All publications

Journals

SIMA, A.A. and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2013. Optimizing SIFT for Matching of Short Wave Infrared and Visible Wavelength Images. Remote Sensing, 5(5): 2037-2056.

BUCKLEY, S.J., KURZ, T.H., HOWELL, J.A. and SCHNEIDER, D., 2013. Terrestrial lidar and hyperspectral data fusion products for geological outcrop analysis. Computers & Geosciences, 54: 249-258. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2013.01.018.

SIMA, A.A., BONAVENTURA, X., FEIXAS, M., SBERT, M., HOWELL, J.A. and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2013. Computer-aided image geometry analysis and subset selection for optimizing texture quality in photorealistic models. Computers & Geosciences, 52: 281-291. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2012.11.004.

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J. and HOWELL, J.A., 2013. Close-range hyperspectral imaging for geological field studies: workflow and methods. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(5): 1798-1822. doi:10.1080/01431161.2012.727039.

BRAATHEN, A., OSMUNDSEN, P.T., HAUSO, H., SEMSHAUG, S., FREDMAN, N., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2013. Fault-induced deformation in a poorly consolidated, siliciclastic growth basin: A study from the Devonian in Norway. Tectonophysics, 586: 112-129. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.11.008.

HAMPSON, G.J., ROYHAN GANI, M., SAHOO, H., RITTERSBACHER, A., IRFAN, N., RANSON, A., JEWELL, T.O., GANI, N.D.S., HOWELL, J.A., BUCKLEY, S.J. and BRACKEN, B., 2012. Controls on large-scale patterns of fluvial sandbody distribution in alluvial to coastal plain strata: Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Central Utah, USA. Sedimentology. 59(7): 2226-2258. doi:10.1111/J.1365-3091.2012.01342.X.

SIMA, A.A., BUCKLEY, S.J. and VIOLA, I., 2012. An interactive tool for analysis and optimization of texture parameters in photorealistic virtual 3d models. International Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, I(2): 165-170.

SIMA, A.A., BUCKLEY, S.J., KURZ, T.H., and SCHNEIDER, D., 2012. Semi-automatic integration of panoramic hyperspectral imagery with photorealistic lidar models. Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation, 2012(4): 439-450.

KURZ, T.H., DEWIT, J., BUCKLEY, S.J., THURMOND, J.B., HUNT, D.W. and SWENNEN, R., 2012. Hyperspectral image analysis of different carbonate lithologies (limestone, karst and hydrothermal dolomites): the Pozalagua Quarry case study (Cantabria, North-west Spain). Sedimentology, 59(2): 623-645. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01269.x.

BRAATHEN, A., BÆLUM, K., MAHER, H., BUCKLEY, S.J., 2011. Growth of extensional faults and folds during deposition of an evaporite-dominated half-graben basin: the Carboniferous Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 91(3): 137-160.

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A. and SCHNEIDER, D., 2011. Integration of panoramic hyperspectral imaging with terrestrial lidar data. Photogrammetric Record, 26(134): 212-228. doi:10.1111/j.1477-9730.2011.00632.x.

ENGE, H.D., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2010. Quantifying clinothem geometry in a forced-regressive river-dominated delta, Panther Tongue Member, Utah, USA. Sedimentology, 57(7): 1750-1770. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01164.x.

ENGE, H.D., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2010. The geometry and internal architecture of stream mouth bars in the Panther Tongue and the Ferron Sandstone members, Utah, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80(11): 1018-1031. doi:10.2110/jsr.2010.088.

JACKSON, C.A.L, GRUNHAGEN, H., HOWELL, J.A., LARSEN, A.L., ANDERSSON, A., BOEN, F., and GROTH, A., 2010. 3D seismic imaging of lower delta-plain beach ridges: lower Brent Group, northern North Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, 167(6): 1225-1236. doi:10.1144/0016-76492010-053.

BUCKLEY, S.J., ENGE, H.D., CARLSSON, C., and HOWELL, J.A., 2010. Terrestrial Laser Scanning for use in Virtual Outcrop Geology. The Photogrammetric Record, 25(131): 225-239. doi:10.1111/j.1477-9730.2010.00585.x.

AAS, T.E., HOWELL, J.A., JANOCKO, M., and MIDTKANDAL, I., 2010. Re-created early Oligocene seabed bathymetry and process-based simulations of the Peïra Cava turbidite system. Journal of the Geological Society, 167(5): 857-875. doi:10.1144/0016-76492009-005.

BUCKLEY, S.J. SCHWARZ, E., TERLAKY, V., HOWELL, J.A. and ARNOTT, R.W.C., 2010. Combining aerial photogrammetry and terrestrial lidar for reservoir analog modeling. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 76(8): 953-963.

