RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

 

 

ARGENTINA

 

Alicia Echevarria

I am working on the Tertiary marine ostracods of Peninsula de Valdes and Maastrichtian brackish ostracods of north Patagonia.

 

Maria Jose Salas

I continue to work on Ordovician ostracod faunas from Argentina, focusing on taxonomy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography.  At present I am dealing with early ostracods from Tremadoc successions from a northwestern basin of Argentina, in cooperation with Jean Vannier.

 

 

AUSTRALIA

Correspondent:  Stephen Eagar

 

Patrick De Deckker

Patrick is continuing his investigations into Quaternary marine environments recorded in deep-sea cores in the Australian region.  Collaboration with several colleagues on those cores has aimed at obtaining multi disciplinary records of environmental change.  Work with Sander van der Kaars (Monash University) dealt with pollen; Lena Maeda (Japanese Geological Survey) with trace metals in bulk sediments (paper submitted to Palaeo-3); Franz Gingele on clay analyses from the deep-sea canyons offshore of the Murray Mouth; and Eva Calvo, Carles Pelejero and Tim Barrows (all at ANU) on alkenone temperature signals at the sea surface (paper near completion).  A manuscript on modern acantharians and their role in affecting the chemistry of waters near the sea-surface has been published.  These unicellular microorganisms, which resemble radiolarians, secrete a strontium sulphate mineral—which are never found as fossils as sea water is undersaturated with respect to that mineral—play a significant role in recycling Sr and Ba in sea water near the sea surface, and surprisingly are often more common than planktic foraminifers.

 

One exciting event was the oceanic cruise on the French vessel Marion Dufresne in February-March 2003, when Patrick and many ANU people, including 12 students, went to sea to study many aspects of deep-sea canyons offshore Kangaroo Island.  Micropaleontologists from France (Sabine Schmidt; sediment accumulation rates); Germany (Thomas Jellinek; ostracods) and USA (A. Rathburn; benthic forams) took part in the cruise.  Several papers are in preparation on the findings of the cruise, including some on ostracods and forams collected at the sea surface down to great depths.  Long cores were retrieved and are being studied by Franz Gingele (clays), myself (stable isotopes), Michelle Spooner (PhD student, ANU; forams), Daniel Wilkins (PhD student; dating techniques, some using forams), Sharron Glasgow (PhD student UWA; pollen), and Eva Calvo and Carles Pelejero (RSES, ANU; alkenones).

 

Patrick has completed old work on a core from the playa Lake Frome in South Australia, using the chemistry of ostracod shells for determining past hydrologic changes from the Flinders Ranges region spanning the last 50,000 years.  The paper is being revised and should be resubmitted soon.

 

Chris Gouramanis

Chris is approaching the half-way mark of a PhD project under the supervision of Patrick De Deckker.  This project is funded by an ARC grant.  The primary focus of the project is to determine the climate of southern Australia from approximately 10,000 years ago to the present by using the chemistry of ostracod valves taken from a series of lake cores.  He has also published part of his Honours thesis with John Webb and Anne Warren from La Trobe University as co-authors in the Australian Journal of Earth Science.

 

Peter J. Jones

Peter redescribed the type species of the monotypic genus Ankumia (A. bosqueti van Veen 1932; Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) from The Netherlands), and interpreted its multilamellar carapace as a pathological result of interrupted ecdysis (moult retention) within the Platycopina (possibly Platella Coryell and Fields 1937).  Because the genus Ankumia was based on a pathological feature, it is regarded as a nomen dubium.  It is unrelated to the puzzling crustacean group Eridostraca, in which the multilamellar shell appears to be the natural growth pattern of the animal.  The results have been published in the Journal of Micropalaeontology.  His study of the latest Devonian and Early Carboniferous paraparchitid ostracods from the Bonaparte Basin (their taxonomy, biostratigraphic and palaeozoogeographic links) has been published in Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir 29.  An obituary on the achievements during the life of the late Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie (1928-2003), ostracodologist extraordinaire, was published in The Australian Geologist (March 2004) and later in Nomen nudum.

 

Peter continues micropalaeontological studies of the subsurface Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous rocks of the Bonaparte Basin, northwestern Australia, and provided biostratigraphic support in an investigation of the Lower Carboniferous petroleum source rocks, which was published as a Special Publication of the Northern Territory Geological Survey.  At present, he is participating in a project coordinated by Manfred Menning (GeoForschungs Zentrum Potsdam) in the preparation of a high resolution correlation chart for the Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian systems.  Progress reports have been presented at the 15th International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy, Utrecht (2003) and the 32nd IGC (Florence, 2004).

