ARGENTINA
Gabriela
C. Cusminsky
Ongoing research:
- Taxonomic, paleoecological and paleoenvironmental research of
Upper Tertiary, Quaternary and modern lacustrine ostracods from Argentina, in particular, Patagonia.
- Reproductive strategies in lacustrine ostracods
- Systematic and paleoenvironmental interpretation of lacustrine
cores from Cari-Laufquen and Cardiel lakes in Patagonia.
Cecilia
Laprida
- She is working on nonmarine ostracods from the Pampas
plain and from the Altiplano of Argentina.
The main objective of this research is to reconstruct the
palaeohydrological evolution of permanent water bodies during the last
millennia, in order to achieve paleoclimatical hypotheses from both areas.
- She is studying marine ostracods from the southwestern South Atlantic inner shelf from Holocene cores.
AUSTRALIA
Correspondent: Stephen Eagar
Peter
Jones
- Peter continued palaeontological research on Ostracoda and other
small bivalved arthropods from Australia. A taxonomic note was published in
collaboration with Mark Warne (Deakin University)
and Louis
Kornicker (Smithsonian Institution) on specimens of Polycope from the Miocene of
Victoria, hitherto misidentified for 50 years as belonging to the genus Thaumatocypris (Suborder
Halocypridina). As a result, it was
concluded that Thaumatocypris
has not been collected in the Miocene of Australia, and, in a broader
biostratigraphic/palaeobiogeographic context, confirmed the absence of
records of Halocypridina during
the Tertiary Period.
- The results of a taxonomic study of bivalved
arthropods (Bradoriida and Phosphatocopida) from the early Middle Cambrian
of the Georgina Basin, central Australia,
with John
Laurie (Geoscience Australia) was also
published.
- A taxonomic note was published in response to the reply by Heinz Malz
and Alan
Lord. (2004) to my 2003 paper on pathological moult retention
in the puzzling ostracod species Ankumia
bosqueti van Veen, 1932 (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, The
Netherlands).
- He is presently studying the latest Devonian Ostracoda from the Bonaparte Basin,
northwestern Australia;
their taxonomy and palaozoological links for correlation.
Ivana
Karanovic
I have become an Honorary Associate of the University
in Hobart, Tasmania.
John
Neil
- Honorary Research Associate at Latrobe
University Bendigo.
- Working on microreticulation and its functional and evolutionary
significance
- Taxonomy of the ostracode assemblages from the Batesford Limestone
(Middle Miocene), Batesford,
Victoria.
Anna
Syme
- I am currently working on a post-doc with Todd Oakley at the University of California,
Santa Barbara,
investigating myodocopid evolution.
- I completed my PhD in early 2007, entitled “A systematic revision of the Cylindroleberididae (Crustacea:
Ostracoda: Myodocopa)”. It is
available online at http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002921/.
- I have completed a preliminary interactive key to identifying
cylindroleberidid ostracods. It is
available at
http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/marine/ostracods/InteractiveKey.htm.
Mark
Warne
- Continues his research on the taxonomy, palaeoecology and
biogeography of Australasian fossil and recent ostracods (Cretaceous to
Recent).
- Involved in studies on the environmental history of southeast
Australian estuaries.
- Using subfossil ostracod distribution patterns to assess changes
in the dispersal of broad salinity, dissolved oxygen, and water
circulation regimes through time.
AUSTRIA
Correspondent: Dietmar Keyser
Holger
Gebhardt
- Ongoing research on the ecostratigraphy of the Austrian Molasse
Basin (Oligocene to
Miocene).
- Information on the scientific collection of the Geological Survey
of Austria, including ostracods, and other collections in Austria
can be found on the web site: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/oetyp/palhome.htm
Martin
Gross
Continues his work on Middle and
Upper Miocene ostracods from the Vienna and Styrian Basins. In 2004 he
published a rather extensive paper on limnic to brackish water ostracods from
the lowermost Upper Miocene (Pannonian).
Recently, he is focusing his interest on freshwater ostracods of the
upper Middle Miocene (late Sarmatian) and the taxonomic part of his theses
about mainly marine Middle Miocene ostracods (Badenian) was published this
year.
Wolfgang
Mette
My current work is concerned with Permian-Triassic
ostracods from the Southern Alps. Besides the taxonomic work, the ostracode
research includes palaeoecological aspects and the extinction pattern. A fellowship for a doctoral thesis about this
topic has been applied for. Three
diploma students are currently starting to work on the sedimentology and
micropalaeontology of various Permian-Triassic sections in the dolomites
Benjamin
Sames
I recently accepted a temporary position at the
Palaeontology Department of the University
of Vienna and am still a PhD student
at Freie Universitat Berlin. I am about to finish my PhD thesis
(supervisors Michael
E. Schudack, Berlin
and David J.
Horne, London) on Early Cretaceous nonmarine ostracods of the U.W.
Western Interior and their application to biostratigraphy and
palaeoecology. Furthermore, I continue
dealing with taxonomy and phylogeny of Jurassic to Early Cretaceous ostracods.
BRAZIL
Correspondent: Joao Carlos Coimbra
Sara
C. Ballent
- Is continuing her investigations on Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine
benthic ostracods from west-central Argentina.
- Systematic updating and temporal and palaeogeographic
distribution, especially genera and species, with Gondwana distribution
(papers with Robin Whatley)
- Collaboration with several colleagues (Cecilia Laprida, Analia Diaz, Sonia
Fontana) about nonmarine ostracods, mainly concerning their
systematics, ecology, and comparisons with extant specimens.
Cristianini
Bergue
I am working with Quaternary bathyal ostracodes from
the Brazilian margin on both systematics and paleoceanographical applications.
Joao
Carlos Coimbra
Research
- A long-term project on the
taxonomy and zoogeography of Brazilian marine ostracods, with Maria Ines Feijo Ramos
- Southwestern Atlantic Quaternary palaeoceanography based on
calcareous microfossils (mainly ostracods), stable isotopes and trace
elements, with Cristianini Trescastro Bergue, Felipe Toledo,
and Candido
AV. Moura
- Ostracods from the Brazilian oceanic islands (Atol das Rocas,
Tridade, and Fernando do Noronha)
- Miocene and Pliocene ostracodes and planktonic foraminifers and their
applications to palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphic analysis, Pelotas Basin
(southernmost Brazil),
with Ana Luisa Carreno
- Two PhD students
o
Claudia Pinto Machado is studying the taxonomy and zoogeographical
significance of the ostracode fauna from the NE shelf of Brazil
o
Adriana Leonhardt is working on palaeoceanography (based on calcareous
nannofossils) of drill holes from Santos
Basin, southern Brazil
(co-advised by Felipe Toledo)
·
Three M.Sc
students
o
Demetrio Nicolasidis is working on deep sea ostracods from Late Quaternary
cores of the Campos Basin, Brazil (co-advised by Cristianini Trescastro Bergue)
o
Pauline di Mari Leopoldi is studying deep sea ostracods from a core localized
in the south of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean
o
Renata Giacomel is concluding a study on planktonic foraminifers and
isotope stratigraphy from the Quaternary of the Santos Basin, Brazil
Dermeval
A. Do Carmo
- He is the head of the Laboratory of Micropaleontology at the Institute of Geosciences,
University
of Brasilia, UnB. In 2005,
during the 15th ISO held in Berlin,
he was elected the Chairman of the 16th International Symposium
on Ostracoda to be held in Brasilia, the
capital of Brazil. The symposium in planned to take place
in the last week of July 2009.