LARSEN, B., GUDMUNDSSON, A., GRUNNALEITE, I., SÆLEN, G., TALBOT, M.R., BUCKLEY, S.J., 2010. Effects of sedimentary interfaces on fracture pattern, linkage, and cluster formation in peritidal carbonate rocks. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(7): 1531-1550. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.03.011.

LEREN, B.L.S., HOWELL, J., ENGE, H., and MARTINIUS, A., 2010. Controls on stratigraphic architecture in contemporaneous delta systems from the Eocene Roda Sandstone, Tremp-Graus Basin, northern Spain. Sedimentary Geology, 229(1-2): 9-40. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.03.013.

FOSSEN, H., SCHULTZ, R.A., RUNDHOVDE, E., ROTEVATN, A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2010. Fault linkage and graben stepovers in the Canyonlands (Utah) and the North Sea Viking Graben, with implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation. AAPG Bulletin, 94(5): 597-613. doi:10.1306/10130909088.

ENGE, H.D. and HOWELL, J.A., 2010. Impact of deltaic clinothems on reservoir performance: dynamic studies of reservoir analogs from the Ferron Sandstone Member and Panther Tongue, Utah. AAPG Bulletin, 94(2):139-161. doi:10.1306/07060908112.

AAS, T.E., HOWELL, J.A., JANOCKO, M. and JACKSON, C., 2010. Control of Aptian palaeobathymetry on turbidite distribution in the Buchan Graben, Outer Moray Firth, Central North Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(2): 412-434. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.10.014.

CABELLO, P., FALIVENE, O., LÓPEZ-BLANCO, M., HOWELL, J., ARBUÉS, P. and RAMOS, E., 2010. Modelling facies belt distribution in fan deltas coupling sequence stratigraphy and geostatistics: The Eocene Sant Llorenç del Munt example (Ebro foreland basin, NE Spain). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(1): 254-272. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.08.009.

ROTEVATN, A., TVERANGER, J., HOWELL, J. and FOSSEN, H., 2009.Dynamic investigation of the effect of a relay ramp on simulated fluid flow: geocellular modeling of the Delicate Arch Ramp, Utah. Petroleum Geoscience, 15(1): 44-58. doi:10.1144/1354-079309-779.

ROTEVATN, A., BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A. and FOSSEN, H., 2009. Overlapping faults and their effect on fluid flow in different reservoir types: A LIDAR-based outcrop modeling and flow simulation study. AAPG Bulletin, 93(3): 407-427. doi:10.1306/09300807092.

BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A., ENGE, H.D., and KURZ, T.H., 2008. Terrestrial laser scanning in geology: data acquisition, processing and accuracy considerations, Journal of the Geological Society, 165(3): 625-638. doi:10.1144/0016-76492007-100.

HOWELL, J.A., SKORSTAD, A., MCDONALD, A., FORDHAM, A., FLINT, S.S., FJELLVOLL, B. and MANZOCCHI, T., 2008. Sedimentological parameterization of shallow-marine reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience, 14(1): 17-34. doi:10.1144/1354-079307-787.

MANZOCCHI, T., CARTER, J.N., SKORSTAD, A., FJELLVOLL, B., STEPHEN, K.D., HOWELL, J.A., MATTHEWS, J.D., WALSH, J.J., NEPVEU, M., BOS, C., COLE, J., EGBERTS, P., FLINT, S.S., HERN, C., HOLDEN, L., HOVLAND, H., JACKSON, H., KOLBJØRNSEN, O., MACDONALD, A., NELL, P.A.R., ONYEAGORO, K., STRAND, J., SYVERSVEEN, A.R., TCHISTIAKOV, A., YANG, C., YIELDING, G. and ZIMMERMAN, R.W., 2008. Sensitivity of the impact of geological uncertainty on production from faulted and unfaulted shallow-marine oil reservoirs: objectives and methods. Petroleum Geoscience, 14(1): 3-15. doi:10.1144/1354-079307-790.

MANZOCCHI, T., MATTHEWS, J., STRAND, J.A., CARTER, J., SKORSTAD, A., HOWELL, J.A., STEPHEN, K.D. and WALSH, J., 2008. A study of the structural controls on oil recovery from shallow-marine reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience, 14(1): 55-70. doi:10.1144/1354-079307-786.

MATTHEWS, J., CARTER, J., STEPHEN, K.D., ZIMMERMAN, R.W., SKORSTAD, A., MANZOCCHI, T. and HOWELL, J.A., 2008. Assessing the effect of geological uncertainty on recovery estimates in shallow-marine reservoirs: the application of reservoir engineering to the SAIGUP project. Petroleum Geoscience, 14(1): 35-44. doi:10.1144/1354-079307-791.

SKORSTAD, A., KOLBJØRNSEN, O., MANZOCCHI, T., CARTER, J.N. and HOWELL, J.A., 2008. Combined effects of structural, stratigraphic and well controls on production variability in faulted shallow-marine reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience, 14(1): 45-54. doi:10.1144/1354-079307-789.

