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What our Non-Organic Colleagues Wish We Could Tell Them |
| Marilyn Fogel, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D.C., Session Chair |
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Brad Huizinga, ARCO International Oil and Gas Co., Plano, Texas
"What petroleum decision makers want from organic geochemists"
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Gifford Miller, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
"The need for improved quantitative reconstructions of past environments"
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Noreen Tuross, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
"Help through the rough spot: Omnivory, ecosystems and archeology"
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Ginny Edgcomb, Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
"Ecogenomics: A call to organic geochemists for input!"
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| Monday AM | Relationships Between Petroleum Engineering and Geochemistry |
| Mark McCaffrey, ARCO, Plano, TX, Session Chair |
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Jeff Creek, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company, Houston, Texas
"Applications of geochemistry to deep water flow assurance problems"
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Mark Beeunas, Chevron USA, New Orleans, Louisiana
"Getting geochemistry into their (engineer's) business"
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David A. Wavrek, University of Utah and Petroleum Systems International, Salt Lake City
"Oxidation reactions in organic geochemistry: Applications to petroleum engineering and beyond"
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| Monday PM | Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis of Non-Carbon Elements |
| Jaap Damsté, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, den Burg, The Netherlands, Session Chair |
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John Hayes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
"Compound-specific hydrogen isotopic analyses: Techniques and initial applications"
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Joe Werne, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands
"Bulk and molecular sulfur isotope constraints on the timing and pathways of early diagenetic sulfurization of organic matter"
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| Tuesday AM | Depositional Settings of Petroleum Source Rocks |
| Mike Lewan, US Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado, Session Chair |
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Barry Katz, Texaco, E.P.D.T., Houston, Texas
"Depositional settings of lacustrine and terrestrial source rocks"
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Brad Sageman, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
"Recent advances in the study of ancient marine source rocks"
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Alain Huc, Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France
"Stratigraphic distribution of organic matter through time: A hypothesis on the controlling factors"
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| Tuesday PM | Organic Geochemistry at the Micron Scale |
| Robert Alexander, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, Session Chair |
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Jay Brandes, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas
"Following the diagenesis of organic matter at sub-micron scales: From source to sediment"
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Luann Becker, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
"Microanalysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by laser desorption mass spectrometry"
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| Wednesday AM | Biodegradation of Petroleum and Sedimentary Organic Matter |
| Jürgen Rullkötter, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Session Chair |
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Steven T. Petsch, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
"Weathering of organic matter in black shales"
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Jürgen Rullkötter, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
"Molecular indications of weathering in a core of the Toarcian Posidonia shale"
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Steven J. Rowland, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
"A study of the character and effects of biodegraded petroleum residues: Why oils give us the hump!"
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Andy Pepper, BP Amoco Upstream Technology, Houston, Texas
"Impact of biodegradation on petroleum exploration and production: Observations and outstanding problems"
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| Wednesday PM | Application of Molecular Biological Tools to Biogeochemistry |
| Carol Arnosti, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Session Chair |
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Stephen Giovannoni, Oregon State University
"Microbial Life in the oceanic crust"
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Andreas Teske, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
"Does phylogeny correspond to physiology in the microbial sulfur cycle?"
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| Thursday AM | Organic/Inorganic Interactions in Soils, Sediments and Rocks |
| Cindy Lee, University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, Session Chair |
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Georg Guggenberger, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
"Biogeochemical processes controlling dissolved organic matter dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems"
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Matthew Collins, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
"Long term survival of mineral-bound protein? High temperature experiments and low temperature HF digestion"
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Jeff Seewald, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
"Organic-inorganic interactions in subsurface aqueous environments: Implications for petroleum stability and the generation of oxygenated alteration products"
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| Thursday PM | Key Challenges for the New Millennium |
| Stuart Wakeham, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, Georgia, Session Chair |
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Martin Schoell, Chevron Research and Technology Co., San Ramon, California
"Organic geochemistry and the oil industry: A maturing relationship and resulting challenges for the future"
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John Farrington, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
"Reference materials for organic geochemistry"
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Geoffrey Eglinton, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
"The interface between biochemistry and molecular biology"
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