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Dec

2021 Conference Abstracts

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Our first Special Issue of the Newsletter, with the abstracts from the 2021 annual meeting is now available to download.

Dear Paleoceanography community and friends,

We are excited to announce that registration and abstract submission for ICP14 are now open! Please visit the ICP14 homepage for registration and lots more information about the conference.

We remain hopeful that we can arrange ICP14 as the vibrant conference it always is and only need to use the virtual component to broaden participation and opportunities for interaction. However, we keep monitoring the pandemic situation closely and will send further updates in case changes need to be made.

Important deadlines:

Early Bird registration: Feb 28, 2022
Travel /virtual participation grant application, including abstract submission for those applying: Feb 28, 2022
- (Note: those applying for travel/virtual participation grants can register until April 20, 2022 at the early bird rate)
Abstract submission: April 3, 2022
All Presenters must register by April 20, 2022
Changes to participation mode (virtual/on-site) until April 20, 2022

The Scientific Committee is in the final stages of completing an exciting plenary program and we have ample space in the program for extended poster sessions. A range of field trips are planned to allow you to experience the fantastic glacially formed landscape surrounding Bergen.

You can also find an updated weather prediction on the website!

If you would like to organize a pre- or post-conference meeting or workshop in Bergen and need help with logistics, let us know at sec.icp14@uib.no. (please write “ICP14 workshops” in the subject line).

For the musicians among you, please sign up in the registration form to join the stage at the Paleomusicology concert. And finally, following tradition we are looking for hosts for ICP15, so please get in touch with us at sec.icp14@uib.no if you are interested in giving a pitch for hosting ICP in 2025.

Best regards,

The ICP14 local organizing committee

Nov

Cocco Catch-up

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There will be a pre-christmas Cocco Catch-up on the 14th December on Zoom. More details can be found on the event page.

Jun

TMS Foraminifera Festival

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We are delighted to invite you to the TMS Foraminifera Festival: a virtual foram-themed day of talks and posters on Friday 27^th August, 06:00-16:30 UTC (07:00-17:30 BST) taking place on Zoom. The Festival features four sessions of talks (15 min) and posters, each convened by a group of 4-5 early career researchers.

Provisional schedule

Session	Time (UTC)	Speaker	Title
Session 1	06:00	Intro to Foram Festival Session 1
	06:05	Dharma Andrea Reyes Macaya	Carbon isotopes in modern Southeast Pacific Benthic Foraminifera: Paleoceanographic implications
	06:20	Takashi Toyofuku	Little by little Foraminifera laboratory culture goes far
	06:35	Lukas Jonkers	Large variability in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma stable isotope ratios from isothermal conditions: implications for single foraminifera analysis
	06:50	Jennifer Scott	Monsoon evolution in the western Arabian Sea: insights into hemispheric controls and temperature evolution over the last 120 ka BP
	07:05	Eleanor John	Keynote: TBC
	07:20	Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo	Keynote: Matches and mismatches of Mg/Ca and δ18O in planktonic foraminifera: a multispecies comparison through time and across space
	07:35	BREAK
	08:00	Poster Session
	08:30	Break-out A
Session 2	09:00	Intro to Foram Festival Session 2
	09:05	Giulia Margaritelli	Keynote: Planktonic foraminifera and climate changes: the last 2000 years
	09:20	Mónica Bolívar Feriche	Correlation of planktonic and shallow-benthic zonations in a middle Miocene succession from SE Spain
	09:35	Louise Callard	Virtual foraminifera: using eSlide for online microfossil identification
	09:50	Allison Hsiang	Automated community ecology of planktonic foraminifera using deep learning
	10:05	Anieke Brombacher	3Dforam: an R package to analyse shell growth in 3 dimensions
	10:20	BREAK
	10:35	General Poster Session
	11:05	BREAK
Session 3	11:30	Intro to Foram Festival Session 3
	11:35	Haruka Takagi	Keynote: Advances in planktonic foraminiferal photosymbiosis research: Partnership, photophysiology, and implications on evolution
	11:50	Rikza Nur Faqih An Nahar	Study of the September 28th 2018 Tsunamigenic Landslide Deposits in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Based on Foraminifera Data
	12:05	Johanna Schmidt	How to distinguish contourites and turbidites using benthic foraminifera
	12:20	James Mulqueeney	Assessing the impact of climate change on the structural integrity of benthic foraminifera during the Palaeocene Eocene Thermal Maximum – implications for future climate change
	12:35	Kate Darling	Not seeing the wood for the trees: A case for obligate alternation of generation in non-spinose planktonic foraminifera
	12:50	Daniel E. Gaskell	CO₂ capture explains δ13C vital effects in foraminifera
Session 4	13:05	Poster Session
	13:35	Break-out B
	14:05	Intro to Foram Festival Session 4
	14:10	Sulia Goeting	Diversity and depth distribution of modern benthic foraminifera offshore Brunei Darussalam
	14:25	Anna Saupe	Biogeographic patterns of benthic foraminifera in contourite drift systems of the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean
	14:40	Maxime Daviray	Ecology of benthic foraminifera in a mudflat subjected to cable bacterial activity
	14:55	Tiago Menezes Freire	Paleoceanographic conditions through MIS 4 in the mid-latitude Western South Atlantic based on planktonic Foraminifera
	15:10	Yahel Eshed	Benthic foraminifera associated with seagrass as a model ecosystem for monitoring environmental changes
	15:25	Abduljamiu Olalekan Amao	Keynote: The future of benthic foraminiferal diversity in the Arabian Gulf: a system under pressure from climate change
	15:40	BREAK
Awards Ceremony	16:05	Awards for best poster and talk

