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NAMS/SEPM Marine Micropaleontology Research Group Meeting and
SEPM Quantitative Stratigraphy Research Group Meeting
Monday, April 10, 2006
Houston, Texas
The Marine Micropaleontology Research Group and Quantitative Stratigraphy
Research Group
held a joint meeting on Monday, April 10, 2006, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
in Houston, Texas under the sponsorship of the North American Micropaleontology Section
of SEPM. This was the second combined meeting of the MMRG and the Quantitative
Stratigraphy Research Groups. The program included four presentations that were all
well received.
The principal speakers were Dr. Kenneth Miller (Rutgers University), Dr. Jim Ogg
(Purdue University), Walter Snyder (Boise State University) and Kerstin Lehnert
(Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University). Dr. Miller gave an excellent
presentation entitled “Phanerozoic Sea level Changes: Implications to Phytoplankton
Evolution” that generated lots of discussion. Next, on behalf of the International
Commission on Stratigraphy and CHRONOS, Dr. Ogg gave an update and demo on
Time-Scale Creator, which is a time-calibrated Phanerozoic stratigraphy database and
chart making visualization package. His demo received positive feedback and discussion.
Walter Snyder and Kerstin Lehnert gave a combined talk and demo entitled “SedDB,
PaleoStrat and SESAR-a Partnership for International Sedimentary Geologic and
Paleontologic Geoinformatics”. Walter spoke first and he gave an informative overview on
two NSF funded database projects, SedDB and PaleoStrat. These projects have joined
forces to provide a master database for both marine and terrestrial sedimentary geologic
data. Both systems are loading legacy data and working to provide the support necessary
for user data input. Kerstin followed with an overview of SESAR, the System for Earth
Sample Registration, which is building a web-based registry that generates and administers
globally unique identifiers for Geoscience samples: the International Geo Sample Number (IGSN).
The talks were selected and arranged by NAMS members Nancy Engelhardt-Moore, James
Gamber and Ron Waszczak. Devon Energy provided refreshments for the event and SEPM
generously provided drink coupons. There were 34 attendees. The MMRG/QS joint session provided an opportunity for
networking among micropaleontologists working for major oil companies, consulting firms,
geological surveys, and universities. Everyone had a good time and enjoyed the event.
Below is a list of attendees:
Name Email Address
Lee Allison lee.allison@azgs.az.gov
Todd Boesiger boest0@bp.com
Sarah Bower sbower@carnenergy.plc.uk
Andrew Bowman Andy.Bowman@chevron.com
Chengjie Liu chengjie.liu@exxonmobil.com
Mitch Covington mitch.covington@bugware.com
Thomas Demchuk thomas.d.demchuk@conocophillips.com
Richard Denne richdenne@aol.com
Thomas Dignes twdi@chevron.com
Nancy Engelhardt-Moore nengelhardt-moore@houston.rr.com
Martin Farley mbfarley@sigmaxi.org
Doug Fils fils@iastate.edu
Robert Fleisher forams@flash.net
James Gamber gamberjh@bp.com
Anthony Gary tgary@egi.utah.edu
Rusty Gilbert rustygilbert@chevron.com
Dana Griffith dwgriff@sbcglobal.net
Wes Ingram ingr@email.unc.edu
Brice Lambi lambi@iodp.tamu.edu
Kerstin Lehnert lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu
Jason Lundquist lundqujj@bp.com
Peter McLaughlin ppmclau@udel.edu
Kenneth Miller kgm@rci.rutgers.edu
Hilary Olson olson@utig.ig.utexas.edu
Don Owen owende@hal.lamar.edu
Bernard Shaffer blshaffer@aol.com
Walter Snyder wsnyder@boisestate.edu
Shirley Van Hech shirley-vanhech@shell.com
Walter Warnardt msiw@micro-strat.com
Ron Waszczak ron.f.waszczak@usa.conocophillips.com
Sherwood Wise wise@gly.fsu.edu
Roger Witmer roger.witmer@chevron.com
Edward Yu ekyu@egi.utah.edu
James Ogg jogg@prudue.edu
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