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Donohue, C., Moonan, X., Zumberge, A., & Spence, G. (2022, August). Tracks and trails: Continued evidence of Trinidadian regional cretaceous source rock at Royston-1. In Second International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (pp. 1079-1081). Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Turner, A., Donohue, C., Zumberge, J. A., Muñoz, A., & Bergeron, P. (2022, June). Time Lapse Geochemistry Production Allocation; End Member Definition and Selection; Case Studies, Delaware Basin and Eagle Ford. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (pp. 1079-1081). Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Zumberge, J. A., Perry, S., Cheng, K., & Donohue, C. M. (2022, October). Mobile or immobile: Hydrocarbon characterization from the comparison of various extraction techniques to produced oils. In Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 20–22 June 2022 (pp. 1202-1214). Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC).

Turner, A., Donohue, C., Zumberge, A., Jerath, K., & Rivas, D. (2022, June). Integration of Time Lapse Geochemistry to Enhance Subsurface Characterization at Hydraulic Fracture Test Site II. In SPWLA 63rd Annual Logging Symposium. OnePetro.

Connan, Jacques, Katherine A. Adelsberger, Michael H. Engel, and Alex Zumberge. "Bitumens from Tell Yarmuth (Israel) from 2800 BCE to 1100 BCE: A unique case history for the study of degradation effects on the Dead Sea bitumen." Organic Geochemistry 168 (2022): 104392.

Love, G. D., & Zumberge, J. A. (2021). Emerging patterns in proterozoic lipid biomarker records. Cambridge University Press.

Sonnenberg, S. A., Zumberge, J. E., & Curtis, J. B. (2021). Codell carrier-bed play, Denver Basin. AAPG

Donohue, C. M., & Barrie, C. D. (2021). A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play. AAPG Bulletin, 105(9), 1847-1866.

Cui, Xingqian, Xiao-Lei Liu, Gaozhong Shen, Jian Ma, Fatima Husain, Donald Rocher, John E. Zumberge, Donald A. Bryant, and Roger E. Summons. "Niche expansion for phototrophic sulfur bacteria at the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 30 (2020): 17599-17606.

Donohue, C. M., Barrie, C. D., Jarvie, B., Zumberge, J. A., & Zumberge, J. E. (2020, December). A comparison of hydrocarbon extraction techniques: Trying to make a mountain from a mole hill. In Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 20–22 July 2020 (pp. 69-81). Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC).

Barrie, C. D., Donohue, C. M., Zumberge, J. A., & Zumberge, J. E. (2020). Production allocation: Rosetta stone or red herring? Best practices for understanding produced oils in resource plays. Minerals, 10(12), 1105.

Barrie, C. D., Donohue, C. M., & Zumberge, J. A. (2020, July). A statistical approach to understanding fluid geochemistry changes in unconventional plays. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Connan, Jacques, Seth Priestman, Tom Vosmer, Abhirada Komoot, Hossein Tofighian, Buyuk Ghorbani, Michael H. Engel, Alex Zumberge, and Thomas Van De Velde. "Geochemical analysis of bitumen from West Asian torpedo jars from the c. 8th century Phanom-Surin shipwreck in Thailand." Journal of Archaeological Science 117 (2020): 105111.

Zumberge, J. Alex, Don Rocher, and Gordon D. Love. "Free and kerogen‐bound biomarkers from late Tonian sedimentary rocks record abundant eukaryotes in mid‐Neoproterozoic marine communities." Geobiology 18.3 (2020): 326-347.

Nguyen, K., Love, G. D., Zumberge, J. A., Kelly, A. E., Owens, J. D., Rohrssen, M. K., ... & Lyons, T. W. (2019). Absence of biomarker evidence for early eukaryotic life from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group: Searching across a marine redox gradient in mid‐Proterozoic habitability. Geobiology, 17(3), 247-260.

Peters, K. E., Lillis, P. G., Lorenson, T. D., & Zumberge, J. E. (2019). Geochemically distinct oil families in the onshore and offshore Santa Maria basins, California. AAPG Bulletin, 103(2), 243-271

Thompson-Butler, William, Kenneth E. Peters, Leslie B. Magoon, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, J. Michael Moldowan, Vladimir Orlando Blanco, Roman Eugenio Gonzalez, Stephan A. Graham, John E. Zumberge, and David A. Wavrek. "Identification of genetically distinct petroleum tribes in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia." AAPG Bulletin 103, no. 12 (2019): 3003-3034.

