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ALGERIA
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ARGENTINA
Correspondent: Alwine Bertels <bertels@tango.gl.fcen.uba.ar>
Ballent, Sara C. Her
present activities, together with Robin Whatley, and Robin Whatley and J. Armitage, is devoted to the study of Jurassic Ostracoda, in particular the
genus Lophocythere, and the Callovian Ostracoda of the Oxford
Clay of England, respectively. Bertels, Alwine. Continues
directing several Doctoral theses:
(1) Laura
Ferrero,
Micropaleontologia y paleoecologia (ostracodos y foraminiferos) del
Cuaternario del sudeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires; (2) Dina E. Martinez, Ostracodos marinos y no marinos del Cuaternario del Sur de la
provincia de Buenos Aires, consideraciones paleoambientales; (3) Emiliana
Bernasconi,
Foraminiferos cuaternarios de testigos y sedimentos superficiales
de la plataforma continental argentina; and (4) Roman Segovia, Ostracodos no marinos del Cuaternario de la provincia de Entre
Rios. Current
work includes (1) Quaternary Foraminifera and marine and non-marine
Quaternary Ostracoda of the Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, Rio Negro, and
Santa Cruz Provinces; (2) Oligocene and Miocene non-marine Ostracoda
of Argentina; (3) Mesozoic and Cenozoic Foraminifera and Ostracoda of
Antarctica. Cusminsky, Gabriela C.
Current
work includes (1) Micropaleontology of the Nahuel Huapi Group of the
San Carlos de Bariloche area, in collaboration with A. Bertels; (2) Project Comahue lakes. In
preparation: Whatley, R.C.
and Cusminsky, G.C., Upper Pliocene Ostracoda from the Burdwood Bank,
SW Atlantic. Echevarría, Alicia E. She
is devoted to the study of marine Tertiary Ostracoda of Patagonia. Her objective is to analyze Oligocene Ostracoda from the
surroundings of Cardiel Lake in the Santa Cruz Province. Ercolano, Bettina is a new integrand of the ostracodologist world.
Her micropalaeontological work is related with Pleistocene
Ostracoda of the Santa Cruz Province. Ferrero, Laura. continues working on her Doctoral Thesis on the Quaternary
micropaleontology and paleoecology (Foraminifera and Ostracoda) of the
southeast of the Buenos Aires Province and also is working in a
research project on Quaternary paleoecology of sedimentary
environments. Gopp, Graciela is also a new
integrand of our world of micropaleontologists.
Her current work is dedicated to the development of the project
“Micropaleontology (Ostracoda and Foraminiferida) from the Upper
Jurassic of the Chubut Province”.
She also integrates the staff of the project Micropaleontology
(Foraminiferida, Ostracoda, Radiolaria, and diatoms) from the Mesozoic
and Cenozoic of Argentina and adjacent seas, directed by Alwine
Bertels-Psotka. Laprida, Cecilia obtained from the Argentina Research Council (CONICET) a post-doctoral fellowship and is getting experience under the direction of Dr. Pierre Carbonel at Bordeaux, France. She will spend one year in Europe. Martínez, Dina E.
Her
current work is related with the conclusion of her Doctoral thesis
related to the Quaternary marine, transitional and non-marine
Ostracoda of the southern areas of the Buenos Aires Province.
Otherwise, some Quaternary localities of the austral part of
the mentioned province are analyzed, such as Naposta Grande Stream,
estuary of Bahia Blanca and Quenquen Salado River. Segovia, Roman is also a new
integrant of Ostracoda. He
is beginning the study of non-marine ostracodes from the Entre Rios
Province. Salas, Maria Jose is doing
research at the University of Cordoba on Ordovician ostracodes of the
Precordillera and Northwest of Argentina, primarily focusing on
taxonomy, paleobiogeographical affinities, and paleoecology.
AUSTRALIA
Correspondent: Stephen Eager <Stephen.Eagar@vuw.ac.nz>
DeDeckker, Patrick.
Patrick
was involved in the organization with Tom Cronin and Jonathan Holmes of a workshop on “Ostracod biology, ecology, palaeoecology,
and shell chemistry” that preceded the AGU spring meeting in
Boston. In addition,
there was a session on ostracod and foram geochemistry, which all 3
organized during the AGU meeting.
Both workshops and session were a great success and well
attended. Some of the
participants contributed to the funding of the workshop (hire of room,
coffee, etc). The
proceedings of the workshop will eventually be published as a special
AGU volume and the co-editors are
Jonathan
Holmes
and Allan
Chivas. Patrick’s
paper on Cyprideis trace-element chemistry was published in the
Palaeo-3 special issue from the Chatham ostracod meeting. Patrick continues working on ostracods with a paper now near
completion on the chemistry of ostracods from the playa Lake Frome
from south Australia (presented as a poster at the AGU meeting). Another paper is near completion with Michael
Ayress and
Graham
Cole
on the distribution of cold-water ostracod taxa from the Kerguelen
Plateau. This material had been collected a long time ago and was
given to Michael by Dick Benson.
It will challenge the concept of depth distribution of
ostracods. Patrick
has co-authored 2 papers with Yusoke Yokoyama (senior author on both papers) showing the use of ostracods and
forams to determine the extent of sea level during the Last Glacial
Maximum (one paper to come out in Nature soon). Lynda Taylor should submit her Ph.D on ostracods and water chemical boundaries
in surficial waters and groundwaters from western Victoria in
September, 2000. Jones, Peter. Published
a paper with Pamela
Diaz Saravia
(Tucuman, Argentina) on some Carboniferous (Namurian) ostracods from
Patagonia. In press are
accounts on Devonian and Carboniferous ostracods for a book to be
published on the Palaeobiogeography of Australian Faunas and Floras. Neil, John.