 

Ivana Karanovic

In the past three years, I held an ABRS (Australian Biological Resources Study) grant for the revision of the subfamily Candoninae.  This project was successfully finished in August of this year, and from September this year I have been working on Pilbara (Western Australia) ostracods collected during a large survey of this region.

 

John Neil

Current research includes:

Ø      Taxonomy and palaeoecology of ostracode assemblages from the Palaeogene and Neogene of southeast Australia, especially the Middle Miocene.

Ø      Microstructure, especially micro-reticulation, of the ostracode shell.

 

Jessica Reeves

Jessica completed her PhD thesis at the University of Wollongong, under the supervision of Allan Chivas.  Her work involved using ostracod assemblage data, morphological variation, and stable isotope analysis of the ostracod shell carbonate to determine the palaeoenvironmental change of the Gulf of Carpentaria through the last glacial cycle.  Through this period, the region experienced open shallow marine, lagoonal and lacustrine conditions and was even completely subaerial for some time.  The results of this work are expected to be published late 2004.

 

Jessica has since undertaken a Post-doctoral appointment at ANU, looking at groundwater ostracods from the Pilbara.  The project is in collaboration with Patrick De Deckker (ANU), Stuart Halse (Conservation and Land Management, WA), and Ivana Karanovic (WA Museum).  To date, at least 20 new ostracod species have been identified from this area, with at least a further 20 still to be described.  The aim of the project is to obtain a greater understanding of the distribution and ecology of these stygofauna, with particular attention drawn to the host water chemistry.

 

Anna Syme

I have completed two years of a PhD investigating systematics of the myodocopid Family Cylindroleberididae.  During 2004 I spent some time in the U.S., where I met with Dr. Kornicker at the Smithsonian Institution to discuss cylindroleberid morphology.  I spent some time at Todd Oakley’s lab, where I obtained molecular data for some cylindroleberidid specimens.  I will combine this with morphological data to hypothesize a phylogeny for the family.

 

Mark Warne

Mark continues to undertake research focused on Cenozoic ostracod micropalaeontology and geological evolution of the Bass Strait seaway/petroleum province.  Recent research has included work on Neogene palaeoclimates as well as the taxonomy and ecology of living Australasian Ostracoda.  He is undertaking research on Australian Palaeozoic and Mesozoic ostracod classification and palaeoecology.  Mark Warne attended the 14th ISO in Shizuoka. 

 

News on students at Deakin University, Australia, undertaking ostracod related projects is as follows:

Ø      Michele Guzel continues her PhD project on the Cretaceous ostracod faunas of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia.

Ø      Bryce Webb completed an honours thesis on the Quaternary Ostracoda of the Yarra Delta, Victoria, Australia, in 2002.

Ø      Brent Soutar completed an honours thesis in part on the ostracod fauna of the Pliocene Whalers Bluff Formation, Otway Basin, Australia in 2004.

Ø      Jayden Kirkpatrick is currently undertaking an honours project on the ostracod faunas of the Bookpurnong Formation, Murray Basin, Australia.

Ø      Matt White is undertaking studies on a Pleistocene non-marine fauna from the Nelson Bay Formation, Victoria, Australia.

 

 

AUSTRIA

 

Wolfgang Mette

During the last few years, I was concerned with biostratigraphical and micropalaeontological studies in the Jurassic of southwestern Madagascar (Morondava Basin).  I am currently working on ostracods from the Upper Permian and Triassic of Iran and Europe.  In the near future, I would like to start a project on the Jurassic of northeastern Iran.

 

 

BELGIUM

Correspondent:  Karel Wouters

 

Jean-Georges Casier

He is still working on Devonian ostracods.  During 2002, 2003, and 2004 he studied late Devonian and early Carboniferous ostracods from several sections in Belgium and France, and in relation with the Hangenberg Event.  He is currently working on Frasnian ostracods from Nevada (USA) in relation with the Alamo Event; on Eifelian and Givetian ostracods from the Namur Basin in Belgium; and a study of Eifelian to Famennian ostracods from several sections in Morocco.