- He is working mainly with nonmarine ostracodes from Brazilian
Cretaceous basins.
- In 2006, several PhD students finished their thesis:
- Fatima Praxedes
Rebelo Leite, Miocene
paleobiogeography of the western Amazonia,
based on palynomorphs.
- Silvia Regina
Goggo-Rodriguez, Early
Cretaceous ostracods from Araripe Basin, co-supervised by Dr.
Alexander W. Kellner, Museu Nacional
·
In 2007, he is
supervising two graduate students:
- Claudio Magalhaes de
Almeida, PhD student, on
Cretaceous/Paleogene ostracods from the Santos Basin,
co-supervised by Dr. Gerson Fauth, UNISINOS
- Henrique Zimmermann
Tomassi, PhD student, on
Permian/Triassic ostracods from Parana Basin.
Gerson
Fauth
- Current research activities include the Cretaceous ostracodes from
Brazilian marginal basins and the Antarctic.
- Students include:
o
Enelise Piovesan, studying the Turonian-Maastrichtian ostracodes from Para Maranhao
Basin
o
Gislaine Bertoglio, studying the ostracodes from Campanian-Maastrichtian
of Pelotas and Santos Basins.
Henrique
Zimmermann Tomassi
Ongoing research on ostracods from
the Permian-Triassic of the Parana Basin, Brazil.
CANADA
Ursula
Grigg
- Retired, working at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.
- Revising the “Curatorial Report on Ostracods of the Canadian East
Coast”.
Rebecca
Macdonald
I am a PhD student at the University of Western
Ontario in the Laboratory for Stable Isotope
Science (LSIS). I am using the oxygen
isotope compositions of Late Quaternary and Holocene fossil ostracodes from
Lakes Huron and Michigan to examine changes in water sources during early
deglacial times, as well as fluctuations in the climate during the past ~10,000
years. My draft thesis title is “Hydrology and climate of Lakes Huron
and Michigan
during the Late Quaternary and Holocene periods using stable isotope geochemistry.”
Qadeer
Siddiqui
- Retired, working at the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University.
- Continuing work on Tertiary ostracods of Pakistan.
Finn
Viehberg
- He holds a Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation (AvH) to continue his research project on Paleolimnology in the eastern Canadian
Arctic using microcrustaceans
- The Northern Studies Center Churchill awarded him the Northern Studies Award to support
his research studies around Churchill,
Manitoba, Canada
- On 16-18 November 2006 he hosted the First Canadian
Ostracodologist Meeting at the Centre d’Etudes Nordique, University Laval,
Quebec, Canada.
EGYPT
Ashraf
M. T. Elewa
During the year 2006 I
focused my work on one of the distinct phenomena that are affecting
biodiversity, it is predation. Several questions arise to mind when we think of
this phenomenon; what is behind predation? Why some predators do not benefit
from their quarries after killing them? Are there genetic origins of this
antagonism between organisms? Why some female organisms kill their males after
completion of sex? How can we avoid predation? Answering these questions and
more led me to edit my third book with Springer-Verlag on “Predation in Organisms: A Distinct Phenomenon”. Three chapters of
this book are dealing with Ostracoda. The
website of this book (as well as my other two books) can be accessed through
the following link:
http://www.springer.com/west/home/geosciences?SGWID=4-10006-22-173679911-0
FRANCE
Correspondent: Jean-Paul Colin
Bernard Andreu
Activities include:
- Upper Cretaceous of Pyrenees, France
- Toarcian of Quercy and Grands Causses, south
France
- Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian) of Portugal
- Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Bulgaria
Jean-Francois Babinot
- Retired since 2003.
- A paper on ostracodes from the Aptian stratotype
of Apt area (Late Bedoulian-Lower Gargasian) will
be available in the very near future.
Title and publication will be given for the 2007 report.
- Main activities concern collections deposited at Marseille University with revision and
information of species. Material is
mainly of Cretaceous, Neogene, and Recent age. Parts of Deroo’s collection of Campanian
to Lower Eocene age (Netherlands, Belgium and partly northern France,
Germany, Denmark) have been given and deposited in the new Paleontological
Museum of Provence University, Marseille.
Pierre Carbonel
- Ostracodes and paleoceanography, mainly in
Mediterranean area--western Mediterranean
with a core 330 m long sampled at 300 m deep, including about the last
500KY. Also, eastern Mediterranean
area, north of the Nile DSF, with cores including the last 800KY. Collaborations with IFREMER, Brest (Program ANR
SESAME), GEOAZUR, Nice (Program FANIL).
- Ostracodes and recent evolution of the coasts,
particularly, impact of anthropisation (Roman harbours between Roma and Naples) (collaboration with ARCHAEORIENT, Lyon,
CEREGE, Aix en Provence), Paleolithic
presence along the coastline in southern Morocco
(collected with University of Perpignan), pre-Columbian occupation in West
Indies and occurrence and impact of hurricanes (St.
Martin). In this last
study, we use the isotopic data (d18O and d13C)
analyzed on the ostracodes (Cyprideis
and Perissocytheridea).
- Calibration of the ostracodes (coll. With J.-Ch.
Massabuau and L. Corbari).
- Neogene marine and nonmarine ostracodes from Aquitaine Basin
and Morocco
(collected with J.-P. Colin and D. Nachite).
- Morphology of the ostracodes in collaboration
with D.
Danielopol.
- Thesis supervision: Chahira Zaibi (University
of Sfax, Tunisia)
for the evolution of the lagoons along the Gulf
of Gabes between Sfax and Oued Akarit, Tunisia.
Jean-Paul Colin
- Associate editor (ostracode papers) for the Revue
de Micropaleontologie
- Vice-President Reserve Naturelle geologique de Saucats-La
Brede (Aquitanian and Burdigalian stratotypes)
- Upper
Cretaceous ostracodes of India
with B. Andreu
- Recent
lacustrine ostracodes of Wallis and Futuna with C.
Meisch and N. Mary
- Upper Jurassic ostracodes from Lebanon with J. Dejax
- Revision of Cretaceous conchoecids with L.
Kornicker
- Nonmarine Upper Jurassic ostracodes of the Ile
d’Oleron, SW France
Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau
- I supervise two PhDs. The first one is on the Late Permian
ostracods from deep environments from South China by Yuan Aihua (Wuhan University, China),
and the second one on the Permian ostracods from central Thailand by Anisong Chitnarin (Korat University, Thailand).
- All my personal research in 2006-2007 is focused
on Permian-Triassic boundary ostracods.
I mainly worked in South China in collaboration with Wuhan University. I am working on the ostracods of the
Permian-Triassic stratotype in Meishan.
The systematic revision is nearly finished. At the same time, I studied the
ostracods of the parastratotype in Bulla section (Italy). The paper is in progress.
- In collaboration with organic geochemistry and
sedimentology (Steve Kershaw from Uxbridge University),
we analysed the problem of anoxia (or not) associated with the
microbialites during the earliest Triassic.
- I proposed a
first outline for the turnover of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic ostracods.
Claude Guernet
- Distribution of ostracodes in the Lutetian of
Grignon (Paris Basin)
Systematics and ecology (in collaboration with geochemists from the
University P. and M. Curie and with paleontologists of the Museum National
d’Histoires Naturelles from Paris
- Research topics in 2006-2007 include Oligocene,
Neogene and Quaternary of the Mediterranean area.