Work in progress: Taxonomic paper on new species from the Miocene of Muddy
Creek, SW Victoria; further investigations of microreticulation,
Middle Cambrian examples on bradoriids from Northern Territory,
Australia; taxonomic and palaeoecological paper on South Australian
ostracode faunas. Papers
in review: Variation in
the surface morphology of the Miocene hemicytherid ostracode Hermanites
glyphica Neil, 1994, and its significance in the interpretation of
palaeoecology using Ostracoda; An ostracode fauna from Erith Island,
Bass Strait, with a description of the new species of Rotundracythere
Mandelstam. Warne, Mark. Continues
to undertake research on the Tertiary Ostracoda of the Bass Strait
region of SE Australia. However,
his main research efforts during the past year have been focused on
the coordination of a palaeontology chapter (22 authors) for a new
book being published by the Geological Society of Australia on the
Geology of Victoria. He
plans to present a paper on Tertiary euryhaline ostracods from Bass
Strait sedimentary basins at the Australian Palaeontological
Convention in New South Wales during July, 2000.
Other ostracod projects underway include: (1) taxonomic and
palaeoecological studies on the Upper Miocene and Pliocene ostracod
faunas of the Port Phillip district, Victoria, Australia; and (2)
pilot studies on the systematic taxonomy of Lower Devonian ostracod
faunas of the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia.
AUSTRIA
Correspondent:
Dan Danielopol <Dan.Danielopol@oeaw.ac.at> Danielopol, Dan. Activities
include: (1)
contribution to the international project “Speciation and
adaptation in non-marine crustaceans: application of morphometric
analysis to Ostracoda”; (2) an “Acciones Integradas
Austria-Spain and an Austrian-Polish Scientific Exchange Program”,
within which the description of the morphological diversity
(disparity) of ostracod shells using Elliptic Fourier Analysis were
done is cooperation with A. Baltanas, T.
Namiotko. It
has important implications for the evolutionary ecology and
paleoecology of non-marine ostracods of Europe; (3) the revision of
the morphology and systematics of the genus Cryptocandona at a
world scale. The aim of
this cooperative international project (participants: DLD, T. Namiotko, P. Marmonier, C.
Meisch, D. Horne) is to reconstruct the evolutionary
history of the group.
BELGIUM
Correspondent:
Karel Wouters <kwouters@kbinirsnb.be> Casier, Jean Georges. is continuing research on ostracods in relation with
Upper Paleozoic events (e.g., Manticoceras Event, Kellwasser Event,
Hangenberg Event). He is currently working, in collaboration with Francis
Lethiers (University Paris VI), on ostracods from Belgium,
France, and Poland. Coen, Michel. was more busy with geological mapping than with ostracods.
He had the opportunity to collect from the Devonian-Carboniferous
transition beds in southeastern Guizhou, China, but this material,
like that previously collected in Guangxi, remains largely unstudied.
The decision made by the academic authorities to stop geology in
Louvain in 2002, is unlikely to help to improve the situation. Martens, Koen. Koen is continuing studies on (1) taxonomy, morphology
and ecology of non-marine ostracods from Africa and the Levant. (2)
Comparative and evolutionary ecology of zoobenthos in large and
ancient lakes (Baikal, Tanganyika, Nyasa/Malawi and Titicaca), partim
ostracods. Taxonomy of Tanganyikan Cytherideidae is conducted together
with Karel Wouters, Tanganyikan Gomphocythere is studied with Lisa
Park, Lake Baikal ostracods are studied in collaboration
with Galina Mazepova, those of
Lake Titicaca together with Philippe
Mourguiart. (3) Comparisons between morphological and
molecular evolution in the Cytherissa species flock in Lake
Baikal and the Cyprideis species flock in Lake Tanganyika (with
Isa Schön). (4) DNA-repair and
general purpose genotype in darwinulid ostracods (with Isa
Schön, Roger Butlin and Karine
Van Doninck). (5) Revision of Darwinuloidea with G.
Rossetti (Recent), Mesozoic (with Dave
Horne) and Palaeozoic (with F.
Lethiers). (6) Origin and evolution of non-marine
Cyprididoidea (with Dave Horne).
(7) For Treatise: post-Cretaceous non-marine Cypridacea,
Limnocytheridae and Darwinulacea. (8) Editing the proceedings of the "Jan
Stock Memorial Symposium" (with Dan
L. Danielopol, special issue Crustaceana 1999) and the
proceedings of the ISO 97 symposium (with Dave
Horne, partim "Evolutionary biology and ecology of
Ostracoda", special issue Hydrobiologia 1999). Research
topics in 2000: points 1-7 as in 1999. Schön, Isa. is (1)
developing molecular tools to screen genetic diversity in the ancient
asexual Darwinula stevensoni (funded by the
Biotechnology programme of the European Community). These tools are
used to test both the Meselson effect and DNA repair in Darwinula
stevensoni (with Koen Martens).
(2) DNA repair and general purpose genotype in darwinulid ostracods
(with Koen Martens and Karine
van Doninck). (3) Molecular phylogeny of the Darwinulidae
(with Koen Martens and Giampaolo
Rossetti). (4) Comparisons between morphological and
molecular evolution in the Cytherissa-flock from Lake Baikal
and the Cyprideis-flock from Lake Tanganyika (with Koen
Martens). Wansard, Guy. is
continuing research: (1) on the incorporation of trace-elements in
freshwater ostracod valves, from laboratory cultures and field
collection (in collaboration with J.R. Roca
and F. Mezquita, Valencia
University); (2) on palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental
reconstructions from Quaternary sequences, including lacustrine
ostracod assemblages and valve geochemistry studies: - in Bolivia, in
collaboration with F. Sylvestre
(University of Angers, France); - in Belgium (Holocene tufa
sequences). Wouters, Karel.
is continuing research on marine and brackish Cypridacea
from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This resulted in the description
of two new species of the genus Phlyctenophora. He is also
reviewing other poorly understood genera as Aglaiella, Ghardaglaia,
Aglaiocypris and Gerdocypris. Further projects are: (1) the
description of new species of the Cyprideis species flock of
Lake Tanganyika (in collaboration with Koen
Martens), (2) the temporal distribution of the genus Liasina,
(3) the taxonomic position and the (palaeo-)zoogeography of the Family
Saididae. Supervision of Licentiate theses (University of Leuven): Ronald
Gravendeel (1998-1999), on the taxonomy and palaeoecology
of Lutetian Ostracoda from Cassel (N. France) and Peter
De Burghgraeve (1999-2000), on the taxonomy and
distribution of recent Ostracoda from Laing Island (N. Papua New
Guinea).