We look forward to e-meeting you in August,

The Foraminifera Festival Coordinators

Dr. Anieke Brombacher (University of Southampton, TMS Events Secretary)
Dr. Babette Hoogakker (Heriot-Watt University, TMS Foraminifera Group Chair)
Dr. Lyndsey Fox (Kingston University, TMS Foraminifera Group Secretary)
Dr. Manuel Weinkauf (Charles University in Prague, TMS Newsletter Editor)
Dr. Rehemat Bhatia (TMS Publicity Officer)

May

Cocco Catch-Up

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TMS Nannofossil Group ‘Cocco Catch-Up’, hosted from University College London

Thursday, 22^nd July 2021 from 13:30 UK time (12:30 UTC).

We are pleased to annouce that the next TMS Nannofossil Group ‘Cocco Catch-Up’ has now been rescheduled for Thursday 22nd July 2021, starting at 13:30 UK time (12:30 UTC). It will be taking place virtually. We hope that you are able to attend. We are delighted to present an excellent programme of talks and are certain that these will stimulate lots of valuable discussion. Please find a brief outline of the schedule below.

All times stated are for the UK – these are provided for guidance but timings may vary on the day.

13:30 Welcome (speakers, please join us from 13:10 to set up)

13:35 Ros Rickaby, Oxford University: Placing pelagic coccolithophores in the long term carbon cycle

14:15 Deborah Tangunan, Cardiff University: Subtropical biotic response during the early Pliocene warmth

14:45 Alan Maria Mancini, University of Turin: An opportunity to discuss ‘coccolithophores in low salinity environments’

15:05 10 minute break

15:15 Mariem Saavedra Pellitero, University of Birmingham: Distribution of coccoliths in surface sediments across the Drake Passage and calcification of Emiliania huxleyi morphotypes

15:45 Amy Jones, University of Birmingham: Macroevolutionary drivers of coccolithophores during Neogene cooling

16:15 Jeremy Young, University College London (with Baptiste Sucheras-Marx and Shijun Jiang): INA/Nannotax Bibliography project – toward a comprehensive bibliography of nanno literature.

16:45 General discussion/social/wrap up.

17:00 Close

Please note that by joining the Zoom meeting you agree to adhere to the TMS Code of Conduct.

Zoom call details:

https://ucl.zoom.us/j/91716745717

Meeting ID: 917 1674 5717

Cocco Catch-up 20210722

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Apr

NannoTalks Volume 2

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The International Nannoplankton Association (INA) is happy to announce NannoTalks Volume 2, starting Monday 19th April at 15:00 UTC. Tune in to our transmission on YouTube:

Our first talk will be the Role of silicon in the development of complex crystal shapes in coccolithophores by Gerald Langer. The development of calcification by the coccolithophores had a profound impact on ocean carbon cycling, but the evolutionary steps leading to the formation of these complex biomineralized structures are not clear. Advanced microscopic studies help to understand how these tiny microorganisms calcify and how some coccolithophore species recruit silicon for crystal morphogenesis.

Jan

Conference Keynotes 2020

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We are pleased to annouce that all the keynote talks from the TMS 2020 conference are now available to watch on the conference website.

Dec

Microfossil Image Competition 2021

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Diatoms are tiny, silica-shelled phytoplankton. Not only are they an important part of marine ecosystems and useful tools for studying past climate – this Asteromphalus flabellatus proves that they are also amazingly beautiful!

The Micropalaeontological Society is delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Micropalaeontology Image Competition!