 

Koen Martens

Research topics in 2001-2004:

Ø      Continuing studies on taxonomy, phylogeny, and ecology of nonmarine ostracods from the world, with a focus on Africa, Mongolia, and South America.

Ø      Ostracod diversity and ostracod speciation in ancient lakes (Baikal, Tanganyika, Malawi, Titicaca).

Ø      Evolutionary ecology and genetics of darwinulid ostracods (with Isa Schon, Roger Butlin, Karine Van Doninck).

Ø      Revision of putative ancient asexual Darwinuloidea with G. Rossetti (Recent), Mesozoic (with David Horne), and Palaeozoic (with F. Lethiers).

Ø      Coordinator of an EU-funded Research and Training Network in the Marie Curie Programme on evolutionary interactions between sexual and asexual lineages, using the ostracod species Eucypris virens as model organism.  This project runs for four years (2004-2008) and employs 6 PhDs and 4 postdocs in nine European laboratories.  The topic covers molecular biology, genomics, ecology, phylogeny and phylogeography, modeling, etc., and deals with geographic parthenogenesis, relevance of parasitic load, functionality of rare males, and so on.

Ø      Non-ostracod related activities include projects on the science policy of biodiversity; development of new phylogenetic tools; and the use of biodiversity in small water bodies to assess (agricultural) landscape integrity.  I have become editor-in-chief of Hydrobiologia and am editor of two book series.

 

Marc Peeters

He is presently studying recent marine ostracods (as well as foraminifers) recovered from sediments from the Belgian part of the North Sea.

 

Isa Schon

She is mainly interested in the paradox of sex using nonmarine ostracods as model group and in the evolution and speciation of ostracods from ancient lakes.

 

Karine Van Doninck

Research topics during 2002:

Ø      Continue the ecological studies on darwinulid ostracods.

·         Finishing the manuscript of the salinity and temperature tolerance of Darwinula stevensoni, Heterocypris incongruens, and Vestalenula molopoensis.  Publishing those results in Oecologia. 

·         Statistical analyses of the salinity and temperature tolerance of Penthesilenula brasiliensis and Penthesilenuila aotearoa and preparing the manuscript.

·         Monthly sampling of Darwinula stevensoni in the Mellaerts pond (Belgium) for the life history experiment (from April 2001 to April 2002) and measuring all different stages of the populations and statistical analyses.

Ø      Genetics on darwinulid ostracods.

·         Apply quantitative PCR assay to study UN-C DNA damage in Darwinula stevensoni and analyze the data.

·         Study the genetic variation within and between the sampled Darwinula stevensoni populations using the RAPD technique (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA) and analyzing the phylogenetic data.

Research topics during 2003:

Ø      Finishing the writing of PhD thesis entitled “Evolutionary ecology and genetics of the asexual darwinulid ostracods”.  Doctorate degree obtained on 02-28-2003.

Ø      Ecologic studies on darwinulid ostracods.

·         Publishing the new results of the salinity and temperature tolerance experiments of several darwinulid species in Freshwater Biology.

·         Publishing the life history experiment on Darwinula stevensoni from the Mellaerts Pond (Belgium) in Hydrobiologia.

Ø      Genetics on darwinulid ostracods.

·         Finishing the manuscript about the genetic variation in Darwinula stevensoni.

Research topics during 2004:

Ø      Finishing the manuscript about the genetic variation in Darwinula stevensoni.

Ø      Studying the bdelloid rotifers in the laboratory of Prof. M. Meselson at Harvard University—postdoctoral BAEF and FBR Fellowship—no ostracodes anymore for now.

 

Karel Wouters

Research topics in 2002-2004:

Ø      Marine and brackish Cypridacea, mostly from the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Ø      The zoogeography of the genus Microceratina (together with T. Namiotko, D. Danielopol, and W. Humphreys).

Ø      Distribution of the brackish water ostracod Cyprideis torosa.

Ø      Taxonomy and zoogeography of intertidal Ostracoda from the Cape Verde Islands.

Ø      Ypresian Ostracoda from the Ampe outcrop in north Belgium (together with T. Moorkens and H. Hooyberghs).

Ø      Late Miocene Ostracoda from the Deurne Sand Member in Antwerpen (with M. Bosselaers, et. al).

Ø      Marine Miocene Ostracoda in the Maaseik well (east Belgium).