BRAZIL
Correspondent:
João Carlos Coimbra <coimbra@if.ufrgs.br> Carmo, Dermeval Aparecido Do. Current activities at the Laboratory of Micropaleontology, at the
Universidade de Brasilia, concern Mesozoic and Cenozoic ostracodes.
He is working with Joao
Carlos Coimbra
and Robin
Whatley
on nonmarine Cretaceous ostracods from Brazil and Africa.
As well, he has been working with Giles Miller (The Natural History Museum, London) on Cenozoic marine ostracods
from Santos Basin, southeastern Brazil.
He plans on attending the 31st International
Geological Congress held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Also, he will attend an “International Meeting on
Paleoarthropodology” held in Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo State,
Brazil. Coimbra, João Carlos. I
have been working on four projects:
(1) a long-term project about the taxonomy and zoogeography of
Brazilian marine ostracods, with other Brazilian and foreign
ostracodologists; (2) Neocenozoic Southern Brazilian ostracods and
their applications to palaeoenvironmental analysis, with Ana
Luisa Carreno
(UNAM, Mexico) and Dermeval
Aparecido do Carmo
(UnB/Brazil); (3) Cretaceous marine and nonmarine ostracods from
Potiguar Basin, northeastern Brazil, with Dermeval A. do Carmo (UnB/Brazil) and Ana L. Carreno (UNAM, Mexico); (4) Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments from
Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, based on ostracods and
palynomorphs, with Mitsuru
Arai
(Petrobras/Brazil), Ana
L. Carreno
(UNAM/Mexico) and Dermeval
A. do Carmo
(UnB/Brazil). Besides, I
have two M.Sc. students: Cristianini Trescastro Bergue, is working with deep sea
ostracods from Quaternary sediments of the Santos Basin, southeastern
Brazil; and Claudia
Pinto Machado,
is working with ostracod biofacies along the northern Rio de Janeiro
inner shelf. Ramos, Maria Inês Feijó. Current
research: marine and
mixoaline Quaternary ostracodes from Brazilian coast; ostracod
Tertiary from Solimoes Basin, Amazon; Silurian-Devonian Brachiopoda
from Manacapuru Formation, Amazon Basin.
Wurdig, Norma Luiza She is publishing on
freshwater and mixohaline southern Brazilian ostracods, with emphasis
on taxonomy and ecology. In
1999 she published a paper about marine ostracods.
CANADA
Correspondent:
Ursula Grigg <Ursula.Grigg@Stmarys.ca> Grigg, Ursula M. Sorting
through the Provincial and Saint Mary’s collections and unearthing
bundles of legs wrapped in dissolved valves, for the revised
Curatorial Report. Finding
Heterocypris incongruens in unexpected places, mostly above
high tide mark on cliffs. Little
is known about any local Entomostraca. Re-jigging
the Curatorial Report on Ostracods for the Nova Scotia Museum.
Still interested in the genus Perissocytheridea, and
puzzled by Cyprideis salebrosa and irruptions of Heterocypris
incongruens. Now free
of child-raising and looking forward to publishing. Looking forward to the revised Treatise, even it it comes out
in installments (after the example of Georg Sars!) Summer
preoccupation, collecting H. incongruens, Cyprideis
salebrosa, and Perissocytheridea sp. A for possible
molecular analysis, for comparison with other species or populations. Siddiqui, Qadeer. Continues
to study the remaining undescribed inshore marine fauna of the Sor and
Sulaiman Ranges (Paleocene-Eocene) of Pakistan.
“Some species of the genus Neocyprideis in the early
Tertiary of Pakistan” has been published; a similar paper on Paijenborchella
appeared as a poster at the Fourth European Ostracodologists Meeting,
at Adana, Turkey, in July 1999 and is now being prepared for
publication. The Family
Cytheruridae from the same locality is under the microscope. Canadian
material being revisited includes Arctic marine specimens, especially
the genus Pteroloxa.
PEOPLE’S
REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Correspondent:
Jin-Lan Peng <pengjl@public1.ptt.js.cn>
Cao, Mei-Zhen is
working on (1) Ostracoda of Jehol fauna; (2) Middle Triassic Ostracoda
from Qingyan; (3) Jurassic ostracoda from North China. Chen, Chun-Rui. With
Yao Dan and Ye
De-Quan, I finished a paper entitled ‘Strata Evalution
System of Ostracoda Fossil in Songliao Basin’ (written by Yao
Dan, Chen Chun-Rui and Ye De-Quan),
which will be published in 1999. Feng, Xiao-jie is
working on the stable isotope of carbon and oxygen of microfossils. It
is interesting that the carbon and oxygen isotope variation is linked
to extinctions and climate change. Gou, Yun-Xian continues
the revision of Ostracoda of China, Part 2: Paleozoic, Mesozoic
Cenozoic (marine) Ostracoda of China Guan, Sao-Zeng In
1998, I’ve been working on the project "The rise and fall,
evolution and ecology and environment of Genus Cypridea (Ostracoda)"
aided financially by the fund of the National Natural Science (No.
49572074), it is the last year for this study and I finally finished
it. In this year, I investigated the sections of the boundary of
Cretaceous and Tertiary in Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong of China, and
analyzed and identified some Ostracoda and the other kind of fossils.