Pierre Marmonier
Activities in 2006:
- Addendum to the description of Marococandona Marmonier, Boulal and
Idbennacer; the type species of the genus is Marococandona danielopoli.
- Description of the stygobiotic crustacean Dolekiella europaea (Ostracoda,
Limnocytheridae) from southern France. A collaboration with G. Zsolt
(Hungary), M. Arteau,
J.P. Colin (France)
and D.L.
Danielopol (Austria),
accepted for publication in Vie
Mileu.
- Strategy for the protection of rare subterranean
ostracods. We used the example of
two species from southern France. Collaboration with D.L. Danielopol (Austria) and M. Artheau (France) was
accepted for publication in Freshwater
Biology.
Vincent Perrier
- I defended my PhD
several weeks ago: Vincent Perrier,
Biodiversity and ecological significance
of the myodocopid ostracods (Crustacea) from the Upper Silurian of Europe.
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, 04/04/2007. Supervisors: Jean Vannier and David Siveter. Jury:
Sylvie
Crasquin-Soleau, Ewa Olempska, Christian Gaillard, and Catherine
Girard.
GERMANY
Correspondent: Dietmar Keyser
Simone Nunes-Brandao
She
is finishing her dissertation on the deep sea ostracods in the Antarctic Ocean.
She is combining the molecular with the conservative taxonomy. This way she can show that the biodiversity
in the Antarctic deep Sea is higher than expected.
Claudia Dojen
- Ostracodes from the
Silurian-Devonian boundary in SE Anatolia (Turkey)
- Lockkovian ostracodes
from the Spanish Pyrenees
- Planned project: September-December, 2007 at the University of California,
Riverside, to study Early Devonian
ostracodes from Nevada.
- Two papers will be
submitted within the next few weeks:
- Dojen, C., New data
on Ostracoda and Early Devonian palaeobiogeography: Bulletin de la Society geologique de
France, Special Issue, Contributions to the First International
Palaeobiogeography Symposium, Paris,
July 2007.
- Dojen, C. and
Ahlers, C., Spezialkartierung der mulde am Glockenberg (Ober-Harz, Mittel
und Ober-Devon) mit Mikrofossilien (Conodonten, Ostrakoden, Dacryoconariden,
Homocteniden). [Special mapping of
the Glockenberg-Synform in the NW Harz Mountains (Middle and late
Devonian) with microfossils (conodonts, ostracodes, dacryoconarids, homoctenids]:
Zeitschrift Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft.
Peter Frenzel
- I am finishing my
Habilitation thesis on Recent and Holocene ostracods and foraminifers from
the Baltic Sea and their use as
bioindicators. The focus lies on
ecology and taxonomy as well as on applications in Quaternary geology,
archaeology, and biological monitoring.
- An atlas of Baltic Sea ostracods species is in preparation,
together with Dietmar Keyser.
- Finn Viehberg and I are working together on an ecological
review, including an ostracod-based transfer function for salinity.
- After moving from Rostock University
to Jena University
in Thuringia in 2005, I started a new program concerning ostracods and
foraminifers in saline waters of central Germany
- I am preparing a
project on Recent and Quaternary ostracods of the Tibetan Plateau.
Eugen Karl Kempf
- On the first days of
October 2006, the second index from level 2 (stratigraphy) of the Kempf Database Ostracoda could be
published on CD-ROM with the title Recent
Nonmarine Ostracoda of the World.
This Index D covers nearly all modern species, described either as
living or dead (if only the shells had been found or documented). Thus, with more than 27,500 datasets, a
unique instrument of reference became available.
- At present, my work is
concentrating on the second set of supplements to the hitherto published
indices and bibliographies, forming parts 11-15 of the series Index and Bibliography of Nonmarine
Ostracoda as well as Index and
Bibliography of Marine Ostracoda.
I am trying to publish a 2007 edition on CD-ROM later this year.
Dietmar Keyser
Dietmar
continues his research on the ecology and morphology of recent ostracods. After the near completion of the subrecent
ostracods of the Aral Sea, he is now trying to evaluate the influence of
pollution and changing environment on the distribution of ostracods in the Baltic Sea, together with P. Frenzel, B. Scharf and N. Aladin. He also continues the work on the
calcification of the ostracod carapace.
Alan Lord
- Several projects on
Lower Jurassic Ostracoda
- Holocene of Portugal
- Pleistocene/Holocene
of Denmark and southern
Sweden
Friedrich Luppold
My current research on
ostracods is to generate a biostratigraphic zonation from the Lower Cretaceous
of the Lower Saxony basin. I am also investigating some wells of
middle-upper Albian age from the city of Hannover. There are some activities for correlation with
other wells in the Hannover region. Jurassic activities are restricted to
temporary sections of highway construction sites. There are some very interesting glendonite
horizons, which are discovered for the first time at this latitude. Stable isotope investigations on special
ostracod specie, sediments, belemnites, and glendonites are in preparation.
Renate Matzke-Karasz
Ongoing research includes:
- Reproduction biology of freshwater ostracods
- Spermatology and investigation of sperm-egg
interactions in freshwater ostracods
- Additional appendages in giant African freshwater
ostracods (together with Koen Martens)
- Taxonomy and micromorphology of freshwater
ostracods
- Palaeoecology of ostracods
- One of the partners of the EU Marie Curie
Research and Training Network ‘SexAsex’.
Anthropologist and chromosome specialist Dr. Stefan Muller and
Renate form the Munich
post of the network, responsible for karyological, histological and
spermatological research on Eucypris
virens, our model organism.
Within this frame, Radka Symonova (Prague)
is doing her PhD here in Munich.
Steffen Mischke
- I collected surface sediment samples from more
than 180 lakes on the Tibetan Plateau in the last few years and
established an ostracod-based transfer function to infer electrical
conductivities as an indicator of past salinities.
- In another project, I tried to explore the degree
and effects of lake contamination on the ostracod assemblages as a result
of oil pumping in China’s
largest oil field.
- I investigated Middle Pleistocene lake sediments
in the Qaidam
Basin which indicate
the existence of a large lake in a presently dry desert environment and
hope to receive some more detailed dating to learn more about the timing
of lake evolution.
- I applied for funding for a project to couple
existing ice core records from the Tibetan Plateau with nearby lake
records, with the aim to achieve a better understanding of the ice core
and lake sediment proxies and to improve the ice core chronologies through
a correlation of both records.
- I applied for funds to use ostracods as
indicators of past moisture availability in the Near East region.
- In 2008 I will work at the Limnological
Research Center
of the University
of Minnesota (Professor
Emi Ito) as visiting scientist for twelve months, funded by the
German Research council. I will
study ostracod samples from central Mongolian lakes with the aim to build
an ostracod-based transfer function for Mongolia
and northern China
after ostracod data from our samples are merged with those from samples
collected by Emi Ito and Koen Martens in western Mongolia.
Roger Schallreuter
Current
activities of Roger are the study of Late Ordovician ostracodes from Sardinia and Ordovician ostracode palaeobiogeography of Gondwana.
Burkhard Scharf
Werner Hollwedel and I have finished and published a faunistic work on
the cladocerans and freshwater ostracods of Lake Zwischenahner Meer.