Ø      Review of the genus Neocytheromorpha.

Ø      Ostracods from the Loon Formation, Pleistocene, north France (with J. Somme et al.).

 

Supervision of Licentiate thesis (2003-2004) of Thomas Vandenberghe (University of Leuven) on taxonomy and palaeoecology of ostracods from Eocene (Lutetian) deposits in a sand quarry in Berg-Nederokkerzeel (Belgium).

 

 

BRAZIL

 

Simone Nunes Brandao

She completed a Masters in Science in Zoology in Museu Nacional-Rio De Janeiro with the alpha-taxonomy of Macrocyprididae.  I am a PhD student in Germany under the advisorship of Dietmar Keyser, and my thesis will be on the Recent ostracods (using soft parts, when available) of the deep sea of the Atlantic sector of Antarctica.  She will try to identify and describe as many taxas possible, not only the Macrocyprididae.  She intends to investigate the systematic relationship from Macrocyprididae to other taxa, and also population genetics using DNA (together with Isaa Schoen, who works in Belgium with Koen Martens).  I am especially interested in the biodiversity and biogeography of Antarctic ostracods (not just Macrocyprididae).

 

Dermeval A. do Carmo

He is the head of the Laboratory of Micropaleontology at the Institute of Geosciences, Universidade de Brasilia.  In 2003 he was the chairman of the XVIII Brazilian Paleontological Congress held in Brasilia.

 

Four graduate students are being supervised:

Ø      Claudio Magalhaes de Almeida, Permian ostracods from Parana Basin.

Ø      Fatima Praxedes Rebelo Leite, Miocene paleobiogeography of the western Amazonia.

Ø      Joao V. Queiroz Neto, Early Cretaceous ostracods from Alagoas Basin.

Ø      Silvia Regina Gobbo-Rodrigues, Early Cretaceous ostracods from the Santana Basin.

 

Two undergraduate students are working with ostracods:

Ø      Cibele C. Jioucosky, Late Aptian/early Albian ostracods from Sergipe Basin.

Ø      Fernanco Santos Diener, Miocene ostracods from Solimoes Basin.

 

Joao Carlos Coimbra

During the last few years I have been working on five main projects:

Ø      Deep-sea ostracods from Pleistocene/Holocene of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

Ø      Long-term project about the taxonomy and zoogeography of Brazilian marine ostracods, with Ana Luisa Carreno, Gerson Fauth, Maria Ines Feijo Ramos, and Robin C. Whatley.

Ø      Oligocene-Holocene southernmost Brazilian ostracods and foraminifers and their applications to palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphical analysis, with Ana Luisa Carreno.

Ø      Cretaceous ostracods from Potiguar, Araripe, and Reconcavo Basins (all of them in the northeastern Brazil), with Dermeval Aparecido do Carmo and Ana Luisa Carreno.

Ø      Ostracods from the Brazilian oceanic islands (Atol das Rocas, Trindade, and Fernanco de Noronha).

 

I have three PhD students:

Ø      Cristianini Trescastro Bergue is working with deep sea ostracods from Quaternary cores of the Santo Basin, southeastern Brazil.

Ø      Claudia Pinto Machado is studying the taxonomy and paleoenvironments of five offshore drill holes from Pelotas basin, southernmost Brazil.

Ø      Geise de Santana dos Anjos is working on biostratigraphy and sea level changes (based on foraminifers) of five offshore drill holes from Pelotas Basin, southernmost Brazil (co-advised by Ana Luisa Carreno).

 

An M.Sc. student, Pauline di Mari Leopoldo, is beginning a study on deep sea ostracods from the core (3200 m in depth, 7.6 m of sediments) localized in the southern part of the southwestern Atlantic.

 

Demetrio Nicolaidis, an undergraduate student, is working on ostracods and foraminifers from an outcrop of the Yecua Formation, Bolivia.

 

Gerson Fauth

He is working in collaboration with Joao Carlos Coimbra on Quaternary ostracods of the Brazilian shelf.

 

Renato Olindo Ghiselloi Junior

She is a PhD student working on ostracods as environmental indicators in the polluted Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.  Her advisor is Dr. Beatriz B. Eichler, an expert in the applications of foraminifers as indicators of polluted marginal and marine areas.

 

Ricardo Lourenco Pinto

He is a PhD student in zoology and is studying ostracods from semi-terrestrial habitats in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.  He is co-advised by Koen Martens.

