Fall 2008 - SEPM

NAMS NEWS 

October 2008 Volume 29, No. 2 Newsletter of the North American Micropaleontology Section, SEPM 

NAMS 

SEPM 

Who would have thought that just a year or 

so ago that the price of oil might approach 

$150 a barrel after hovering around $10 to 

$20 for so long. As I write this column, the 

price has declined but is still about $100 

above what it has been for most of the last 

two decades. 

During this period, of course, the micropaleontology 

population aged considerably 

and adequate replacements have not been 

forthcoming (see the summary of the 

Marine Micropaleontology Research Group 

Report on page 6). The fields of paleontology 

and historical geology has also suffered 

because the industry had offered many students 

jobs, and this in turn supported, indirectly 

at least, the continuation of paleontologic 

and biostratigraphic expertise in 

academe. Now departments are turning 

away from the core curricula of geology 

and becoming more focused on “environmental.” 

That’s fine, but civilization will 

continue to be dependent on petroleum for 

years to come, and the expertise available 

to explore for those resources will apparently 

lag behind for some time. 

The state of biostratigraphy has been the 

subject of recent meetings of industry and 

academic biostratigraphers, most recently 

at the Marine Micropaleontology Research 

Group at AAPG/SEPM in San Antonio. 

While we could all just sit around and 

wring our hands some more, the state of the 

discipline is a prime opportunity to revitalize 

academic and industrial ties but it will 

require careful, concerted planning. 

Many industry managers now realize that 

biostratigraphy is essential to exploration. 

This is evidenced by the generous financial 

support by a number of majors and consultants 

of the next NAMS-organized conference 

“Microfossils II: Geologic Problem- 

Solving with Microfossils” at the University 

of Houston. This will truly be an international 

conference covering all micropaleontologic 

disciplines in a variety of theme 

sessions (see announcement on page 5 and 

the NAMS website), and the Technical Program 

Co-Chairs have already received a 

PRESIDENT’S LETTER 

http://www.sepm.org/nams/index.htm 

number of abstracts 

from North and South 

America, and Europe. 

Please plan to attend. 

Microfossils I was a 

rousing success, with 

approximately 100-150 

attendees, and honored 

the late Garry Jones of 

Unocal. Garry also served as NAMS President 

and was greatly involved in Gulf 

Coast biostratigraphy activities. 

In this regard, I regret to inform you that 

long-time NAMS supporter and Past- 

President Brian O’Neill passed away earlier 

this summer after a prolonged and valiant 

battle with cancer. Brian contributed 

in many ways to his profession and was 

recently awarded the SEPM Distinguished 

Service Award at the SEPM Awards dinner 

in San Antonio this past April. A memorial 

to Brian is included in this issue (see page 

14). Because of Brian’s widespread contributions, 

the NAMS Council has voted to 

rename the Garry Jones Memorial Fund for 

NAMS Student Research, the Garry Jones 

& Brian O’Neill Fund for NAMS Student 

Research in honor of both men. 

In this Issue: 

Ron Martin 

NAMS President 

2008 GSA Meeting ... p. 4 

M2 Call for Abstracts ... p. 5 

AAPG Call for Abstracts ... p. 5 

XII IPC/VIII IOPC ... p. 7 

NAMS President Election ... p. 8 

Please visit NAMS online at: 

www.sepm.org/nams/index.htm 

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GRANTS AND ANDAWARD AWARDS SOLICITATIONS 

Garry Jones and Brian O’Neill Memorial Fund 

Jones & O’Neill Award Solicitation 

Application Deadline: February 1, 2009 

The North American Micropaleontology Section 

(NAMS) of SEPM is pleased to solicit applications for 

the 2009 Garry Jones and Brian O’Neill Memorial 

Fund for NAMS student research. The Jones & 

O’Neill grant is a $1,500 award available to one 

NAMS student member to support research with a substantial 

micropaleontological component. The student’s 

research must involve one or more micropaleontology 

disciplines, including foraminifers, nannofossils, 

diatoms, radiolarians, pollen, spores, dinoflagellates or 

conodonts. Projects may apply micropaleontology to 

traditional fields such as biostratigraphy, paleoecology, 

and paleoceanography or to rapidly expanding fields 

like biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology. The 

NAMS Council of Officers will rank the proposal 

based on scientific merit, faculty recommendation, and 

financial need. The grant will partially support a M.Sc. 

or Ph.D. research project that is not funded through 

other major grants. Applicants must be student members 

of NAMS. 

The 2008 Garry Jones Memorial Fund grant was 

awarded to Julie B. Retrum, doctoral student at the 

University of Kansas. Her winning abstract was entitled 

“A Paleoclimatic and Paleohydrologic Reconstruc- 

Mobil Foundation Student Participation Grant 

Mobil Foundation Student Participation 

Grants Solicitation 

Application Deadline - October 14, 2008 

Once again, NAMS (the North American Micropaleontology 

Section of SEPM) is pleased to have the opportunity 

to send a student to the SEPM/AAPG Annual 

Convention and Exhibition, thanks to the generosity of 

the SEPM/Mobil Foundation Student Participation 

Grant Program. We encourage all NAMS student 

members to consider applying. 

Each year at the annual SEPM/AAPG meeting, SEPM 

sponsors a “Student Awards Poster Session” that 

includes poster presentations as nominated by SEPM’s 

Sections. A Section’s awardee is not only provided this 

venue to present his/her work, but also receives up to 

$1,500 for travel to the national meeting from SEPM 

via the Mobil Foundation’s Student Travel Fund. 

NAMS NEWS Fall 2008 

tion of Pleistocene Fossil Lake, Oregon, using Faunal 

Assemblages”. Julie’s research affords a better understanding 

of late Pleistocene microbiota diversity and 

climates of the Pacific Northwest, including the onset 

of glacial and interglacial cycles. 

To apply, interested students should submit the 

required award applications forms along with a two- to 

three- page summary of his/her research, a Curriculum 

Vitae, and a budget. A supporting letter of reference 

from the applicant’s faculty advisor must be provided 

separately to the address below. 