STEPHEN, K. D., YANG, C., HOWELL, J. A., MANZOCCHI, T. and SKORSTAD, A., 2008. Upscaling uncertainty analysis in a shallow-marine environment. Petroleum Geoscience, 14(1): 71-84. doi:10.1144/1354-079307-792.

ENGE, H.D., BUCKLEY, S.J., ROTEVATN, A., and HOWELL, J.A., 2007. From outcrop to reservoir simulation model: workflow and procedures, Geosphere, 3(6): 469-490. doi:10.1130/GES00099.1.

FALIVENE, O., ARBUÉS, P., HOWELL, J.A., FERNÁNDEZ, O., CABELLO, P., MUÑOZ, J.A. and CABRERA, L., 2006. A FORTRAN program to introduce field-measured sedimentary logs into reservoir modelling packages. Computers & Geosciences, 32(9): 1519-1522. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2006.01.005.

FALIVENE, O., ARBUÉS, P., HOWELL, J.A., MUÑOZ, J.A., FERNÁNDEZ, O. and MARZO, M., 2006. Hierarchical geocellular facies modelling of a turbidite reservoir analogue from the Eocene of the Ainsa basin, NE Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23(6): 679-701. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2006.05.004.

Conference Proceedings

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., and HOWELL, J.A., 2012. Close range hyperspectral imaging integrated with terrestrial lidar scanning applied to rock characterisation at centimetre scale. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 39(B5): 417-422. doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B5-417-2012.

CHANDLER, J.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., RIEKE-ZAPP, D., and WACKROW, R., 2012. Photogrammetry and laser scanning for the earth sciences - Working Group V6. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 39(B5): 411-416. doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B5-411-2012.

BUCKLEY, S.J., KURZ, T.H., and SCHNEIDER, D., 2012. The benefits of terrestrial laser scanning and hyperspectral data fusion products. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 39(B7): 541-546. doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B7-541-2012.

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., SCHNEIDER, D., SIMA, A.A., and HOWELL, J.A., 2011. Ground-based hyperspectral and lidar scanning: a complementary method for geoscience research. International Association of Mathematical Geosciences Conference, 5-9th September, Salzburg, Austria.

SIMA, A., BUCKLEY, S.J., SCHNEIDER, D., and HOWELL, J.A., 2010. An improved workflow for image- and laser-based virtual geological outcrop modelling. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 38(B3): 115-119. Download (1.4 mb pdf)

BUCKLEY, S.J., ENGE, H.D., CARLSSON, C. and HOWELL, J.A., 2009. Terrestrial laser scanning for use in virtual outcrop geology. Proceedings of RSPSoc 2009 Annual Conference, 8-11th September 2009, Leicester, UK: 321-324. Download (0.6 mb pdf)

BUCKLEY, S.J., SCHWARZ, E., TERLAKY, V., HOWELL, J.A. and ARNOTT, R.W.C., 2009. Terrestrial laser scanning combined with photogrammetry for digital outcrop modelling. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 38(B3): 75-80. Download (2.5 mb pdf)

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A., and SCHNEIDER, D., 2009. Close range hyperspectral and lidar data integration for geological outcrop analysis. Proceedings of First Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, 2009 (WHISPERS '09), 26-28th August, 2009, Grenoble, France. doi:10.1109/WHISPERS.2009.5288998.

BUCKLEY, S.J., VALLET, J., BRAATHEN, A., and WHEELER, W., 2008. Oblique helicopter-based laser scanning for digital terrain modelling and visualisation of geological outcrops. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 37(B4): 493-498. Download (1.3 mb pdf)

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A., and SCHNEIDER, D., 2008. Geological outcrop modelling and interpretation using ground based hyperspectral and laser scanning data fusion. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 37(B8): 1229-1234. Download (0.8 mb pdf)

BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A., ENGE, H.D., LEREN, B.L.S. and KURZ, T.H., 2006. Integration of terrestrial laser scanning, digital photogrammetry and geostatistical methods for high-resolution modelling of geological outcrops. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, 36(B5). Proceedings of ISPRS Commission V Symposium, Dresden 2006. Download (2 mb pdf)

Book Sections

MCCAFFREY, K.J.W., HODGETTS, D., HOWELL, J., HUNT, D., IMBER, J., JONES, R.R., TOMASSO, M., THURMOND, J., and VISEUR, S., 2011. Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists. In Vining, B.A. and Pickering, S. C. (eds), Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers - Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference, The Geological Society, London. 7: 19-26. doi:10.1144/0070019.

AINSWORTH, R.B., FLINT, S.S. and HOWELL, J.A., 2008. Predicting coastal depositional style: influence of basin morphology and accommodation/sediment supply regime within a sequence stratigraphic framework. In Hampson G.J., Steel R.J., Burgess P.M. and Dalrymple R.W. (eds), Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy: Introduction and Perspectives, Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Special Publication 90: 237-263.