Michael Schudack
Research:
- Research projects on the Lower and Upper Jurassic
and Lower Cretaceous of various areas in Europe and North
America
- Main focus on biostratigraphy, paleoecology,
biogeography, paleoclimatology, and stable isotope shell geochemistry
- Secretary of the International Research Group on
Ostracoda (IRGO) for the period of 2005-2009
- Maintains webpages of IRGO at http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Epalaeont/irgo/irgohome.html
Thesis supervision:
- Early Cretaceous ostracods from the Rocky
Mountains, USA
(Benjamin
Sames)
- Biogeography and database of Early Cretaceous
nonmarine Ostracoda, as exemplified for selected European basins (Kerstin
Zobel)
- Ostracod biostratigraphy and microfacies of the
Nordsteimke Member (Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic) near Wolfsburg, Germany
(Nadine
Siegling)
- Microbiostratigraphy (Foraminifera and Ostracoda)
of the Lower Jurassic from Gross Schoenebeck borehole, Brandenburg, Germany
(Karoline
Fischer)
New research projects:
- Palaeobiogeography of marine Early Cretaceous
Cytheroidea (Ostracoda) on both sides of the opening of the North Atlantic
(North American, Western Europe)
- Geochemistry of late Quaternary ostracods from
lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (under the frame of a new DFG priority
program about the climate on the Tibetan Plateau)
Henning Uffenorde
Henning
is engaged as an official volunteer at the Museum of the Geoscience Centre, University of Goettingen, after a pause due to various
health problems. During 2006 he
continued his work on the published part of the ostracode collection of
Lienenklaus (1894-1900). Since June 2006
he was called in the scientific project concerning the drill site Wallau
B98-BK5 (Early Oligocene, southern Hesse) in collaboration with Dr. G. Radtke,
HLUG, Wiesbaden, and Prof. E. Martini, Frankfurt.
IRAQ
Sanad A. Al-Khashab (Mosul University)
- I am working on
Cretaceous Ostracoda from different parts of Iraq. I have many projects this summer to
collect samples from the north and from the western desert of Iraq
(Jurassic).
- I have three
unpublished papers about Cretaceous Ostracoda; I will finish them in about
4 months.
Ibrahim Y. Al-Shareefi (Mosul
University)
- He completed his PhD
thesis on the biostratigraphy of Ostracoda and sedimentological study of
some Upper Cretaceous from selected wells in northwest and middle Iraq.
S.S. Al-Shjeikhly (Baghdad
University)
- Continues his work on
Recent and Cretaceous Ostracoda from Iraq.
W.Y. Al-Ubide (Mosul
University)
- Continues his research
on Cretaceous Ostracoda from Iraq, in particular
paleoenvironmental analysis.
Nisreen M. Aziz (Mosul
University)
- Continuing his
research on Tertiary Ostracoda from Iraq.
- Research student—H. Khaliel,
who just started her M.Sc research on Lower Miocene Ostracoda from north Iraq.
Saleh K. Khalaf (Mosul
University)
- Continued his work on
Cretaceous and Tertiary Ostracoda from Iraq.
- Research student: Mr. A.M. Hussein, investigating the
biostratigraphy and sedimentology of Upper Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary
formations from selected locations in northern Iraq.
ISRAEL
Avi Honigstein
- Continues with Mesozoic-Cenozoic studies of
assemblages from Israel
and adjacent countries.
- A poster on Holocene ostracodes from the eastern Mediterranean (Maddocks et. al.) was presented at a Geological Society of America
meeting.
- A study on marine Pliocene ostracodes (together
with N.
Mostafawi, Kiel)
was submitted to Stratigraphy (Ilani et
al.).
Avi was on a 4-month sabbatical leave at the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA with Dr. E. Brouwers, studying
Eocene material from Pakistan
and Abu Dhabi. A joint study is planned and Elly is
busy preparing the samples for this project.
ITALY
Correspondents: Giuseppe Aiello and Diana Barra
Roma
Tre University
The Roma Tre ostracodologist
group (Department of Earth Sciences) is involved in several researches
concerning Neogene and Quaternary marine, brackish, and freshwater ostracods of
the Mediterranean area:
- Elsa Gliozzi and Francesco
Grossi (PhD student) are working on the late Messinian
Lago-mare ostracods in the central and eastern Mediterranean, through the
detailed analyses of sediment cores and sections located in northern and
central Italy and
central Crete. During 2006, four Italian sections have
been studied, located in Romagna (Montepetra section), Marche
(Trave and Maccarone sections), and Tuscany
(Ponte Ginori borehole). The
palaeoecological analyses , carried out using a
multivariate approach, showed that the short (250 ka) Lago-Mare event
underwent several palaeoenvironmental changes mainly linked to variations
in salinity and depth. The
integration of the biostratigraphical data collected during the last three
years led to define a short but significant biostratigraphy valid for the
Mediterranean Late Messinian interval.
In particular, two biozones have been recognized and defined (or re-defined): The Loxoconcha
muelleri zone (interval zone) and the Loxocorniculina djafarovi zone (regional distribution zone).
- Elsa Gliozzi and Silvia
Ligios (PhD
student) are studying the Late Miocene brackish ostracods from central and
southern Italy,
mainly from a taxonomical point of view.
After the revision of the genus Tavanicythere
and Loconchissa, work on the
taxonomy of Italian Tortonian-early Messinian leptocytherids is in
progress, dealing in particular with the subfamily
Mediocytherideinae. This research
will also provide new insights about the palaeobiogeography and the
biostratigraphy of the brackish domain.
- Elsa Gliozzi and Maria
Chiara Medici (post-Master student) are involved in the
taxonomical study of a rich Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene freshwater
ostracod fauna coming from the Tiberino
Lake, a fossil ancient lake
located in central Italy. At present, at least two endemic
Candoninae lineages have been recognized.
- Costanza Farance is mainly involved in the study of Neogene and Quaternary
marine ostracods. Together with Ilaria Mazzini and Elsa Gliozzi, she has studied the
Pliocene-Quaternary ostracods collected from the “classical” Quaternary
succession cropping out at Monte Mario (Rome).
Through a multivariate analysis approach, several
palaeoenvironmental variations have been identified during the early
Pleistocene. Moreover, the Monte
Mario ostracod assemblage has been studied in a taxonomical perspective,
leading to the identification of four “northern guest” ostracod
species. At present, Costanza Faranda is
involved in the study of marine ostracods from the early Messinian
Mediterranean interval, in the frame of an Italian Research Project
devoted to the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Mediterranean
immediately before the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
- Ilaria Mazzini
has spent several months at NIWA (National Institute for Water and
Atmosphere), Christchurch, New Zealand, studying the freshwater ostracod
fauna recovered from several piezo meters and wells along rivers within
Canterbury, South Island, and from lakes and ephemeral water bodies
scattered in the North Island. The
research is part of a wider survey, which aims to estimate the
biodiversity of invertebrate fauna in freshwater and groundwater
environments of New
Zealand.
University of Naples “Federico II”
- Guiliano Ciampo is working on Quaternary shallow water assemblages of
southern Italy.
- Giuseppe Aiello and Diana Barra
Our
main activities are:
·
Ostracod
assemblages of the Pleistocene sapropelitic sediments of Montalbano Ionica
(southern Italy)
·
Freshwater,
paralic and marine Quaternary Ostracoda of Naples and Salerno Provinces
(southern Italy)
·
Recent marine
littoral assemblages of Porto Cesareo (Apulia, Ionian Sea)
·
Pliocene
circalittoral-bathyal ostracods of Avellino
Province (southern Italy)
·
Neogene
(Tortonian-Messinian) ostracods of Morocco (Atlantic side)
·
The checklist of
ostracods living in Italian waters has been updated. It is available at the website: http://www.sibm.it/CHECKLIST/principalechecklistfauna.htm
University
of Parma
- Giampaolo Rossetti
(Department of Environmental Sciences, University
of Parma) is currently
undertaking the study of taxonomy and systematics of the Recent
Darwinulidae, in cooperation with Koen Martens and Isa Schoen (Brussels) and Ricardo Pinto (Sao Paulo). He is Principal Investigator (Parma lab) of the EU
project SexAsex (From Sea to Asex: a case study on interactions between
sexual and asexual reproduction), based on Eucypris virens as model organism (http://evirens.group.shef.ac.uk).
- At the University
of Parma, within the project
SexAsex, Maria
Joao Martins (Portugal)
is carrying out part of her PhD work on “Ecology of ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in temporary
freshwater habitats with special reference to the geographical parthenogen
Eucypris virens (Jurine)”.
- Valentina Pieri has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Studies on biodiversity, distributional patterns and ecology of Recent non-marine Ostracods and their possible use as water
quality indicators”. A new
edition of the checklist of Recent freshwater
ostracods from mainland Italy
and nearby islands is currently in progress. Other funded research projects focus on
the diversity of ostracods in alpine springs.
- Valeria Rossi and Paolo
Menozzi (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Parma) continue their studies on
population ecology and genetics of Italian freshwater ostracods
(especially the genus Heterocypris).
University
of Modena
E Reggio Emilia
Antonio Russo and Giulia Fonda (PhD
student) are working on Miocene Northern Apennines ostracods and Recent
Assemblages, mainly in Adriatic waters under “cold seep” influence.
Pietro Miculan
I have very few possibilities
to work on ostracods. However, I
continue to be interested in Neogene ostracod faunas of the Mediterranean area.
Francesco Sciuto
- Research fields include the palaeoecology and
stratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene marine ostracod assemblages
- Ongoing research includes living and dead
ostracod assemblages from the Mediterranean and Thailand
JAPAN
Toshiaki Irizuki
- Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of Miocene and
Pliocene Ostracoda around Japan
- Migration and speciation of Ostracoda in eastern
Asian bays during the Quaternary
- Ostracoda in tsunami deposits
- Relationships between Recent ostracode
assemblages and anthropogenic influences
- I have six postgraduate students who are studying
mainly ostracodes
- Shigenori Kawano—Temporal
changes of Recent Ostracoda and anthropogenic pollution in bays of
northern Kyushu, southwestern Japan, during the last 100
years
- Hokuto Iwatani—Late
Pliocene Ostracoda from shallow deposits along the Pacific coast of Japan
- Hiroki Ogusa—Population
dynamics of brackish and bay Ostracoda in Lake
Nakaumi, southwestern Japan
- Asumi Gotomyo—Recent
Ostracoda and anthropogenic pollution in Seto Inland Sea, southwestern Japan
- Ayumi Haruki—Holocene
Ostracoda from borehole cores in Omaezaki, central Japan
- Ryohei Kaewakami—Temporal
changes of Recent Ostracoda in Lake
Nakaumi, southwestern Japan,
during the last few hundred years
-
Hirokazu Ozawa is at the National Science Museum of Japan, Tokyo (in Dr. Yoshihiro
Tanimura’s lab)
Current research includes:
- Ecology and taxonomy of modern ostracods in the Japan Sea and adjacent areas (with Dr.
Takahiro Kamiya)
- Taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiology (e.g.,
origin, extinction, speciation and migration) of ostracods since the
Miocene from Japan
Sea coasts
- Palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of a
brackish inner bay fauna from Japan
and east-southeast Asia in late Cenozoic, based on ostracods from the
Kanto region, central Japan
- Sexual dimorphism with paedomorphosis on
hingement and phylogeny of Loxoconcha
species from Japan.
Tatsuhiko Yamaguchi
- Early Eocene ostracodes from Washington,
USA with Mr.
Goedert (The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington).
- Examination of Paleogene ostracodes from Hokkaido, northern Japan
with Dr.
Kurita (Niigata
University).
Moriaki Yasuhara
I am working on Atlantic
deep-sea ostracodes with Tom Cronin.
My primary research interest is to know how Quaternary climate change
and human activity affect marine ecosystems.
Further details on my research and PDFs of my papers are found on my
website http://ostracoda.net/.
MEXICO
Ana Luisa Carreno
- Recent marine ostracodes from the equatorial
offshore Brazil
- Cretaceous ostracodes from the Reconcavo Basin,
Brazil (with Joao Carlos Coimbra, UFRGS)
- Continuation of my long-term research on Baja
California Tertiary calcareous microfauna and microflora (ostracodes,
foraminifers, calcareous nannoplankton)
- Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Mexican
lacustrine Quaternary lakes based on ostracode paleoecology and trace
element shell chemistry (with Manuel R. Palacios-Fest, Terra Nosta
Earth Science Research)
- Students:
- Violeta A. Romero-Mayen, Registro climatico en
laguna Salada, Baja California, Mexico durante el Neogeno tardio usando paleoecologia
y geoquimica de elemetos traza en conchas de Ostracoda, MSc, Posgrado
en Ciencias Biologicas, UNAM (with Manuel R. Palacios-Fest, Terra Nostra
Earth Science Research)
F. Raul Gio-Argaez
Maria Luisa Castillo
- Marine Holocene ostracods from the Marine
Continental Economic Zone of Mexico
- Students:
- Alejandro Matias-Lozada, Diversidad y distribucion de la
Ostracofauna de la Plataforma Continental de Tamaulipas, BSc. Thesis
Biologist, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
- Luis Fernando Lopez Gutierrez, BSc., Thesis
Biologist, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes.
Alejandro Rodriguez
·
Finishing my PhD
on a late Holocene sedimentary sequence from a crater lake at western Mexico (Lake
Santa Maria del Oro) using ostracod assemblages, shell chemistry (stable isotopes
and trace elements) and sediment geochemistry
·
Working on Recent
and Holocene non-marine ostracodes from other lake sediments along central Mexico
·
Involved in a
paleolimnological project, reconstructing the late Quaternary environmental and
climatic variability of central Mexico
(Transmexican Volcanic Belt). This
multi-proxy paleoenvironmental research project includes magnetic properties,
sediment geochemistry, pollen, diatoms, and ostracod analyses.
·
I am mainly
interested in:
- Palaeoclimatic and palaeolimnologic
reconstruction from lake sediment analyses, based on ostracod composition
and shell and sediment geochemistry
- Study of the modern ostracods and distribution
in the lakes of central Mexico
- Paleolimnology and ecology of diatoms
MOROCCO
Nachite Driss and Ratiba Bekkali
- Neogene lacustrine Ostracoda of Saiss Basin
(north of Morocco) and
limno-brackish Ostracoda from the northwest of Morocco. Neogene marine Ostracoda of the north of
Morocco.