Application forms may be requested from the address 

below. Proposals should be submitted by February 1, 

2009 and directed to the same address. The awardee 

will be notified by March 15, 2009. 

Address for application and submittals: 

Ron F. Waszczak 

ConocoPhillips 

600 N. Dairy Ashford, Room PR-3044 

Houston, TX 77079-1175 

Office: 281-293-3088 

Fax: 281-293-3833 

E-mail: Ron.F.Waszczak@conocophillips.com 

ATTN: Jones & O’Neill Award Solicitation 

David Mans of Carleton University - Ottawa represented 

NAMS at the 2008 Annual Meeting (see Mobil 

Foundation Travel Grant on page 10). 

NAMS will sponsor one of its student members at the 

upcoming SEPM/AAPG annual meeting in Denver, 

June 7-10, 2009. Information on the meeting and the 

abstract guidelines are available at 

http://www.aapg.org/denver. Students interested in 

presenting a poster and who would like to apply for the 

travel grant should first prepare an abstract following 

the guidelines outlined at the AAPG website, and then 

e-mail the abstract to NAMS President Ron Martin 

(Geological Sciences, University of Delaware, 

daddy@udel.edu) by October 14, 2008. 

To be considered for this award, abstracts must be 

sent to NAMS before they are submitted to AAPG. 

After the NAMS committee has chosen an awardee, 

the awardee will then need to submit the abstract 

see Mobil Foundation (cont.) on page 11

Table of Contents 

President’s Letter 1 

Grants and Awards 2 

Treasurer‘s Report 3 

Meeting Calendar 4 

Meeting Activities and Requests for Abstracts 4 

Reports on Past Meetings 6 

Candidates for NAMS President 8 

NAMS News 9 

Education and Training 11 

Memorials 14 

NAMS Membership /Renewal Form 15 

NAMS Election Ballot 15 

Treasurer’s Report 

This is a 12-month report from September 2007 to September 

2008. As of September 15, 2008, the NAMS treasury 

has $12,249.68 on account. Since my last report, 

NAMS received $2,181 in member dues and interest. 

Expenditures totaling $1,612 have included Cosponsorship 

of the NAMS/Cushman reception at GSA for 

2007 and 2008, service awards, lanyards for meeting handouts, 

and other minor items. Expenses associated with the 

newsletter have been generously subsidized by BP, and 

now with this newsletter issue, the Energy & Geoscience 

Institute. 

If your membership is not paid through 2008, we would 

appreciate your payment to bring your membership up to 

date. I wish to remind those NAMS members that already 

have subscriptions to Micropaleontology that their subscription 

includes membership to NAMS. This is another 

good reason to subscribe to Micropaleontology. Please see 

www.micropress.org for further information. You may 

also send a copy of your subscription to us to have your 

dues credited in this manor. 

Over the past year, with the assistance of Martin Farley, we 

have relocated our account from a bank in Denver to one 

that has branches in Houston and most of the cities in 

which other council members live. It was inconvenient to 

continue banking out-of-state. Consequently, we have also 

acquired necessary tax identification with non-profit status 

in the wake of additional 9/11 banking rules. It has been a 

privilege to serve you as Treasurer since April of 2007 and 

I have accepted another two-year term at AAPG in April, 

2008. I look forward to seeing you at future NAMS meetings. 

Don Van Nieuwenhuise, NAMS Treasurer 

September 22, 2008 

NAMS/SEPM OFFICERS 

President 

Ron Martin 

University of Delaware 

Newark, DE 19716 

(302) 831-6755 

d a d d y @ U D e l . e d u 

President-Elect 

Martin Farley 

Geology, Old Main 213 

UNC - Pembroke 

Pembroke, NC 28372 

(910) 521-6478 

mbfarley@hal-pc.org 

Secretary 

Robert Campbell 

Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc. 

HOU-WCK Rm 2171 

200 North Dairy Ashford 

Houston, TX, 77079-1197 

(281) 544-5223 

R o b e r t . C a m p b e l l @ s h e l l . c o m 

Treasurer 

Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise 

Department of Geosciences 

University of Houston 

Houston, Texas 77204-5007 

Voice: 713-743-3423 Fax: 713-748-7906 

d o n v a n n @ u h . e d u 

Newsletter Editor 

Anthony C. Gary 

Energy & Geoscience Institute 

University of Utah 

423 Wakara Way, Suite 300 

Salt Lake City, UT 84108 

(801) 585-9768 

t g a r y @ e g i . u t a h . e d u 

Past-President 

Ron F. Waszczak 

ConocoPhillips 

600 N. Dairy Ashford, Room PR-3044 

Houston, TX 77090-1175 

(281) 293-3088 

R o n . F . W a s z c z a k @ c o n o c o p h i l l i p s . c o m 

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NAMS NEWS is published by NAMS two times a year, 

just before the GSA meeting in the fall and the AAPG 

meeting in the spring. Submissions are always appreciated. 

Copyright 2008. 


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The 52nd Annual Meeting of the 

Palaeontological Association 

December 18-21, 2008 

University of Glasgow 

Scotland 

2 008 2 8t h B o b F . P er k in s 

Research Conference: Answering 

the Challenges of Production from 

Deep-water Reservoirs: Analogues 

and Case Histories to aid a New 

Generation. 

December 7-9, 2008 

Houston, Texas. 

The 8th International Symposium 

on the Cretaceous System 

September 6-12, 2009 

The University of Plymouth (UK) 

MEETING CALENDAR 

Geological Society of America 

Annual Meeting 

October 5-8, 2008 

Houston, Texas 

American Association of 

Petroleum Geologists 2009 


June 7-10, 2009 

Denver, Colorado 



October 18-21, 2009 

Portland, Oregon 



October 31-Nov 3, 2010 

Denver, Colorado 

Please consider submitting 

meeting dates, announcements, 

or information to the 

editor for inclusion in future 

editions of the NAMS News 

MEETING ACTIVITIES MEETING & REQUESTS NEWS FOR ABSTRACTS 

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 

MEETING 

The Cushman Awards & Reception is scheduled for 

Tuesday, October 7th from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Hilton 

Lanier Grand Ballroom C. Sponsors this year are 

NAMS, ExxonMobil and Shell. The event is open 

to everyone, whether you’re a micropaleontologist or 

not. Food and drinks will be provided. 

MEETING NEWS 

Pardee Keynote (Session P1): “Breakthroughs in 

Paleontology”, The Paleontological Society Centennial 

Symposium (Paleontological Society; Cushman 

Foundation; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; 

GSA Geoscience Education; GSA History of Geology; 

Paleontologic Research Institute), Monday, 

October 6th at 8:00 a.m. in the George R. Brown 

Convention Center, General Assembly Theater Hall 

A. Presiding: Jere H. Lipps and J. William Schopf. 

Topical Session T9: “Crises on the Reefs? Anticipating 

the Effects of Global Warming on Reefs by 

Reference to the Fossil Record - Is the Past Really 

the Key to the Present in the New Field of Conservation 

Paleobiology?” (Paleontological Society; 


NAMS/SEPM 

Microfossils II 

March 15-18, 2009 


Houston, Texas 

International Association of 

Radiolarian Paleontologists 

September 2009 

Nanjing Museum of Paleontology 

Nanjing, China 

Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); Paleontologic 

Research Institute; Cushman Foundation; Gulf 

Coast Association of Geological Societies), 

Monday, October 6th at 1:30 p.m. in the George R. 

Brown Convention Center, 351CF. Presiding: Claudia 

C. Johnson, Jere Lipps, George D. Stanley and 

Dennis Hubbard 

Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 

(Technical Session GC2): “Applied Micropaleontology: 

Tools and Techniques for the 21st Century” 

(Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal 

Research; Paleontological Society; Gulf Coast Association 

of Geological Societies; Society for Sedimentary 

Geology (SEPM); Paleontological Research 

Institute), Tuesday, October 7th at 8:00 a.m., 

George R. Brown Convention Center, 310CF. Presiding: 

Alicia C.M. Kahn, Jere H. Lipps and Andrew 

Bowman. 

NAMS/SEPM Marine Micropaleontology Research 

Group Meeting will feature: “Typhoon - A Web 

see GSA Annual Meeting (cont.) on page 13

MEETING ACTIVITIES &MEETING REQUESTS NEWS FOR ABSTRACTS (cont.) 

AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting 

Microfossils II Conference 

Microfossils II Call for Abstracts 

The North American Micropaleontology Section 

(NAMS) of SEPM invites you to attend the second 

international conference on Geologic Problem Solving 

with Microfossils, “Microfossils II”, March 15-18, 

2009 at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 

USA. The abstract deadline is November 1, 2008. 

Abstracts can be submitted at the conference website: 

http://sepm.org/activities/researchconferences/microII/ 

microIIhome.htm. 

“Microfossils II” is intended to bring together a 

diverse range of geoscientists to showcase the problem-solving 

power of microfossils across a broad variety 

of geologic settings. The planning committee is 

dedicated to developing a strong program and stimulating 

the “cross-fertilization” of ideas that result 

when a diverse group of scientists gather in a common 

venue. 

The first conference on Geologic Problem Solving 

with Microfossils, held at Rice University in March, 

2005, was a major success. More than 150 participants 

from dozens of countries attended, and the highquality 

program has resulted in a special publication 

that is soon to be published by the Society for Sedimentary 

Geology (SEPM) (see page 9). 

For “Microfossils II,” we welcome high-quality oral 

and poster presentations in which microfossils are 

integrated with related geologic or environmental data 

and contribute to solving significant geologic problems. 

Presentations that demonstrate new techniques 

or novel applications are encouraged, and studies of 

all geologic ages and geographic areas will be considered. 

The current roster of session themes includes: 

• From hydrocarbon reservoirs to climate and sealevel 

change: Insights from microfossils (planned) 

• High-resolution biostratigraphy in industry and 

oceanography (planned) 

• Microfossil records of sea-level and 

paleoceanographic changes (planned) 

• Environmental micropaleontology in coastal environments 

(planned) 

• Paleontological signatures of Phanerozoic global 

oceanic events (prospective, depending on 

interest) 

• Advances in biofacies analysis of marine and nonmarine 

microfosssils (prospective, depending on 

interest) 

• Microfossils and geochemistry: new oceanographic 

and environmental applications (prospective, 

depending on interest). 

Pete McLaughlin and Ron Martin 

Technical Program Co-Chairs 


NAMS-SEPM Call for Abstracts 

The 2009 AAPG/SEPM 

Annual Meeting “Image the 

Past, Imagine the Future” 

will be held in Denver, Colorado, 

June 7th to 10th. 

The Technical Program 

Committee has once again 

invited NAMS, the North American Micropaleontology 

Section of SEPM, to chair a poster session. The 

poster session theme is “NAMS Biostrat Session: 

Advances in Biostratigraphy & 

Paleoenvironmental Analysis”. NAMS encourages 

contributions from practitioners in industry, academia, 

and government that demonstrate the application of 

microfossils to develop and improve biostratigraphic 

and paleoenvironmental interpretations. 

The Denver meeting is the second NAMS-sponsored 

opportunity for micropaleontologists to present their 

work in 2009, and will follow the March 15-18 “Geologic 

Problem Solving with Microfossils 2" meeting in 

Houston. Don’t miss the opportunity to capture the 

attention of the broadest audience; plan to present at 

both meetings! 

Information for presenters and abstract submittal 

instructions are available at 

http://www.aapg.org/denver. The deadline for 

abstract submittal is November 4, 2008. 

Robert Campbell and Ron Martin 

NAMS-SEPM Session Co-Chairs 


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Marine Micropaleontology Research Group 

MEETING ACTIVITIES & REQUESTS FOR ABSTRACTS (cont.) 

8th International 

Symposium on the Cretaceous 

International Symposium on the Cretaceous 

University of Plymouth, UK, September 6 - 12, 2009 

We are working on the various circulars that will 

inform you about the conference, its scientific 

programme, the social events and the field excursions. 

Suggestions for session themes are welcome at this 

time, as are names and contact details for those wishing 

to be kept in touch with publication of circulars, etc. 

