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Contents 1 Foram-Meetings 1.1 2010 1.2 2009 1.3 2008 1.4 2007 1.5 2006 1.6 2005 2 JOURNALS, SERIES AND NEWSLETTERS FOCUSED ON FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 3 FOUNDATIONS AND SOCIETIES SUPPORTING FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 4 GLOSSARIES 5 INTRODUCTION TO FORAMINIFERA 6 FORAMINIFERA: HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIONS 7 MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES 7.1 Sampling and preparation techniques 7.2 Presentation and documentation techniques 7.3 Identification 8 BIOLOGY of FORAMINIFERA 9 FORAMINIFERA AS PROXIES 9.1 Foraminifera as pollution proxies 10 VIRTUAL COLLECTIONS OF FORAMINIFERA 11 REFERENCES ON THE FORAMINIFERIDA 12 DIRECTORIES OF FORAMINIFEROLOGISTS 13 MULTIMEDIAL RESOURCES 14 SOFTWARE 15 Links on EVOLUTION

Foram-Meetings

2010

• FORAMS-2010 in Bonn, GERMANY, 2010; contact person: Martin R. Langer - e-mail: <martin.langer@uni-bonn.de>

2009

• MIKRO-2009 - 7th Micropalaeontological Workshop, May or June, 2007, organized by the INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY

Polish Academy of Sciences and The Grzybowski Foundation, contact person: Danuta Peryt - e-mail: <d.peryt(at)twarda.pan.pl>

• Microfossils II - March 15 - 18, 2009, University of Houston, Houston, Texas - Geologic Problem Solving with

Microfossils II run by the North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of SEPM.

2008

• Eighth IWAF - International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera: September 7-13, 2008, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, contact person: Sorin Filipescu, Department of Geology, Babes-Bolyai University

• The Foraminifera and Nannofossil Groups joint Spring Meeting 2008, The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) - Bioindicators of past and present environments: May 15-17 2008; Institute of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, GERMANY - ABSTRACTS - POSTER

2007

• Fifth International Congress of the International Society of Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology and Meiobenthology (ISEMMM), August 24 - September 1, 2007, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, GERMANY - CANCELLED

• MIKRO-2007 - 6th Micropalaeontological Workshop, June 18–20, 2007, organized by the Polish Geological Institute, Marine Geology Branch and The Grzybowski Foundation, Gdańsk, POLAND; contact person: Jarmila Krzymińska - e-mail: <jkrz@pgi.gov.pl> or <Jarmila.Krzyminska@pgi.gov.pl>
• The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) The Foraminifera and Nannofossil Groups joint Spring Meeting 2007: Thursday 7th - Friday 8th June, 2007, Université d'Angers, France, Organizing Committee at Angers: Christophe Fontanier, Emmanuelle Geslin, and Frans Jorissen.

• General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) which will be held in Vienna on 15-20 April, 2007: BG5.05 Environmental Micropaleontology: Microfossils as Proxies of Recent and Past Environmental Changes - Convener: Frans Jorissen, Co-Convener: Silvia Spezzaferri.

• Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils I - a 3-day conference run by NAMS, March 6-11, 2005, Rice University, Houston, Texas,USA - Abstracts Volume (PDF)

• 4th International Short course on Applied Micropaleontology to be held at the Institute of Paleontology University at Bonn on March 28 - 31, 2007

2006

• The Foraminifera and Nannofossil Groups joint Spring Meeting 2006, The Micropalaeontological Society, 25th - 26th May, 2006, University of Liverpool, UK http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tms/foramnanno2006.htm - ABSTRACTS

• FORAMS 2006 in Natal, BRAZIL, September 10 - 15, 2006: http://forams2006.micropress.org/

• The thirteenth meeting of the East Coast Section of the International Society of Protistologists - June 6-8, 2006 at Russell Sage College, in Troy, New York.

