Spring Short Course Offering:

ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL STRATIGRAPHY

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Quaternary Paleoecology Program

a free, noncredit short course to be held at the Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis

19-22 May 2003.

Speakers:

Stefano Bernasconi, ETH-Zurich
Simon Brassell, Indiana University
Yongsong Huang, Brown University
Peter Leavitt, University of Regina

Moderator: Josef Werne, University of Minnesota - Duluth

The Quaternary Paleoecology Program is very pleased to announce our spring short course offering for 2003: Organic Geochemical Stratigraphy, bringing together five of the most authoritative researchers active in the fields of organic geochemical stratigraphy, compound-specific isotope geochemistry, biogeochemical cycling and organic chemical paleorecords.

This is a four-day short course with a focus on organic geochemical records as archives of environmental process and change, with an emphasis on lacustrine environments. We intend the course for all those in the paleoenvironmental and lacustrine process communities who would like to know more about principles and techniques behind the stratigraphic interpretation of organic geochemical signals. If this includes you, you will want to be here. Our invitees are a really outstanding group and we are anticipating a very fruitful exchange of ideas in this important realm.

Thanks to the sponsorship of the QP Program, the course is free, but enrollment is limited so consider registering sooner rather than later to ensure your place. Details of schedule and venue will be forthcoming soon.

To register, or to have your name added to our email list for informational updates, please contact Michele Brusegard (bruse002@umn.edu; 612-624-4514) at the Limnological Research Center.

New: reading list for the short course updated

Check out the specific research interests of our invited speakers at:

Stefano Bernasconi
course topics: Nitrogen in lacustrine systems; δ¹⁵N, C:N, δ¹³C in living algae, sediment traps, and sediments; diagenetic effects; case studies for lakes Cadagno, Baldegg, Lugano, others.

Simon Brassell
course topics: Biomarkers; alkenones in lacustrine systems

Yongsong Huang
course topics: Hydrogen isotopes in lacustrine organic matter; compound-specific δ¹³C.

Peter Leavitt
course topics: Pigments in paleolimnology; pigment synthesis, degradation, taphonomy; analytical techniques and applications of fossil pigments to the study of eutrophication, acidification, climate variability, etc.

Josef Werne

course organizers
Amy Myrbo (amyrbo@umn.edu)
Mark Shapley (shap0029@umn.edu)
Limnological Research Center
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
University of Minnesota

background image: portion of core McC-01-1MP from Lake McCarrons, an urban lake in Roseville, Minnesota