- Biodiversity (ostracods, foraminifers) in two
estuaries of the Atlantic: Urdaibai
(northern Spain) and
Tahadart (north Morocco):
a comparative study. In
collaboration with Julio Rodriguez Lazaro and Maite
Martin (UPV University, Bilbao, Spain)
- Ostracoda as biological indicators of the
ecologic stress in the Nador Lagoon (northeast coast of Morocco) with Zoulikha
Irzi (Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco)
- Holocene Ostracoda of the Alboran
Sea with A. El Hmaidi (Moulay Ismail
University, Meknes, Morocco)
NEW ZEALAND
Correspondent: Stephen Eagar
Stephen Eagar
- Stephen continues his work on the shallow water
marine faunas of the south Pacific
Islands. In particular, he has been examining the
marine and freshwater faunas of Palmyra Atoll and the freshwater ostracods
from a core on Espiritu Santo,
Vanuatu.
- He made a trip to the Natural History Museum in London in 2006 to
examine material in the collections.
Kerry Swanson
- Kerry’s Marsden-funded MSc student Francie
Gaiger graduated 1st class Honors in April
2007. Francie’s thesis titled “Mid-Pleistocene extinction of
Ostracods” focused on podocopids from ODP Site 1125 on the Chatham
Rise, east of South Island.
- Kerry and Thomas Jellinek are putting the final
touches to a paper which describes inter-basinal anatomical variations in
species of Zabythocypris and
their implications for our interpretation of dispersal and diversification
in the deep ocean.
- Kerry is writing a book on fossilization and
microfossils to be published by Canterbury University Press (1st
draft completion data August 2007).
POLAND
Correspondent: Janina Szczechura
Jarmila Krzminska
Works
mostly on ostracodes from lakes of the Late Glacial, from the southern Baltic
Sea and its pericoastal areas as well as from Pomerania. The ostracodes
are used as indicators of climatic and environmental changes.
Agnieszka Mackiewicz
Completed her Doctor’s thesis
on Recent benthic ostracodes from Hornsund and
published a part of it in 2006. She has
ceased working with ostracodes.
Tadeusz Namiotko
Is involved with the taxonomy
and ecology of Recent and subfossil (Quaternary) freshwater Ostracoda and their
applications to palaeolimnology, stygobiology and evolutionary biology. Current research activities include:
- Evolutionary ecology of reproductive modes in Eucypris virens (together with Dr. Jochen
Vanderkerkhove within EU Research Training network coordinated
by Koen
Martens)
- Morphology, diversification and phylogeny of
stygobiotic and stybophilic Ostracoda (together with Dan L. Danielopol)
- Reconstruction of climate variability as
expressed in the oxygen isotope composition of past precipitation derived
from ostracods in the profundal lake sediments (ESF project coordinated by
U. von
Grafenstein
- Subfossil ostracods as indicators of present and
historical food and habitat conditions for ichthyofauna.
Ewa Olempska
Continues her numerous
projects:
- Devonian ostracodes from the Holy Cross
Mountains
- Late Cambrian phosphatocopids from North Poland
- Carboniferous ostracodes from China.
Jolanta Smolen
Continues
her work on the distribution of Cypridea
representatives in the Lower Cretaceous (mostly Beriassian) of Central and Southeastern Poland.
Janina Szczechura
Is
interested in Middle Miocene ostracodes and the co-existing microfossils of
southern Poland,
including the Carpathians as well as the Fore-Carpathian Depression.
Barbara Wojtasik
Is working
up her many years of observation of Tannocypris
glacialis (G.O. Sars) from freshwater lakes from Spitsbergen. She observed
the seasonal distribution, reproduction, and ontogenetic development. She is simultaneously studying this species
in culture.
ROMANIA
Marius Stoica
- I am teaching the micropaleontology course in Bucharest University. I completed my PhD thesis a few years
ago on Purbeckian ostracods in Romania. This is the first paper in eastern Europe (except for Poland) dealing with
Purbeckian ostracods. It is
published in Romanian. I hope to
publish the main parts of the thesis soon in an international journal. I described 47 species of ostracods from
the Early and Middle Purbeck and eight new species. I tried to prove the presence of sexual
dimorphism for some Cypridea
species. If anyone needs a hard
copy or PDF, I can send it to you.
- I am now concentrating on Miocene-Pliocene
ostracods from Paratethys.
RUSSIA
Correspondent: Anna Stepanova
Vladivostok Group, Far East
Branch
A.G. Bashmanov
He is a post-graduate student
in the Far East Branch, Valdivostok group.
He is studying the fauna, distribution and seasonal dynamics of pelagic
ostracods (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) of the Arctic Ocean
and adjacent waters.
V.G. Chavtur
- Working on a revision of pelagic ostracods
(Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) of the World Ocean.
- Fauna, distribution and seasonal dynamics of
pelagic ostracods in the Arctic and
Southern Oceans.
- Taxonomy and distribution of benthic ostracods
(Myodocopina, Cladocopina) in the Far Eastern Seas and adjacent waters.
E.I. Schornikov
He continues his research on
ecology, morphology and taxonomy of ostracods.
O.A. Tsareva
She is a Senior Engineer of
the Museum of Marine Biology. She is studying the taxonomy and distribution
of ostracods of the genus Rabilimis.
She is also making a catalogue of holotypes of ostracods stored in their
museum.
Maria Zenina
She is a post-graduate
student, studying Ostracoda as indicators of environments and dynamics of water
ecosystems (based on materials from the Peter the Great
Bay, Sea of Japan).
Moscow Group
Anna Stepanova
- A comparative study of the distribution of modern
ostracods in the Kara and Laptev Sea. Results were summarized and published in
the paper “Comparison study of the
modern ostracod associations in the Kara and Laptev seas: ecological
aspects”, Marine Micropaleontology, 2007.
- Collaborative research with Dr. Carlos Alvarez-Zarikian
(IODP, Texas), analyzing ostracod
assemblages from IODP Site U1314 from the North
Atlantic during the last glacial cycle. Preliminary results were [resented at
the 2006 AGYU Fall Meeting.
- Participation in a field study in the Arkhangelsk region (White Sea)
to sample coastal outcrops of Eemian age for future ostracod studies.
- Completion of micropaleontological analysis of
over 250 samples from core PS51/154 from the western continental slope of
the Laptev Sea (276 m water depth). The ostracod, foraminifer, and mollusk
data were presented at a number of conferences and together with stable
isotopic data will be published in the near future.
- Identification of ostracods from coastal outcrops
of Pleistocene age of the Yenisei
River and Yenisei
Bay as part of the complex
investigation of Quaternary geology of this region (research conducted by
VNIIOkeangeologiya, St.
Petersburg, Russia).
Ekaterina Tesakova
Main activities for 2006
included:
- Building of a sea level curve based on the
results of an investigation of ostracods from the Callovian-Oxfordian
boundary in the village of Dubki in central Russia. The results show sea-level and bottom
water temperature changes. A
non-estuarine type circulation of water masses was revealed, as well as
other paleogeographic peculiarities of the basin. Ostracodes proved to be very important
biostratigraphic tools in this region.
- Study of ostracods of Santonian age from the Saratov region (village of Vishnevo). Two new species were described and their
stratigraphic importance has been shown.
- Study of ostracods of Callovian, Oxfordian, and
Kimmerigian age from the Voronezh
anticlinorium (village
of Trubutsino) and
their stratigraphic importance.
Main activities for 2007
include:
- Study of ostracods from the Kursk region. Two new species are described.
