Dr. Nicholas Hogancamp
Research focus areas: Devonian-Carboniferous conodont biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, historical geology, morphometrics, subsurface mapping, and reservoir characterization.
Background: A mixture of experiences across geoscience spanning teaching and research positions at colleges and museums, petroleum geologist positions in onshore and offshore production and exploration, and self-driven independent research and consulting.
Career timeline:
Journal Publications
Hogancamp, N. J. in press. Conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies of marine intervals in the Pennsylvanian middle Minnelusa Formation in the Black Hills region, South Dakota, U.S.A. Stratigraphy.
Yancey, W. E. and Hogancamp, N. J. in press. Stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian Lodgepole Formation in the central Williston Basin, North Dakota, U.S.A. Stratigraphy.
Braun, M., Bancroft, A., Hogancamp, N. J., Stolfus, B., Heath, M., Clark, R., Tassier-Surine, S., Day, J. and Cramer, B. 2023. Resolving complex stratigraphic architecture across the Burlington Shelf and identifying the Hangenberg (D-C boundary) and Kinderhookian-Osage Boundary (Tournaisian) biogeochemical events in the type area of the Mississippian. The Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Chen, J., Hogancamp, N. J., Lu, M., Ikejiri, T., Malina, N., Ojeda, A. Sun, Y. and Lu, Y. 2023. Lipid biomarkers recording marine microbial community structure changes through the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction event. Geobiology 1-18.
Barrick, J. E., Hogancamp, N. J. and Rosscoe, S. J. 2022. Evolutionary patterns in Late Pennsylvanian conodonts. In: Ice ages, climate dynamics and biotic events: The Late Pennsylvanian World. The Geological Society Special Publications 2022-139.
Wright, S., Hogancamp, N. J., Guthrie, J. M. and Wolters, J. 2021. Left behind: A thrilling post-expulsion adventure of producible hydrocarbons remaining in source rocks. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2021-5213.
Heath, M. N., Cramer, B. D., Stolfus, B. M., Barnes, G. L., Clark, R. J., Day, J. E., Barnett, B. A., Witzke, B. J., Hogancamp, N. J. and Tassier-Surine, S. 2021. Chemoautotrophy as the driver of decoupled organic and carbonate carbon isotope records at the onset of the Hangenberg (Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary) Oceanic Anoxic Event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 577: 110540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110540.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Wright, V. P. 2021. Elucidating hydrological complexity and climate-influenced diagenesis during the early Carboniferous of South Wales. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 131: 93-101.
Hu, K., Hogancamp, N. J., Lambert, L. L., Chen, J., Qi, Y. P. and Chen, J. T. 2020. Evolution of the genus Diplognathodus (Conodonta) across the Bashkirian-Moscovian (Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian) boundary in South China. Papers in Palaeontology, 6(4): 627-649.
Stolfus, B. M., Cramer, B. D., Clark, R. J., Hogancamp, N. J., Day, J. E., Tassier-Surine, S. A. and Witzke, B. J. 2020. An expanded stratigraphic record of the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary Hangenberg biogeochemical event from southeast Iowa (U.S.A.). Geobios, 95: 469-495.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Rodriguez, A. P. 2020. Conodont Biostratigraphy and stratigraphic framework of the Englewood Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S.A. Stratigraphy, 17: 65-119.
Qi, Y., Barrick, J. E., Hogancamp, N. J., Chen, J., Hu, K., Wang, Q., and Wang, X. 2020. Conodont assemblages across the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary (Late Pennsylvanian) in south China and implications for the selection of the stratotype for the base of the global Gzhelian Stage. Palaeontology, 6: 46 p.
Hogancamp, N. J. 2020. P1 element morphological variability within the Late Pennsylvanian asymmetrical Idiognathodus clade from the Midcontinent, USA and implications for ontogeny, taxonomy, phylogeny, and function. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 549: 109090. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.016.
Cramer, B. D., Stolfus, B. M., Day, J. E., Clark, R. J., Hogancamp, N. J., Witzke, B. J. and Tassier-Surine, S. 2019. The Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in the Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. In: Cramer, B. D., Clark, R. J. and Day, J. E. The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in the type area of the Mississippian. Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook, 30: 1-10.
Hogancamp, N. J., Stolfus, B. M., Cramer, B. D. and Day, J. E. 2019a. A revised conodont zonation of the Tournaisian (Kinderhookian to lower Osagean) and implications for stratigraphic correlations in North America. In: Cramer, B. D., Clark, R. J. and Day, J. E. The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in the type area of the Mississippian. Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook, 30: 11-18.
Hogancamp, N. J., Hohman, J. and Guthrie, J. 2019b. Stratigraphy and lithology of the Logan Gulch Member of the Three Forks Formation in the type area and its regional stratigraphy framework. Stratigraphy, 16(3): 145-164.
Lu, M., Lu, Y., Ikejiri, T., Hogancamp, N. J., Sun, Y., Wu, Q., Carroll, R., Cemen, I. and Pashin, J. 2019. Geochemical signatures of Upper Devonian (Famennian) black shales revealing the first forestation in southernmost Euramerica. Scientific Reports, 9: 7581 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43993-y.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Pocknall, D. T. 2018. The biostratigraphy of the Bakken Formation: a review and new data. Stratigraphy, 15(3): 197-224.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Barrick, J. E. 2018. Morphometric analysis and taxonomic revision of the Idiognathodus eudoraensis (Barrick) group from late Virgilian (Carboniferous) strata from New Mexico and the Midcontinent North America. In. Over, D. J. Conodont studies dedicated to the careers and contributions of Anita Harris, Glenn Merrill, Carl Rexroad, Walter Sweet, and Bruce Wardlaw. Bulletin of American Paleontology, 395-396: 35-69.
Hogancamp, N. J. 2017. Frasnian (Upper Devonian) scolecodont elements and apparatuses from the Grassy Creek Shale, eastern Iowa, United States Micropaleontology, 63 (1): 43-58.
Hogancamp, N. J., Rosscoe, S. J. and Barrick, J. E. 2017. Geometric morphometric analysis of P1 element asymmetry in the Late Pennsylvanian conodont Idiognathodus magnificus Stauffer and Plummer 1932. Stratigraphy, 14 (1-4): 179-196.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Manship, L. L. 2016. Comparison of morphometric techniques and the ability to accurately reconstruct the form and distinguish between species of the Palmatolepis winchelli group – Conodont, Upper Devonian. Micropaleontology, 62 (6): 439-451.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Barrick, J. E. 2016. Ungrooved species of Idiognathodus from the lower Gzhelian (Pennsylvanian) Heebner Shale, Midcontinent North America, U.S.A. Micropaleontology, 62 (5): 385-403.
Hogancamp, N. J., Barrick, J. E., and Strauss, R. E. 2016. Geometric morphometric analysis and taxonomic revision of the conodont Idiognathodus simulator (Ellison, 1941), marker species for the global Upper Pennsylvanian Gzhelian Stage, from the Heebner Shale, Midcontinent North America. Acta Paleontologica Polonica, 61(3): 503-517. Awarded Editor’s Choice.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Over, D. J., 2013. The nature, range, and utility of stratigraphic distributions of morphotypes of Polygnathus linguiformis linguiformis (Hinde), Middle Devonian, Northern Appalachian Basin, North America: Parts 1 and 2. In: Conodonts from the Andes, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conodont Symposium Argentinian Paleontological Association, special publication 13, p. 49-62.
Presentation Abstracts
Hogancamp, N. J. 2023. Using conodonts to differentiate lithological cycles within the Pennsylvanian middle Minnelusa Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hogancamp, N. J., Hohman, J. C., Guthrie, J. G. and Rodriguez, A. P. 2023. Famennian to Early Tournaisian depositional sequences from the Williston Basin and surrounding areas, northwestern United States. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Meeting, Geneseo, NY.
Braun, M. D., Cramer, B. D., Stolfus, B. M., Gilber, M., Heath, M. N., Barnes, G. L., Clark, R. J., Day, J. E., Witzke, B. J., Hogancamp, N. J. Bancroft, A. M., and Tassier-Surine, S. 2021. Chasing the Hangenberg and Kinderhook-Osage Boundary Excursions in the U.S. Midcontinent: “dumbbell stratigraphy” and the sub-Burlington unconformity. Geological Society of America Meeting, Portland, Oregon
Wright, S., Hogancamp, N. J., Guthrie, J. M. and Wolters, J. 2021. Left behind: A thrilling post-expulsion adventure of producible hydrocarbons remaining in source rocks. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, Texas.
Hogancamp, N. J. 2020. The benefits of building conodont morphology databases and examples from Pennsylvanian conodont morphostratigraphy studies. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Quebec, Canada, Pander Society Session.
Chen, J., Lu, Y., Ikejiri, T., Sun, Y., Hogancamp, N. J. and McGlue, M. M. 2020. Changes of microbial communities in response to marine environmental volatility through the Late Devonian mass extinction events. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Quebec, Canada, Deep-time carbon cycles, redox changes and the evolution of the biosphere session.
Hari, S. and Hogancamp, N. J. 2020. Integration of nuclear magnetic resonance, petrophysical logs, routine core analysis, MICP, XRD and petrography to characterize Middle Bakken rock quality in the Williston Basin, North Dakota USA. Geological Society of America Sectional Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, sedimentology, geochemistry, chemostratigraphy and geomechanics of mudrock systems session
O’Grady, A. K., Stolfus, B. M., Hogancamp, N. J., Cramer, B. D., Clark, R. J. and Tassier-Surine, S. A. 2019. Morphometric analysis of the conodont genus Elictognathus and its relationship to the genus Siphonodella U.S.A. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Pander Society Session.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Rodriguez, A. P. 2019. The conodont biostratigraphy and lithostratigraphic framework of the Devonian-Mississippian Englewood Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S.A. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Pander Society Session.
McAdams, N. E. B., Bancroft, A. M., Hogancamp, N. J. and Cramer, B. D. 2019. Large-scale patterns in conodont morphology: platformed pectinoform (Pa/P1) elements through the Conodontozoic. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Pander Society Session.
Stolfus, B. M., Hogancamp, N. J., Cramer, B. D., Day, J. E., Clark, R. and Tassier-Surine, S. A. 2019. A revised conodont biozonation for the Kinderhookian (lower Mississippian). U.S.A. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Pander Society Session.
Hohman, J. C., Guthrie, J. M. and Hogancamp, N. J. 2019. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Bakken, Cottonwood Canyon and Lower Banff section: Complexities associated with fine-grained depositional systems in a tectonically active, low-accommodation setting and their implications on the Bakken petroleum system. American Association of Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
Hu, K., Qi, Y., Hogancamp, N. J., Lambert, L. L. 2019. Conodont biofacies at the Bashkirian-Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) transition and the Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary in the deep-water Naqing section, Guizhou, South China. 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (ICCP) meeting in Cologne, Germany.
Stolfus, B. M., Cramer, B. D., Clark, R. J., Day, J., Hogancamp, N. J., Tassier-Surine, S. A. and Witzke, B. J. 2018. Tournaisian conodont biostratigraphy of the type Kinderhookian area of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hogancamp, N. J., Guthrie, J. and Hohman, J. 2018. The Famennian (Upper Devonian) Shale Succession of the Bakken Formation. American Association of Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Hogancamp, N. J. 2018. Petrographic analysis of the Middle Bakken to compare reservoir characteristics between different fields. Hess sedimentology and stratigraphy community monthly lecture series.
Cramer, B. D., Stolfus, B,Clark, R. J. Hogancamp, N. J., Day, J. E., Witzke, B. J. and Surine, S. 2018. High-resolution eustatic sea level reconstruction across the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary from the tri-state area of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri: conodonts, carbon isotopes and sequence stratigraphy of the type Kinderhookian Region. American Association of Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Hogancamp, N. J. and Barrick, J. E. 2018. The application of geometric morphometric analysis to resolve morphological variation and interpret evolutionary patterns in the Upper Pennsylvanian ‘asymmetrical Idiognathodus clade’. Geological Society of America, Ames Iowa, Pander Society session.
Hogancamp, N. J. 2018. Bakken and Three Forks core display workshop. The annual mudrock research conference sponsored by the Houston Geological Society and hosted at Anadarko Headquarters. Woodlands, Texas.
Hohman, J. C., Guthrie, J. M., Rodriguez, A. P., Hogancamp, N. J., Doughty, P. T. and Grader, G. W. 2017. Regional stratigraphy of the Bakken, Pronghorn and Three Forks in the Williston Basin and equivalent sections in the South Alberta and Sappington Basins. AAPG Rocky Mountain Section, Billings, Montana.
Lu, M., Lu, Y. Ikejiri, T., Cemen, I., Pashin, J. and Hogancamp, N. J. 2016. Can biomarkers in Non-fossiliferous Chattanooga Shale (Late Devonian) show evidence of the earliest land forest on the southern Appalachian landmass? Goldschmidt Conference abstracts, Yokohama, Japan.
Bancroft, A. M., Cramer, B. D., McAdams, N. E. B., Waid, C. B. and Hogancamp, N. J. 2016. Conodonts: Towards an operational taxonomic unit. IGCP Project 591, Ghent, Belgium.