The overall image winner was submitted by Isabel Dove from the University of Rhode Island – Graduate School of Oceanography, with a beautiful image of the diatom species Asteromphalus flabellatus. Not only does Isabel win the competition’s first prize of €200, but her image is also included on the front cover of our TMSoc2021 Calendar (note these are now sold out)!

On behalf of the Society we would like to congratulate Isabel on her success. Eleven additional winners were selected from the fantastic submissions, and are on display below! A wide variety of microfossils and imaging techniques have been championed this year, and we are already looking forward to next year’s competition.

Additional winners

Odysseas Archontikis and Jeremy Young, University of Oxford and University College London

Coccolith ultrastructure of *Cyclicargolithus floridanus*. Each coccolith is composed of two interconnecting cycles of the same crystal units, known as the R-units. Coccosphere specimen is c. 10μm in diameter and was collected from Early Miocene dark sapropelic sediments.

Hilary H. Birks, University of Bergen, Norway

Seed of mountain chickweed, *Cerastium cerastoides*. This creeping arctic-alpine plant bears large white chickweed flowers, characteristic of its family, Caryophyllaceae. It grows in seepage zones from melting snowbeds usually in open gravel or stones. The bean-shaped seeds, about 1.5 mm long, have an amazing pattern of humpy interlocking cells.

Seed of sea campion, *Silene maritima*. The grey-leaved plants form loose mats and bear large white flowers typical of its family, Caryophyllaceae. It inhabits sea-cliffs, seaside walls, shingle banks, and drift-lines on seashores. Its bean-shaped seeds, about 2 mm long, have an amazing pattern of interlocking jig-saw cells

Damián Cárdenas, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Catching a glimpse of organic-walled microfossils

Dimitris Evangelinos, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra – CSIC – Universidad de Granada

Diatom buried in calcareous nannofossils

Sahina Gazi, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India

Calcareous Nannofossils from the Indian Sector of Southern Ocean

Hannah Hartung, University of Cologne

Look, which surprise: a baby-like Radiolaria in the belly of its mother

Susan Richardson, Florida Atlantic University

Slice through shell of an ancient foraminiferan *Rauserella erratica*. Image shows the discoidal shape of the early shell which results from regular coiling in a single plane. In later stages, the shell becomes uncoiled as the axis of coiling shift. Shells collected from reef-associated habitats in Permian-aged rocks of North America.

Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero, University of Birmingham

During COVID-19 lockdown, I experienced a great personal tragedy. I drew these two coccospheres of *Emiliania huxleyi* (type A and type O) to cheer myself up. I hope this watercolor will bring a smile to others.

Nicolai Schleinkofer, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Parasitic foraminifera (*Hyrokkin sarcophaga*) on host organism (*Acesta excavata*, bivalve). The bored hole is visible as well as the defense reaction of the bivalve (callus formation to close the boring)

Yan Yu Ting, Earth Observatory of Singapore

A showcase of nature’s meticulous design skills – a handful of tropical benthic foraminifera imaged at various angles using microscope.

Dec

TMS Quiz 2020

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Come and join our January Blues TMS Science Quiz, hosted by the amazing Samuel Langford!! Rounds include general science questions, a picture round and a music round. All general science so no microfossil taxonomy knowledge required!

£3.50 for members / £6 for non-members (any profits will go to TMS student grants)
Science fun guaranteed
Everyone welcome! You don’t have to be a TMS member

By buying a ticket you agree to adhere to the TMS Code of Conduct

Dec

Volunteers for TMS Annual Conference 2021

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We are looking for volunteers to host next year’s Annual Conference! The Annual Conference takes place in November and typically consists of a day of keynote speakers, Society business and the conference dinner (in case of a physical meeting), followed by a day of talks and posters. We hope that by this time next year we will be able to have a physical meeting again, but if the situation requires a (partly) virtual meeting, TMS will be able to assist with setting up a virtual platform.

As many past meetings have been UK-based, we are now looking for a location outside the UK. If you would like to volunteer to host the meeting in November 2021, please send a short (<5 min) promotion video about your proposed meeting location to events@tmsoc.org. This can be very simple, such as powerpoint slides with recorded audio. Useful information to include are potential venues, possible accommodation options (e.g. affordable options for students) and travel information. Green transport options such as trains are a plus! Deadline for submission is 31 December.

In January all videos will be published through the TMS channels for members to vote on their favourite location. The winning location will be announced by the end of January. If you have any questions please email the Events Secretary Anieke Brombacher (events@tmsoc.org)

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Microfossil Image Competition 2021

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Volunteers for TMS Annual Conference 2021

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