HOWELL, J.A., VASSEL, Å. and AUNE, T. 2008: Modelling of dipping clinoform barriers within deltaic outcrop analogues from the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, USA. In Griffiths P., Hegre J., Robinson A. and Price S. (eds), The Future of Geological Modelling in Hydrocarbon Development. The Geological Society, London, Special Publication 309: 99-121.

SØMME, T.O., HOWELL, J.A., HAMPSON, G.J. and STORMS, J.E.A., 2008. Genesis, architecture and numerical modelling of intra-parasequence discontinuity surfaces in wave dominated deltaic deposits: Upper Cretaceous Sunnyside Member, Blackhawk Formation, Book Cliffs Utah, U.S.A. In Hampson, G.J., Steel, R.J., Burgess, P.M. and Dalrymple, R.W. (eds), Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy: Introduction and Perspectives, Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Special Publication 90: 421-441.

TVERANGER, J., HOWELL, J.A.; AANONSEN, S., KOLBJØRNSEN, O., SEMSHAUG, S.L., SKORSTAD, A. and OTTESEN, S., 2008. Assessing structural controls on reservoir performance in different stratigraphic settings. In Robinson, A., Griffiths, P., Price, S., Hegre, S. and Muggeridge, A. (eds), The Future of Geological Modelling in Hydrocarbon Development. The Geological Society, London, Special Publication 309: 51-66.

ROTEVATN, A., HESTHAMMER, J., FOSSEN, H., AAS, T.E. and HOWELL, J.A., 2007. Are relay ramps conduits for fluid flow? Structural analysis of a relay ramp in Arches National Park, Utah. In Lonergan, L., Rawnsley, R .J. H. and Sanderson, D .J. (eds), Fractured Reservoirs, The Geological Society, London, Special Publication 270: 55-71.

Miscellaneous Publications

NEWBY, P.R.T., BUCKLEY, S.J., DOWMAN, I.J., DRUMMOND, J.E., HOLLAND, D.A., LAVENDER, S.J., MILLER, P.E., MULLER, J.P., PFEIFER, N., POLIDORI, L., REKHA, B., SIMA, A.A. and ZIELINSKI, R.T., 2013. XXIInd International Congress of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Photogrammetric Record, 28(141): 43-73. doi:10.1111/phor.12014.

SIMA, A., 2011. ISPRS Commission III Symposium: Photogrammetric Computer Vision 2010. The Photogrammetric Record, 26(133): 133-135. doi:10.1111/j.1477-9730.2011.00628.x.

HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S, CARLSSON, C., ENGE, H., and KNUDSEN, T., 2011. Multi-scale, fluvial to shallow reservoir analogues, from outcrop to flow simulation: a virtual field trip to eastern Utah. Virtual fieldtrip in Vining, B.A. and Pickering, S. C. (eds), Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers - Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference, The Geological Society, London. Vol 7, on DVD.

ANON, 2010. ESRI 2010 Petroleum User Group, Houston. Oil Information Technology Journal, 15(4): 5.

BUCKLEY, S.J., 2010. Laser scanning for the environmental sciences: Book Review. The Photogrammetric Record, 25(129): 84-85. doi:10.1111/j.1477-9730.2009.00562_1.x.

RICHTER, N., 2010. The SAFARI geodatabase: Exploring geological outcrop analogues for reservoir modeling. ESRI ArcGIS Explorer Blog, 05.03.2010: link.

NEWBY, P.R.T., APLIN, P., BUCKLEY, S.J., CHANDLER, J.H., DRUMMOND, J.E., HOLLAND, D.A., LAVENDER, S.J., MILLER, P.E., MILLS, J.P., MILLS, H., WALKER, A.S. and WOODSFORD, P.A., 2009. XXIst International Congress of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Photogrammetric Record, 24(125): 66-102. doi:10.1111/j.1477-9730.2009.00526.x.

SCHWARZ, E., BUCKLEY, S.J., TERLAKY, V., HOWELL, J.A. and ARNOTT, R.W.C., 2008. Virtual Outcrops and Geocellular Models of the Windermere Turbidite System, Southern Canadian Cordillera. Reservoir, monthly magazine of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology, 35(11): 25-30.