There will be an opportunity for the publication of the 

proceedings and all potential authors are reminded that 

papers must be submitted at the meeting in September 

2009. The Second Circular will be available October 

2008. 

Contact information: Malcolm Hart, Secretariat - 

mhart@plymouth.ac.uk 

MEETING NEWS 

REPORTS ON PAST MEETINGS 

Marine Micropaleontology/Quantitative Stratigraphy 

Research Group Meeting 

AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, April 21, 2008 

The theme of this year’s meeting was “Discipline 

Health of Stratigraphy and Paleontology in Industry, 

Academia, and Government”, which served as a 

follow-up to an earlier meeting convened by Jim Bergen 

(BP), Dave Watkins (U. Nebraska, Lincoln), and 

Tim Bralower (PSU) October, 2007. Invited presentations 

by Martin Farley (UNC- Pembroke), Rich Lane 

(NSF), and Bergen and Watkins were followed by discussion 

of ~40 attendees. The main points made are: 

• Industry must be pro-active in supporting student 

research and recruiting in micropaleontology and 

biostratigraphy because of age demographics. 

There are very few young biostratigraphers now 

being trained as replacements or (less likely) as 

new staff. Turnover in industry, especially among 

super-majors, will be high during the next 5-10 

years. The same is true among academics: Meso- 


Cenozoic micropaleontology and biostratigraphy 

expertise has greatly declined and Paleozoic expertise 

has nearly disappeared while turnover in academics 

will increase during the next 10-15 years. 

• The Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology section 

of NSF is highly unlikely to support geologic problem 

solving using microfossils and biostratigraphy. 

Several new NSF initiatives have been proposed 

which, if funded, will be devoted to high profile 

“deep time” studies. Of these initiatives, only the 

Deep Time Life Observatories might be suitable for 

industrial collaboration because geochronologists 

will be involved. 

• Immediate long-term forward planning is therefore 

critical to the health of micropaleontology and 

biostratigraphy. Industrial support of students must 

increase and be consistent (possibly via consortia 

and internships; see action item below) in order to 

demonstrate long-term commitment by industry 

see MM Research Group (cont.) on page 10 

InterRad XII 

International Association of Radiolarian 

Paleontologists 

Nanjing, China, September 2009 

The 12th meeting of the International Association of 

Radiolarian Paleontologists will be held in the newly 

built “Nanjing Museum of Palaeontology” at Nanjing 

Institute of Geology and Palaeontoogy, Chinese Academy 

of Sciences. A series of scientific sessions including 

plenary and special sessions, and mid-conference 

field excursions will be organized. Social events and 

programs will also be arranged. 

Abstracts are due March 31, 2009. A request for 

abstracts will be announced in the Second Circular, 

which will have instructions for electronic submission 

of abstracts. 

Proceedings of both oral and poster presentations may 

be eligible for peer-reviewed publication in the journal 

Palaeoworld, an Elsevier quarterly journal. 

Contact information: Hui Luo, huiluo@nigpas.ac.cn.


Palynological & Paleobotany 

Congresses 

12th International Palynological Congress and 8th 

International Organization of Paleobotany 

Congress 

Bonn, Germany, August 30th to September 5th, 2008 

The joint Congress of the 12th IPC and 8th IOPC was 

held on the campus of the University of Bonn in early 

September. This historic campus within the modern 

city of Bonn (the birthplace of 

Beethoven) provided excellent meeting 

and social facilities for the joint 

Congress. Over 700 participants 

gathered through the 5 days of joint 

sessions to discuss 21st century 

research into palynology and 

paleobotany. At any one time, ten 

joint sessions covered wide-ranging topics from modern 

pollen structure to early Paleozoic cryptospore 

chronostratigraphy. The interaction between 

palynologists and paleobotanists facilitated significant 

discussion linking the two disciplines, and in-depth 

discussions as to how the two disciplines can work 

together in solving complex paleontological questions. 

The meeting began with opening ceremonies in the 

main auditorium of the University on the Sunday afternoon. 

Introductions were made and pleasantries 

exchanged with the background of classical music. 

Participants then made a short walk to the nearby 

Botanical Gardens, where dinner and drinks were 

served among the numerous rows and beds of gorgeous 

flowering plants, shrubs and trees. The party 

lasted until late in the evening with good German beer 

flowing, and participants having opportunity to catch 

up with long forgotten friendships. 

Over the next four days of the meeting, joint sessions 

were the norm with decisions difficult as to which session 

to attend. With the number of participants and 

wide range of paleontological topics, it was sometimes 

difficult to choose which talk to go to. All the meeting 

rooms were in close proximity so traffic between talks 

was chaotic. Coffee breaks in the auditorium allowed 

for a brief respite, and viewing of the poster sessions 

which changed every two days. 

The Tuesday of the Congress was a day-off with the 

exception of those who chose to participate in the one- 

MEETING NEWS 

REPORTS ON PAST (cont.) 


NAMS Poster Sessions 

AAPG Annual Convention 

San Antonio, Texas, USA, April 20-23, 2008 

NAMS organized two concurrent poster sessions at the 

2008 AAPG Annual Convention in San Antonio; 

“Advances in Chronostratigraphic and 

Paleoecologic Analysis: Case Studies I & II”. The 

sessions, co-chaired by Nancy Engelhardt-Moore and 

Ron Waszczak, attracted high quality presentations that 

illustrated the contribution of micropaleontology to 

solving geological problems related to age, depositional 

environment, and paleooceanography. Special mention 

must go to Martin Crundwell and Malcolm Arnot, 

who were awarded the SEPM poster presentation prize, 

and to Jamie Shamrock and David Watkins, who 

received an SEPM honorable mention. 

The poster presentations included (in alphabetic order): 

AlShuaibi, A. A.: Coniacian to Lowermost Campanian 

Stratigraphy of the Austin Chalk, Northeast Texas. 

Aubry M. J., Bonnemaison M., VanCouvering J. A.: 

Typhoon: A Web Integrated Micropaleontological 

Database System. 

Browning E., Leckie R., McClain P., Nathan S., John 

C.: Testing the Possible Linkages between the Miocene 

Reticulofenestra Event, the Biogenic Bloom, Tropical 

Gateways and Sea Level Changes. 

