Graduate Students in Earth and Planetary Sciences

Dennis Sanchez M.S. Candidate Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Geological Sciences Labs Building 111 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066 U.S.A. tel: 1-732-445-6989 e-mail: sanchezdk@eden.rutgers.edu link to course webpage: link to personal webpage:

Research Interests:

• Caribbean Oligo-Miocene benthic and planktonic foraminifera: taxonomic, systematic and paleoecology.
• Stratigraphy

Education / Degrees:

• 1999. Geological Engineer. The Andes University, Merida State, Venezuela.

Courses / Instruction:

• Introductory Geology Lab. 103
• Mineralogy Lab 301
• Petrology Lab 302

Advisor and Dissertation Committee:

• Marie Pierre Aubry
• William Berggren

Honors and Awards:

Poster Presentations:

• Biostratigraphy and Biofacies of the Plataforma Deltana Area, Eastern Venezuela. Geological Society of America (GSA), April 2004.
• High Resolution Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the Miocene to Pleistocene Sequences in the Plataforma Deltana and Eastern Venezuelan Basin. International Conference. Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils. Houston, Texas. March 2005.
• Biostratigraphy Impact in the Geologgical Study During Exploration Drilling, Northwest Monagas Oilfields. Eastern Venezuela Basin. International Conference. Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils. Houston, Texas. March 2005.
• “Pale geography of the Early to Middle Miocene in the Tácata Oilfield (Capaya and Carapita Formations), Eastern Venezuelan Basin, North of Anzoátegui and Monagas States”. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Paris, France. September 2005.
• Ichnology of Wave Dominated Deltas from Miocene Reservoirs in the Carapita and Capaya Formations, Tácata Field, Eastern Venezuela: Using Trace Fossils to Reveal Input in Shallow-Marine Successions. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Houston, Texas. March 2006.
• Morphotype Analysis of Calcareous Benthic Foraminifera of the Carapita Formation, Eastern Venezuelan Basin. International Symposium of Foraminifera. FORAMS 2006. Natal, Brazil, September, 2006.

Meetings / Abstracts:

• 2004. Geological Society of America (GSA). Boise, Idaho.
• 2005. Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils. Houston, Texas.
• 2005. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Paris, France.
• 2006. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Houston, Texas.
• 2006. International Symposium of Foraminifera. FORAMS 2006. Natal, Brazil.