Theses

ANDERSSON, A., 2005. Beach ridges in the Middle Jurassic Etive formation, greater Oseberg east area: distribution, genesis and modern analogues. MSc thesis, University of Bergen.
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AUNE, T., 2006. Reservoir Modelling of Delta Front Clinoforms within The Cretaceous Panther Tongue Formation, Western Interior Basin, USA. Master thesis, University of Bergen
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BRØNLUND, S., 2010. Reservoir modelling of fluvial systems: An example from the Gulf of Thailand. MSc thesis, University of Bergen, 130 pages.
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CARLSSON, C., 2005. 3D-modelling and simulation of coal-bearing coastal plain deposits in the Book Cliffs of Eastern Utah, USA. MSc thesis, University of Bergen.
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EKELAND, A., 2007. Sedimentology and Geomodelling of Small Scale Fluvial Architecture from the Lourinha Fm., Central Portugal. MSc thesis, University of Bergen
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ENGE, H. D., 2008. Deltaic clinothems - digital data capture, geometries, and reservoir implications. PhD thesis, University of Bergen, 180 pages.
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JOHANNESEN, L., 2006. Controls on Hydrocarbon Production from Shallow-Marine Shoreface Reservoirs - An Analogue study from the Book Cliffs of Eastern Utah. MSc thesis, University of Bergen
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KLAUSEN, T., 2010. Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the late Cretaceous Lower Ferron Sandstone: Application of 3-d geocellular modelling to the Drunkards Wash CBM-Field in central Utah, USA. MSc thesis, University of Bergen, 146 pages.
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KNUDSEN, T. A., 2008. Application of 3D, Geocellular modelling to Understand the Large Scale Straigraphic Architecture and Stacking Patterns in the Cretaceous Central Utah, USA. MSc thesis, University of Bergen.
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KURZ, T. H., 2011. Integration of ground-based hyperspectral and lidar scanning in virtual outcrop geology. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bergen, 194 pages.

LARSEN, A. L., 2005. Seismic Geomorphology of Beach Ridges from the Etive Formation of the Middle Jurassic Brent Group, greater Oseberg area, northern North Sea. MSc thesis, University of Bergen.
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LEREN, B. L. S., 2007. Complexity in low-accommodation fan-deltaic systems deposited in tectonically active basins. Examples from the Eocene Roda Sandstone, Spain, the Eocene Cemalettin Formation, Turkey and the Jurassic Oseberg Formation, North Sea. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bergen.
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PEDERSEN, C., 2005. Reservoir modelling of small-scale heterogeneities in a sand-rich channelized turbidite system; Ross Formation, SW Ireland. MSc thesis, University of Bergen.
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PEDERSEN, N., 2007. Geo-modelling of Small Scale Fluvial Bedform Architecture from the Lourinha Fm., Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. MSc thesis, University of Bergen
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RITTERSBACHER, A., 2013. Fluvial facies and virtual outcrop geology. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bergen, 185 pages.

SIMA, A.A., 2013. An improved workflow for image- and laser-based virtual outcrop modelling. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bergen, 179 pages.

SØMME, T., 2005. Down-dip correlation and modelling of shallow-marine and estuarine deposits in the Sunnyside Member, Book Cliffs, Eastern Utah: implications for the formation of non-depositional discontinuity surfaces. MSc Thesis, University of Bergen.
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TORABI, R., 2010. Quantitative understanding of shoreface architecture: An Analogue Study from the Book Cliffs of Central Utah. MSc thesis, University of Bergen, 138 pages.
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VASSEL, A., 2007., Reservoir modelling of delta front clinoforms within the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah, USA. MSc thesis, University of Bergen.
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VIPOND, E. B., 2005. Modelling Small-Scale Heterogeneities In a Channelised Turbidite System: Digital Outcrop Study from the Ainsa I Turbidite System. MSc thesis, University of Bergen
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VISTE, I., 2008. 3D Modelling and Simulation of Multi-Scale Heterogeneities in Fluvial Reservoir Analogues, Lourinhã Fm, Portugal: from Virtual Outcrops to Process-Oriented Models. MSc thesis, University of Bergen
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Abstracts

RITTERSBACHER, A., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2011. Large-Scale Fluvial Architecture of the Blackhawk Formation, Utah, USA. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, London, UK, 18-21 December 2011.

EIDE, C.H., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2011. The role of inherited bathymetry on the architecture of wave-dominated deposits: Book Cliffs and Wasatch Plateau, Utah, USA. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, London, UK, 18-21 December 2011.

HOWELL, J.A., RICHTER, N., BUCKLEY, S.J., RITTERSBACHER, A., EIDE, C.H., TYNES, O., and NYBERG., B.B., 2011. Building a schema for outcrop data - towards a standardised nomenclature for sedimentology. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, London, UK, 18-21 December 2011.

WHEELER, W.H., TVERANGER, J., HEINCKE, B., STEMMERIK, L., BREESCH, L., BRAATHEN, A., MAHER, H.D., ROSSI, G., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2011. Paleokarst Breccia-Pipe Reservoir Analogue, Carboniferous, Svalbard. AAPG 2011 International Conference and Exhibition, Milan, Italy, 23-26 October 2011.

