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8 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- NAMS NEWS Fall 2008 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 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting 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 SEPM 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 NAMS NEWS Fall 2008 9
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