IU Shale Research
- Research on shale geology. Topics include sequence stratigraphy and study of facies and depositional environments.
- http://php.indiana.edu/~jschiebe/schieber.htm

Black Shale Net
- Geoscience platform for the exchange of information concerning organic-rich strata such as black shales, oil shales and hot shales.
- http://www.blackshale.com/

Chemostratigraphy
- Research into the use of geochemical methodologies to improve correlation in barren sedimentary sequences.
- http://home.no.net/chemo/

Biomineralization
- Microstructure and biogeochemistry of recent and fossil corals
- http://biomin.geol.u-psud.fr/