GEO Profile Benoit Beauchamp

Benoit Beauchamp

Positions

Professor

Faculty of Science, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment

Contact information

Email

bbeaucha@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-8266

Location

Office: ES146

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Geology & Related, University of Calgary, 1987

M.S. Geology & Related, University of Montreal, 1983

B.S. Geology & Related, University of Montreal, 1981

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
GLGY 701 Advanced Independent Study Fall
GLGY 301 Geology of the Mountain Regions of Western Canada Winter
GLGY 483 Carbonate Sedimentologyis Winter
GLGY 683 Advanced Carbonate Sedimentology Winter

Awards

  • Great Supervisor Award Faculty of Graduate Studies University of Calgary, 2014
  • 2013 Dept of Geoscience's M.Sc. Award to Beauchamp's student K. Williscroft, 2013
  • 2011 Dept of Geoscience's M.Sc. Award to Beauchamp's student G.Godek, 2011
  • Fellow, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, U of Calgary, 2011
  • Quebec-Science's Top-Ten International Scientific Discovery for 2011, 2011
  • Fellow, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, U of Calgary, 2010
  • 2009 Dept of Geoscience's M.Sc. Award to Beauchamp's student M. Wamsteeker, 2009
  • Best Presentation Award, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 2009
  • Distinguished Alumni, 2009 Spring Convocation, UofCalgary, 2009
  • Distinguished Alumni for Faculty of Science, UofCalgary Spring Convocation 2009, 2009
  • Feature in Research in Action, 2009
  • Fellow, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, U of Calgary, 2009
  • Fellow, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, U of Calgary, 2008
  • Link Award, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 2008
  • Track Award, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 2008

Publications

  • Upper Paleozoic stratigraphy and basin analysis of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Transgressive-regressive sequences updated. Benoit Beauchamp; Charles M Henderson. (2019)
  • Sverdrup Basin. Benoit Beauchamp; Ashton F Embry. Elsevier B.V.. 559-592. (2019)
  • Early Carboniferous syn-rift sedimentation in the Sverdrup Basin (Yelverton Pass area, northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada): A solution to the Okse Bay problem. Karsten Piepjohn; Daniel Alonso-Torres; Pierre Thériault; Grasby E Stephen; Benoit Beauchamp. Geological Society of America. 255–284. (2018)
  • Episodic tectonics in the Phanerozoic succession of the Canadian High Arctic and the “10-million year flood”. Jim Dixon; Keith Dewing; Benoit Beauchamp; Ashton F Embry. Geological Society of America. 213–230. (2018)
  • The Sverdrup Basin Tectono-Sedimentary Element. Benoit Beauchamp; Ashton F Embry; Keith Dewing; Chris Harrison. The Geological Society of London. (2020)
  • Late Carboniferous-Early Permian Carbonate Sedimentation in Otto Fiord Depression, Sverdrup Basin (Arctic Canada): Insight into an Earth Systems Critical Transition Coeval with Demise of Gondwana Ice Sheets. Daniel Calvo Gonzalez; Charles M Henderson; Benoit Beauchamp; Hanyue Wang; Eric Pelletier; Daria V Baranova. Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). (2019)
  • Tectonic Evolution of western Pangea during the Pennsylvanian-Permian: Biostratigraphic and Sedimentologic Evidence from east-central British Columbia and subsurface of west-central Alberta, Canada. Charles M Henderson; Benoit Beauchamp; Kate Zubin-Stathopoulos. Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). (2019)
  • Tectonic Evolution and Paleogeography during the Pennsylvanian-Permian: Biostratigraphic and Sedimentologic Evidence from Carlin Canyon Nevada. Daniela Waldbott von Bassenheim; Benoit Beauchamp; Daniel Calvo Gonzalez; Sean Elliot; Elinda Dehari; Charles Henderson. Society for Sedimentary Research (SEPM). (2019)
  • Carbonate factory turnover and oceanographic cooling in the aftermath of the Devonian Carboniferous mass extinction. Benoit Beauchamp; Makram Hedhli. (2018)
  • Short-lived return of a calcite sea near the Carboniferous-Permian boundary in Arctic Canada caused by a CO2 burst in the atmosphere. Nikita Fernandes; Benoit Beauchamp. (2018)
  • Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous carbon isotope stratigraphy of Arctic Canada. Gregory Price; Thomas Hadlari; Stephen Grasby; Jennifer Galloway; Madeleine Vickers; Benoit Beauchamp; Kyle Sulphur. (2019)
  • A Backarc to retroarc regime for the Sverdrup basin during the Late Paleozoic. Daniel Alonso-Torres; William Matthews; Benoit Beauchamp; Thomas Hadlari. Geological Society of America. (2017)
  • Early Triassic nutrient crises limited marine productivity. David Bond; Jochen Knies; Stephen E Grasby; Benoit Beauchamp; Paul Wignall. (2019)
  • Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Palynostratigraphy of the Husky Formation in the Canadian Arctic. Terry Poulton; Alexander Dutchak; Benoit Beauchamp; Anne Van Nguyen; Jennifer M Galloway. The Society for Organic Petrology. (2017)
  • Did the Siberian traps cause an Early Triassic nutrient crises? . Benoit Beauchamp. (2019)
  • The sub-Guadalupian (sub-Middle Permian) unconformity in Arctic Canada and along NW Pangea: a major plate reorganization linked to the Uralian Orogeny. Benoit Beauchamp. (2017)
  • The Sverdrup Basin of Arctic Canada: Canada’s Top Sedimentary Laboratory. Benoit Beauchamp. (2018)
  • Middle Permian millennial-scale alternations of Photozoan and Heterozoan carbonates caused by upwelling of CO2-rich cold waters along northern Gondwana (Oman). Benoit Beauchamp; Aymon Baud. (2018)
  • Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Palynostratigraphy of the Husky Formation in the Canadian Arctic. Alexander Dutchak; Terry Poulton; Jennifer Galloway; Anne Van Nguyen; Benoit Beauchamp. (2017)
  • Arctic climate perturbations during recovery from world’s worst mass extinction. Marco Bronner; Giulio Violas; Ola Fredin; Jochen Knies; Benoit Beauchamp; Stephen E Grasby. (2018)