Hogancamp, N. J., Rosscoe, S. J. and Barrick, J. E. 2016. Landmark-based morphometric analyses of Idiognathodus magnificus and development of comprehensive protocols to study morphological variation in conodont P1 elements. Geological Society of America, National meeting Abstract with Programs 48, 7.
Hogancamp, N. J. 2015. Application of a new quantitative morphometric taxonomy to make precise stratigraphic correlations using the premier Paleozoic index fossil, the conodonts. Hess sedimentology and stratigraphy community monthly lecture series.
Hogancamp, N. J., N. Fishman, and H. Rowe. 2015. X-ray fluorescence and rock hardness relationships within the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken and Three Forks Formations, Williston Basin, North Dakota. (abs.): AAPG Annual Meeting abstracts, Denver, Colorado.
Qi, Y., J. E. Barrick, N. J. Hogancamp, Q. Wang, J. Chen, K. Ueno, Y. Wang, X. Wang. 2015. New perspectives on the candidate sections for the GSSP of the base of the global Gzhelian Stage in South China. (abs.): XVII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian meeting abstracts, Kazan, Russia.
Hogancamp, N. J. and J. Barrick. 2014. Morphometric analysis of the conodont Idiognathodus simulator (Ellison), index species for the base of the Gzhelian Stage - (Upper Pennsylvanian),from the Heebner Shale of Midcontinent North America. Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs. 46 (6), 820.
Hogancamp, N. J., J. Barrick, and R. Strauss. 2014. Application of Morphometric methods to discriminate among members of the Idiognathodus simulator species group and implications for quantitative discrimination of P1 elements of Ozarkodinida conodonts. Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs. 46(6), 755.
Lanik, A., D. J. Over, M. D. Schmitz, and N. J. Hogancamp. 2013, Conodont biostratigraphy and new zircon dates of the upper Devonian Belpre ashes, Chattanooga Shale, Tennessee, and lower Rhinestreet Shale, New York, Eastern North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 45(7), 836.
Hogancamp N. J. 2012. Stratigraphic distribution of morphotypes of Polygnathus linguiformis linguiformis (Hinde) in the Hamilton Group of Western New York. 6th Annual Summer Symposium, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York.
Hogancamp, N. J., Cramer, J., Dahn, M., Duhamel, D., Georgek, J., Humphrey, L., Kedenburg, M., Kohn, J., Lanik, A. and Popolla, A. 2012. Stratigraphic distribution of morphotypes of Polygnathus linguiformis linguiform is (Hinde) determined by morphometric analysis in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York. Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs 44(5), 2. Awarded Outstanding undergraduate oral presentation.
Service & Awards
2024 Awarded the George J. Hinde Medal by the Pander Society for exceptional early-career achievement in conodont science
2024 Co-editing the Pander Society Proceedings special publication volume, JGS,
2024 Co-chair for the Pander Society presentation session at NAPC Ann Arbor, Michigan
2023-Present Member of the Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS)
2023 Co-chair for the Pander Society presentation session at GSA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2016 Editor's Choice Award. Acta Paleontologica Polonica. Hogancamp et al. 2016.
2016-Present Member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists
2015-2021 Member of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy community (Hess)
2012-Present Member of the Pander Society (International conodont workers)
2012-Present Member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon
2012-Present Member of the Geological Society of America
2013-2015 Texas Tech University Geoscience Scholarship
2013 W.A. Tarr Award from the Sigma Gamma Epsilon Chapter at SUNY Geneseo
2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Oral presentation, Hogancamp et al. 2012
2012 Undergraduate Research Grant, SUNY Geneseo
2012 Undergraduate Travel Grant, SUNY Geneseo
2012-2013 President, SUNY Geneseo Geology Club
2010 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. State University of New York
2009-2010 Vice President of Service, Phi Theta Kappa
Work and Training Experience Details
Conodont Biostratigrapher June 2022 – Present
July 2023 – Present Biostratigrapher at the Bedrock and Earth History Research Organization
