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spent the next eight years at Exxon Production Research, where he Sophie Warny
specialized in salt tectonics, extensional tectonics, and seismic From Biosteering Wells to Forensic
interpretation. His current research interests include palinspastic Investigation or Past-Climate
restoration of salt structures, deepwater structural styles, and evolu- Reconstruction; What Palynology Can Do
tion of the Gulf of Mexico Basin. for Science and Society
Dr. Sophie Warny is an associate professor
Lisa Stright and the AASP Chair in Palynology in the
Template-Based Modeling: Bridging the department of geology and geophysics, and a
Gap between Quantitative Outcrop Studies curator at the Museum of Natural Science
and Subsurface Reservoir (MNS), both at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge.
Characterization She grew up in Belgium and France where she received two bach-
Dr. Lisa Stright is an assistant professor in elor’s degrees (one in geology and one in oceanography), and a
the department of geosciences at Colorado Ph.D. from the Université Catholique de Louvain (in Belgium) in
State University. She has five years of indus- marine geology working under the direction of Dr. Jean-Pierre Suc.
try experience as a reservoir engineer with She is the director of the AASP - The Palynological Society Center
(RC)2/VeritasDG and Denver-based consulting company, MHA for Excellence in Palynology (CENEX) and served in 2016 as the
Petroleum Consultants. Her research and teaching interests are in vice president of the GCSSEPM society. Her center, CENEX,
bridging the gap between sedimentology, reservoir characterization focuses on various aspects of palynological research including the
and modeling, geophysics, and reservoir engineering. use of pollen, spores, and algae in biostratigraphic studies in col-
Stright received a bachelor’s degree in civil/environmental engi- laboration with the industry to the use of pollen in forensic applica-
neering from the University of Colorado Boulder, a master’s degree tions. The bulk of her research focuses on paleoceanography and
in geological engineering from Michigan Technological University, paleoclimate reconstruction, including investigation of the palyno-
and a master’s degree in petroleum engineering and a doctorate in logical record to decipher past sudden warming events and climate
interdisciplinary geosciences, both from Stanford University. variability in the Antarctic to help constrain their triggering mecha-
nisms. She received a NSF CAREER award in 2011 and has pub-
lished in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience,
PNAS, Geology, and Gondwana Research. Warny has supervised
19 theses and dissertations since starting in 2008 at LSU.

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