MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

21^st Réunion des Ostracodologistes de Langue Française (ROLF 21), Tétouan (Morocco), April 19-22, 2006

The 21st Reunion des Ostracodologistes de Lange Francaise (ROLF 21) was held in Morocco from April 19 to 26 of this year. This meeting, the second of this series in Morocco, organized by Driss Nachite of the Laboratoire de Cartographie et de Gestion Environnementale et Marine of the Abdelmalek Essaadi University of Tetouan, managed to gather about 20 ostracode specialists from Belgium, France, Morocco, and Tunisia. During the first day at the University of Tetouan, 8 papers were presented, most of them dedicated to Moroccan ostracode faunas from Devonian to Recent of the theme “Ostracods and Palaeoenvironments”. These papers, after selection and analysis by reviewers, will be published as two special issues of the Revue de Micropaleontologie. In the evening, we all enjoyed a fantastic meal at Driss’ place, including masterpieces of the Moroccan gastronomy such as seafood pastille, mechoui and Moroccan wines.

During the following days, two field trips conducted the participants to see the marine “post-nappes” Neogene between Tangiers and Asilah as well as the Plio-Pleistocene lacustrine-palustrine basin of Saiss.

The next meeting (ROLF 22) will probably be organized in the Belgian Ardennes, following the invitation of our colleague Jean-George Casier of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium, Brussels.