Zumberge, J. A. (2019). A lipid biomarker investigation tracking the evolution of the neoproterozoic marine biosphere and the rise of eukaryotes. University of California, Riverside.

Zumberge, J. A., Cárdenas, P., Duda, J. P., Sperling, E. A., & Love, G. D. (2019, September). Patterns of steroid synthesis in modern demosponges and the identification of new sterane biomarker targets. In 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (Vol. 2019, No. 1, pp. 1-2). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.

Zumberge, J., Brown, S., Kast, J., Illich, H., & Curtis, J. Oil to Source Rock Correlation of the Lower Cretaceous in the East Texas Basin. In 2019 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition:.

Curtis, J. B., & Zumberge, J. E. (2018, July). Permian Basin Petroleum Systems-Geochemical Insight Into Hydrocarbon Generation, Migration and Well Performance. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Barrie, C. D., Taylor, K. W., Zumberge, J., & Sparks, K. L. PS A Multiple Isotope (C, H, S & O) Approach to Characterizing Crude Oil Families Within Oil Basins. In AAPG ACE 2018.

Zumberge, J. Alex, et al. "Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals." Nature Ecology & Evolution 2.11 (2018): 1709-1714.

Curtis, J. B., Brown, S. W., Zumberge, J. E., Ferworn, K. A., & White, M. M. (2017, September). GIS-based Interpretation of Rock, Oil, Gas and PVT Data to Predict New Well Outcomes–Virtual Well Examples From the Eagle Ford and Second White Speckled Shale Formations of North America. In Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 24-26 July 2017 (pp. 2247-2254). Society of Exploration Geophysicists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Zumberge, J., Rocher, D., & Reed, J. (2017, July). Thermal maturity differences in oils produced from Lower Permian Wolfcamp A, B & C laterals, Midland Basin. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Jarvie, D. M., Prose, D., Jarvie, B. M., Drozd, R., & Maende, A. (2017, April). Conventional and unconventional petroleum systems of the delaware basin. In Proceedings of the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, TX, USA (pp. 2-5).

Curtis, J. B., & Zumberge, J. E. (2017, February). An applied geochemical look at the Delaware basin petroleum systems. In Delaware Basin Playmaker Forum, Midland, Texas (Vol. 22).

Peters, K. E., Wright, T. L., Ramos, L. S., Zumberge, J. E., & Magoon, L. B. (2016). Chemometric recognition of genetically distinct oil families in the Los Angeles basin, California. AAPG Bulletin, 100(1), 115-135.

Zumberge, J. E., Curtis, J. B., Reed, J. D., & Brown, S. W. (2016, August). Migration happens: Geochemical evidence for movement of hydrocarbons in unconventional petroleum systems. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Zumberge, J., Illich, H., & Waite, L. (2016). Petroleum geochemistry of the Cenomanian–Turonian Eagle Ford oils of south Texas.

French, K. L., Rocher, D., Zumberge, J. E., & Summons, R. E. (2015). Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C 40 carotenoids through time. Geobiology, 13(2), 139-151.

Jarvie, D. M., Jarvie, B. M., Weldon, W. D., & Maende, A. (2015, July). Geochemical Assessment of Petroleum in Unconventional Resource Systems. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Al-Ameri, T. K., Najaf, A. A., Al-Khafaji, A. S., Zumberge, J., & Pitman, J. (2014). Hydrocarbon potential of the Sargelu formation, North Iraq. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 7(3), 987-1000.

Zumberge, J. E., & Curtis, J. B. (2014, August). Petroleum Geochemistry of the UJ Bazhenov Shale and Corresponding Crude Oils, West Siberia, Russia. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Zumberge, J. E., Curtis, J. B., & Rocher, D. (2013, August). Identification of Three Williston Basin Oil Families Derived from Mississippian Carbonate Source Rocks. In Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (pp. 332-338). Society of Exploration Geophysicists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Peters, K. E., Coutrot, D., Nouvelle, X., Ramos, L. S., Rohrback, B. G., Magoon, L. B., & Zumberge, J. E. (2013). Chemometric differentiation of crude oil families in the San Joaquin Basin, California. AAPG bulletin, 97(1), 103-143.

Curtis¹, J. B., Zumberge, J. E., & Brown, S. W. (2013). Evaluation of Niobrara and Mowry Formation petroleum systems in the Powder River, Denver and Central Basins of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado and Wyoming, USA.

Chatellier, J. Y., Flek, P., Molgat, M., Anderson, I., Ferworn, K., Larsen, N. L., & Ko, S. (2013). Overpressure in shale gas: When geochemistry and reservoir engineering data meet and agree.

llich, H., Ferworn, K., Nilson, G., Hernandez, F., & Williamson, D. (2013, August). Barnett gas geochemistry and thermal maturity, Fort Worth Basin. In SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. OnePetro.

Edwards, D. S., Boreham, C. J., Chen, J., Grosjean, E., Mory, A. J., Sohn, J., & Zumberge, J. E. (2013). Stable carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of Paleozoic marine crude oils from the Canning Basin: comparison with other west Australian crude oils. In The Sedimentary Basins of West Australia IV. Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth (pp. 1-13).

Al-Ameri, T. K., & Zumberge, J. (2012). Middle and upper Jurassic hydrocarbon potential of the Zagros fold Belt, North Iraq. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 36(1), 13-34.

Jarvie, D. M., Jarvie, B. M., Weldon, W. D., & Maende, A. (2012). Components and processes impacting production success from unconventional shale resource systems. Energy & Fuels, 20(1), 295-300.

Zumberge, J., Ferworn, K., & Brown, S. (2012). Isotopic reversal (‘rollover’) in shale gases produced from the Mississippian Barnett and Fayetteville formations. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 31(1), 43-52.

Kelly, A. E., Love, G. D., Zumberge, J. E., & Summons, R. E. (2011). Hydrocarbon biomarkers of Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian oils from eastern Siberia. Organic Geochemistry, 42(6), 640-654.

Al-Ameri, T. K., Al-Khafaji, A. J., & Zumberge, J. (2009). Petroleum system analysis of the Mishrif reservoir in the Ratawi, Zubair, North and South Rumaila oil fields, southern Iraq. GeoArabia, 14(4), 91-108.

Kelly, A. E., D. H. Rothman, G. D. Love, E. Grosjean, D. A. Fike, J. E. Zumberge, and R. E. Summons. "Environmental Implications of Ediacaran C-isotopic Shifts." In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, vol. 2008, pp. PP33A-1524. 2008.

Ferworn, K. (2009). Haynesville Shale Gas-Why is it Better than the Barnett?. Transactions, 59, 277.

Peters, K. E., Ramos, L. S., Zumberge, J. E., Valin, Z. C., & Bird, K. J. (2008). De-convoluting mixed crude oil in Prudhoe Bay field, North Slope, Alaska. Organic Geochemistry, 39(6), 623-645.

Knoll, A. H., Summons, R. E., Waldbauer, J. R., & Zumberge, J. E. (2007). The geological succession of primary producers in the oceans. In Evolution of primary producers in the sea(pp. 133-163). Academic Press.

Zumberge, J., Illich, H., & Scotese, C. (2007). Biomarkers from marine crude oils reflect modeled climatic/oceanographic conditions for the Late Cretaceous. In reports from the 23rd International Meeting on Organic Chemistry (pp. 9-14).

Peters, K. E., Ramos, L. S., Zumberge, J. E., Valin, Z. C., Scotese, C. R., & Gautier, D. L. (2007). Circum-Arctic petroleum systems identified using decision-tree chemometrics. AAPG bulletin, 91(6), 877-913.

Hughey, C. A., Galasso, S. A., & Zumberge, J. E. (2007). Detailed compositional comparison of acidic NSO compounds in biodegraded reservoir and surface crude oils by negative ion electrospray Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Fuel, 86(5-6), 758-768.

Connan, J., Kavak, O., Akin, E., Yalçin, M. N., Imbus, K., & Zumberge, J. (2006). Identification and origin of bitumen in Neolithic artefacts from Demirköy Höyük (8100 BC): Comparison with oil seeps and crude oils from southeastern Turkey. Organic Geochemistry, 37(12), 1752-1767.

Edwards, D. S., Boreham, C. J., Zumberge, J. E., Hope, J. M., Kennard, J. M., & Summons, R. E. (2006, November). Hydrocarbon families of the Australian North West Shelf: a regional synthesis of the bulk, molecular and isotopic composition of oils and gases. In 2006 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition (pp. 5-8).

Zumberge, J. E., Russell, J. A., & Reid, S. A. (2005). Charging of Elk Hills reservoirs as determined by oil geochemistry. AAPG bulletin, 89(10), 1347-1371.

