Dr. Stephen Hubbard

University of Calgary

STATUS

Research Focus

  • I am interested in clastic sedimentology and stratigraphy, including applications to the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. My students and I combine numerous approaches to our work, including: (1) lithofacies and stratigraphic architecture analysis in core and outcrop, (2) paleoecologic reconstruction of ancient sedimentary environments through trace fossil analysis, (3) wireline log and 3-D seismic interpretation, (4) sequence stratigraphy, and (5) provenance studies.


Education:

  • Ph.D. Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 2006

  • M.Sc. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1999

  • B.Sc. Geology, University of Alberta, 1997


Professional Experience:

  • Associate Professor, University of Calgary, 2011 -

  • Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, 2006 - 2010

  • Geologist, Shell Canada, 1999 - 2001

Publications

Meirovitz, C., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., in review, The influence of inter- and intra-channel architecture on deep-water turbidite reservoir performance: Petroleum Geoscience.

Daniels, B.G., Romans, B.W., Fosdick, J., Malkowski, M., Calderon, M., Matthews, W., Hubbard, S.M., in review, Andean orogenesis during continental underthrusting and its impact on the paleogeographic evolution of the Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral foreland basin, southern Patagonia (50.6-52°S), Lithosphere.

Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G., Scher, H., Buckley, W., in press, Intrabasinal sediment recycling from strontium isotope stratigraphy: Geology.

https://doi.org/10.1130/G47594.1

Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., Fildani, A., in press, The stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel: Linking seafloor dynamics to depositional products: Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Englert, R.G., Hubbard, S.M., Cartigny, M.J.B., Clare, M.A., Coutts, D., Hage, S., Hughes Clarke, J., Jobe, Z.R., Lintern, G., Stacey, C., Vendettuoli, D., in press, Quantifying the 3D stratigraphic expression of upslope-migrating bedforms by integrating seafloor and outcrop observations: Sedimentology.

https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12772

Bauer, D.B., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A. and Romans, B.W., 2020. Inherited depositional topography control on shelf-margin oversteepening, readjustment, and coarse-grained sediment delivery to deep water, Magallanes Basin, Chile. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, p.358.

https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00358

Jackson, A., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M. and Romans, B.W., 2019. Static connectivity of stacked deep-water channel elements constrained by high-resolution digital outcrop models. AAPG Bulletin, 103(12), pp.2943-2973.

https://doi.org/10.1306/03061917346

Daniels, B.G., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Malkowski, M.A., Matthews, W.A., Bernhardt, A., Kaempfe, S.A., Jobe, Z.R., Fosdick, J.C., Schwartz, T.M. and Fildani, A., 2019. Revised chronostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Última Esperanza Province, Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 94, p.102209.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.05.025

Pemberton, E.A., Stright, L., Fletcher, S. and Hubbard, S.M., 2018. The influence of stratigraphic architecture on seismic response: Reflectivity modeling of outcropping deepwater channel units. Interpretation, 6(3), pp.T783-T808.

https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2017-0170.1

Daniels, B.G., Auchter, N.C., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Matthews, W.A. and Stright, L., 2018. Timing of deep-water slope evolution constrained by large-n detrital and volcanic ash zircon geochronology, Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile. GSA Bulletin, 130(3-4), pp.438-454.

https://doi.org/10.1130/B31757.1

Reimchen, A.P., Hubbard, S.M., Stright, L. and Romans, B.W., 2016. Using sea-floor morphometrics to constrain stratigraphic models of sinuous submarine channel systems. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 77, pp.92-115.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.06.003

Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W. and Hubbard, S.M., 2016. Influence of deposit architecture on intrastratal deformation, slope deposits of the Tres Pasos Formation, Chile. Sedimentary Geology, 341, pp.13-26.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.05.005

Pemberton, E.A., Hubbard, S.M., Fildani, A., Romans, B. and Stright, L., 2016. The stratigraphic expression of decreasing confinement along a deep-water sediment routing system: Outcrop example from southern Chile. Geosphere, 12(1), pp.114-134.

https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01233.1

Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Fildani, A. and Romans, B.W., 2014. Sediment transfer and deposition in slope channels: Deciphering the record of enigmatic deep-sea processes from outcrop. GSA Bulletin, 126(5-6), pp.857-871.

https://doi.org/10.1130/B30996.1

Fildani, A., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Maier, K.L., Romans, B.W., Traer, M. and Rowland, J.C., 2013. Erosion at inception of deep-sea channels. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 41, pp.48-61.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.03.006

Macauley, R.V. and Hubbard, S.M., 2013. Slope channel sedimentary processes and stratigraphic stacking, Cretaceous Tres Pasos Formation slope system, Chilean Patagonia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 41, pp.146-162.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.02.004

Hubbard, S.M., MacEachern, J.A. and Bann, K.L., 2012. Slopes. In Developments in Sedimentology (Vol. 64, pp. 607-642). Elsevier.

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53813-0.00020-4

Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Fosdick, J.C. and Graham, S.A., 2011. Evolution of deep-water stratigraphic architecture, Magallanes Basin, Chile. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28(3), pp.612-628.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.05.002

Hubbard, S.M., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A. and McHargue, T.R., 2010. High-relief slope clinoform development: insights from outcrop, Magallanes Basin, Chile. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80(5), pp.357-375.

https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2010.042