Marianne Sandstrom

PhD student Geo

Biography

Marianne Sandstrom graduated from the Australian School of Petroleum (ASP) in December 2005 with a First Class Bachelor of Science Honours (Petroleum Geology and Geophysics). Her thesis ''River of Sand': an alternative modern source to sink analogue for the highstand supply of reservoir quality silliciclastic sands to a deepwater environment, offshore Fraser Island, Australia' was awarded the AUSIMM/Santos Prize for best thesis and she received the Origin Energy/Ted Moorcroft Memorial Prize for best overall performance. Marianne has three years collective field experience in the petroleum industry, as a Wireline/Technical Sales Assistant with SGS Expertest (Barrow Island) and as a Field Engineer with Schlumberger Oilfield Services Australia (Moomba). Her research interests are focussed around the investigation of modern analogues for use in the development of petroleum exploration models, she is particularly interested in provenance, facies analysis, sequence stratigraphy and the role of micropalaeontology/biostratigraphy. Marianne Sandstrom joined the PhD program at the ASP in January 2007.

PhD research project

Mineralogy and micropalaeontology of mud-rich successions in dryland systems.

Supervisors: Tobi Payenberg, Carmen Krapf and Ric Daniel

Marianne is part of the research group RARG (Reservoir Analogues Research Group)