Silicofossil

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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…

• 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.…

• 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.

• 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…

• Silicofossil Group Report Summer 2004

  The accidental and untimely death of our friend and colleague Jean-Jacques Pichon, on 9 November 2003 was a shock to us all. Jean-Jacques was a…

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  SURVEY: Marine Micropalaeontogical Data Requirements

  Anne Strack, Lukas Jonkers and Michal Kucera at MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Robert Huber at PANGAEA – the data publisher for Earth…

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  TMS Newsletter 2023

  We are pleased to announce that the TMS Newsletter for July 2023 is now available to download here. 

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  Microfossil Image Competition 2023 for 2024 TMS Calendar – Entry

  Entries are now closed! Thank you for all your submissions – come back next year! 2024 Calendars are still available here! Since 2014, The Micropalaeontological…