During September-October, I was invited by my colleagues to visit
Russia, discussed a study plan and surveyed many sections of Cambrian
to Pliocene along the bank of Black Sea and West Caucasus, as well as
some modern volcanoes (salse). From 1999 to 2001, I will be engaged in
the project ‘Late Tertiary strata, environment and its resources
between the southern foot of South Tianshan and the northern foot of
West Kunlun’ supported by the fund of the National Natural Science
of China. Hou, You-Tang continues
the revision of Ostracoda of China, Part 2: Paleozoic, Mesozoic
Cenozoic (marine) Ostracoda of China. Li, Dong-Ming is
focusing on the modern stratigraphy research in oil field. Li, Yuan-Fang. I
was engaged in work on modern Ostracoda in transitional zone between
land and sea at the northeast Arctic Alaska. In 1999 I’m working on
Recent and Quaternary ostracoda from the Qingha –Xizang Plateau,
China and Barrow area, the northeast Alaskan Arctic. Pang, Qi-Qing.
continues his work on the nonmarine Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda of
Northern China. Peng, Jin-Lan.. I
finished my Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘Ostracoda and Environmental
Analysis during the past 150,000 years in the Heqing Basin, Yunnan of
China’ in August. I continue to study Quaternary Ostracoda and
environmental changes. Sun, Zhen-Cheng I
am working within a project together with Yang
Fan and others on: (1) Ostracoda ecology in Qaidam Basin of
northwestern China; (2) the main factors control the present and
thriving of ostracoda in East China; (3) stable isotopes of carbon and
oxygen of ostracoda in Cenozoic lacustrine deposition in Qaidam Basin;
(4) Ostracoda of Lake Bosten in Xinjiang, northwestern China. Yao, Dan.
I finished a paper entitled ‘Strata Evaluation System of
Ostracoda Fossil in Songliao Basin’ (written by Yao
Dan, Chen Chun-Rui and Ye De-Quan),
which will be published in 1999.
CZECH
REPUBLIC
Correspondent:
Jaromir Zelenka Kopecky, Jirka.
I am
continuing my Ph.D study of ecology of freshwater ostracods. Symonova, Radka.
I am a student at the Charles University in Prague.
I have been working with post-Paleozoic and Recent ostracodes.
DENMARK
Majoran, Stefan.
Stefan is continuing his fellowship with Richard
Dingle in Copenhagen.
He is working on Cenozoic deep-sea ostracods of the South
Atlantic and the Southern Ocean.
EGYPT Correspondent: Ashraf Elewa <aelewa@link.com.eg> Elewa, Ashraf
is working on Late Cretaceous to Eocene ostracode assemblages from
Egypt. He has two papers
recently published.
FRANCE
Correspondent:
Jean-Francois Babinot <reef@newsup.univ-mrs.fr> Andreu, Bernard. I
am a teacher-researcher at the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse III,
France, in “Sciences of Life and Earth”.
I teach in the “Dynamics of the Sedimentary Basins”
laboratory, as a biostratigrapher and micropaleontologist.
I use ostracodes as a tool in the geodynamic reconstruction of
sedimentary basins. I
work on Jurassic and Cretaceous ostracod assemblages from marine or
brackish environments in France, Spain, Bulgaria, and other European
countries, in Morocco and other North African countries, and in China
and India, with autochthonous researchers. My main topics are taxonomy, biostratigraphy,
paleoenvironments, and paleobiogeography. I
take care of two students: Miss
Odette
N’Zaba Makaya,
Toulouse III Univ., who works on a Ph.D on Carixian-Causses, South
France, and Mister Abdelhamid
Rossi,
Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco, who works (State Thesis) on
Lower Cretaceous ostracodes from Agadir and Essaouira Atlantic Basins,
Morocco. Colin, Jean-Paul. Due
to the end of Exxon exploration activities in France, I have been “elected”
to take an early retirement package after more than 26 years of
activities with Exxon. I am planning on carrying on several projects on ostracodes
with colleagues, do some teaching at the University of Bordeaux, and
some consulting. Crasquin-Soleau, Sylvie. During
the last year, I mainly worked on the achievement of the Peri-Tethys
Programme: editing of publications, finalization of the
Permian-Triassic maps, coordination of the explanatory note of the
Atlas. I try to continue
my research on Permian and Triassic ostracods of Oman, Italy, and
Roumania. Lethiers, Francis. He is working on
Devonian to Permian ostracods with special emphasis on crisis. Oertli, Henri J. Henri (who has enjoyed retirement for 12 years already) continues
abstracting post-Paleozoic ostracode papers (about 150/year) for “Zentralblatt
fur Geologie und Palaontologie” (authors: please send
reprints!!!). His
student, Jacques
Sauvagnat
(University of Geneva) has presented in 1999 his thesis on “Aptian
and Albian Ostracoda from the Jura Mountains” (in French)—a
well documented, abundantly illustrated monograph.
GERMANY Correspondent:
Dietmar Keyser <Keyser@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de> Becker, Gerhard. Continued
the work which was started in 1997: (1) editing “Paleozoic
Ostracod Clasification” (POC), previously drafted as “Treatise
pre-printing series”. Because
Part Q (Paleozoic Ostracoda, revised) will definitely not appear, POC
has become a constructive contribution in its own right, submitting a
new Treatise standard treatment of Palaeozoic Ostracoda.
In this series initiated in 1997, the systematics of the
palaeocopine superfamilies Kirkbyacea Ulrich and Bassler, 1906 and
Nodellacea Becker, 1968 as well of the podocopine superfamilies
Bairdocypridacea Shaver, 1961 and (Palaeozoic) Bairdiacea Sars, 1888
are demonstrated by means of original material; in toto, some 230
genera and subgenera (nomina dubia et nuda excluded) are dealt with in
detail. From the
Palaeozoic superfamilies formerly asked to revise, the Superfamilies
Kirkbyacea and Nodellacea (POC, Nos. 1-10) have been published between
1997 to 1999. Now, the
Superfamilies Bairdiocypridacea and Bairdiacea (Palaeozoic only) to
the printer. In the
future, occasional addenda will be published.
