IAS NwLtr 271-272 January 2018 IAS Council President: Adrian Immenhauser, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany: [email protected] Past-Pre sident: Poppe de Boer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: [email protected] Vice-Presidents: Pierre Francus, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec, QC, Canada:[email protected] Giovanna Della Porta, University of Milano, Milano Italy: [email protected] Stephen Lokier, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: [email protected] General Secretary: Vincenzo Pascucci, University of Sassari, Italy: pascucci@ uniss.it Treasurer: Marc De Batist, Ghent University, Belgium: marc. [email protected] Sedimentology Nigel Mountney, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Editors: Kingdom: [email protected] Peir Pufahl, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada. [email protected] Member: Tracy Frank, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE, USA [email protected] Special Publications Secretary: Mark Bateman, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom: [email protected] Council Members: Bernadette Tessier, University of Caen, Caen, France:[email protected] Marcos Aurell, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain: [email protected] Paul Carling, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom: [email protected] Dilce Rossetti, INPE, Sao Paulo, Brazil: [email protected]. br Koichi Hoyanagi, University of Shinshu, Matsumoto, Japan: [email protected] Gail Ashley, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America: [email protected] Chengshan Wang, University of Geociences, Beijing, China: [email protected] Link to IAS National Correspondents: https://www.sedimentologists.org/society/correspondents 2 IAS NwLtr 271-272 January 2018 CONTENTS 5 Editorial 9 PGS report: 2nd 2015 31 PGS report 2nd 2016 89 1st announcementIndonesian Sedimentologists Forum 90 Early Career grants (fall session) 92 Postgraduate Gran Scheme (PGS) 96 Calendar 3 IAS NwLtr 271-272 January 2018 4 IAS NwLtr 271-272 January 2018 EDITORIAL Newsletter 271 collects reports of the Sedimentology and Basin founded undergraduated students on Research, including all 2nd sessions 2015 and 2016. issues ever published; The Newsletter continues with access to the printed announcements of the forthcoming versions of Sedimentology meetings sponsored or just supported and Basin Research at very by IAS. favourable rates; Student Grant applications access to the IAS Member guidelines close the Newsletter. Directory; On behalf of the work carried by the Friendship Scheme Early Career Scientists Committee IAS which gives free is on Facebook. membership to people in IAS has restyled the webpage (www. less-developed countries; sedimentologists.org): please have a the electronic Newsletter; look at it, log in and fill the spaces a network of National under your profile, and renew your Correspondents, which membership for 2018. report on the activities in You can renew your membership their countries; quickly and safely on the IAS website International (after log in). Sedimentological Congress Basic membership fees for 2018 every four years at reduced remain at 25 Euro for full members fees; (or 20 Euro if you renew for 5 years at annual Regional Meeting once) and 10 Euro for student members. and meetings sponsored by Please check our Membership Benefits the IAS at reduced fees; page to find out what your membership pecial lecturer tours buys you. allowing sedimentology Remember that being an IAS member groups to invite a well- gives you the following benefits: known teacher to give talks access to the online versions of and short courses in their 5 IAS NwLtr 271-272 January 2018 country; The 7th IAS International Summer travel grants for PhD student School of Sedimentology 2018 for members to attend IAS PhD students will be held in Zapala, sponsored meetings; Argentina, near Neuquén, Argentina research grants for PhD student from 21 to 28 October 2018. The title members (maximum 1.000 of the school is: Processes, stratal Euros); architecture and controlling factors of institutional grants for capacity continental to deep-marine systems at building in ‘Least Developed the foot of the Andes. It will include Countries’ (LDC), (maximum field excursions to the worldwide 10.000 Euros) renown outcrops of the Neuquén Basin. biannual Summer Schools Three days of lecturers alternating focused on cutting edge topics with three days of field activities for PhD student members. are planned. Lecturers will address The 20th International the latest advances in depositional Sedimentological Congress will take processes and controls on deep-marine, place in Quebec City (Canada) on 13- shallow-marine and continental 17 August 2018. Following previous settings. Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous gatherings on four different continents siliciclastic and carbonate strata of (Africa, Asia, South America and the Neuquén Basin will be used as Europe), the congress will now return case studies. The Neuquén Basin, the to North America… 36 years after most extensively studied petroleum Hamilton in 1982. For the first time, basin in Argentina, has been used for the congress will also be co-sponsored fieldtrips and geoscientists training by IAS’s privileged partner organization courses for decades. It provides an SEPM (Society for Sedimentary excellent opportunity to observe Geology). geology in the field and to experience The Call for Abstracts has now superb outcrops along the Andean been launched. Abstracts are invited Fold and Thrust Belt. Zapala, situated for 49 Sessions distributed over 7 in the centre of the basin, is located General Scientific Themes. Deadline approximately 180 km west from the for submission of abstracts is 19 March Neuquén Airport and represents a 2018. northern gateway to the scenic regions The Call for (early-bird) Registration of western Patagonia. The meeting will be launched in the coming weeks. point for participants will be at the Info@ http://isc2018.org Neuquén Airport, which can be reached IAS Student Members can apply for by direct airplane connections from a travel grant from IAS, provided they the capitol Buenos Aires and also from have an accepted presentation (oral or Santiago, Chile, as well as by flights poster). Deadline for applying for these arriving from Cordoba, Mendoza and travel grants via the IAS website is 1 Comodoro Rivadavia. Topics to be May 2018. addressed: Recent advances in process All information and updates about sedimentology have demonstrated the the 20th ISC can be found on the need to better record and understand Conference Website and on Twitter. depositional facies in a wide range of depositional environments, as ANNOUNCING: 7th IAS International well as the need to improve our Summer School of Sedimentology understanding of how depositional 6 IAS NwLtr 271-272 January 2018 signals are propagated at basin scale Zapala over geologically short periods of time. Note: Students must make their The core goal of this Summer School own travel arrangements to will be to provide the students lectures Neuquén Airport and apply on recent topics regarding depositional for visas, if required processes and environments, as well Travel grants for IAS Student Mem- as the governing controls that can be bers expected in different siliciclastic and carbonate systems (from deep marine 7th International Maar to continental in different geodynamic Conference (Olot, Spain; 21-25 settings (e.g., early post-rift, late post- May 2018) rift, foreland). The students will then Application deadline: 15 March apply these concepts in the field on 2018 outcrops to analyse the stratigraphic 4th Meeting of the Working architecture of deep-marine, shallow- Group on Sediment Generation marine, and continental deposits. (Dublin, Ireland; 27-29 June Selected examples will be explored at 2018) different scales, from high-frequency Application deadline: 1 May cycles, to system-scale architectural 2018 patterns (i.e., seismic scale), and Cyclostratigraphy eventually to large-scale, source-to- Intercomparison Project sink scales. Workshop (Brussels, Belgium; The Summer School will comprise 30 July - 1 August 2018) approx. 40 % lectures and 60 % field Application deadline: 1 June studies, focused on the theme of 2018 “Processes, stratal architecture and 20th International controlling factors of continental to Sedimentological Congress deep-marine systems at the foot of the (Quebec, Canada; 13-17 August Andes”. The Neuquén Basin provides 2018) an excellent opportunity to observe Application deadline: 1 May the geology and superb outcrops of 2018 the most extensively studied petroleum VII Argentinean Meeting basin of Argentina. Participation on Quaternary and is limited to IAS Post-graduate Geomorphology (Puerto student members only. Look for more Madryn, Argentina; 8-21 information coming soon to the IAS September 2018) website. Application deadline: 1 July 2018 Important Dates: All travel grants are also listed on 25 May 2018 - Application the website in the members-only Events Deadline Timeline. The listings include the 29 June 2018 - Notification of option for downloading the deadline in Acceptance your calendar. 27 July 2018 - Registration Fee IMPORTANT: The application rules (300 EUR) Payment Deadline and eligibility criteria for IAS Student 10 August 2018 - IAS Travel Travel Grants have been updated: Grants Announced Applicants must be active IAS 21 October 2018 - Arrival in Student Members; 7 IAS NwLtr 271-272