TMS Conference 2013 – Micropalaeontology and the IODP: Past, Present and Future Applications
Monday 18th – Tuesday 19th November 2013
The Natural History Museum, London
Monday 18th – Tuesday 19th November 2013
The Natural History Museum, London
Sunday 11th – Tuesday 13th November 2012
The British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham
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Update (25th October 2012):
The third meeting circular is now available to download (pdf 4.2Mb), including an update talks programme, poster sizes, talk times and general logistics. Please note that the registration/abstract submission deadlines have been extended until the end of October.
A report of this meeting is available in TMS newsletter 87.
The meeting was held at UCL, London on Wednesday 16th November 2011. A report of the meeting is available for download (34kb .doc) and full asbtracts of the talks presented may be found in TMS newsletter 84.
The 40th Anniversary AGM of TMS
Wednesday 17th November 2010, 13.30
Pearson Lecture Theatre – University College London
A report of this meeting is available for download here (MS Word document, 40kb).
18th November, 2009
Room 1.06, Roberts Engineering Building, University College London
Following the conclusion of Society business, Michal Kucera and David Lazarus introduced an excellent series of talks on the topic of Microfossils and Evolution, celebrating the Darwin Bicentenary.
The first speaker was David Bass from the Natural History Museum, London, whose title had evolved from his original one into ‘The Nth eukaryotic ‘supergroup’ and the evolutionary and ecological complexity of the Rhizaria’. David entertained us with comparisons between the eukaryote ‘bush of life’ and ‘tree of life’ and presented some interesting new data from 454 sequencing of DNA libraries.
19th November, 2008, 1.15pm
J. Z. Young Lecture Theatre, University College London
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Nils Chr. Stenseth & Lee Hsiang Liow – Macroecological and macroevolutionary dynamics of marine plankton inferred through microfossils
Guy Harrington – Paratropical floral extinction in the Late Palaeocene-Early Eocene
Paul Bown – The roller-coaster ride of Paleogene coccolithophore evolution: from mass extinction to peak diversity and back!
Helen Coxall – Forams and extinction: forces and feedbacks in marine ecosystems
Alan Lord & Ian Boomer – The extinction of the Metacopina – a major event in ostracod history
Sabrina Renaud & Catherine Girard – Conodont strategies facing environmental perturbations leading to mass extinction
Presentation of TMS Brady Medal to Professor Katharina von Salis. Presented by Professor Michal Kucera.
Presentation of Charles Downie Award 2008 to Dr Kirsty M. Edgar
Following the lectures, members of the Society were invited to a wine reception in the North Cloister, generously sponsored by PetroStrat Ltd
7th November, 2007, 1pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, University College London
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Held in association with the Geological Society, the meeting focused on ‘Micropalaeontological Heroes’ – worthies who helped found the discipline of micropalaeontology, the scientific contributions that they made and the relevance of their discoveries for current research. The 2007 AGM was TMS’s contributed to the bicentennial celebrations of the Geological Society.
Inaugural presentation of TMS Brady Medal to Professor John Murray. Presented by Professor David Siveter with Mr Anthony Stones.
Presentation of Charles Downie Award 2007 to Dr Eleanor Maddison.
Wednesday, 15th November 2006
University College, London
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The Charles Downie Award for presented to Dr Samantha Gibbs. Honorary Membership was confered on Dr John Whittaker and following the lectures, members of the Society were invited to a wine reception in the South Cloisters, sponsored by PetroStrat Ltd. We thank Shell UK Ltd for their generous support of this meeting.
16 November 2005
J. Z. Young Lecture Theatre, University College, London
This year (2005) the AGM included invited speakers from each of the specialist groups and a lecture by the recipient of the Charles Downie Award.
Honorary Membership was confered on Prof John Murray and following the lectures, members of the Society were invited to a wine reception in the South Cloisters, generously sponsored by PetroStrat Ltd.
The 2004 Annual General Meeting was held on 17th November at University College London.
Following Society business, two talks were presented.
Ancient Glacier Bodies, the Case of Oetzi, the Tyrolean Iceman: Clues from Microscopic Plant and Animal Remains –
Dr Jim Dickson Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Univ. of Glasgow
The 5,300 year old Tyrolean Iceman is the best preserved, oldest human body ever found. Scientifically, he is much more fun than Tutankamun. By palynology and complimentary techniques, the challenge is to work out his lifestyle in as great detail as possible and in particular to reconstruct his last days and hours.
Pteropods; What the Heck are They? – Mr Arie Janssen
National Museum of Natural History, Leiden
Pteropods, nowadays more correctly indicated as Gastropoda, Thesosomata, are holoplanktonic molluscs. They are known from marine deposits since the Late Palaeocene and still occur in the actual fauna. A brief account of systematics and morphology will be given. Their potential application in biostratigraphy will be demonstrated, with results from the Mediterranean and the North Sea Basin. Some practical cases using vertical distribution and evolution will be explained as examples of their possibilities, next to well-known other holoplanktonic organisms like dinoflagellates, foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton.
More details on how to register can be found here: https://www.tmsoc.org/6th-silicofossil-and-palynology-joint-meeting-2022/
The French Ostracodologists’ Group and the International Research Group on Ostracoda are pleased to invite you to attend the 19th International Symposium on Ostracoda that will be held in Lyon at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. There will also be an opportunity to take part virtually.
More details can be found on the website: http://iso2022.univ-lyon1.fr/en
The 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography is to be held in Bergen, with a virtual component to widen participation
FORAMS 2023
FORAMS 2022, the next International Symposium on Foraminifera, has been postponed to 2023 due to still ongoing pandemic conditions: therefore, it is now labelled as FORAMS 2023.
The symposium will be held from June 26th to June 30th 2023.
It is our wish to pursue an “in attendance” conference and meeting and we do not wish to switch into a fully online one. Perugia (Italy) will be still our venue as previously planned.
The website URL (www.forams2022.it) will remain the same to minimize the changes and all deadlines have been simply postponed by one year.
The Organising Committee is proud to announce you FORAMS 2022, the next International Symposium on Foraminifera to be held in Perugia (Italy). All contributions regarding or involving Foraminifera are welcome.
We will host communications about new achievements coming from any research field involving foraminiferal biology and palaeontology, including genomics, experimental biology, growth analyses, environmental sensitivity, biomineralisation, biomonitoring, palaeoecology, biostratigraphy, palaeogeography, taxonomy, oil industry, geological applications, etc…
A call for sessions will open soon, to give all researchers the opportunity for highlighting particular topics. Pre-symposiums and post-symposium fieldtrips are planned to visit localities where both modern and fossil foraminifera can be observed/sampled.
We’ll be able to host workshops and scientific meetings upon request. Please keep checking the website as in the next few weeks it will be populated with info, news and calls for sessions!
Deadlines:
Organising Committee: