Dinoflagellate Protoperidinium divergens and resting on it the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi; recent specimens from a plankton sample from the Croatian Coast. Imaged by Luka Šupraha of Uppsala University, Sweden. ®©
Chair: Luke Mader (Open University)
Secretary: Ingrid Romero (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, USA)
Palynology is the study of all organic-walled palynomorphs that can be found in sedimentary archives, from acritarchs to dinoflagellate cysts, pollen, spores and non-pollen palynomorphs (including fungal spores, algae, etc.).
Palynology, from the Greek Paluno (sprinkle) and logy (study), aims at studying microscopic particles produced by plants such as pollen, spores as well as freshwater and marine algal cysts, and other types of palynomorphs such as acritarchs, chitinozoans and scolecodonts, that can be found in the air, water or varied sediment deposits and for a variety of time scales. A wide range of subjects encompasses palynological studies, such as melissopalynology (study of honey), forensic palynology, pollen allergy, biostratigraphy, taxonomy and evolutionary studies, environmental studies including archaeology, palaeoecology and limnology, to cite a few.
Recent Palynology Posts
Dinoflagellate cysts from the Cretaceous: the DUXBURY (1983) database
A new searchable database of type and figured dino…
Group Meeting 2012
This year’s meeting of the TMS Palynology Group to…
Group Meeting 2011
The 4th joint meeting of the Silicofossil and Paly…
Micropalaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London
Updated 04/10/2010 Knowing that many of you have b…
2011 Silicofossil and Palynology groups joint spring meeting
31st March, 2011, University of Tromsø, Norway We …