 

Paulo da Silva Milhomen

He is a petroleum ostracodologist at Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS.  He is working with biostratigraphy based on non-marine Cretaceous ostracods from the marginal Brazilian petroleum basins.

 

Iraja Damiani Pinto

He is presently working more on palaeoentomology from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and South Africa than on ostracods.

 

Maria Ines Feijo Ramos

She is working with Cretaceous, Tertiary, and Recent ostracods in the following projects:

Ø      Neogene ostracods from Pirabas Formation, Para State, Brazil.

Ø      Neogene ostracods from the Solimoes Formation, Brazil.

Ø      Marine Recent ostracods from the Brazilian continental shelf.

Ø      Non-marine Cretaceous ostracods from Codo and Itapecuru Formations, Sao Luis Basin, Maranhao State, Brazil.

 

She has been working in collaboration with Robin C. Whatley (University of Aberystwyth, UK) and Joao Carlos Coimbra (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).  She is supervising a graduate student, Ana Paula Linhares (Neogene ostracods from Pirabas Formation, Para State, Brazil) and undergraduate volunteer students in microfossils and curation activities.

 

Maria Ines has also been working as Curator of the Invertebrate Paleontology Collection from the Museum Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Para, Brazil.

 

Norma Wurdig

She has invested most of the time in ecology of estuarine meiofauna from southern Brazil.  She has a post-doctoral student, Dr. Luis Fernando Gutteres, who is beginning studies in ecology and taxonomy of non-marine ostracods from southern Brazil.

 

 

CANADA

 

Christine McClelland

I work at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.  My research interests include all things ostracode, polar marine benthic community ecology, climate change, and fossil records.  I have had the opportunity to take part in two sampling expeditions to the Beaufort Sea with my supervisors, Dr. Kathy Conlan and Dr. Alec Aitken.  I have an undergraduate degree in biology and am soon returning to school for my Masters degree in ostracode ecology.

 

 

FRANCE

Correspondent:  Jean-Paul Colin

 

Bernard Andreu

He is working on:

Ø      The Upper Cretaceous of the Pyrenees, France.

Ø      Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian) of Portugal.

Ø      Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Bulgaria.

Ø      Jurassic and Cretaceous of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India.

Ø      Jurassic and Cretaceous of Junggar Basin, China.

 

Thesis supervision:

Ø      Rossi, Semlalia University, Marrakech, Morocco, “Ostracod assemblages from the Lower Cretaceous of the Basins of Agadir and Essaouira, Morocco”

Ø      M. El Ettachfinie, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco, “Cenomanian and Turonian Moroccan series: lithology, micropaleontology and sequence stratigraphy”.

 

Malvina Artheue

Thesis:  “Structure and origin of the communities in ground waters of Roussillon, local and regional determinism of biodiversity”.  This work is partly supported by the European program PASCALID (Protocol for the Assessment and Conservation of Aquatic Life in the Subsurface).

 

Jean-Francois Babinot

Retired since November 2003, but still working without any constraint on:

Ø      Late Aptian (Gargasian) stratotype outcrops in SE France (Provence).

Ø      Revision of ostracod faunas associated with a detailed revision of the biostratigraphic content (ammonites, foraminifers, etc) (with M. Moullade and G. Tronchetti, Marseille).

Ø      Studies on some areas of the Mediterranean Neogene, especially in southeast France and Spain, western Maghreb, Corsica, and Turkey.

Ø      Coniacian-Santonian ostracodes from eastern Algeria.

Ø      Investigations on several Triassic, Late Cretaceous to Oligocene deposits of Provence, related to a revision of the age of some problematical tectonic units (with J. Philip, Marseille).

Ø      Babinot’s ostracode collections are deposited in the Museum of Paleontology, Universite de Provence, Marseille; all major taxa deposited will be computerized in the future. 

 

Anne-Marie Bodergat

Working on:

Ø      Distribution of ostracodes in Kagoshima Bay, Japan, for the last one hundred years, in collaboration with Dr. K. Ishizaki ) Sendai University, Japan), K. Oki (Kagoshima University, Japan), and H. Bertrand (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France).

Ø      Distribution of Recent ostracodes in Senegal River, in collaboration with A. Ly and R. Saar (University of Dakar, Senegal).