(2) Finishing studies on pelagic ostracods along the
Devonian/Carboniferous boundary in central Europe (DFG Project with
colleagues from the former DDR); nevertheless, studies along the “natural”
D/C boundary are in progress. (3)
Publishing Early Devonian ostracods occurring in the neritic facies
realm of the Cantabrian Mountains, originally collected in connection
with the DFG project “Paleoecology” (SFB 52); in the 200’s, two
further contributions on this matter will appear.
Although retired and appointed Honorary Worker with the
Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (Senckenberg Museum),
lectures in palaeontological preparation techniques were given at the
University of Frankfurt also in 1999 and will be continued as long as
students are interested. Frenzel, Peter. After
my study and Ph.D thesis (supervisor Ekkehard
Herrig) at the Greifswald University, Germany, I have
changed with a post-doc fellowship to Angers.
My interests are: (1)
Holocene brackish water ostracods and foraminifers from the southern
Baltic Sea; (2) Pleistocene ostracods (marine, brackish, and
freshwater) and foraminifers from northern Germany; (3) Upper
Cretaceous benthic foraminifers from the European “Boreal”. Janz, Horst. In
1999 I was mainly busy with marine Miocene ostracods of the North
Alpine Molasse Basin in respect to the use of their geochemistry (O-,
C-isotopes, Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios) as climatic proxies, together with
Irene Zorn (Austria). This
project is carried out in the scope of a paleoclimate research program
of the University of Tuebingen (SFB 275).
However, I am continuing to work with freshwater ostracods
(Recent to Tertiary): (1) Recent and Quaternary ostracods of Lake Biwa
and the Kobiwako group, together with Mark J. Grygier (Lake Biwa Museum); (2) Holocene ostracods of the Neolithic site
Unfriedshausen (Bavaria), together with Renate Matzke-Karasz. Kempf, Eugen K.
is
as busy as in the years before retirement with the “Cologne
Database Ostracoda project”.
He is planning to publish the 19th volume resulting
from this project towards the end of the year 2000.
That will be volume 10 of the series “Index and
Bibliography of Nonmarine Ostracoda”, representing Bibliography
D, which will be the second bibliography dealing with citations of
non-taxonomic literature on nonmarine Ostracoda.
As only publications are included that have been seen and
evaluated, the citations of that bibliography are as reliable as is
known from all other hitherto published bibliographies of the Cologne
Database Ostracoda. New
is that in addition to the unabridged title of journals, in most cases
also the ISSN number is given, which makes electronic searching and
ordering in bibliographic databases of public libraries easier. It
is desirable to have also the most recent publications on nonmarine
Ostracoda included in this bibliography.
Therefore, it is necessary that all ostracodologists give
support and reprints of their recent ostracod papers soon after
publication. Cordial
thanks to all those who did so in the past.
Unpublished parts of the database will be sent in exchange for
reprints, as far or as soon as those are available.
That publication will immediately be followed by the
publication of volume 10 of the series “Index and Bibliography of
Marine Ostracoda”, representing Bibliography D, which will be
the second bibliography dealing with citations of non-taxonomic
literature on marine Ostracoda. Also
for this volume, support is asked from all ostracodologists by sending
reprints of their recent publications. It
might be possible that those two publications from the ‘Cologne
Database Ostracoda’ will be the last ones to be published in the
form of books. Under the
title “Living and Fossil Ostracoda of the World”, an
electronic version 2000 will be available later this year.
At first, an electronic version of the nonmarine Ostracoda will
be available in the form of Index A (= Index A, Supplement 1 + Index
A, Supplement 2 as of March 2000 sorted into each other).
Interested ostracodologists should contact E.G.
Kempf in this matter. Rapidly
growing is also the ‘Stratigraphic Index of Marine and Nonmarine
Ostracoda’. Sponsoring
members of the ‘Cologne Database Ostracoda’ project will receive
interim versions and can influence data acquisition by expressing
preferential treatment of certain stratigraphic ranges.
The stratigraphic index is an important new medium and will
show that the Cologne Database Ostracoda in reality is a GRESS (a
GRowing Expert Support System). Keyser, Dietmar has worked to gather
with Takahiro
Kamiya
in Hamburg and is preparing a joint project on the ostracod shell of
ostracods. Together with T.
Petkowski
and B.
Scharf,
some papers on freshwater ostracods are published or in press. Together with C. Schoening, some ostracods from Bermuda have been described and are also in
press. Liebau, Alexander
is
continuing his work on the larval stages and the systematics of Quadracythere
and is inviting the German ostracodologists from June 23 to 25 to
Tuebingen. Guests are
welcome. Matzke-Karasz, Renate is busy with a revision of the European Cyclocypris—fossil
and living. Each spare
specimen of this genus that you can find in your personal collections
would be welcome and gratefully appreciated! Additionally,
together with Horst Janz, she started a collaboration with the ‘Bayerisches Amt fur
Denkmalpflege’ on some Neolithic sites around Munich.
Special interest on her behalf: fossil ostracod specimen with
soft-part conservation. Mischke, Steffen. has just finished his first trace element analysis on a suite of
samples of single shells of Limnocythere inopinata from a
Holocene section in NW China. This
work is hopefully the final stage in terms of data required for his
PhD thesis on a reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment and the
palaeoclimate of the lakes Juyanhai and Sogo Nur in Inner Mongolia.
In June 2000, it is planned to drill a core of Quaternary
sediments (around 230 m) at the southern beach of Bosten Hu, the
biggest lake in the northwesternmost province in China Xinjiang.
If we had preserved diatoms there, we would be glad to find an
expert for this. Magnetostratigraphy,
mollusks, pollen, ostracods, and geochemistry of sediments will be
investigated by members of the Free University Berlin. In
January of 2000, our Institute of Palaeontology had the pleasure to
welcome ostracodologist Sun Zhencheng from Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.
We had a fine week of discussions and sightseeing in Berlin and
Potsdam, including interesting dinners in Chinese restaurants (some,
in fact, Vietnamese) and typical pubs of Berlin as well (see photo for
a trip in the snow-covered Potsdam-Sanssouci, my wife and daughter
Lana in background). Mostafawi, Nasser. My
current research is mainly focused on Neogene ostracods from the
Mediterranean, especially Greece.
I am also studying Recent ostracod faunas from the Persian
Gulf, and on Subrecent ostracods from Milet, western Turkey. Nuernberg, Dirk. Dirk
is working at a project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG),
August 1, 1997 -July 31, 1999, Nuernberg, D.: "Paleoceanographic
reconstructions from earth alkaline metals in calcitic microorganisms:
Case study Westiberian continental margin". Abstract: The
general objective of the research project is the paleoceanographic
reconstruction of the study area based on Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios in
biotic calcite. The Western Iberian continental slope, the late
Pleistocene oceanography of it will be performed in addition to the
investigation of selected sediment cores. Schaefer, Peter is still working on
Eocene freshwater ostracods of the Eckfelder Maar. He will talk on that at the German Ostracodologists meeting. Schudack, Michael. continues research on ostracods, charophytes, and foraminifers.
Current main activities on ostracods include Late Jurassic in
Europe; East Africa (Tendaguru Formation) and North America (Morrison
Formation); and the Holocene of Central Asia.
His main focus (depending on the project) is on biostratigraphy,
paleoecology, biogeography, paleoclimatology, and stable isotope shell
geochemistry. Thesis supervision: (1) Late Jurassic ostracods from
eastern Spain (K. Kussius); (2) Rhaetian ostracods from northern Germany (K.
Oppermann);
(3) Quaternary ostracods from lakes in the Gobi Desert (S.
Mischke); (4) Recent ostracods from lakes north of Berlin (D.
Lukat);
(5) Micropaleontology of Tendaguru Formation (Upper Jurassic,
Tanzania) (B.
Sames).
Schudack, Ulla. Ulla
is currently doing research on Tertiary laminites (oil shales) from
western Germany (no ostracods in it).
She plans to study nonmarine ostracods from the Lower
Cretaceous of Spain in a future project. Schwalb, Antje. Is
doing her work on the stable isotopic composition of lacustrine
Late-Glacial and Holocene ostracodes from the Midwest, USA, Patagonia,
Argentina, Lake Constance, and the Near East (collaboration with Huw Griffiths). Uffenorde, Henning. Ostracoda
of the Miocene of the southern North Sea area and the work on the
Oligocene/Miocene boundary beds in NE Lower Saxony and some Early
Miocene sections was finished and published.
A new project “Recent and Subrecent Ostracoda from the
Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea” is now in progress.
In order to save ostracod material from samples, collected in
the late 1950’s and 1960’s, work began on Recent and Subrecent
Ostracoda from the Croatian coast, where, due to the economic and
political crisis investigations on Ostracoda came to an end.
I would greatly appreciate receiving information on literature
of marine Leptocythere-Cytherois assemblages and hints of
occurrences or storage of samples of these assemblages from the
Mediterranean realm. Viehberg, Finn. Has
defended his thesis on faunistic and ecologic studies on ostracods of
small water bodies in the town of Greifswald.
His further plans on what to do next are not yet made. Waltschew, Anton. I am a private
(amateur) worker, investigating microfossils (Ostracoda, Foraminifera,
Echinodermata) from the
Lower Jurassic of Franconia-south Germany.
I am also interested in Tertiary and Quaternary faunas from
Mediterranean countries, especially from Italy.
I am looking for exchange on related topics.
HUNGARY Correspondent:
Miklós Monostori <Monost@ludens.elte.hu> Kiss, A.
Ostracodes
of recent lakes. Kozur, H.
Carboniferous
to Liassic ostracods of the Tethys.
Soft parts of Triassic ostracods.
Work in progress: (1)
Eocene ostracods and their paleoecology in Hungary; (2) Oligocene
ostracods from Hungary and their paleoecology; (3) Cretaceous marine
and nonmarine ostracods from Hungary; (4) Jurassic marine ostracods
from Hungary; and (5) Triassic marine and nonmarine ostracods from
Hungary. Miklos, Monostori.
Is working on (1) ostracods of Recent lakes; (2) Neogene
marine, marine brackish, and limno-brackish fauna from Hungary; (3)
Carboniferous to Liassic ostracods of the Tethys; (4) soft parts of
Triassic ostracods; (5) Eocene ostracods and their paleoecology in
Hungary; (6) Oliogocene ostracods from Hungary and their paleoecology;
(7) Cretaceous marine and nonmarine ostracods; (8) Jurassic marine
ostracods from Hungary; (10) Triassic marine and nonmarine ostracods
from Hungary. Szuromi-Korecz, A. Neogene
marine, marine-brackish, and limno-brackish faunas from Hungary. INDIA Correspondent:
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Battish, S.K. During
1998-99, work on the systematics and biology of freshwater Ostracoda
has been carried out. A
new cypridid species, Chrissia dayalpurensis has been described
from a pond at village Dayalpur, located at Samral-Chandigarh road
(Punjab, India). The
ostracods inhabiting paddy rice fields are being investigated. Nagori, M.L. I
have been working the last 17 years on Tertiary ostracodes of India
and presently I have started my work on Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)
ostracodes from Bagh Beds, western India and intend to carry out a
joint research work. Singh, Jagmohan. I
am working on Jurassic ostracods of Kutch, western India and
mid-Cretaceous ostracods of Rajasthan, India. INDONESIA Dewi, Kresna Tri. My
current study areas are Makassar Strait, east Timor Sea, and other
parts of the Sunda shelf. Two
students from the Department of Geology, Bandung Institute of
Technology (ITB) are currently doing ostracod research on ancient
Bandung Lake and the Jakarta Basin. They would be happy to
receive any reprints of Quaternary ostracocdes IRAQ Correspondent:
--open-- Al-Bashir, Jenan M. Taha.
I am
continuing my research on ostracodes of the Upper Cretaceous of Iraq.
I am working on a paper on the ostracodes of the Lower
Cretaceous and Jurassic periods.
I have published three papers in the special edition issued by
the 5th Jordanian Conference on Geology and also in that of
the 3rd Conference of Geologists of the Middle East.