Cheng J., Laurel C.: Using Benthic Foraminifera to 

Understand Seagrass Abundance, Salinity and Sea 

Level Variation in Florida Bay. 

Crundwell M. P., Arnot M. J.: Sub-Millennial Anatomy 

of Late Miocene Deep-Water Mass-Transport Deposits: 

Case Studies of the Use of Foraminifera to Decipher 

the Stratigraphic Architecture of the Mount Messenger 

Depositional System, Taranaki Basin, New 

Zealand. 

Gary A., Johnson G., Yu E.: Reducing Uncertainty in 

Paleoecological Models Using Fuzzy Logic. 

Huber B. T., Cervato C., Fils D.: Chronos Online Taxonomic 

Databases for Planktonic Foraminifera. 

Jaramillo C., Rueda M., Torres V.: A Quantitative 

Palynological Zonation for Eastern Colombia. 

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Richard Denne is a consultant 

biostratigrapher with Applied 

Biostratigraphix in the Houston area, 

specializing in calcareous nannofossils. 

He has been working in the oil 

industry for 19 years, initially at 

Exxon Company, USA and Exxon 

Exploration Company, and then as a 

consultant for the last 11 years. 

CANDIDATES MEETING FOR NAMS NEWS PRESIDENT 

Richard grew up on a farm in Iowa, and never strayed 

from his boyhood desire to be a paleontologist. He 

did his undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, 

where he learned about a special breed of paleontologists 

(biostratigraphers), so he chose to go to graduate 

school near the oil patch (which of course was also 

warmer than Iowa). His timing was a bit off, however, 

as he began graduate school at Louisiana State University 

in the middle of the 1980's bust. At LSU Richard 

did his doctoral research with Barun Sen Gupta on the 

benthic foraminifera from a large set of punch and box 

cores taken by Exxon on the Gulf of Mexico slope, 

which led to a number of publications (eight) and 

abstracts (nine) on benthic foraminiferal taphonomy, 

paleoceanography, distribution, and taxonomy. 

Upon completion of his doctorate, Richard was 

recruited by Exxon. As the recruiters had been 

informed that the company wouldn’t hire a Ph.D to 

work on foraminifera, but would hire a Ph.D. to work 

on calcareous nannofossils, Richard found himself 

switching specialties. Under the tutelage of T. C. 

Huang, he was initiated into the world of coccoliths 

and nannoliths, initially in the Neogene of the Gulf of 

Mexico, and then branching off to West Africa and the 

Oligocene of South Texas. During this time he began 

formulating a combination of graphic correlation and 

sequence biostratigraphy, which yielded three 

abstracts. He left Exxon to join Applied 

Biostratigraphix in 1997, and although he focuses on 

the fold-belt trend of the Gulf of Mexico, he has 

worked numerous projects from around the globe 

from Pleistocene to Jurassic. Over the past few years 

he has published five papers and five abstracts on high 

resolution sequence biostratigraphy using calcareous 

nannofossils. 

Richard is a member of SEPM, where he has served as 

Poster Awards Chairman and has received the SEPM 

Best Oral Presentation Award, INA, where he current- 


see Denne (cont.) on page 13 

See Ballot on Page 15 

Jason Lundquist is currently 

working in Houston for BP 

America Inc, Gulf of Mexico 

Exploration, as a foraminiferal 

micropaleontologist / 

biostratigrapher. As a result, his 

current interests have gravitated 

to the area of detailed biostratigraphic 

correlation in deep water Cenozoic basins, 

and the relationship of faunal distributions to depositional 

systems of the Gulf. 

He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Old Dominion 

University (1988, 1993), with his masters research 

focusing on understanding Recent deep sea sediment 

transport, primarily in submarine canyons, 

through petrology and benthic foraminiferal assemblage 

data. His Ph.D. is from the University of 

Texas at Austin (2000). Research there moved from 

the modern of the east coast of North America, to 

the Cretaceous of the Gulf of Mexico. There his 

interests expanded to include planktic and benthic 

foraminiferal biostratigraphy, paleoenvironments, 

and the broader paleoceanographic conditions of the 

Late Cretaceous. Along the way, he also developed 

a passion for understanding lithostratigraphic relationships 

in the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk 

groups, that continues today (he led the field trip to 

central Texas to view these strata for the 2005 

NAMS/SEPM Microfossils I Conference). 

Since beginning work with BP, he has spent much 

of his time filling in the gap (Recent-Cretacesous) 

between earlier research projects, actively generating 

data at the microscope throughout most of the 

Cenozoic. He has found the transition from data 

collection in a rigorously academic setting, to the 

day to day pragmatism of industrial scale biostratigraphy 

enlightening. It is interesting to view the tension 

between speed/efficiency, and the need for 

detailed data, driven by increased demands for more 

refined correlations. 

He remains interested in numerical analyses of data, 

and has found a valuable outlet for those interests 

through his ongoing participation in the Technical 

Alliance for Computational Stratigraphy (TACS). 

He feels that there are still many avenues for 

advancement in our understanding of our data, and 

its uses, to be uncovered by these types of 

see Lundquist (cont.) on page 13

NAMS NEWS 


NAMS-SEPM Distinguished Service Awards 

Jason Lundquist and Martin Farley were awarded the 

NAMS-SEPM Distinguished Service Awards at the 

AAPG Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas 

for their years of exemplary service to 

NAMS/SEPM. Martin served as the NAMS 

Treasurer from 1999 to 2007 and Jason as the 

NAMS Newsletter Editor from 2001 to 2008. 

All the NAMS officers and the entire NAMS 

membership are appreciative of their long and 

excellent service to the organization. 

From left to right, Ron Martin (NAMS President), Jason Lundquist (2008 

NAMS/SEPM Distinguished Service Awardee), Nancy Engelhardt-Moore 

(NAMS President 2006-07) and Ron Waszczak (NAMS Past-President) at 

the Annual AAPG Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. 

NAMS 2008 Council Meeting 

The NAMS 2008 Council Meeting was held at the 

Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Antonio on Sunday, April 20th. 