HERRERA. P., DAHLE, H., GRAY, W., and EIDE, C.H., 2011. The impact of aquifer cap rock on long-term CO2 migration. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April, 2011.

RITTERSBACHER, A., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2011. Controls on fluvial channel belt architecture from the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation of eastern Utah. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, 10-13 April 2011.

SAHOO, H., GANI, H.D., GANI, R., HAMPSON, G., HOWELL, J.A., BUCKLEY, S.J., and RANSON, A.M., 2011. Lidar-Integrated Outcrop Characterization of Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Utah: Towards Improved Fluvial Reservoir Modeling. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, 10-13 April 2011.

KURZ, T.H., BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A., and SCHNEIDER, D., 2011. 3D modelling of geological outcrops using combined terrestrial laser scanning and hyperspectral imaging. EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April, 2011.

RITTERSBACHER, A., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2011. Using helicopter-based laser scanning to analyse controls on fluvial channel belt architecture in the Blackhawk Formation, eastern Utah, USA. EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April, 2011.

KJEMPERUD M., GABRIELSEN R.H., FÆRSETH R.B., TVERANGER J., and BUCKLEY. S., 2011. Fault Architecture of reactivated extensional faults in Carboniferous sediments, Northumberland, Great Britain. Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Stavanger 11-13 January 2011: p. 49.

VALDRESBRÅTEN, M.L.R., GABRIELSEN, R.H., FÆRSETH, R.B., TVERANGER, J., and BUCKLEY, S., 2011. Fault lenses and fracture frequencies in extensional faults affecting sandstone, Northumberland, Great Britain. Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Stavanger 11-13 January 2011: p. 106.

HOWELL, J., RITTERSBACHER, A., BUCKLEY, S., EIDE, C., RICHTER, N., and TORABI, R., 2010. Quantitative bedform architecture from virtual outcrop data. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, Southampton, UK, 19-21 December 2010.

EIDE, C.H., HOWELL, J.A., and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2010. Along strike variations in an ancient asymmetric wave-dominated delta: insights from a detailed virtual outcrop study. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, Southampton, UK, 19-21 December 2010.

BUCKLEY, S.J., KURZ, T.H., HOWELL, J.A., and SCHNEIDER, D., 2010. Integration of close-range hyperspectral imaging and lidar for mapping outcrop composition. GRSG Annual General Meeting 2010, London, UK, 1-3 December 2010.

BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J., RICHTER, N., KURZ, T., RITTERSBACHER, A., and SIMA, A., 2010. Virtual outcrop geology and empirical understanding of sedimentary architecture. CIPR Petroleum Technology Seminar, Bergen, Norway, 10-11 May 2010.

HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S., KURZ, T., RITTERSBACHER, A., and SIMA, A. 2010. Advances in Virtual Outcrop Geology. 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 14-17 June 2010.

HOWELL, J., 2010. Large-scale virtual outcrops as analogues for the reservoirs of the NCS, Part I. NPF Meeting: From depositional systems to sedimentary successions on the Norwegian Shelf, Stavanger, Norway, 4-6 May 2010.

HOWELL, J., 2010. Large-scale virtual outcrops as analogues for the reservoirs of the NCS, Part II. NPF Meeting: From depositional systems to sedimentary successions on the Norwegian Shelf, Stavanger, Norway, 4-6 May 2010.

HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S., RICHTER, N., RITTERSBACHER, A., SIMA, A., and KEOGH, K., 2010. Empirical understanding of sedimentary architecture: examples from the Campanian of central Utah. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 12-14 April, 2010.

HOWELL. J., BUCKLEY, S., RITTERSBACHER, A., RICHTER, N., and KEOGH, K., 2010. An outcrop analogue database for the reservoirs of the NCS. NPF Meeting: From depositional systems to sedimentary successions on the Norwegian Shelf, Stavanger, Norway, 4-6 May 2010.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S., SCHNEIDER, D., and HOWELL, J., 2010. Ground-based hyperspectral imaging for the mapping of geological outcrop composition. EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 3-7 May, 2010.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S., and HOWELL, J., 2010. Ground-based hyperspectral imaging for advanced geological outcrop analysis. CIPR Petroleum Technology Seminar, Bergen, Norway, 10-11 May 2010.

RICHTER, N., HOWELL, J., KEOGH, K., BUCKLEY, S., and LERVIK, K.-S., 2010. SAFARI - An outcrop analogue database for reservoir modelling. ESRI Petroleum User Group Conference, Houston, TX, USA, 22-24 February, 2010.

RITTERSBACHER, A., HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S., RICHTER, N., SIMA, A., VALLET, J., and KEOGH, K., 2010. Using oblique helicopter lidar to document fluvial reservoir architecture: examples from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of eastern Utah. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 12-14 April, 2010.