- Study of ostracods from the Callovian-Oxfordian
boundary of southern France. The results were compared with the
ostracod data from the same time interval of central Russia (Povolzh’e
region). Strong differences in
taxonomic composition were revealed between these two regions, although
similar trends in the distribution of ostracods along the sections from
the two regions were also observed.
- Study of ostracods from the classical section of
Bathonian age from central Poland. Many new taxa were revealed. Based on the analysis of the published
data, we conducted a paleogeographic study, which showed that there was a
sub-latitudinal strait in Poland
which had been active in the Bajocian, later closed in the Bathonian, and
reopened again in the Callovian.
SERBIA
Correspondent: Ljupko Rundic
Tamara Karan-Znidarsic
She continues her work on Recent nonmarine ostracodes from Vojvodina (northern Serbia)
for her PhD thesis.
Nadezda Krstic
- In 2006, she completed her book on Pliocene
ostracodes of Serbia. Its translation and correction took 3
winters (since 2003) and the summer of 2006. Many colleague ostracodologists
contributed to it by sending papers.
Some of them are not acknowledged in the book, such as Ivana
Karanovic, who provided a paper on Ilyocypris australiensis by Sars or P. Carbonel on Kovalevskiella in western Europe.
In the book (p. 202, right, near the bottom of page), an error
slipped in when Spanish instead of Iberian port was mentioned as the
possible source of Vestalenula
pagliolii species, recently spread widely in Brasil. The paper by Cabral et.
al., 2005, noticing the presence of this species in the Portuguese port,
sent S.
Ligios to Belgrade
to late (28.03.2007) to be mentioned in the book’s references.
- The Upper Pliocene Mazgos site attracted N.
Krstic for about 10 years and it is now widened with a terrestrial mollusk
study (ca. 1% of gastropods, compare Prysjazhnjuk et. al., 2007). The ostracodes indicate a saline
environment with a higher amount of salt than in the Middle Danube Upper
Paludinian Beds. Except for
halotolerant Pseudocandona compressa
and others in Mazgos, halofile species such as Paracyprinotus salinus and Neglecandona
angulata decimai are present.
The amount of species is variable along the column and in areas
where are some lenses with a greater amount of terrestrial snails—an
indictor of the influence of sedimentological factors.
- Serbian Lake ostracodes are encompassed, with the other
fauna, in a compilation by Krstic et. al.,
2007. They are still insufficiently
known and therefore it is not possible to reconstruct the Serbian lake paleogeography.
Ljupko Rundic
After a few years of
inactivity, I have come back to ostracodes.
Current research includes:
- Geological mapping of the Libyan desert and
Miocene marine ostracodes of Libya
(with Khalid
Sherif, Tripoli)
- Miocene marine/brackish ostracodes of Serbia and
Bosnia Herzegovina.
SPAIN
Julio Rodriguez-Lazaro
Maité Martin-Rubio
- Quaternary ostracods from the south Bay of Biscay
- Biodiversity (ostracods, foraminifers) in two
estuaries of the Atlantic: Urdaibai
(northern Spain) and
Tahadart (north Morocco):
a comparative study. In
collaboration with Driss Nachite and Ratiba Bekkali (Tetouan, Morocco)
- Biomineralization processes in cultured nonmarine
ostracods and palaeolimnological application, in collaboration with Pere
Anadon and colleagues (CSIC, Barcelona)
- Responsible for a research team of
palaeoenvironmental changes in the Quaternary of the southern Bay of Biscay.
SWITZERLAND
Laurent Decrouy
- Doing a PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne.
- I am currently working on living and fossil
ostracods from Lake Geneva. The aim of the study is to better
understand the way ostracods incorporate minor elements such as Mg or Sr
in their shells and how the carbon and oxygen stable isotopes composition
from host water is recorded in ostracod shells during valve
calcification. We will also attempt
to reconstruct palaeoenvironmental conditions in Lake
Geneva using ostracod geochemistry and morphometry.
TURKEY
Okan Kulkoyluoglu
Activities:
- We have been working ostracod taxonomy and
systematics, ecology and distribution along with constructing past history
of environments. Our work involves
five different projects. In
general, our focus is to understand ecological optimum and tolerance
levels of freshwater ostracods in a variety of environments. We try to find possible answers for the
questions below:
- Recently, I have introduced a new term called
“pseudorichness”, which underlines that the ratio between numbers of non
cosmopolitan and cosmopolitan species can provide god information about
the quality of aquatic environments.
Increasing the numbers of cosmopolitan species may suggest low
water quality of newly developing habitats,. The implication of this hypothesis
requires detailed knowledge about ostracod habitat preferences, ecology
and tolerance levels as well as biological characteristics of ostracods.
Students:
- Necmettin Sari,
Masters student at Abant Izzet Baysal
University, Bolu is working on
the relationship between freshwater ostracods and their ecological
preferences in the city of Bolu.
- Muharrem Balci,
Masters student at Abant Izzet Baysal
University, Bolu is finishing his
thesis on a small natural lake, Lake
Sunnet, Bolu.,
- Derya Akdemir,
PhD student at Marmare University, Istanbul, is working on a large-scale
collection from two cities in eastern turkey, where there is almost
nothing known about Ostracoda.
Atike Nazik
- Devonian ecosystems and climate of Turkey
(DEVEC-TR), TUBITAK Joint Research and Development project (Turkish
Co-Director of the project: M. Namik, YALCIN)and PD Dr. Volker
Wilde (German Co-Director of the project)
- Salinity and climatic condition of Akyatan Lagoon
(Turkey),
recent sediments (with co-worker Anne-Marie Bodergat)
- Implementation of biogeochemical methods on
surface sediments of the salt pan in the NE Aegean Sea
and investigation of Foraminifera-Ostracoda-Mollusca (with co-worker Ipek F.
Barut)
- Thesis supervision: Deniz Ibilioglu, PhD Thesis, Environmental interpretation and
micropaleontological investigation (plnaktonic foraminifer and ostracod)
of the Paleogene sequence in the Elazig region (eastern turkey).
UNITED
KINGDOM
Martin Angel
- I am still working on the systematics of
halocyprids. Basically, using CMarz
samples from the western Atlantic collected on the RV Ron Brown in 2006 to depths of 5000 m and a series of
samples collected by the Japanese in the Celebes Sea
in 2005. This material contains
rather a lot of novel species. The
main aim of the Ron Brown cruise
was to collect fresh material for DNA sequencing, and 60 species were
collected. The next cruise will be
on the Polarstern this autumn to
the south Atlantic.
- Working with Kasia Blachiowiak-Samolyk (Sopot) and Vladimir
Chavtur (Vladivostok), an atlas of Atlantic plnaktonic
ostracods has been prepared, which is a follow-up to the Southern Ocean
Atlas that we prepared a couple of years ago (http://ocean.iopan.gda.pl/ostracoda/). This new atlas will be posted on the NHM
London website soon.
- I have been working on the systematics of the
genus Metaconchoecia, splitting
it into ten genera and raising its status to that of a tribe
(Metaconchoecini).
- I am trying to get the genus Bathyconchoecia sorted out.
I have something like 30 new species of this poorly known genus
that tends to be benthopelegic at great depth (>3000 m). Once again, it looks as though the genus
needs to be split up, based on major differences in the structure of the
mandibles, as well as carapace characteristics.
John Athersuch
- Commercial biostratigraphy of all sorts
- Particular interest in West African Early
Cretaceous and Caspian Quaternary Ostracoda
Carys
Bennett
·
I am in my second
year of my PhD, studying the evolution of ostracods from marine to nonmarine
environments in the Lower Carboniferous.