Edwards, D. S., Preston, J. C., Kennard, J. M., Boreham, C. J., van Aarssen, B. G., Summons, R. E., & Zumberge, J. E. (2003, June). Geochemical characteristics of hydrocarbons from the Vulcan Sub-basin, western Bonaparte Basin, Australia. In Timor Sea Petroleum Geoscience: Proceedings of the Timor Sea Symposium, Darwin, Northern Territory (pp. 19-20).

Bernard, B. B., Brooks, J. M., & Zumberge, J. (2001, September). Determining the origin of gases in near-surface sediments. In AAPG Hedberg Conference, Vancouver BC, Canada (pp. 16-19).

Edwards, D. S., Kennard, J. M., Preston, J. C., Summons, R. E., Boreham, C. J., & Zumberge, J. E. (2000). Bonaparte Basin. Geochemical characteristics of hydrocarbon families and petroleum systems. Geoscience Australia Research Newsletter, 33, 14-18.

Schiefelbein, C. F., Zumberge, J. E., Cameron, N. R., & Brown, S. W. (1999). Petroleum systems in the South Atlantic margins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153(1), 169-179.

Cameron, N. R., Brooks, J. M., Zumberge, J. E., & To, J. (1999). Deepwater Petroleum Systems in Nigeria: Their identification and characterisation ahead of the drill bit using SGE technology. Proceedings of the IBC Nigeria Energy Summit, London, UK, 15-16.

HAMMAMI, A., FERWORN, K. A., NIGHSWANDER, J. A., Over, S. V. E. R. R. E., & STANGE, E. (1998). Asphaltenic crude oil characterization: an experimental investigation of the effect of resins on the stability of asphaltenes. Petroleum science and technology, 16(3-4), 227-249.

Ferworn, K. A., & Svrcek, W. Y. (1998). Characterization and phase behavior of asphaltenic crude oils. In Structures and Dynamics of Asphaltenes (pp. 227-246). Springer, Boston, MA.

Zumberge, J. E. (1993). Organic geochemistry of Estancia Vieja oils, Río Negro norte block. In Organic Geochemistry(pp. 461-471). Springer, Boston, MA.

Andrusevich, V. E., Engel, M. H., Zumberge, J. E., & Brothers, L. A. (1998). Secular, episodic changes in stable carbon isotope composition of crude oils. Chemical Geology, 152(1-2), 59-72.

Edwards, D. S., R. E. Summons, J. M. Kennard, R. S. Nicoll, J. Bradshaw, M. Bradshaw, C. B. Foster, G. W. O'Brien, and J. E. Zumberge. "Geochemical characteristics of Palaeozoic petroleum systems in northwestern Australia." The APPEA Journal 37, no. 1 (1997): 351-379.

Schiefelbein, C. F., Zumberge, J. E., & Brown, S. W. (1997). Petroleum systems in the far east.

Zumberge, John E. Silurian shale origin for light oil, condensate, and gas in Algeria and the Middle East. No. CONF-960527-. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK (United States), 1996.

Ferworn, K. A., Svrcek, W. Y., & Mehrotra, A. K. (1993). Measurement of asphaltene particle size distributions in crude oils diluted with n-heptane. Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 32(5), 955-959.

Zumberge, John E. "Terpenoid biomarker distributions in low maturity crude oils." Organic geochemistry 11.6 (1987): 479-496.

Vlierboom, F. W., Collini, B., & Zumberge, J. E. (1986). The occurrence of petroleum in sedimentary rocks of the meteor impact crater at Lake Siljan, Sweden. Organic Geochemistry, 10(1-3), 153-161.

Zumberge, John E. "Prediction of source rock characteristics based on terpane biomarkers in crude oils: A multivariate statistical approach." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 51.6 (1987): 1625-1637.

Sofer, Z., Zumberge, J. E., & Lay, V. (1986). Stable carbon isotopes and biomarkers as tools in understanding genetic relationship, maturation, biodegradation, and migration of crude oils in the Northern Peruvian Oriente (Maranon) Basin. Organic Geochemistry, 10(1-3), 377-389.

Sofer, Z., Leenheer, M. J., Palmer, S. E., & Zumberge, J. E. (1985). Geochemical Correlation of Oils and Source Rocks, North Slope, Alaska: USGS Interlaboratory Comparison Study: SOURCE ROCK EVALUATION INCLUDING ISOTOPES AND BIOMARKERS.