AAS, T.E., HOWELL, J., JANOCKO, M. and JACKSON, C., 2009. Process-Based Modelling of Aptian Turbidites in the Buchan Graben, Outer Moray Firth, UK North Sea. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 7-10 June, 2009.

BUCKLEY, S.J., and HOWELL, J.A, 2009. A Virtual Field Trip from the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Svalbard. FORCE Barents Sea Workshop, NPD, Stavanger, 27 October 2009.

GRUNNALEITE, I., SÆLEN, G., JENSEN, N.B., TALBOT, M., LARSEN, B., GUTTERIDGE, P., WITKOWSKI, F., BUCKLEY, S., SOLTVEIT, K., ELVEBAKK, H., and OSSO, G., 2009. Integration of multiple outcrop data into 3D carbonate reservoir models. Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Bergen 13-15 January, 2009.

HOWELL, J.A., BUCKLEY, S.J., RITTERSBACHER, A., RICHTER, N., and KEOGH, K., 2009. Empirical Understanding of Sedimentary Architecture. Sediment Body Geometry and Heterogeneity Conference, The Geological Society, London, 22-23 October 2009.

HOWELL, J.A., BUCKLEY, S.J., RITTERSBACHER, A., RICHTER, N., and KEOGH, K., 2009. Understanding Sedimentary Architecture. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, Bangor, Wales, 21-22 December 2009.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J. and SCHNEIDER, D., 2009. Mapping of Multiphase Dolomitization Using Ground-Based Spectral Imaging and Lidar Scanning. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 7-10 June, 2009.

KURZ T.H., BUCKLEY S.J., SWENNEN, R., DEWIT J., 2009. Mapping of Multiphase Dolomitization using Ground-Based Spectral Imaging combined with Lidar Scanning: case study Pozalagua Quarry (Cantabria, Spain). 27th IAS Meeting of Sedimentologists, Alghero, Italy, 20-13 September 2009.

LARSEN, T., BRAATHEN, A., BERGH, S., SCHMIDT, N. and BUCKLEY, S.J., 2009. Fractured carbonates in the Mediumfjellet thrust-stack in the Tertiary fold-thrust belt of Spitsbergen. Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Bergen 13-15 January, 2009: p. 62.

RICHTER, N., KEOGH, K., HOWELL, J., and BUCKLEY, S., 2009. A Global Geological Outcrop Database with a GIS Front End. ESRI European Petroleum User Group Meeting, Stavanger, Norway, 18 September 2009.

RITTERSBACHER, A., HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S., VALLET, J., RICHTER, N., and KEOGH, K., 2009. Oblique Helicopter Lidar as a tool for the collection of "very large" virtual outcrops: Examples from selected fluvial outcrops in Eastern Utah. Sediment Body Geometry and Heterogeneity Conference, The Geological Society, London, 22-23 October 2009.

RITTERSBACHER, A., HOWELL, J., and BUCKLEY, S. J., An Empirical Approach to Understanding Fluvial Architecture. British Sedimentology Research Group AGM, Bangor, Wales, 21-22 December 2009.

BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J., VALLET, J., WHEELER, W. and BRAATHEN, A. 2008: Oblique helicopter-mounted lidar combined with multiresolution modelling for the creation of high resolution, wide-area virtual geological outcrops. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio,Texas, 20-23 April 2008.

CARLSSON, C., ENGE, H., BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J., MORENO, D. and AANONSEN, S. 2008: An Outcrop Derived, Deterministic Base-case Fluvial Model for Reservoir Analog Studies: Modeling Coastal-plain Deposits From the Blackhawk Formation of Eastern Utah. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas 20-23 April 2008.

GRUNNALEITE, I., SÆLEN, G., JENSEN, N.B., TALBOT, M.R., LARSEN, B., GUTTERIDGE, P., BUCKLEY, S., SOLTVEIT, K. JOHANSEN, T.A., SIAHAAN, A., ELVEBAKK, H. and OSSO, G., 2008. Integration of multiple outcrop data into 3D carbonate reservoir models. 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, 6-14 August 2008.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S. and HOWELL, J. 2008: Mapping of Alteration in Permian Limestone in NE England by Integration of Lidar and Hyperspectral Scanning. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, 20-23 April 2008.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S. and HOWELL, J. 2008: Integration of Ground Based Hyperspectral and Lidar Scanning for Outcrop Modelling and Interpretation. 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, 6-14 August 2008.

ROTEVATN, A., FOSSEN, H. and HOWELL, J., 2008. Faulting and Fault Interaction in Porous Siliciclastic Reservoirs: Insights from Outcrop Modeling of Analogous Reservoir Rocks in Sinai (Egypt) and Utah (USA). GEO 2008 Middle East Conference and Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain, 2-5 March, 2008.

