Last update: February 5, 2020

Dr. Benjamin Sames

Benjamin Sames

 

Dipl.-Geol., Dr. rer. nat.

 

Micropalaeontology

Stratigraphy

Geology

 

 

Project Leader LCCNS (FWF)

Associate-Editor AJES

University of Vienna

Department for Geodynamics and Sedimentology

Geozentrum, Althanstrasse 14

1090 Vienna

AUSTRIA

 

UZA II, Room 3B 385A

Phone:  +43 (0) 1 4277 - 53479

E-Mail: benjamin.sames(at)univie.ac.at

Department Website: http://geologie.univie.ac.at/en/sedimentology/scientific-staff/benjamin-sames/

This site: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/benjamin.sames/

Further Affiliations

 

§ Affiliated Research Associate (Vert. Pal.)

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH)

2401 Chautauqua Ave.

Norman, OK 73072-7029, USA

http://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/staff/benjamin-sames-2/

 

§ Stratigraphic Consultant

Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.)

http://www.petrobras.com/en/home.htm

News

Wagreich, M., Hart, M.B., Sames, B., Yilmaz, I.O. (Eds.), 2020. Cretaceous Climate Events and Short-Term Sea-Level Changes. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 498.

 Sames, B. et al., 2020. Aquifer-eustasy as the main driver of short-term sea-level fluctuations during Cretaceous hothouse climate phases. OPEN ACCESS, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP498-2019-105

Research Summary

My research focuses on micropalaeontology of late Mesozoic (Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous) non-marine deposits. Central aspects of my research are the taxonomy, phylogeny, palaeobiology and biostratigraphical application of ostracods (microcrustaceans of around 1mm size with a calcified bivalved shell, the carapace => Download little ostracod movie).

             Furthermore, I am interested in palaeoclimatology, particularly in climate-mode shifts, short-term climate changes, ocean-land interactions, and applications of these, such as marine to non-marine stratigraphic correlations.