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.

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Journal Publications

Braun, M., Bancroft, A., Hogancamp, N. J., Stolfus, B., Heath, M., Clark, R., Tassier-Surine, S., Day, J. and Cramer, B. in press. 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.

Lu, Y., Chen, J., Hogancamp, N. J., Lu, M., Ikejiri, T., Malina, N., Ojeda, A. and Sun, Y. in press. Marine microbial community structure responses linked to terrigenous nutrients through the Frasnian-Famennian Mass extinction event: A multiproxy geochemical record of the New Albany Shale. Geobiology.

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., 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.