Dr. Stephen Hubbard
University of Calgary
Principle Investigator
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
CSS Publications
Nesbit P.R., Hubbard S.M., Hugenholtz C.H., 2022, Direct Georeferencing UAV-SfM in High-Relief Topography: Accuracy Assessment and Alternative Ground Control Strategies along Steep Inaccessible Rock Slopes, Remote Sensing, 14(3):490. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030490
Stevenson, C.J., Jackson, C.A.L., Hodgson, D.M., Hubbard, S.M. and Eggenhuisen, J.T., 2015. Deep-water sediment bypass. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 85(9), pp.1058-1081.
Englert, R.G., Hubbard, S.M., Matthews, W.A., Coutts, D.S. and Covault, J.A., 2020. The evolution of submarine slope-channel systems: Timing of incision, bypass, and aggradation in Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group channel-system strata, British Columbia, Canada. Geosphere, 16(1), pp.281-296.
Nesbit, P.R., Boulding, A.D., Hugenholtz, C.H., Durkin, P.R. and Hubbard, S.M., 2020. Visualization and sharing of 3D digital outcrop models to promote open science. GSA Today, 30(6).
Nesbit, P.R., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G., Bell, D., Englert, R.G. and Hugenholtz, C.H., 2021. Digital re‐evaluation of down‐dip channel‐fill architecture in deep‐water slope deposits: Multi‐scale perspectives from UAV‐SfM. The Depositional Record.
Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R. and Sech, R.P., 2016. The stratigraphic record of submarine-channel evolution. The Sedimentary Record, 14(3), pp.4-11.
Meirovitz, C., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., 2020, The influence of inter- and intra-channel architecture on deep-water turbidite reservoir performance: Petroleum Geoscience.
Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G., Scher, H., Buckley, W., 2020, Intrabasinal sediment recycling from strontium isotope stratigraphy: Geology.
Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., Fildani, A., 2020, 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., 2020, Quantifying the 3D stratigraphic expression of upslope-migrating bedforms by integrating seafloor and outcrop observations: Sedimentology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hubbard, S.M., MacEachern, J.A. and Bann, K.L., 2012. Slopes. In Developments in Sedimentology (Vol. 64, pp. 607-642). Elsevier.
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.
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.