Ø      Lower Jurassic ostracodes from Algeria, in collaboration with S. Elmi (University Lyon 1, France), A. Sebbane and M. Mekahli (University of Oran, Algeria).

 

Students and research topics:

Ø      S. Benali-Baitich, Plio-Pleistocene ostracodes from Rhodes, Greece, in collaboration with P. Moissette.

Ø      S. Gasne, Non-marine Lower Cretaceous ostracodes from Los Cameros Basin, Spain, in collaboration with J.-P. Colin and J.-P. Garcia.

Ø      A. Maillareds, Miocene ostracodes from Crete, Greece, in collaboration with P. Moissette.

Ø      S. Tchenar, Toarcian ostracodes from Algeria, in collaboration with A. Sebbane.

 

Pierre Carbonel

Working on:

Ø      Ostracode faunas as indicators of quick paleohydrologic variations in archaeological sites—Marseilles (Lacydon), Cyprus (Larnaca), Saida, Alexandria, Morocco (Oued Assaka), St. Martin (Antilles), in collaboration with Ch. Morhange, K. Espic and J.-P. Goiran, (Aix) with L. Wengler (Perpignan) and P. Bertran (INRPA, IPGQ Talence), programmes ECLIPSE I and II.

Ø      Ostracode faunas as indicators of paleohydrologic variations in deep sea areas—deep sea fan of the Nile during the last 450 KY; ostracodes from the Bay of Biscay—relationships with biogeochemical processes of the first cm of sediment, seasonal aspects (Programmes OXYBENT and SEDICAN).

Ø      Ostracode faunas from fresh and brackish environments—Vie estuary, seasonal repartition, in collaboration with J.-P. Devenay (Angers), southern Portugal, in collaboration with J.-P. Colin and M.C. Cabral.

Ø      Freshwater ostracodes from the lower Miocene from Aquitaine Basin, in collaboration with D. Danielopol and J.-P. Colin.

Ø      Krithe problem(s), various collaborators.

 

Matthieu Chassaing

I am a student in the University of Tours in France, working on a Masters degree (the fifth year of university in France).  I am working in collaboration with P. Carbonel from the University of Bordeaux on the Late Quaternary ostracodes from a karst lake in the Middle Atlas, Morocco.  My university education was in surficial geology, but I have spent the last two years specializing in lacustrine Quaternary paleoenvironments and the meaning of ostracode assemblages.

 

Jean-Paul Colin

Ø      “Purbeckian” ostracodes from southwest France (Charente, Oleron).

Ø      Checklist and inventory of the ostracods from New Caledonia (with T. Hoibian, Noumea).

Ø      Nonmarine ostracodes from the Aquitanian stratotype (with P. Carbonel).

Ø      Plio-Pleistocene limnic ostracodes from Portugal (with C. Cabral and P. Carbonel).

Ø      Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous ostracodes from Portugal (with C. Cabral).

Ø      Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous ostracodes from Lebanon (with J. Dejax).

Ø      Mid-Cretaceous ostracodes from the Western Interior, U.S.A. (with N. Tibert).

 

Scientific advisor for the Revue de Micropaleontologie; Vice-President, Reserve Naturella Géologique de Saucats La Brede; Vice-President, European Ostracode Group; President, French Ostracologists Group.

 

Laure Corbari

I am preparing a PhD with Dr. Massabuau as a supervisor.  I am studying how ostracods can adapt to changes in water chemistry, especially water oxygenation levels.  I am working on animals originating from the Bay of Arcachon of Biscayne.  The final goal is to get more insight into the relationship between ostracods and oxygen using the relationship of Krithe (vestibule size/oxygen).  I am using video imaging, gas control system in thermostated micro-aquarium, and oxygen electrodes.

 

Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau

Over the past two years, I focused my work on the Permian-Triassic boundary.  I studied different sections in Turkey (western Taurus and Hazro area), in Saudi Arabia, and in Iran (central and eastern Elburz).  I published a synthesis on the Palaeocopides through the P/Tr boundary.  I have some collaborative projects in China, and I am working on Permian-Triassic boundary type sections in different environments from shallow to basinal (south China). I continue to analyze the Permian and Triassic fauna in other areas such as Thailand, Bolivia, and Sicily.

 

Thesis supervision:  A. Chitnarin (Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima) began a PhD thesis on the Carboniferous and Permian ostracodes from northern Thailand