25th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry IMOG 2011

Dear Conference Delegates,
Preface
The Book of Abstracts represents the work that will be presented at the 25 th <strong>International</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> on
Organic Geochemistry, held in Interlaken, Switzerland from 18 th – 23 rd September 2011. The conference is
organised under the auspices of the European Association of Organic Geochemists. A total of 586
abstracts were submitted for consideration by the Scientific Committee, of which all were accepted. Some
abstracts were withdrawn during the process of preparation of the abstract volume, leaving 580 papers to
be presented at the conference.
The Scientific Committee selected 85 abstracts to be presented orally in either plenary or parallel sessions.
In this volume, abstracts of the oral presentation are numbered from 1 – 85 with the prefix ―O‖. The
remaining 495 abstracts were accepted as poster presentations and grouped in themed sessions. The
posters will be split, with half on view for Monday and Tuesday and the remaining half on view for
Wednesday and Thursday. Each themes session will be ―open‖ on a specific day, when the presenting
author will be available for discussion. During this specific day the author should be in attendance during
the poster session. Abstracts of posters are numbered from 001 to 516 with the prefix ―P‖. Posters P001 to
P126 are open for discussion with the presenting author on Monday; P128 to P251 on Tuesday; P254 to
P377 on Wednesday and P380 to P516 on Thursday.
We hope that you will find this Book of Abstracts informative and wish you a successful and enjoyable
conference.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Volker Dieckmann - Shell, The Netherlands (Conference Chairman)
Erik Tegelaar - Shell, The Netherlands (Chairman Scientific Programme)
Pim van Bergen – Shell, Scotland
Stefano Bernasconi, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Schmidt, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Carsten Schubert, EAWAG, Switzerland
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Erik Tegelaar - Shell, The Netherlands (Chairman)
Jan de Leeuw – Royal NIOZ and Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Sylvie Derenne - CNRS Paris, France
Tim Eglinton - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Francois Gelin - Total, France
Vincent Grossi - University of Lyon, France
Raymond Michels - CNRS Nancy, France
Richard Patience - Chevron, U.S.A.
Ann Pearson - Harvard University, U.S.A.
Alex Sessions - CalTech, U.S.A.
Tom Wagner - Newcastle University, U.K.
Heinz Wilkes - GFZ Potsdam, Germany
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