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Ostracode Research Activities inSPAIN
Correspondent: Julio Rodriquez-Lazaro <gpprolaj@lg.ehu.es>
Baltanasis, Angel. Angel is currently dealing with many results from the activity developed in the EU-project on 'The Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive Modes in Non-marine ostracods'. He is mainly involved in morphometric analysis of non-marine ostracods and a small project on morphometry of Mixtacandona species and its evolutionary significance (together with Dan Danielopol). Another research topic is based on reproductive strategies of ostracods living in temporary habitats. A simulation analysis of bet-hedging strategies in ostracods is done together with Laura Arqueros. Angel has the following students: Paloma Alcorlo, Laura Arqueros, Marina Otero.
Civis-Llovera Jorge. Jorge is working with Neogene to Quaternary continental and transitional ostracods from the Duero and Guadalquivir Basins (W and SW Spain). Ostracod assemblages and isotopic analyses of carapaces are used to biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic interpretations of these basins. Jorge has the following student: Luis de Luque-Ripoll, who is starting with a thesis that partially deals with Pleistocene continental and littoral ostracods from the Betic Ranges (S Spain), under the supervision of J.L. Goy and Jorge Civis-Llovera (University of Salamanca).
Gabas i Gasa, Montse. Montse is preparing her Ph Thesis on Quaternary from the Baza Basin (S Spain). Under supervision of Dr. Pere Anadon (Barcelona), she is working with geochemistry of continental ostracods from the Baza Basin.
Gonzalez Porta, Jordi. Jordi is working in two projects related to palaeolimnology of ostracods: 1) Ostracods from the Albufera des Grau (Menorca, Balearic Islands), with the study of a 10 m core of Holocene sediments, 2) with several cores from the recent, within an European project about eutrophization in European lakes.
Gonzalez-Regalado, Mary Luz and Ruiz-Muņoz, Francisco. Mary Luz and Francisco are involved in the following topics: (1) Ostracod distribution of the estuarine Holocene from the SW Spain. (2) Recent ostracods of the outer-shelf and talus from the Gulf of Cadiz, SW Spain. (3) Ostracods as palaeoenvironmental indicators: pollution, storms, earthquakes etc. (4) Fresh-water ostracods of Doņana National Park (SW Spain).
Gozalo, Rodolfo. Rodolfo is involved in the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Devonian marine ostracods from Spain, in collaboration with Luis Sanchez de Posada and Miguel Pardo Alonso. He is also working with the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Cambrian trilobites and ostracods, in collaboration with Eladio Liņán and Ingelore Hinz-Schalreuter.
Mezquita-Juanes, Francesc. Francesc successfully obtained the doctoral degree in December-1998 with the Ph.D. entitled "Ecology of ostracods from springs, rivers and lakes on the eastern Iberian Peninsula". Funding to continue working on ostracods are not available at the moment, but he applied for a post-doctoral fellowship to work at a British laboratory for one or two years. In the meantime he is collaborating with colleagues from the Department of Ecology of the Univ. of Valencia (J. R. Roca, J. Rueda, R. Oltra, M.R. Miracle, A. Sanz, T. Camacho, D. Boronat), the Univ. of Barcelona (J.L.Pretus, J. Gonzalez), the Institut of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, Barcelona (R. Julia), and the Univ. Cath. Louvain (G. Wansard). Studies in progress are related to ostracod community ecology from Spanish lakes; the biogeography and community ecology of ostracods in water bodies of the Balearic Islands; the population ecology of Cyclocypris ovum in Lake La Cruz and Cyprideis torosa in the Salines of Santa Pola; Holocene ostracods as palaeoecological indicators in some European lakes; seasonal changes in populations and trace elements of ostracods in a freshwater spring.
Otero, Marina. Marina is finishing her Master Thesis on the life history of Eucypris virens.
Roca-Rosell, Josep. Josep is continuing research on (1) Late Holocene ostracods from limnocrene karstic systems, together with Guy Wansard (University of Louvain); (2) influence of water temperature and water chemistry on developing and trace element incorporation of several species of the genus Herpetocypris, in collaboration also with Guy Wansard and Francesc Mezquita (University of Valencia).
Rodriguez-Lazaro, Julio. Julio is working with the following topics: (1) Cenomanian ostracods and isotopic signals in the Leioa section (Basque Basin). (2) Taxonomy and palaeoecology of Quaternary ostracods from the Little Bahama Bank. The genus Krithe and its potential in palaeoceanography (both with Tom Cronin, USGS, Reston, USA, and others). (3) Pliocene lacustrine ostracods from Villarroya (Spain), with Pere Anadon, CSIC Barcelona, and other colleagues. Isotopic and trace elements analysis of the ostracods for (palaeo)hydrological characterization. (4) Quaternary ostracods from the Gernika Estuary (Bay of Biscay), with Ana Pascual and Fernando Caballero (University of the Basque Country). (5) Turonian ostracods from the Basco-Cantabrian and Anglo-Paris basins: comparative study (with Ian Slipper, David Horne, Andrew Gale; Greenwich Univ.). Future work: (1) The genus Krithe from the Bay of Biscay (with Pierre Carbonel and other colleagues from Univ. of Bordeaux). Julio has the following students: Maite Martin is preparing a thesis on Neogene to Recent lacustrine ostracods from the Ebro Basin (N Spain), testing the potential for isotopic analysis of ostracod valves to fine palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in this basin. Fernando Caballero has started a thesis on the Holocene of the Gernika Estuary (Bay of Biscay), dealing with microfaunas (ostracods, forams) and high resolution stratigraphy to test palaeoenvironmental evolution and anthropic effect in this estuary.
Sanchez de Posada, Luis. Luis is involved in the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Devonian marine ostracods from Spain, in collaboration with Rodolfo Gozalo. He is alsoworking on Carboniferous ostracods from Spain, a Global project on Paleozoic basins; taxonomic studies on Kirbyocopina and Hollinomorpha from the Carboniferous of Leon (NW Spain) and Cambrian ostracods from the Ossa Morena.
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