News from the Palynology Group The 2011 Silicofossil and Palynology groups joint spring meeting was held on 31st March, 2011 in Tromso, Norway - Details   Group Meeting 2009 Following on from last year’s successful meeting at the University of Birmingham, this year’s Palynology Group meeting was at the Natural History Museum in London. The meeting took place on Wednesday 13th May, and our local hosts were Dr. Susanne Feist-Burkhardt and the team of palynologists of the NHM Palaeontology Department. The venue was the prestigious Flett Theatre situated in the Museum’s Earth Galleries.  As an addition, the day included a demonstration of the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology. Prof. Dianne Edwards (Cardiff) kindly agreed to give an invited lecture to begin the meeting. Her presentation was entitled: Beyond mid-Palaeozoic biostratigraphy: the benefits of combined in situ and dispersed spore research.  Files to download: Meeting Report (pdf 66kB), Presentation Abstracts (pdf 254kB). Joint meeting of the Palynology and Silicofossil Groups 2006 The meeting was held at the Laboratory of Palynology and Palaeobotony, Utrecht University, 9th-10th March, 2006. More>> Archive meeting reports Reports from previous Palynology meetings: APLF-TMS-LSPG 2005, Joint Meeting 2004, XI International Palynological Congress, July 2004. More >> Dinoflagellate cysts from the Cretaceous: the DUXBURY (1983) database now online Palynology related WWW links More >>