June 2022 – July 2023 Biostratigrapher at Global Edge Consultants, Houston, TX
Research Assistant and Biostratigrapher Jan 2011 – May 2022
Aug. 2019 – May 2022 Research collaborator and Ph.D. candidate – University of Houston
May 2015 – Aug. 2019 Independent research collaborator and biostratigrapher
July 2013 – May 2015 NSF Texas Tech University – Biostratigrapher
May 2012 – July 2013 NSF SUNY Geneseo – Biostratigrapher
May 2011 – Aug. 2011 NSF Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca – Biostratigrapher
Jan. 2011 – May 2011 SUNY Geneseo – Biostratigrapher
Hess Corporation – Geologist (Paleontologist & Stratigrapher) May 2014 – July 2021
Sept. 2020 – July 2021 Production offshore – Gulf of Mexico, stratigrapher/reservoir
Nov. 2018 – Sept. 2020 Midstream onshore – Water disposal, Williston Basin, subsurface/reservoir lead
Sept. 2017 – Sept. 2020 Production onshore – Williston Basin, stratigrapher/reservoir/source
Mar. 2017 – Sept. 2017 Exploration – Campeche Gulf of Mexico – stratigrapher/reservoir
Sept. 2016 – Mar. 2017 Exploration – Gulf of Mexico Regional, biostratigrapher/reservoir
June 2016 – Aug. 2016 Exploration – Gulf of Mexico Paleogene, stratigrapher/reservoir
July 2015 – June 2016 Production onshore – Williston Basin, stratigrapher/reservoir/source
May 2014 – Aug. 2014 Production onshore – Williston Basin, intern
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2022 4 months Field Course Designer & Instructor, Consultant hired by Hess Corporation
2019 2 years Peer Mentor, Hess Corporation, Bakken subsurface team
2019 2 months Intern Mentor, Hess Corporation, Bakken subsurface team
2018 8 months Foundation Mentor, Hess Corporation, Bakken subsurface team
2014 1 semester Head Teaching Assistant, TTU, History of Life and Historical Geology
2013 1 semester Teaching Assistant, TTU, Historical Geology
2013 1 semester Teaching Assistant, Geneseo, The History of Life
2012 1 semester Teaching Assistant, Geneseo, Environmental Science
2012 1 semester Teaching Assistant, Geneseo, The History of Life
2011 2 semester Teaching Assistant, Geneseo, Our Geologic Environment
FIELD EXPERIENCES
Aug. 2022 2 weeks Field Course Leader. Bakken & Three Forks reservoirs. MT, WY
Oct. 2019 1 week Sequence stratigraphy trip for Hess, assistant lead. TX, NM
Sept. 2019 1 week Sequence stratigraphy pre-trip for Hess, assistant lead. TX, NM
Aug. 2019 1 week Minnelusa and Pahasapa Formation field study. SD
June 2019 1 week Bakken shale core sampling. ND
Sep. 2018 1 week Minnelusa and Englewood Formation field study. SD
Aug. 2018 1 week Three Forks and Sappington field trip organization. MT, WY
Sep. 2017 1 week Three Forks and Sappington field trip organization. MT, WY
Aug. 2017 2 weeks Englewood and Minnelusa Formation field study. SD, WY
Aug. 2016 1 week Sappington Research and field trip organization. MT, WY
Mar. 2016 1 week Deep water depositional systems field course. CA
Sep. 2015 5 days Sappington outcrop workshop. MT
May. 2015 3 days Chattanooga Shale project. AL
Dec. 2014 1 week Bahamas carbonates field trip. San Salvador Island, Bahamas
July 2014 1 week Hess intern field trip. WY
April 2014 1 week Sequence Stratigraphy field trips. NM
Aug. 2013 1 week NSF research. KS, IA and OK
Dec. 2012 2 weeks Intersession field trip. Puerto Rico
June 2012 4 weeks NSF research. Germany, Poland, TN, NY, OH
Dec. 2011 1 week Directed study research. OH and KY
2011-2013 1 week Structural and Geophysics field trips. NY and VA
2010-2013 1 week Paleontology and Stratigraphy field trip. NY
2010-2013 1 week Department field trips. NY and PA
POST-GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
June 2020 2 weeks Geological Interpretation of well logs. RPS services
June 2019 2 days Touchstone modeling training. Geocosm hosted at Shell.
May 2018 1 week Carbonate Depositional Systems, Reservoir Sedimentology and
Diagenesis. Nautilus training with Paul Wright
Oct. 2017 2 weeks Quantitative Petrographic Analysis of Sandstones. SedPetrology LLC
Apr. 2017 1 day Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Mudstones. Exxon mudrock group
Dec. 2016 1 week Play Based Exploration. Hess
Aug. 2016 1 week Deep Water Reservoirs-from exploration to production. Vitor Abreau
Jan. 2016 10 weeks Keystone G – Geoscientist training for Petroleum Geology. Hess
Nov. 2015 1 week Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping. SCA