Society Officers

Officers of the Society are drawn from the Membership. The Main Committee comprises a President, Secretary and Treasurer, with a three-year term of office. The Secretary and Treasurer may seek re-election for a second term of three years. The main committee also includes the editors of the Journal, Special Publications and Newsletter, the Membership Secretary, the Website Officer, the Publicity Officer and the Archivist. They are elected for a three-year office term and are eligible to stand for a second term. A representative of each specialist group must be present at each main committee meeting. Group Representative positions are normally held for two years.

The first committee meeting was held in 1971 (Leslie Moore as Chairman and Bernard Owens as Secretary/Treasurer), and the inaugural meeting took place in association with the Geological Society in Sheffield (‘Microfossils and British Stratigraphy’) during March of that year.

Information on procedures and meetings is available under the Committee Procedures tab.

**President**
Sev Kender
(University of Exeter, UK)

Group Representatives

**Foraminifera Group Chair**
Renata Moura de Mello
(Petrobras, Brazil)

The Micropalaeontological Society

Towards the advancement of the education of the public in the study of Micropalaeontology

The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) exists “to advance the education of the public in the study of Micropalaeontology” and is operated “exclusively for scientific and educational purposes and not for profit”. It was initiated as The British Micropalaeontological Group (BMG) in 1970, following a proposal by Professor Leslie Moore of the University of Sheffield and several colleagues who wished to organise a group of palaeontologists with a mutual interest in the micropalaeontological study of British type sections and the provision of a forum for the communication of their results.