I have just finished writing three new unpublished papers which
deal with new species of the following ostracode genera:
Buntonia, Protobuntonia, Brachycythere, and a new
subgenus called Peloriops (Hemipeloriopos), which was recorded
from the Upper Cretaceous of Iraq. I
have completed with Dr.
Saleh Khalaf the dissertation of
the Ph.D student Saned Al-Khashab
on 25/11/1999; his thesis was
entitled “Ostracodes of the Lower Cretaceous and Upper
Jurassic of Iraq”. Al-Khashab, Sanad A.
finished
his Ph.D thesis with a Very Good Degree and has started to publish
papers on Lower Cretaceous Ostracoda from different localities in
Iraq. Al-Sheikhly, S.S. continues his work on
Cretaceous and Recent Ostracoda from Iraq. Khalaf, S.K.
continues
working in Cretaceous and Tertiary Ostracoda from Iraq. In
press: (1) The ostracode
genus Stigmatocythere from middle Miocene on north Iraq; (2)
The ostracode family Loxoconchidae from the middle Miocene of north
Iraq; (3) Palaeoecology of the Upper Cretaceous succession from Hamrin
area NE Iraq. Supervision:
M.Sc. student started his research on stratigraphy of
Oligocene-Miocene formations from Western Iraq, western Iraq.
Shimoan, Ninsin Teddy.
Works
on Ostracoda of Upper Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary (boundary), and I need
any information, papers, data, and research in this field from around
the world.
ISRAEL Correspondents:
Avraham Honigstein ahonigstein@mni.gov.il> and Amnon Rosenfeld <rosenfeld@mail.gsi.gov.il>. Amnon Rosenfeld and Avi Honigstein. Continue
working on Jurassic-early Paleogene ostracode assemblages from Israel
and the adjacent areas. The
paper on Eocene ostracode and foraminifer faunas should be submitted
this year for publication, only waiting for the foram part.
We are working now on an atlas on “Microfossil zonation of
the Jurassic stages in Israel”, containing all the
micropaleontological information published on this period.
Our bibliography of paleontological studies in Jordan and
Israel was published in more than 1000 copies.
It contains 258 pages of references, beyond them about 200
papers on ostracodes, and indices.
If your library does not have it, you may order a copy (or get
it by exchange) through the Library of the Geological Survey (Fax
972-2-5378-721; e-mail library@mail.gsi.gov.il).
A
paper on river pollution and ostracodes was published recently (Topics
on Paleobiology). Amnon
Rosenfeld is currently at a sabbatical in the American Museum of
Natural History (New York). His
host is John van Couvering. Amnon works there on Quaternary ostracodes from the
Mediterranean (together with Rosalie
Maddocks).
ITALY Correspondent:
Giuseppe Aiello <aie641o@hotmail.com> Giuseppe Aiello, Diana Barra and Gioacchino Bonaduce are
still working on the assemblages of the Pliocene of Sicily (southern
Italy). The project of a
systematic definition and the palaeoecological interpretation of the
Mediterranean Pliocene bathyal ostracofaunas is almost completed. Diana Barra
and Gioacchino Bonaduce are
involved in a wide study on the Miocene sediments of Malta. Giuseppe Aiello
is working on the upper Miocene ostracods of southern Italy and, in
collaboration with Prof. Janina Szczechura
(Warsaw) on the Serravallian ostracods of Gliwice (southern Poland). Nevio Pugliese, Mario Masoli and Erika Tsakiridou
Research activity concerned the following topics:
(1) ostracodes of brackish/freshwater settings of northern
Adriatic area (latest Pleistocene/Recent) and (2) ostracodes of
Antarctic and periantarctic areas (latest Pleistocene-Recent).
Future activity: (1)
ostracodes of brackish/freshwater settings of northern Adriatic area
(latest Pleistocene-Recent); (2) ostracodes of Antarctic and
periantarctic areas (latest Pleistocene-Recent); and (3) ostracodes of
coastal settings of Sardinia. The
research on Sardinian ostracodes will be realized together with the
Modena team (Antonio Russo and Deborah
Arbulla). Elsa Gliozzi and Ilaria Mazzini carry
out their ostracodological research in University of Roma Tre.
Elsa
studies Italian Neogene-Quaternary freshwater and brackish
ostracods as biochronological and palaeoenvironmental indicators from
different sites in Italy. At
present she is going on with her studies on Late Miocene brackish
water assemblages coming from several localities of northern and
central Italy (Velona and Baccinello Basins) (Tuscany) Tortonian-early
Messinian; Blera basin (Latium) and Perticara (Marche), uppermost
Messinian). She is
involved also in a multidisciplinary research with
palaeoclimatological purposes in central Italy.
At present, she completed the analysis of the ostracod fauna
from a sediment core drilled in Upper Pleistocene Holocene lacustrine
sediments in the Rieti Plain (Latium) and she is beginning to look at
the ostracods coming from three drill holes bored in Late
Pleistocene-Holocene lacustrine sediments in the Campo Felice Plain (Abruzzi).
Ilaria Mazzini
completed
her activity inside the National Project on the new Geological Chart
of Italy 1:50,000 (CARG) and is looking again at freshwater ostracods.
At present she finished her study on a Holocene freshwater
lacustrine succession in Umbria and she is beginning to study Socotra
fossil ostracods collected during her survey during summer 1998.
Besides, together with Elsa Gliozzi,
she is carrying out a study on the ostracod assemblages of the
Middle-Upper Pliocene lacustrine succession of the Tiberino lake (Umbria,
central Italy). Alessandro Bossio. Is
carrying out an integrated study of some cores from the Gulf of
Pozzuoli and Salerno, embracing the last 20,000 years for a MURST
project (responsible Prof. Giuliano Ciampo,
University of Naples). Barbara Dall'Antonia. Is
completing her Ph.D (fourth last year) entitled “Contribution to
the taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Miocene
ostracod faunas of the Apulian-Iblean foreland with palaeogeographic
considerations”, supervised by Prof.
