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Lauren Birgenheier - Research Assistant Professor

Phone: 801-585-3966
Fax: 801-585-3540

Email: lbirgenheier@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise:
  • Sequence Stratigraphy
  • Sedimentary Geology
  • Geochemistry
  • Conventional and Unconventional Reservoir Characterization
Regional and Basin Experience:
  • Utah
  • Eastern Australia
Education:
  • Ph.D. in Geoscience (geology specialization), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • B.A. in Geology (with distinctions), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Memberships:
  • American Association of petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
  • Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG)
  • International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
  • Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
  • Geological Society of America (GSA)
Honors/Awards:
  • 2008 Myerly-Martin Prize for excellence in Graduate Research: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Geosciences
  • 2007 Geological Society of America Coal Division Best Paper at 2006 GSA Annual Conference
  • 2005 Geological Society of America 2005 Graduate Student Research Grant
  • 2005 International Association of Sedimentologists Postgraduate Grant Scheme
  • 2004-2007 Othmer Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • 2002 Phi Beta Kappa
  • 2002 Outstanding Senior Geology Student: Rocky Mountain Assoc. of Geolgists
  • 2002 Award for Excellence: Association of Women Geologists
  • 2002 Patricia Buster Research Scholarship
  • 2002 Donald. B. Gould Research Scholarship
Publications:
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R., Rygel, M.C., 2010, Coupled carbon isotopic and sedimentologic records from the Permian system of eastern Australia reveal the response of atmospheric carbon dioxide to glacial growth and decay during the late Palaeozoic ice age, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 268, p. 178-193. (Peer-Reviewed Manuscript (PRM))
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Vanden Berg, M.D., 2010. Integrated Sedimentary and Geochemical Investigation of Core from Upper Green River Formation Lacustrine Deposits, Uinta Basin, Utah. Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 11-14, no. 728280. (Abstract)
  • Fielding, C.R., Corbett, M., Birgenheier, L., 2010. Sheet-Like Fluvial Architecture on Regional Scales from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America: The Case for Allogenic Control. Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 11-14, no. 724955. (Abstract)
  • Plink-Bjorklund, L.P., Golab, J., Birgenheier, L.P., 2010 Spearating Allogenic and Autogenic Controls in a Super-Greenhouse Fluvial System. Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 11-14, no.735331. (Abstract)
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Fielding, C.R., Corbett, M.J., Kesler, C., 2009, Sequence stratigraphic assessment of the Muley Canyon Sandstone and Musak Formation, henry Mountains Syncline: Implications for understanding the Muley Canyon Coal Zone, Utah Geological Survey Open File Report 557. (PRM)
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Fielding, C.R., Rygel, M.C., Frank, T.D., Roberts, J., in press, Evidence for dynamic climate change on sub-10 6 -yr scales from the late Paleozoic glacial record, Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, Journal of Sedimentary Research. v. 79, p. 56-82 (PRM)
  • Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Birgenheier, L.P. & Rygel, M.C., 2009. The late Palaeozoic of eastern Australia: a review with emphasis on petroleum system elements. Geological Society of London conference on Glaciogenic Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems, London, UK, December 1-2, 2009 Abstracts Volume, 61. (Abstract)
  • Fielding, C.R., Corbett, M.J. & Birgenheier, L.P., 2009. Sheet-like fluvial architecture on regional scales: examples from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America. 9th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, August 24th - 28th, 2009, Acta Geologica Lilloana, 21 Suplemento, 32-33. (Abstract)
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Fielding, C.R., Corbett, M.J., 2009. Facies and architectural analysis of the lower Campanian Muley Canyon Sandstone, Henry Mountain Basin, southeastern Utah. Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, June 7-10. p.24. (Abstract)
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Golab, J., 2009. Geochemical and sedimentary record of climate change from the Paleocene-Eocene Colton and Green River Formations, Southwestern Uinta Basin, Utah. Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, June 7-10, p.24. (Abstract)
  • Keach, W.R., Hokanson, W., Birgenheier, L., Baxter, D., 2009. New methods to understand Dakota sand fairway, Uinta Basin, Utah. Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX, May 4-7.
  • Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Birgenheier, L.P., Rygel, M.C., Jones, A.T., Roberts, J., 2008, Stratigraphic record and facies associations of the late Paleozoic ice age in eastern Australia (New South Wales and Queensland), in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space, Geological Society of America Special Paper 441, p. 41-57. (PRM)
  • Frank, T.D., Birgenheier, L.P., Montañez, I.P., Fielding, C.R., Rygel, M.C., 2008, Late Paleozoic climate dynamics revealed by comparison of ice-proximal stratigraphic and ice-distal isotopic records, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space, Geological Society of America Special Paper 441, p. 331-342. (PRM)
  • Rygel, M.C., Fielding, C.R., Bann, K., Frank, T.D., Birgenheier, L., & Tye, S.C., in press, The early Permian Wasp Head Formation, Sydney Basin, High-latitude shallow marine sedimentation following the late Asselian-early Sakmarian glacial event in eastern Australia, Sedimentology, v. 55, 1517-1540. (PRM)
  • Rygel, M.C., Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Birgenheier, L.P., 2008, The magnitude of late Paleozoic glacioeustatic fluctuations: a synthesis, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p. 500-511. (PRM)
  • Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Birgenheier, L.P., Rygel, M.C., Jones, A.T., Roberts, J., 2008, Alternating glacial and non-glacial intervals characterize the late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age: stratigraphic evidence from eastern Australia, Journal of the Geologocial Society of London, v. 165, p.129-140. (PRM)
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Nash, G.D., and Segall, M.P., 2008. Onshore-offshore correlation of reservoir sands: A paleodrainage assessment model for Angola. 7th HGS/PESGB Africa Conference, Houston, TX, September 8-10.
  • Birgenheier, L.P., Fielding, C.R., Rygel, M.C., Frank, T.D., 2008. Stratigraphic and sedimentologic evaluation of the Carboniferous ice-proximal record from easten Australia reveals climatic variation on multiple timescales. Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 20-23, v.17, p.18. (Abstract)
  • Birgenheier, L.P., 2007, A sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and geochemical study of the late Paleozoic ice age, eastern Australia, Ph.D. thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 263p. (PRM)
  • Montanez, I.P., Tabor, N.J., Niemeier, D., DiMichele, W.A., Frank, T.R., Fielding, C.R., Isbell, J.L., Birgenheier, L.P., Rygel, M.C., 2007, CO2-forced climate instability and linkages to tropical vegetation during late Paleozoic deglaciation, Science, v. 315, p. 87-91. (PRM)
  • Myrow, P.M., Tice, L.*, Archuleta, B., Clark, B., Taylor, J.F., & Ripperdan, R.L, 2004, Flat-pebble conglomerate: its multiple origins and relationship to meter-scale depositional cycles. Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 973-996. (PRM)
    *Maiden name is Tice