Jason Lundquist stepped down from his long-standing 

role as Newsletter Editor, while Nancy Engelhardt- 

Moore was farewelled from the Past-President position. 

The Newsletter Editor role was assumed by Anthony 

Gary and Martin Farley was welcomed as President- 

Elect. Discussions at the meeting included; the state of 

NAMS membership, the Garry Jones Fund for NAMS 

Student Research, and NAMS activities at the upcoming 

GSA Convention in Houston (October, 2008), 

Microfossils II conference (March, 2009), and 

AAPG/SEPM Convention in Denver (June, 2009). At 

the time of the council meeting NAMS had a membership 

count of 171 financial members that are paid 

through 2006 and later. The Garry Jones Fund sits in an 

overall SEPM Foundation Fund which had a 9% return 

see NAMS Council Meeting (cont.) on page 13 

NAMS 


Martin Farley, 2008 NAMS/SEPM Distinguished Service Awardee. 

Garry Jones Memorial Volume 

SEPM Special Publication No. 93 

For those of you curious about the happenings surrounding 

the special volume emanating from the first 

Microfossils Conference held in Houston in 2005, 

well…… 

As of May, all manuscripts were in the hands of SEPM 

and were either being copy-edited, or were on their 

way to being type-set. Tony Gary and I ran into several 

hurdles and roadblocks on our way to completion of 

the editing duties. Most importantly, both of us were 

absolutely swamped with our full-time duties (EGI and 

ConocoPhillips) which meant we were reading and 

editing the final(?) manuscripts in our precious spare 

time. Coupled with the fact that several authors had a 

difficult time following SEPM guidelines and several 

manuscripts required remedial refereeing and editing, 

the task of compiling the final manuscripts satisfactory 

for SEPM took much longer than anticipated. 

Suffice it to say, we have been promised that SEPM 

Special Volume #93 will be completed and printed in 

time for the Microfossils II meeting this March 2009 in 

Houston. We hope that page-proofs will be going out to 

authors very soon and the final compilation of the volume 

will be completed shortly thereafter. Tony and I 

have decided upon the final artwork for the Volume 

see Memorial Volume (cont.) on page 13 


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Mobil Travel Grant Awarded 

Thanks to the generosity of the Mobil Foundation, 

SEPM sections are able to offer a SEPM Student Participation 

Grant for students to contribute to the 

annualAAPG/SEPM meeting. This program, which 

began in 1998, allows nominees from each section to 

present his/her work in a “Best Student Poster Awards” 

session at the meeting and provides a generous grant to 

support the student‘s travel expenses. Participation in 

AAPG/SEPM Annual Meetings is a great opportunity 

for students to be exposed to the wide variety of basic 

and applied science presented in the technical sessions, 

and make professional contacts early in their careers. 

David Mans was awarded the 2008 Mobil Foundation 

Travel Grant Award. David who recently completed 

his Masters at the Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 

presented his poster session titled: “Albian- 

Cenomanian Foraminifera in Northeastern British 

Columbia and Western Alberta: Paleoecology and Inte- 

continued from page 6 

NAMS NEWS 

Mobil Foundation Travel Grant 

and avoid future shortfalls in recruitment. At least 

some consultants are willing to train new hires 

themselves. An alternative to recruiting in North 

America is to recruit qualified candidates overseas. 

However, this appears to be a short-term solution to 

what is a more chronic problem, particularly if 

micropaleontology and biostratigraphy were to be 

underfunded overseas. 

• The tasks facing micropaleontology and biostratigraphy 

represent a resurgence of tremendous opportunities. 

For example, industry can provide much 

higher temporal resolution than many published 

academic studies. At least one company reports 

248 primary events for the Neogene with resolution 

down to 93 kyr for the GOM and two Miocene 

wells with resolution down to precession (27 kyr) 

scales; by contrast, the ICS website reports only 87 

Neogene events with resolution down to 340 kyr. 

• These studies should be integrated into academic 


MM Research Group (cont.) 

gration of Biostratigraphy with Allostratigraphy” at 

the SEPM Student Awards Poster Session on Tuesday, 

April 22nd, 2008 at the Annual Meeting in San Antonio, 

Texas. 

From left to right, Ron Waszczak (NAMS Past-President), Ron Martin 

(NAMS President), David Mans (2008 Mobil Student Travel Awardee) and 

Nancy Engelhardt-Moore (NAMS President 2006-07) in front of David’s 

poster at the Annual AAPG Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. 

research. Academic geoscientists are largely 

unaware of industry results because they are mostly 

unpublished. Given that biostratigraphers now 

regularly cooperate across companies, such data 

bases can (and should) be standardized (a point 

also made at the meeting). If these results were 

then made available to academic geoscientists for 

integration into their studies, they might reciprocate, 

thereby establishing better industry-academic 

cooperation and providing research, “real-world” 

training, and job opportunities for students. 

Action item: A follow-up meeting was proposed for 

the near future to review the consortium proposal and 

evaluate alternatives. 

Ron Martin 

President, NAMS 

May 1st, 2008

Applied Biostratigraphy 

University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA 

In response to numerous requests to revive 

an introductory biostratigraphy course, we 

are presenting this course at the University 

of Houston. If this is successful, we will 

promote additional courses including courses 

for specialists. As we develop these courses, we intend 

to pull in additional instructors that have the expertise 

to deliver an extensive applied biostratigraphy program. 

Audience: Geoscientists and engineers that use 

biostratigraphic data. 

Current Proposed Dates: November 3th-4th, 2008 and 

June 2nd-3rd, 2009. 

Cost: $800 per student. 

Number of Students: Min 10/Max 25. 

Where: Science and Research Building 1, University 

of Houston, Main Campus. 

Instructors: Don Van Nieuwenhuise (University of 

Houston) and industry specialists (contributing instructors: 

Tony D’Agostino, Hess; Mike Styzen, Shell; and 

others). 

For further information: donvann@uh.edu or 713- 

743-3423 or www.geosc.uh.edu 

Course Summary: 

This is a survey course on biostratigraphic data and its 

application to petroleum exploration through development. 