SCHWARZ, E., BUCKLEY, S., TERLAKY, V., HOWELL, J. and ARNOTT, R. W., 2008. From 3-D Visualization to Modeling of Windermere Deep-Water Turbidite Outcrop Analogues, Castle Creek, B.C., Canada. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, 20-23 April 2008.

AAS, T. E., HOWELL, J., FJELLVOLL, B., ABRAHAMSEN, P. and HAUGE, R., 2007. Process-based modelling of the turbidite deposits of the Peïra Cava sub-basin, SE France. British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting, Birmingham, 17-18 December, 2007.

AAS, T. E., HAUGE, R., FJELLVOLL, B., Abrahamsen, P., Howell, J. and Tucker, S., 2007. Process based Modelling of deep marine reservoir systems. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, 2-4 April 2007.

CARLSSON, C., SØMME, T.O., ENGE, H., BUCKLEY, S. and HOWELL, J., 2007. 3D-Modelling of Coastal Plain Deposits from the Blackhawk Formation, Eastern Utah. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, 2-4 April 2007.

CARLSSON, C., ENGE, H. and BUCKLEY, S., 2007. An outcrop derived, deterministic base-case fluvial model for reservoir analogue studies: modelling coastal-plain deposits from the Blackhawk Formation of Eastern Utah. British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting, Birmingham, 17-18 December, 2007.

ENGE, H., LEREN, B. L. S., BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J., VASSEL, Å. and MARTINIUS, A.W., 2007. Outcrop Reservoir Modelling of Shallow Marine Deltaic Systems from the Ferron FM, USA and the Roda Sandstone, Spain. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, 2-4 April 2007.

ENGE, H., BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J., VASSEL, Å., LEREN, B.L.S. and MARTINIUS, A.W., 2007. Laser scanning as a tool in sedimentology Case Studies from Shallow Marine Deltaic Systems from the Ferron Formation, USA and the Roda Sandstone, Spain. Geological Society of London Petroleum Group Meeting: From Outcrop to Asset - Recent Advances in Digital Outcrop Data Collection and Modelling Techniques, Manchester 10-11 January, 2007.

HOWELL, J. A., BUCKLEY, S.J., CARLSSON, C., ENGE, H., KURZ, T. and ROTEVATN, A., 2007. Virtual outcrop geology: data collection, processing and application. Geological Society of London Petroleum Group Meeting: From Outcrop to Asset - Recent Advances in Digital Outcrop Data Collection and Modelling Techniques, Manchester 10-11 January, 2007.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J., BAARSTAD, I. and LØKE, T., 2007. Development of a Workflow for Integrating Lidar and Hyperspectral Data for Virtual Outcrop Modelling. Geological Society of London Petroleum Group Meeting: From Outcrop to Asset - Recent Advances in Digital Outcrop Data Collection and Modelling Techniques, Manchester 10-11 January, 2007.

KURZ, T., BUCKLEY, S. and HOWELL, J., 2007. New Mapping Methods in Sedimentology based on the Integration of Ground-Based Lidar and Hyperspectral Scanning. British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting, Birmingham, 17-18 December, 2007.

ENGE, H., LEREN, B.L.S., BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J. and MARTINIUS, A.W., 2007. Hierarchical Outcrop Reservoir Modelling of a Shallow Marine Deltaic Complex from the Eocene Roda Sandstone, Spain. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA, 2-7 April, 2006.

ENGE, H., LEREN, B.L.S., HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S. and MARTINIUS, A.W., 2006. Laser Scanning as a Tool in Sedimentological Mapping. British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting, Aberdeen, 17-19 December, 2006.

ENGE, H., LEREN, B.L.S., BUCKLEY, S., HOWELL, J. and MARTINIUS, A.W., 2006. Laser scanner as a tool in sedimentological mapping - a case study of the 3D sandbody architecture of the shallow marine Roda Sandstone, N-Spain. 17th International Sedimentological Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, 28 August-1 September, 2006.

ENGE, H., LEREN, B. L. S., HOWELL, J., BUCKLEY, S. and MARTINIUS, A. W., 2006. Laser Scanner as a Tool in Sedimentological Mapping - A Case Study of the 3D Sandbody Architecture of the Shallow Marine Roda Sandstone, N-Spain. Geological Society of America Penrose Meeting: Unlocking 3D Earth Systems - Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models, Durham, UK, 16-22 September, 2006.

HOWELL, J., VASSEL, Å., AUNE, T., BUCKLEY, S. and ENGE, H., 2007. From Outcrop to Flow Simulation: The Effects of Shallow Marine Clinoforms on Simulated Production from Outcrop Analogues in Utah. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA, 2-7 April, 2006.

BUCKLEY, S.J., HOWELL, J.A., ENGE, H.H., and LEREN, B.L.S, 2005. Terrestrial laser scanning (lidar) for geology applications: data, workflow and modelling. British Sedimentological Research Group Visualisation workshop, Durham, 18-20 December, 2005.