Silicofossil

• Internship Opportunity: Deep-sea sediments off the Al Wajh Carbonate Platform, Red Sea

  Professor Volker Vahrenkamp’s research team is currently recruiting for an up to 6-month internship joining the Carbonate Reservoirs Studies Group (CaResS Geology) at King Abdullah…

• A memorial meeting for John Eustace Whittaker (25.09.1945 – 29.07.2023)

  Dear friends We propose to organise a one-day memorial meeting in honour of our good friend and scientific collaborator John Whittaker who passed away 18…

• Volunteer as TMS Treasurer

  My term of office as society Treasurer will conclude in November 2024, and the TMS is now looking for a volunteer to take up this…

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  21st Century Drilling Workshop

  Building capacity in the digital domain using scientific ocean drilling legacy material Applications open for Workshop 2. Deadline 2nd of September 2024 Website:  https://le.ac.uk/iodp/events/21st-century-drilling Application form:  https://forms.gle/Kyky6bMkwrmQvevYA Dates for…

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  Microfossil Image Competition 2024 for 2025 TMS Calendar – Entry

  Since 2014, TMS has held a micropalaeontology-themed image competition, where the winning 12 images form our TMS calendar every year. This year’s competition is now…

• Microfossil Image Competition Microfossil Image Competition 2023 for 2024 TMS Calendar – Winners

  The Micropalaeontological Society is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Micropalaeontology Image Competition! The overall image winner was Medhavi Srivastava from Charles University,…

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  New Seminar Series: The Life of Retaria

  This seminar series aims to foster collaboration between scientists studying living retaria, particularly radiolaria and foraminifera. It provides an informal platform for speakers from diverse…

• Group Meeting 2011

  The 4th joint meeting of the Silicofossil and Palynology groups took place in Tromsø (Norway) on the 31st of March 2011, following a two-day workshop…

• Geobiology and environments of silica biomineralizers

  A meeting on “Geobiology and environments of silica biomineralizers” was held at the University Lille 1 (France) on 4-7th September 2011. The abstract volume and…

• Micropalaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London

  Updated 04/10/2010 Knowing that many of you have been following with great interest and concern the developments at the Natural History Museum in London, with…

• 2011 Silicofossil and Palynology groups joint spring meeting

  31st March, 2011, University of Tromsø, Norway We are pleased to announce the 4th Joint Meeting of the TMS Silicofossil and Palynology specialist groups. The meeting…

• Climate change marks dawn of man

  Climate change marks dawn of man – diatoms reveal complex variation in East African climate, which helped drive the development of our human ancestors.

• Diatoms: Algae with Animal traits – Science

  The discovery of urea cycle in the genome sequence of Thalassiosira pseudonana Algae with animal traits The diatom DNA sequencing project, funded by the U.S.…

• The first joint meeting of the Silicofossil and Palynology groups

  The first joint meeting of the Silicofossil and Palynology groups 9-10 June 2004 School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. Conveners: Catherine…

• Silicofossil Group Report Spring 2005

  Recently we’ve been updating the Silicofossil Group webpages to include news, a gallery of colourful diatom images and weblinks to the best and most useful…