On Nov. 12th, 13th, 16th,18th and 21st, the 160th Geo-Forum of the School of Geosciences was carried out in the conference room of C757 and the Geological Meseum C324. Professor Kliti Grice, academician of Australia from Curtin University, gave a series of lectures on “Organic and isotope geochemistry” to the graduate students and teachers from school of Geosciences. Below shows the 11modules that have been given by Professor Grice:
2. Structure of Biomarkers
3. Analysis of Organic Matter for Petroleum Exploration
4. Biodegradation and Oils
5. Compound Specific Carbon Isotopes
6. Compound Specific Hydrogen Isotopes
7. Sulfur (d34S) Compound Specific Isotope Analysis
8. Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GC×GC): General Background and Applications
9. Hydropyrolysis (HyPy) and Its Applications
10. Molecular Aspects of the Early Diagenesis of Chlorophyll
11. Mass Extinction Events
Professor Kliti Grice is an internationally renowned organic geochemist who creatively combines geological information with data on molecular fossils and their stable carbon, hydrogen and sulfur isotopic compositions to reconstruct details of microbial, fungal and floral inhabitants of modern and ancient aquatic environments and their association with prolific source rocks for oil/gas and mineral exploration. She is especially well known for identifying a geological and environmental basis for the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history, which happened at the end of the Permian Period, about 252 million years ago. She currently researches the end -Triassic, end-Devonian and end-Cretaceous extinction events (including the Chicxulub crater core) and she also has a new research program investigating role of microbial communities in exceptional fossil preservation and revealing exciting novel evolutionary information.
