Hall Toll (Sumo) | ||
| THURSDAY 7 March 2024 | Presenter | Duration | |
| 08:30 | Welcome & First Session (Chair: Patricia Embry) | 10 min | |
| 08:40 | From counts to chrons: Equinor’s data science approach to automating geologic age interpretation. | Erik Anthonissen & Kjell Lindbo | 20+5 min |
| 09:05 | How to separate good and bad events: A mad dog case history | Felix Gradstein & Inger Lise Kristiansen | 20+5 min |
| 09:30 | A correlation of Jurassic rocks in the offshore basins of the British Isles and Ireland | Phil Copestake, Nigel Ainsworth and Matt Wakefield | 20+5 min |
| 09:55 | Dinosaurs and Megaspores – New advances in the biostratigraphy of the Late Jurassic Lourinha Formation, central western Portugal | Pete Morris | 20+5 min |
| 10:20 | Break | 30 min | |
| Second Session (Chair: Paul Milner) | |||
| 10:50 | Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Late Triassic in the Barents Sea | Shaan Heydenrych (student) | 20+5 min |
| 11:15 | Early Cretaceous deltaic deposits of the Main Pay Reservoir, Zubair Formation, SE Iraq: integrated palynostratigraphy | Dan Finucane | 20+5 min |
| 11:40 | The Arctic Cretaceous–Eocene – a biostratigraphical review and a new detailed palynostratigraphy | Henrik Nøhr-Hansen | 20+5 min |
| 12:05 | Lunch | 60 min | |
| Third Session (Chair: Robert Williams) | |||
| 13:05 | Biostratigraphy of the Early to Middle Miocene siliceous succession of the Hod/Vahall area, southern Norwegian North Sea | Emma Sheldon, Karen Dybkjær, Erik Skovberg Rasmussen, Mimmi Oksman | 20+5 min |
| 13:30 | How living cyst studies contribute “bio” to dinoflagellate biostratigraphy | Barrie Dale | 20+5 min |
| 13:55 | Palynology as a tool to constrain variations in sedimentary provenance within Triassic fluvial successions from the Central North Sea Basin, UK | Christopher Card (student), Adrian Hartley, David Jolley, Andrew Morton | 20+5 min |
| 14:20 | Wrap up (Robert Williams) | 5 min | |
| 14:25 | End of Day 2 | ||
Organising Committee
Kasia Sliwinska (kksl@geus.dk)
Patricia Embry (pkov@equinor.com)
Julie Margrethe Fredborg (vzl153@alumni.ku.dk)
Robert Williams (Robert.Williams@npd.no)
Paul Milner (paul.stephen.milner@akerbp.com)
Manuel Vieira (manuel.vieira@akerbp.com)
FORCE seminars have previously been fully booked with waiting lists so you are encouraged to sign up as soon as you know you will attend.
Participation fees:
FORCE members: NOK 1500,-
Non-members: NOK 3000,-
University/Students: NOK 500,-
Important information:
You can register as a FORCE member and pay "FORCE member" price if you are an employee of a member company.
All FORCE member companies are listed here.
Payment is made online by credit card or VIPPS. Please note that no refunds will be given after you have signed up.
If you for any reason cannot attend the workshop, you are welcome to send a representative, just inform Linn Smerud as soon as there are changes.
If you need to cancel your registration, please use the confirmation e-mail you received when you signed up.
If the seminar/webinar is cancelled, your payment will be refunded.
For other questions, please contact Linn Smerud or Tone Mydland.
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Updated: 08/03/2024