Dr. Pedro Vitor Zalán (Petrobras): "Contractional Tectonics in some of the most spetacular fold-and-thrust belts of the Earth: Canadian Rocky Mountains, the foreland basins of the Tian Shan Mountains in China, the Argentinian sub-andean foreland and the Zagros Mountains in Iran"
Dr. Octavian Catuneanu (University of Alberta): "Toward the standarization of sequence stratigraphy".
Dr. Maurice Tucker (Durham University): "Carbonate porosity evolution in a sequence stratigraphic context".
Dra. Judith MacKenzie (International Association of Sedimentologists): "Deep Sub-surface Biosphere and Early Sediment Diagenesis"