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Ostracode Research Activities inPEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Correspondent: Jin-Lan Peng <pengjl@public1.ptt.js.cn>
Cao, Mei-Zhen is working on (1) Ostracoda of Jehol fauna; (2) Middle Triassic Ostracoda from Qingyan; (3) Jurassic ostracoda from North China.
Chen, Chun-Rui. With Yao Dan and Ye De-Quan, I finished a paper entitled ‘Strata Evalution System of Ostracoda Fossil in Songliao Basin’ (written by Yao Dan, Chen Chun-Rui and Ye De-Quan), which will be published in 1999.
Feng, Xiao-jie is working on the stable isotope of Carbon and Oxygen of microfossil. It is interesting that the carbon and oxygen isotope variation is cooperated with extinctions and climate changes.
Gou, Yun-Xian continues the revision of Ostracoda of China, Part 2: Paleozoic, Mesozoic Cenozoic (marine) Ostracoda of China.
Guan, Sao-Zeng In 1998, I’ve been working on the project "The rise and fall, evolution and ecology and environment of Genus Cypridea (Ostracoda)" aided financially by the fund of the National Natural Science (No:49572074), it is the last year for this study and I finally finished it. In this year, I investigated the sections of the boundary of Cretaceous and Tertiary in Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong of China, and analyzed and identified some ostracoda and the other kind of fossils. During September-October, I was invited by my colleagues to visit Russia, discussed a study plan and surveyed many sections of Cambrian to Pliocene along the bank of Black Sea and West Coucasus, as well as some modern volcanoes (salse). From 1999 to 2001, I will be engaged in the project ‘Late Tertiary strata, environment and its resources between the southern foot of South Tianshan and the northern foot of West Kunlun’ supported by the fund of the National Natural Science of China.
Hou, You-Tang continues the revision of Ostracoda of China, Part 2: Paleozoic, Mesozoic Cenozoic (marine) Ostracdoda of China.
Li, Dong-ming is focusing on the modern stratigraphy research in oil field.
Li, Yuan-Fang. I was engaged in work on modern ostracoda in transitional zone between land and sea at the northeast Arctic Alaska. In 1999 I’m working on Recent and Quaternary ostracoda from the Qingha –Xizang Plateau, China and Barrow area, the northeast Alaskan Arctic.
Pang, Qi-Qing continues his work on the non-marine Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda of Northern China.
Peng, Jin-Lan. I finished my Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘Ostracoda and Environmental Analysis during the past 150,000 years in the Heqing Basin, Yunnan of China’ in August. And I continue to study Quaternary Ostracoda and environmental changes.
Sun, Zhen-Cheng I am working within a project together with Yang Fan and others on: (1) ostracoda ecology in Qaidam Basin of northwestern China; (2) the main factors control the present and thriving of ostracoda in East China; (3) stable isotope of Carbon and Oxygen of ostracoda in Cenozoic lacustrine deposition in Qaidam Basin; (4) ostracoda of lake Bosten in Xinjiang, northwestern China.
Wang, Qiang I continue to study Quaternary Ostracoda and environmental changes.
Wang, Shang-Qi continues work on Sinoleperditiini (Leperditiidae) from the Devonian of South China and its adjacent areas, including phylogeny, evolutionary trends, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, paleogeographical distribution of Sinoleperditiini. Manuscripts on Myodocopes (Ostracoda) from the Llandovery of China, with co-worker Dr. D. J. Siveter, and on Palaeobiology of leperditiids (Ostracoda), with co-worker Dr. Jean Vannier, has been completed.
Wei, Min. I take part in the project on "Devonian Biotic Community and its Environmental Significance from Southwestern Margin of Yangtze Platform".
Yang, Fan is working within a project together with Sun Zhen-Cheng on ostracoda ecology in Qaidam Basin, NW China.
Yao, Dan. I finished a paper entitled ‘Strata Evaluation System of Ostracoda Fossil in Songliao Basin’ (written by Yao Dan, Chen Chun-Rui and Ye De-Quan), which will be published in 1999.
Ye, De-Quan. I’m preparing the report ‘The distribution and contrast of Jurassic in northern China’ which will be finished in 1999. With Zhang Yin et al., I plan to write a book named ‘Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous Ostracoda Fossils in the Songliao Basin’ in 1999. And a paper entitled ‘Strata Evaluation System of Ostracoda Fossil in Songliao Basin’ (written by Yao Dan, Chen Chun-Rui and Ye De-Quan) is in press.
Yin, Yu finished his study in the Institute of Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences and obtained his Ph.D. of the Vienna University in January 1998. The title of his thesis is "Contribution to the morphology and ecology of Ostracoda Limnoctheridae and Candonidae – Comparative studies between Austrian and Chinese Crustacea". He is mainly working on his projects, "Clonal ecology of Limnocythere and its application to reconstruction of paleoenvironment" and "polymorphism and adaptation ecology of Limnocythere". He also participated in a project, "Recent sedimentation of lakes in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau". He sampled 35 lakes (2000-5000 m.a.s.l.) with different salinity in Tibet. His work is focused on comparative morphology and life history adaptation of non-marine ostracods.
Zhang, Yin With Ye De-Quan et al., I plan to write a book named ‘Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous Ostracoda Fossils in the Songliao Basin’ in 1999.
Zhao, Quan-Hong is continuously working on: (1) Modern and Quaternary Ostracoda of China seas, (2) Cenozoic Ostracoda of W. Pacific DSDP cores, (3) Shell chemistry of Paleogene ostracods from oil-bearing basins of East China and its implication in paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
Zhou, Bao-Cun In 1998 my main work on Ostracoda was the development of an ostracod database for the South China Sea. This work was done in collaboration with a friend of mine in a software company in Tokyo. The database is recorded on a CD and can be opened on any Pentium-series computer that is installed with Windows-95 or -NT. One can use it to watch the SEM photos of a given ostracod species from SCS, to draw the map of its geographical distribution, and to get the information of its distribution range.
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