TMS Foraminifera Festival

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)