Prior to extensive development of a field, good 

biostratigraphic data can have the best resolution available 

to geoscientists in determining potential reservoir 

limits. Emphasis is placed on biostratigraphic tools 

that are commonly available to geoscientists. The 

focus is on tools that aid in stratigraphic and 

paleoenvironmental interpretation for better stratigraphic 

control and reservoir characterization. 

List of topics: 

Day 1 

• Biostratigraphy and its applications in petroleum 

exploration and appraisal. 

• Examples of economic benefit. 

• Brief survey of fossil types used in industry and 

when and where to use each. 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING 

• How are samples collected and processed? 

• What types of datasets are generated and the value of 

each type? 

• Taxonomy and its importance to data quality and 

resulting interpretation. 

Day 2 

• Water-depth indicators, water-chemistry, and climate 

indicators. 

• Water-depth examples from the Gulf of Mexico. 

• Fossils in space and time. 

• Biomarkers, event stratigraphy, zonal stratigraphy, 

and quantitative stratigraphy. 

• How these are used in correlation and stratigraphic 

continuity problems. 

• Application examples in the Gulf of Mexico, North 

Sea and non-marine settings. 

• Biosteering and prediction ahead of the bit (optional). 

Mobil Foundation (cont.) 


through the AAPG website by the November 4, 2008 

deadline. Students may have co-authors, but the 

student must be the senior author and be the individual 

who presents the poster. 

We encourage all NAMS members to plan to participate 

in the SEPM/AAPG meeting in Denver. In addition 

to our place in the “Student Awards Poster 

Session”, NAMS will co-sponsor the poster session 

entitled: “Advances in Biostratigraphy & 

Paleoenvironmental Analysis”. This will be a great 

meeting for any micropaleontologist - and, for students, 

it provides an unmatched opportunity to witness the 

application of micropaleontology in the oil and gas 

industry and to make contacts with potential industry 

employers. 


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12th IPC & 8th IOPC Congresses (cont.) 

day fieldtrips to many nearby localities. Several 

fieldtrips left early on Tuesday morning, while some 

participants chose to take in the culture and history of 

Bonn. Although Bonn has a long history, the architecture 

is very modern, and the downtown area with its 

walking streets is mesh of steel and glass with a few 

highlights of early German culture standing. This participant 

chose to remain in Bonn and partake in one of 

the local Brauhaus for lunch: beer, with German sausage 

and sauerkraut was the theme of the day. Yumm. 

The Wednesday of the Congress was the Rhine Cruise 

and Congress dinner. Most participants boarded one of 

the scenic ferries for a three hour ride up and down the 

Rhine River. Dinner conversation was pleasant, but the 

real party started near the end of the cruise when many 

of the Congress partiers descended upon the bar on the 

boat’s upper deck. The heartiest of partiers were ushered 

off the boat in the late evening hours, only to find 

nearby pubs for continued revelry. 

The last few days of the joint Congress proceeded as 

the first couple: lots of good talks and posters, and lots 

of discussion among the palynological/paleobotanical 


Martin R. E., Leorri E., McLaughlin P. P.: 

Ecostratigraphic Expression of Holocene Parasequence 

Boundaries in Incised Valleys along Delaware Bay: 

Response to Rapid Sea-Level and Climate Change. 

Medina J.: Paleoenvironments and Biofacies Based on 

Eocene Foraminifera of the Pauji Formation of the 

Area Zulia East, Western Venezuela. 

Mizintseva S. F., Browning J. V., Miller K. G.: Integrated 

Late Santonian-Early Campanian Sequence 

Stratigraphy New Jersey Coastal Plain: Implications to 

Global Sea-Level Studies. 

Nebrigic D. D.: Bioprovinciality within Foraminiferal 

Assemblages- Cenomanian/Turonian Texas Gulf Coast. 

Schmieder J., Fritz, S.: Evidence of Regional Holocene 

Climate Change Based on Four Different Diatom 

Records across the Nebraska Sand Hills. 

crowd. The Congress ended with the closing ceremonies, 

and the pronouncement that the next joint Congress 

would take place in Tokyo, Japan in the year 

2012. 

In all, the Congress was huge, very successful, and as 

mentioned it was difficult to decide exactly which talks 

to attend. There were always at least two sessions at 

one time of interest to most. The Congress organizers, 

Thomas Litt (IPC) and Hans Kerp (IOPC) are to be 

commended for their hard work in organizing such a 

large conference with the huge number of participants 

(far above their initial expectations). Still, everything 

ran smoothly and the University facilities and meeting 

rooms provided comfortable surroundings, although 

several talks seemed washed out and faint in the rooms 

which could not be blacked out completely. All 

palynologists and paleobotanists look forward to the 

next joint Congress in Tokyo which should be most 

entertaining, both scientifically and culturally. 

Thomas D. Demchuk 

AASP - The Palynological Society 

ConocoPhillips Ltd., Houston 

NAMS Poster Sessions (cont.) 

Shamrock J. L., Watkins D. K.: Evolution of the Cretaceous 

Calcareous Nannofossil Genus Eiffellithus and 

Its Biostratigraphic Significance. 

Winter D., Sjunneskog C., Scherer R.: Pliocene Diatom 

Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Andrill 

Mcmurdo Ice Shelf Core AND-1. 

The next AAPG convention will 

be in Denver, Colorado (June 

7-10, 2009). NAMS will sponsor 

a session entitled 

“Advances in Biostratigraphic 

and 

Paleoenvironmental Analysis”. 

NAMS 


Abstracts can be submitted online 

(http://aapg2009ace.abstractcentral.com/) and the 

deadline is November 4, 2008. See you in Denver! 


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ly serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Nannoplankton 

Research, GCSSEPM, NAMS, and the 

Cushman Foundation. Recently he has been an active 

participant (both online and at the writing workshop in 

July) in the Earth Science Literacy Initiative. 


dust jacket, and the only item left to decide is the final 

figure for the SEPM red-book cover. We will hopefully 

have that decision made by the time this article appears 

in press, and all that will be left is the review of pageproofs. 

