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:
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
There is a new paper available in the Journal of Micropalaeontology:
Biometry and taxonomy of Adriatic Ammonia species from Bellaria–Igea Marina (Italy)
Joachim Schönfeld, Valentina Beccari, Sarina Schmidt, and Silvia Spezzaferri
We were very sorry to hear of the death of Professor John Murray in late October 2021. John had a long and distinguished academic career at Imperial College London, The Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, Bristol University, Exeter University and finally Southampton, carrying out research on numerous topics related to benthic foraminifera. He was outstanding as both a teacher and researcher and will be greatly missed in both the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and in the world of foraminiferal research. He will also be sorely missed in our society. John was a member of the society from its foundation in 1970, as the British Micropalaeontological Group. He was secretary of the Foraminifera specialist group in 1972-1973, and Chairman of the society from 1978 to 1980. He edited the Journal of Micropaleontology from 1994 to 1997. In each of the roles he was supremely efficient and made major contributions to development of the society, in recognition of this he was made an Honorary Member of the Society in 2005. The Society also recognised his outstanding scientific contributions to Micropalaeontology, awarding him the Brady Medal, the highest honour of the society, in 2007. His achievements to that date are summarised in the commendation for the award – although since he continued a high-level of scientific output that summary is in need of updating.
Our knowledge of microfossils and their role in global ecology has been built by the work of numerous micropalaeontologists and John was one of the best, and one of the kindest.
Written by Dr Jeremy Young, on behalf of the Micropalaeontological Society committee
Our latest copy of the TMS newsletter is now available to download from the Newsletter section of the publications page: https://www.tmsoc.org/publications/
We are delighted to invite you to the TMS Foraminifera Festival: a virtual foram-themed day of talks and posters on Friday 27th 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)
The new edition of the TMS newsletter is now available to download from the Newsletter section of the publications page: https://www.tmsoc.org/publications/
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.
Odysseas Archontikis and Jeremy Young, University of Oxford and University College London
Hilary H. Birks, University of Bergen, Norway
Damián Cárdenas, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dimitris Evangelinos, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra – CSIC – Universidad de Granada
Sahina Gazi, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India
Hannah Hartung, University of Cologne
Susan Richardson, Florida Atlantic University
Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero, University of Birmingham
Nicolai Schleinkofer, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Yan Yu Ting, Earth Observatory of Singapore
Following another successful year, our 2020 calendars are now sold out.
Prices are the same as last year (£10 (UK), £12 (EU) and £14 (international)). Payment is via Paypal, and prices include postage
The society will print a fixed number of these calendars in the first instance, with additional print runs possible depending on demand. All proceeds will contribute towards supporting TMSoc activities.
Details of the winners can be found on the TMSoc twitter page!
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: