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Octavian Catuneanu is a Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on sedimentology, stratigraphy, and basin analysis, with a particular interest in the evolution of the Western Interior foreland system in North America and sedimentary basins of Precambrian to Phanerozoic age worldwide. His work investigates the complex interplay of allogenic and authigenic processes that control the nature and architecture of the stratigraphic record. Professor Catuneanu has a special interest in external controls of sedimentation, including the relative influence of climate, sea-level change, and tectonism. His research techniques include outcrop and core sedimentology, coupled with subsurface methods involving the interpretation and correlation of well-log and seismic data. He also supervises students on various themes of research, including paleo-environmental reconstructions and applications of sequence stratigraphy in natural resource exploration. Professor Catuneanu emphasizes the economic aspects of sedimentary basins, rationalizing the distribution of depositional elements and stratigraphic discontinuities. He teaches courses such as EAS 209, which provides an overview of the geology of Western Canada, emphasizing the geological processes and landscape evolution in the prairie and mountain parks of Alberta and British Columbia.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management