In-person: Biostratigraphy Across the eras: connecting Tradition and Innovation

Date: 15 - 16 April 
Time: 12:00
Register by: 7. April
Location: Meeting room TOR - Prof Olav Hanssens vei 10, Sodir Entrance Stavanger

Note:  All attendees must bring a picture ID to attend the seminar. We only accept passport, Norwegian driving licence and national ID card (within Schengen). If you do not bring valid ID, you may be denied entry.

Program day 1

12:00 Lunch / Icebreaker

13:00 Welcome

First Session - BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND BEYOND

Patricia Embry

13:10 Fossils and Earth Time - Evolution and Biostratigraphy

Felix Gradstein

13:50 Biostratigraphy and Magnetostratigraphy

Claus Beyer

14:15 Improving Biostratigraphic Precision using Spectral Gamma Ray (SGR) on Drill Cuttings for Depth Calibration

Katrin Ruckwied

15:05 Break

Second Session -  ALL EYES ON SCAMPI

Manuel Vieira

15:35 Tokens are Cheap, Taxonomy is Hard: Evaluating VLM performance on an open palynology benchmark / WHAT NOT TO DO AND WHY NOT

David Wadde

16:00 Taxonomic identification and user cases of Scampi / WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO

Sissa Stefanowicz

16:25 Advancing Digital Fossil Analysis at PetroStrat / HOW TO GET INPUT DATA FOR SCAMPI

Alex Ball

16:50 Bringing Scampi to Market / HOW TO GET SCAMPI

Rosa Townsend & Paul Britton

17:15 Tribute to Martin Pearce and Peter Osterloff

Mauel Vieira

17:25 End of day

1830 Dinner at SUMO Hall Toll

Day 2

08:30 Welcome

First Session  - MICROFOSSILS ROCK

Mauel Vieira

08:40 Building an integrated stratigraphy for the upper Santonian – lower Maastrichtian of NW Europe: carbon-isotope correlation, micropalaeontology and palynology of the Norfolk Chalk, England

Steve Packer

09:05 A quatitative microfossil study of the Early to middle Miocene biosiliceous mudstones of the upper Lark Formation, southern Norwegian North Sea. 

Emma Sheldon

09:30 Planktonic Foraminifera of the Jurassic, New Industrial Application

Felix Gradstein

09:55 Reducing CCS Risks: The Application of Biostratigraphy in Seal Rock and Reservoir Characterisation

Alex Ball

10:20 Break

Second Session - STARRING PALYNOLOGY 1 

Emma Sheldon

10:50 Palynological signal distortion in the Middle Jurassic of the North Sea Brent Group: palynostratigraphy, palaeoenvironments, and ultrastructural insights

Artai Santos

11:15 Pollen and spore flora evidence for climatic variation during the early Paleogene of the Møre & Vøring basins, northeast Atlantic

David Jolley

11:40 High‑Resolution Palynostratigraphy and Interbasinal Correlation of Terrestrial Responses to the TOAE in the Southern Neo‑Tethys

Samuel Fernández Rial, PhD Student

12:05 Lunch

Third Session - STARRING PALYNOLOGY 2 

Patricia Embry

13:05 Hopen revisited: integrated palynology and provenance data from legacy wells indicate a potential Carnian Pluvial Episode signal on the Barents Shelf

Niall Paterson

13:30 Widespread “dark zone” in terrestrial palynomorphs: Evidence for continental-scale wildfires during end-Triassic greenhouse warming

Remco Boss

13:55 Palynology of seabed outcrop samples from the Southern Knipovich Ridge, Hovgaard Ridge and East Greenland Ridge

Robert Williams

14:20 How Quaternary-Neogene North Sea Palynology Would Have Saved Equinor up to £90 million on well 34/7-R-1-H – a Case Study of the Tordis Incident, 2008 / RECORDED TALK

Cameron Henderson

14:45 Wrap up

Patricia Embry

15:50 End of day

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 Stavanger:
FORCE members: NOK 2000,-
Non-members: NOK 4000,-
University/Students: NOK 500,-

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Norwegian Offshore Directorate org.no: 870917732