The study area is the Midland Valley of Scotland.
·
I will be
presenting a talk at the European Ostracod Meeting in Frankfurt,
September, 2007.
David J. Horne
- In October, 2006, after three years on fixed-term
contracts, I secured a permanent post as Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Geography at Queen Mary, University
of London. I maintain my research interests in all
aspects of ostracods, marine and nonmarine, fossil and living. Current activities include the
development of a Mutual Ostracod
Temperature Range (MOTR) method of
palaeoclimatic analysis using European Quaternary nonmarine
ostracods. The MOTR method utilizes
the NODE (Nonmarine Ostracod Distribution in Europe) database in
conjunction with DIVA-GIS software; a paper outlining the method has been
published in Quaternary Science
Reviews and further development and testing are under way in
collaboration with Paco Mezquita (Valencia). I continue my GIS and database work in
the SexAsex project (European
Union FP6 Marie Curie Research and Training Network: From Sex to Asex: a case study on interactions between sexual
and asexual reproduction).
David Siveter
- Early Palaeozoic ostracods (especially
myodocopes) and Cambrian (e.g., Chengjiang, China)
and Silurian (Herefordshire,
UK)
lagerstatten
- A paper describing a new Silurian myodocope from
the Herefordshire Lagerstatte, the second species with soft parts
preserved, was published in 2007.
- PhD students
- Carys Bennett—Early
Carboniferous ostracods
- Ma Xioaya—Fossils
of the Chengjiang biota
- Vincent Perrier
(University of Lyon, France) completed his PhD on aspects of
Silurian myodocopes from Europe
(co-advisor Jean Vannier) in the spring, 2007.
Ian J. Slipper
- The University
of Greenwich is
closing all geology teaching courses; we have one more year to teach out
the final undergraduates. My
employed work is now mostly centred on SEM and XRD support for MSc
pharmaceutical science students; not many ostracods found there.
- In my spare time, I am trying to finish off all
of the various projects that I have started—the infamous Stratigraphical
Atlas is lumbering towards a completion some 17 years after
inception. This last year has seen
me actively writing the British Marine Lower Cretaceous chapter.
- I have revisited some Cenomanian material and
hope to present data on chalk/marl rhythms at Frankfurt
this coming September.
- Other unfinished projects include a revision of
T.R. Jones’ material in the Natural History Museum; one spin-off from this
has been an investigation into the life and times of William Harris of
Charing who supplied Jones with material.
I also have a growing amount of data on Santonian Ostracoda from
southern England
which I hope to knock into shape in the future.
- I remain on The Micropalaeontological Society
committee as editor of the Newsletter of Micropalaeontology.
Ian P. Wilkinson
·
Activities
involving ostracods have had to take a back seat in favour of foraminifera
during the past year. However, the
British Geological Survey has a small project to produce web-based “monographs”
called Taxonomy Online. I am currently working on Late Jurassic
ostracods for this project, which I hope to complete this year.
·
I have
contributed to a paper on carnivory in ostracods for Predation in Organisms: A Distinct Phenomenon
·
I am preparing a
paper on the distribution of some early Cretaceous (Neocomian) marine Ostracoda
in eastern England/North Sea Basin.
UNITED STATES
Mark Angelos
- I continue work on a survey of modern nonmarine
ostracods from California. I hope to make specimens available to
interested parties next year.
- I am in the process of creating a web site
database of all the museum voucher material, including site data, habitat
data, and species photos of the nearly 100 species.
Anne C. Cohen
I have added some material to
my simple website, which has a tabular key to both subclasses of Ostracoda and
all families of Myodocopa, with recommendations of helpful publications and
other websites (added when I learn of them), and a list of my
publications. This free website takes a
few minutes to load and is best viewed with Firefox (free download) or Safari,
not Explorer. http://home.comcast/net/~fireflea2/OstracodeKeyindex.html
Thomas M. Cronin
I am actively researching
ostracodes and foraminifera, sometimes using shell chemistry, from:
·
Lacustrine and
marine deposits, including Tampa, Chesapeake, Florida, and Biscayne Bays,
eastern USA
·
The central Arctic Ocean (IODP Cruise 302, summer 2004)
·
Lake Champlain
post-glacial (Champlain Sea, glacial Lake Vermont,
Holocene Lake Champlain)
·
High resolution
deep-sea biodiversity/climate records from several North
Atlantic deep-sea cores, with post-doc Moriaki Yasuhara.
Published papers can be found
in various publications, please email me for PDF files.
One
interesting anecdote. It might be of interest that the Loxoconcha Mg/Ca paleotemperature curve
we reconstructed for Chesapeake Bay (Cronin et
al., 2003, Global and Planetary Change)
was incorporated by Michael Mann in his re-analysis of 20th century
warming, which germinated the famous “hockey” stick controversy. Mann integrated the Mg/Ca record into his
restudy of 1000-year paleotemperature history (2003, Geophysical Research Letters).
The U.S. National Academy then did an entire volume devoted to the hockey
stick curve (NAS, 2006). And Osborn and Briffa (2006, Science) used it as one of only 14
records meeting certain criteria to further analyze global warming. In a recent issue of Science, Burger (2007) statistically analyzed the 14 proxy records
and we “missed the cut”.
If you are interested in
reading what I would call a very derivative application of ostracode Mg/Ca, not
just for the ostracodes, but the importance of paleotemperature reconstructions
and global warming, these blog sites are entertaining. What you will find is the ostracode record
has been accused of being “cherry picked” out of available paleo-records. Take this for what it is worth, a complex
scientific issue, but it was kind of nice to be a cherry, until we were
rejected. We hope to produce an improved
Holocene record from Chesapeake
soon.
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=523
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1797
Louis S. Kornicker
Presently working
on Hawaiian and cave Myodocopa.
Dawn Peterson
- Research on the marine ostracodes of central Chile
and the Galapagos Archipelago; Kenneth Finger is working on the
foraminifers
- Ongoing study on the ecological stress on
Ostracoda and Foraminifera in a heavily polluted urban tidal lagoon in Oakland, California
- With the support of the Osservatorio Geologico
Coldigioco, I am studying a freshwater hypogean ostracode assemblage form
the Grotta di Frasassi in the Marche Apennines of central Italy
Frederick Swain
- I have been working on habitats of Ordovician
Ostracoda.
- A PDF file has been placed on the internet: Geological
History of Carbohydrates, at http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/SWAIN.html
and scroll down to Downloadable PDF files.
Don Van Nieuwenhuise
- Continuing SEM work on a catalogue of ostracode
“tops” for the Paleogene of the Gulf Coastal region as the UH SEM has been
down for a year
- Working on revision of the genus Hazelina
- Completing several papers on ostracodes of the
Paleocene Black Mingo Group
- Gulf and Atlantic
coastal plain ostracode zones using graphic correlation
- Stone City
outcrop with the Stone City core, Claibornian Eocene of Texas
- High resolution correlation and stratigraphy of
the Productive Series, offshore Azerbaijan with M.S. candidate
Eldar
Bagirov
- Other minor developing work includes:
- Eocene microfossils of Greenland
- Intermontane basins of Montana
- Productive Series outcrops, Azerbaijan
- Extending hurricane records to 5000 bp on Texas coast
- K/T boundary of Texas