| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 5:00 pm -6:00 pm | Ice-Breaker Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:35 pm | ROLE OF ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY IN THE GLOBAL WARMING/CARBON CYCLE DEBATE |
| Discussion Leader: Gerald Dickens (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Rice Univ.) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introductory comments from Holderness Staff and Conference Chair |
| 7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Gerald Dickens (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Rice Univ.)
"A global carbon cycle with a gas hydrate capacitor: implications for understanding extreme climate change" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:45 pm | Alan Judd (Applied Geology, Univ. of Sunderland, U.K.)
"Seabed fluid flow: geological curiosity or key part of the global carbon cycle" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:35 pm | Kai-Uwe Hinrichs (Dept of Geology and Geophysics, WHOI)
"Constraints on the deep ocean methane cycle during past climate change as revealed by molecular biomarkers" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photograph |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL/PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS/PROXIES |
| Discussion Leader: Philip Meyers (Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Michigan) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | John K. Volkman (CSIRO Marine Research)
"Lipid biomarkers: source specificity, evolution and a few surprises" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Jürgen Rullkötter (Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
"Reconstruction of climatic change using organic and inorganic geochemical and carbon isotopic proxies: Examples from the Mediterranean Sea and the Southeast Atlantic Ocean"
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Katherine H. Freeman (Dept. of Geosciences, Penn. State Univ., University Park, Pennsylvania)
"Molecular and Isotopic Records of Holocene Continental Climate Changes" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BASIN MODELING APPLICATIONS OF GEOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Zhiyong He (Zetaware) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Zhiyong He (Zetaware)
"Basin modeling in today's exploration environment, issues, alternatives approaches, and practical solutions" |
| 7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Steven Crews (Anadarko Petroleum)
"Advances in map-based and 1-D modeling: capturing space-time variations in heat flow, maturity, and source-rock properties for real-world charge risking" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Jennifer Villinski (British Petroleum)
"101 uses for organic geochemistry data: forensic evidence of the workings of the petroleum system" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MID-CRETACEOUS BIOGEOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Jaap S. Sinninghe Damste (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Marcel Kuypers (Department of Biogeochemistry, Max-Plank-Institut fur Marine Mikrobiologie)
"Mechanisms and biogeochemical implications of the mid-Cretaceous global organic burial events" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Tom Wagner (Univ. Bremen, Germany)
"Late Cretaceous anoxic events, marine source rock formation and
paleoclimate: the land-ocean link at Milankovitch time scales" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Stehan Schouten (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)
"A new organic palaeothermometer for the mid-Cretaceous greenhouse world" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm -7:40 pm | Nominations for 2004 Vice Chair |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | MICROBIOLOGY OF IN-RESERVOIR PETROLEUM BIODEGRADATION |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Patience (Unocal) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Heinz Wilkes (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam)
"Understanding the mechanisms of petroleum biodegradation in reservoirs: What do we know and what should we know" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | John Parkes (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Bristol)
"A Bacterial role in deep high temperature organic matter diagenesis and implications for fossil fuel formation" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | AGE-DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS: APPLICATIONS AND CONTROLLING FACTORS |
| Discussion Leader: Albert Holba (Phillips Petroleum) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Jaap S. Sinnighe Damste (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)
"Age-diagnostic biomarkers of diatoms: An alternative approach using lipid and ribosomal RNA analyses" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | David Zinniker (Stanford University)
"Age and paleoenvironmental specificity of diterpenoid molecular fossils" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Albert Holba (Phillips Petroleum)
"Tricyclic terpanes and other geochemical indicators diagnostic of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous oils. " |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Election of 2004 Vice Chair |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | NITROGEN GEOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Altabet (Univ. of Massachusetts) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Patrick Hatcher (Dept. of Chemistry, Ohio State University)
"Some new insights on the chemistry of N-containing natural organic matter and on its preservation potential" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Joseph P. Montoya (School of Biology, Georgia Tech.)
"Ins and Outs of the New, Improved Nitrogen Cycle" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:45 am - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL APPROACHES TO TRACING HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Eganhouse (U.S. Geological Survey) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Walter Michaelis (Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Univ. of Hamburg)
"Just sit and wait - a new strategy for remediation of environmental hazards?" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Bob Haddad (Applied Geochemical Strategies, Inc.)
"Forensic Geochemistry: A real science or market-driven aberration" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Richard Evershed (Organic Geochemistry Unit, Biogeochemistry Research Center, School of Chemistry, Cantock's Close, Bristol)
"Molecular signals from human prehistory" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:40 pm | ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE |
| Discussion Leader: Kevin Kvenvolden (U.S. Geological Survey) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40pm | Conference Evaluation Forms Filled out |
| 7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Paul Philp (Univ. of Oklahoma)
"Petroleum Geochemistry-Early Developments" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Geoff Eglinton (University of Bristol, England, Emeritus)
"Molecular Organic Biogeochemistry--Looking Backwards
through Time and Space" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Tim Eglinton (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Molecular Organic Biogeochemistry--Divining the Future" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:40 pm | Mark A. McCaffrey (OilTracers, LLC)
"Will the Worldwide Ratio of Petroleum Geochemists to Oil Companies Remain < 1/10?" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
