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Ostracode Research Activities inBRAZIL
Correspondent: João Carlos Coimbra <coimbra@if.ufrgs.br>
Carmo, Dermeval Aparecido Do. Dermeval has successfully finished his PhD. His dissertation is about non-marine ostracodes and associated calcareous microfossils (taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions) from the Cretaceous Alagamar Formation, Potiguar basin, northeastern Brazil. Presently he is working at University of Brasília (UnB), in the capital of Brazil. He has four papers in press.
Coimbra, João Carlos. I have been very busy with administration functions at CECLIMAR-Marine, Limnological and Coastal Research Center, a little Center of the Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, located near the beach, around 130km from Porto Alegre (where I have my laboratory of ostracodes). However, I continue to work on Neocenozoic and Cretaceous ostracodes of Brazilian basins, with emphasis on the taxonomy and zoogeography of the Brazilian Equatorial ostracode fauna. My masters student, Cristianini Trescastro Bergue, has changed his thesis subject and is now working with Quaternary ostracodes from three deep sea drillings from Santos basin, southeastern Brazil.
De Lacerda Grillo, Jeanine. Jeanine is working on the studies related to the biostratigraphic refinement of the Rio da Serra local stage (correlated to Neocomian in age) from Reconcavo Basin, northeastern Brazil, with emphasis on Caruaçu Member, as part of the Caruaçu Project. She will also continue working on the biostratigraphy and paleogeography of the Early Cretaceous sequences of the Reconcavo, Camamu and Almada Basins.
Guzzo, Jarbas V. P. Jarvas is continuing to work on the biostratigraphy of the Brazilian Lower Cretaceous Rift Basins, mainly Campos Basin and Potiguar Basin. Current research activities include: (1) empirical observations on paleoecological significance of ostracode assemblages in cuttings and bore hole samples from diverse paleoenvironmental data; (2) base level change and organic carbon accumulation in lakes from oxygen and carbon stable isotopes; (3) an introductory course on Paleolimnology for petroleum geologists; (4) a comparison between Jurassic (?) limnic ostracods from Interior Congo Basin (Africa) and Reconcavo Basin (Brasil) (with Jean-Paul Colin, France).
Ramos, Maria Inês Feijó. Just finished her PhD on Taxonomy and zoogeography of Recent marine Ostracoda from South Brazilian Continental Shelf. She is currently working on Quaternary marine Ostracoda from Brazilian Continental Shelf with João Carlos Coimbra (UFRGS, Brazil) and Robin Whatley (University of Wales, Aberystwyth). She is also working on Quaternary marine Ostracoda from Uruguayan and Argentinian littoral and shelf and Recent marine Ostracoda from Antarctica deep and shallow water with R. Whatley, A. Moguilevsky, N. Toy, J. Chadwick and D.J. Coxill (University of Wales, Aberystwyth). Also in progress is a project on the chemical analysis of Quaternary marine and mixohaline ostracode carapace from Enseada do Flamengo, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil in collaboration with J. C. Coimbra (UFRGS, Brazil), J. Holmes (Kingston University), R. Whatley (University of Wales) and A. Coimbra Horbe (Universidade do Amazonas, Brazil). Maria is supervising a undergraduate geology student, Priscila Noronha Serra, "Projeto de Iniciação Científica" (PIBIC) and Trabalho de Conclusão (TFC), Project "Organization and Catalogation of "Ward’s Collection from Paleontology Laboratory of Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Departamento de Geociências, Universidade do Amazonas". This project includes the production of an atlas with the best specimens of the collection.
Souza, Carlos Jose. Carlos is working with lacustrine ostracodes of Lower Cretaceous age (Valanginian to Aptian - Rio da Serra to Alagoas local stages) from Pendencia and Alagamar formations, Potiguar Basin.
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