The task of compiling, reviewing and editing the 21 

manuscripts has been both scientifically rewarding, 

and mildly frustrating. It’s a task that I would not wish 

on my worst enemy, but extremely vital to further the 

micropaleontological and general geosciences. I suspect 

that our task was made more difficult with the 

authors coming from all corners of the globe, industry 

and academia, and all of us pressed for time in completing 

our tasks. 

The final volume will be a fitting tribute to Garry 

Jones, to SEPM, and the general micropaleontological 

audience. There will be something for everyone and it 

will be a great introduction to the upcoming Microfossils 

II meeting at the University of Houston in March 

2009 which I’m certain will be a great success. 

Regards, 

CANDIDATES FOR MEETING NAMSNEWS PRESIDENT (cont.) 

Denne (cont.) from page 8 Lundquist (cont.) from page 8 

Memorial Volume (cont.) 

Thomas D. Demchuk Anthony C. Gary 

ConocoPhillips Ltd. EGI, University of Utah 

Co-Editors, SEPM Special Publication #93 

GSA Annual Meeting (cont.) 


Integrated Micropaleontlogical Database System”. 

Discussion will be facilitated by Marie-Pierre Aubry 

(Rutgers University and Monique Bonnemaison 

(Private Consultant): Wednesday, October 8th, 10:00 

a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at the Hilton Americas, Houston, 

Room 326. 

numerical techniques. Even so, the more we try to 

extract meaning from our data, the more clear it 

becomes to him that the ultimate level of value creation 

in our science is at the microscope, where good 

data collection is the fundamental requirement for all 

other analyses and applications. 

While serving on the Board of NAMS for the last few 

years as Newsletter Editor, he had a chance to see the 

research of quite a few excellent students, through 

helping to evaluate student grant proposals. He 

believes there is a need for a whole new generation of well 

trained and enthusiastic micropaleontologists, to both create 

and analyze data. He hopes to communicate that need and 

the value of the profession, along with exciting geologic 

problems it addresses, through NAMS. 

NAMS Council Meeting 


in 2007, and it is hoped that the Fund can also be 

grown through voluntary contributions. The next meeting 

of the NAMS Council will take place at GSA 

(Houston), where NAMS has will be co-sponsoring the 

Cushman Foundation Reception for $500. The Microfossils 

II Conference is in preparation, and NAMS will 

be running an oral/poster session at the AAPG/SEPM 

Convention in Denver; “Advances in Biostratigraphic 

and Paleoenvironmental Analyses”. 


NAMS/SEPM Secretary 

Production, reproduction and distribution of the 

NAMS Newsletter is made possible by the generous 

support of the Energy & Geoscience Institute 

at the University of Utah. 


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Memorial to Brian Joseph O’Neill 

(1954-2008) 

NAMS lost an outstanding member on June 26th with the 

death of Brian O’Neill. He fought a valiant fight with Tcell 

lymphoma for two years before succumbing. Brian 

served as president of NAMS from 2002 to 2004. 

Brian joined Shell in 1979 in Houston as a paleontologist 

after graduating with an MS degree from the University of 

Wisconsin-Madison. In 1981, he transferred to Shell Offshore 

Inc. to join the paleontology staff, as Shell’s offshore 

drilling continued to accelerate and additional staff was 

needed. Brian excelled in the discipline and quickly demonstrated 

his skills at manipulating well fossil data in continuously 

evolving sophisticated software applications 

which enhanced interpretations of correlation events and 

paleobathymetry. He, and several colleagues from other 

companies, created a very successful short course for 

geoscientists who wanted to learn more about the “hows 

and whys” of paleontology in the Gulf Coast Basin. Subsequently, 

Brian taught paleo short courses all over the world 

at Shell installations and at universities. 

In addition to his penchant for teaching, he was a prodigious 

writer of technical papers. Over the years, he produced 

or co-authored some 26 external papers. In addition 

to these, he authored or co-authored 11 internal Shell technical 

reports. 

Brian was very active in SEPM Society for Sedimentary 

Geology. He held many positions in the Society, including 

serving on the SEPM Council as Councilor for Paleontology 

and two terms on the K-12 Earth Science Committee. 

While serving on this committee, he authored four publications. 

His Activities Record at SEPM headquarters shows 

he participated in some fourteen committees. With such an 

enviable record of selfless dedication to the organization, 

Brian was awarded Honorary Membership in the Society at 

the national AAPG/SEPM Convention in April this year in 

San Antonio. 

Brian also held membership in the Geological Society of 

America, Micropalaeontology Society, and Cushman Foundation 

for Foraminiferal Research, of which he was a Fellow 

and a member of the Board of Directors since 2004. 

He was a member of the Paleontological Research Institution 

and the Paleontological Society. Brian was on the 

board of Micropaleo Press. He was also a member of the 

Gulf Coast Section of SEPM and served as vice-president 

in 1987-1988. I could go on, but I believe I have given you 

a just sampling of Brian’s dedication to his chosen profession. 

He was also an active member and participated in 

many volunteer activities of the American Association of 

Petroleum Geologists. 


MEMORIALS 

Although Brian never held an office in his local geological 

society, he was a most-valued contributor to the New 

Orleans Geological Society’s School Outreach Committee. 

He liked nothing better than being surrounded by brighteyed 

youngsters as he explained the differences in his 

beloved dinosaurs, as he was quite an authority on these 

creatures. 

In recognition of his outstanding achievements in Shell 

over the past 29 years, and in recognition of his outside 

professional activities, Shell International Exploration and 

Production had recently promoted Brian to Global 

Biostratigraphy Lead. 

Whether it was paleontology, music, opera, opinions about 

fine wines, Brian was an exceptionally gifted individual in 

these areas and others, too. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention 

that he was a pillar of strength and service to Holy 

Name of Mary, his parish church on Algiers Point. Brian 

was an accomplished gentleman and will be greatly missed 

by all. 

Edward B. Picou, Jr. 

228 St. Charles Ave. 

Suite 1330C 

New Orleans, LA 

70130-2601

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AAPG Annual Meeting. Please send news to the Editor through 

May 1st, 2009. News regarding meetings, symposia, people, 

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