In a few days, several members of our ichnofamily will be heading to the beautiful city of Québec, Canada. In between enjoying the culture and food of Quebec, and the company of our colleagues, we will be giving several presentations:

Monday, August 13th

4:00 pm in room 200B

• Fernando Valencia will give an oral presentation on: Diagenesis of the Perla Limestone, Gulf of Venezuela Basin: Implications on the petrophysical properties.

5:10 pm to 7:00 pm in room 400AB

• Romain Vaucher will give a poster presentation on: Cambrian-Ordovician tide- to wave-dominated shallow-marine clastic environments from Sierra de Cajas, northwest Argentina.

Thursday, August 16th

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm in room 400AB

• Maximiliano Paz will give a poster presentation on: Bottom currents in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation Black Shales (Argentina): An example of benthos response to oxygen delivery in oxygen-deficient environments.
• Mayra Zuniga will give a poster presentation on: Importance of the quantity of information and sedimentological studies in the property population of a Cretaceous oil field in the eastern Ecuadorian Basin.
• Meagan Gilbert will give a poster presentation on: Ichnology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Bearpaw Formation Transition in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada: Transgression on a mixed wave-tide influenced muddy coastline. 

Friday, August 17th

8:30 am to 10:15 am in room 204AB

• Dr. Luis A. Buatois and Dr. M. Gabriela Mángano will be leading the session: New frontiers in ichnology applies to facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy.

8:30 am in room 204AB

• Dr. Luis Buatois will give an oral presentation on: Exploring new frontiers in ichnology applied to facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy.

8:50 am in room 204AB

• Dr. Dasgupta will give an oral presentation on: The dual nature of shelf-margin deltas.

2:20 pm to 4:30 pm in room 204AB

• Dr. Luis A. Buatois and Dr. M. Gabriela Mángano will be leading the session: New frontiers in ichnology applies to facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy.

4:20 pm in room 204AB

• Meagan Gilbert will be giving a short oral presentation on her poster: Ichnology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Bearpaw Formation Transition in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada: Transgression on a mixed wave-tide influenced muddy coastline. 

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm in room 400AB

• Maximiliano Paz will give a poster presentation on: Bottom currents in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation Black Shales (Argentina): An example of benthos response to oxygen delivery in oxygen-deficient environments.
• Mayra Zuniga will give a poster presentation on: Importance of the quantity of information and sedimentological studies in the property population of a Cretaceous oil field in the eastern Ecuadorian Basin.
• Meagan Gilbert will give a poster presentation on: Ichnology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Bearpaw Formation Transition in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada: Transgression on a mixed wave-tide influenced muddy coastline. 

By Brittany Laing