A. Bossio. In
progress: Dall’Antonia,
B., Di Stefano, A., and Foresi, L.M., Integrated study (ostracods and
calcareous plankton) of the Lower-Late Langhian Hyblean successions. Karanovic, Ivana. I
have been living in Italy since the war in my country, Yugoslavia, and
am currently unemployed. I
have my microscope I(Leica DMLS with drawing tube attachment), a very
rich ostracode library, computer, and valuable ostracod material.
I collected this material for five years in Serbia and
Montenegro, and one part is my Ph.D theme.
I would appreciate any kind of contract or grant, and I am
willing to offer my services in the work dealing with ostracod
research all over the world. Pietro Miculan. Has
research interests in Oligocene and Miocene ostracods of the
Mediterranean area. Current work includes (1) middle Miocene deep-water ostracods
from southeastern Sicily (southern Italy); (2) brackish and freshwater
ostracods of the Italian uppermost Miocene (so-called “lago-mare”
facies); (3) Oligocene marine ostracods from Cyrenaica (Libya). Nevio Pugliese
is studying (1) systematics and ecology of late Quaternary
ostracodes in Mediterranean Basin (Sardinia and Adriatic area); (2)
systematics and ecology of Quaternary ostracodes coming from
periantarctic areas. Student
theses: Luciana
Novaro (topic: ostracod distribution in Magellan Strait); Deborah
Arbulla (Ph.D thesis on Sardinian ostracodes, co-tutors Antonio
Russo and Nevio Pugliese). Valeria Rossi, Paolo Menozzi, Giorgio Benassi,
and
Andrea Gandolfi continue
their activities on population ecology and population genetics of Heterocypris
incongruens, Eucypris virens, and Darwinula stevensoni.
Students:
Barbara Tondelli, Monica Gallani, Population ecology
of Heterocypris incongruens populations. Giampaolo Rossetti. Continues
the taxonomic revision of Recent Darwinulidae in cooperation with Koen
Martens. Current
work also includes the study of Purbeckian darwinulids from England,
in collaboration with Dave Horne
and Koen Martens. Giorgio Benassi, Ireneo Ferrari, Sandra Sei
and
Ken G. McKenzie.
Are working on the ecology and taxonomy of marine planktic ostracods
within different projects: National
Project P.N.R.A. (Antarctica, Ross Sea,; International Project P.N.R.A.
(The Magellan Straits); National Projects EOCUMM94 and EOCUMM95 (CoNISMa)
(southern Thyrrehenian Sea, off the Eolian Islands); INTERREG
Italia-Albania (southern Adriatic Sea). Francesco Sciuto
is working on (1) paleontological museology; (2) stratigraphy
of Pliocene and Pleistocene of Sicily and south Italy; (3)
stratigraphic distribution of Plio-Pleistocene Ostracoda and ecology
of marine benthic Ostracoda from Recent of the Mediterranean area.
JAPAN
Correspondent:
Takahiro Kamiya <takamiya@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp> Tsukagoshi, Akira.
I am studying the segmentation (with Andrew
Parker, Australian Museum) and homology of the urosome on
Ostracoda. Recently I have concentrated my work on the soft anatomy of
Platycopa, which is very good material for understanding the ostracode
body plan. With a postgraduate student, I am describing brackish-water
species from the mouth of the Obitsu River, Chiba Prefecture. This
work will include descriptions of one new genus and three new species,
along with 17 genera and 21 species. I guide two postgraduate
students: Shigetaka Tamaguchi
(Institute of Geology, The University of Tokyo) and Yuriko
Nakao (College of Humanity and Sciences, Nihon University).
S. Yamaguchi finished a study
using molecular analysis to analyze the relationships of the genus Ishizakiella
populations around Japan. Now he is interested in higher taxonomy of
Ostracoda using molecular and morphological analysis. Y.
Nakao is involved in research on the brackish-water
ostracod and foraminiferal facies in the mouth of the Obitsu River,
Chiba Prefecture, in view of seasonal and decadal changes. She will
move to Shizuoka University after April 1999. I will also be moving to
Shizuoka University after April 1999. Yajima, Michiko. I
finished the Hilgendorf Exhibition at five museums in Japan. I
continue to study the history of paleontology in order to introduce
the new movement of history of paleontology in America and England
since the 1970’s and to establish a good base of ostracodology in
Japan. Yumoto, Michiaki. I
have researched the influence of the ENSO (El Nino-South Oscillation)
and global climate change upon tropical cyclone activity in the
northwestern Pacific. So I am now suspending my work on ostracodes.
KOREA Correspondent:
Eui-Hyeong Lee <ehlee@kuccnx.korea.ac.kr> Huh, Min. is
working with his student, Woojong Oh,
on the Recent marine ostracod fauna from the Yongil Bay, East Sea, and
he is promoting to establish the Natural History Museum of the Chunnam
Province. Lee, Eui-Hyeong. is
working on the Recent marine ostracods from the Korean South Sea and
East Sea. Recently, he is
carrying out two projects: one
is the study on the late Mesozoic to early Cenozoic ostracod fauna
from the drilling wells of the Yellow Sea Basin, and the other is the
study on the Antarctic marine ostracods from the Marian Cove in King
George Island.
LUXEMBUR Correspondent:
Karel Wouters <kwouters@kbinirsnb.be> Meisch, Claude.
Claude
is continuing research on the systematics and geographical
distribution of Recent freshwater Ostracoda of Europe and the Mid
Atlantic Isles. A comprehensive guide including descriptions,
illustrations, and keys to the freshwater ostracodes occurring in
western and central Europe is ready and planned to be published in
2000. The area of the synopsis covers the British Isles, France north
of Lyon, the Benelux countries, Germany, Switzerland, Austria,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. A paper on the origin and
evolution of the putative furca of extant Ostracoda is in preparation.
MALAYSIA Omar, Ramlan. I
have a student who is studying the occurrence and abundance of
microorganisms (forams and ostracodes) in Malaysia.
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