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 (