2005

• Workshop on Unicellular Symbionts, Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, 12.-13. December 2005 (with ABSTRACTS)

• The Micropalaeontological Society's Foraminifera and Nannofossil Groups Joint Spring Meeting. The National Oceanography Centre Southampton, 15th-17th June 2005. ABSTRACTS

• 5th Micropalaeontological Workshop MIKRO-2005, Szymbark, POLAND, June 8-10, 2005 - see PUBLICATIONS from MIKRO-2005

JOURNALS, SERIES AND NEWSLETTERS FOCUSED ON FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH

• Cahiers de Micropaléontologie (France)

• Journal of Foraminiferal Research as the official publication of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/jfr/index.html

• Journal of Micropalaentology - The International Journal of The Micropalaeontological Society http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tms/journal.htm

• Marine Micropaleontology

• Micropaleontology, © The Micropaleontology Press

• Palaeontologia Electronica The world's first internationally-sponsored paleontological journal with acces to all published papers [http://www.palaeo-electronica.org/

• Revue de Paléobiologie Edition en ligne - Online edition http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/paleo/ Full text PDFs since 2005

• Newsletter of Micropalaeontology, The Micropalaeontological Society

• Revista Española de Micropaleontologia

• Revue de Micropaléontologie (France)

• Studia Geologica Polonica The series of monographs including the micropalaeontologic research: http://www.ing.pan.pl/stud4www/his_oth.html and http://www.ing.pan.pl/stud4www/124tom.html

• Utrecht Micropalaeontological Bulletin (The Netherlands)

• Voprosi Micropalaeontologia (Russia)

• The Newsletter of Micropalaeontology

• and still some more to be added ...

FOUNDATIONS AND SOCIETIES SUPPORTING FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH

• Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/

• The Grzybowski Foundation http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/Grzybowski/gf.html

• Fondation Paul Broennimann http://www.broennimann.com/fondation/

• The Micropalaeontological Society: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tms/foram.htm

• The International Society of Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology and Meiobenthology

• The Paleontological Society http://www.paleosoc.org/

• NAMS - North American Micropaleontology Section, SEPM

• ISOP - International Society of Protistologists

GLOSSARIES

• Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research by Lukas Hottinger (2006)

• A glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research by Lukas Hottinger and Verena Scheuring (1997)

• Micro*scope Glossary

• Index of morphology terms by Dan Georgescu (2004)

• Glossary of scientific terms of the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) (a general oceanologic glossary).

• GSC Glossary

INTRODUCTION TO FORAMINIFERA

• What Are Microfossils?

• The University of California Museum of Paleontology Introduction to the Foraminifera [1]

• Have you ever wondered about some of the smallest creatues living in the oceans past and present? What exactly does a micropaleontologist do? What is the best way to prepare for a career in micropaleontology? ... B. Lidz gives some hints: http://www.sciencecareersweb.net/PSU2DE/PSU2DEProfiles/MarineMicropaleo.htm

• University College London's micropaleontology site overview of foraminifera, including many high-quality SEMs.

• General overview of foraminifera on the GNS site http://www.gns.cri.nz/what/earthhist/fossils/forams.html

• Martin Langer on foraminifera: http://www.paleontology.uni-bonn.de/langer/FORAMINI.HTM
  • What are Foraminifera?
  • How old are Foraminifera?
  • Global Ocean Carbonat Production of Foraminifera

• URBINO SUMMER SCHOOL IN PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, 2005, DEEP-SEA BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA by Ellen Thomas http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/BFhandout.htm

• Benthic Foraminifers by U.S. Geological Survey http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/forams_b.shtml

• SKELETAL GRAINS: Foraminifera USC Sequence Stratigraphy Web

• Other foram-related links http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/forams/forams_related_link.htm

• The life and death of planktonic foraminifera- Copyright © NIWA Science 2006 - PDF

• Micropalaeontological links http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/links.html

• Foraminiferans in Reefkeeping

• Foraminifera in Classic Encyclopedia based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

FORAMINIFERA: HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIONS

• A short story of foraminifera - ifremer or ifremer

MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES

Sampling and preparation techniques

• PREPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR USE OF FORAMINIFERA IN THE CLASSROOM http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Snyder&Huber.html by SCOTT W. SNYDER & BRIAN T. HUBER

• Micropalaeontological sampling, processing and counting by Murray, J. & Rohling, E.J. et al. - PDF

• The Collection and Mounting of Foraminifera by Brian Darnton http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/bdforam3.html

• Micropaleontological slides:
  • CELKA - http://www.microslides.eu/microslides Celka produces four kinds of cardboard micro-slides for the storage of foraminifers and other microfossils.

Presentation and documentation techniques

• QUICKTIME VR: A POWERFUL NEW ILLUSTRATIVE TOOL FOR MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH by Patrick D. Lyons and Laurence Head, Palaeontologica Electronica, 1998, vol. 1, Issue 2. Have a look at the results and ROTATE the QuickTime VR Object of Elphidium crispum.

• Chromo-stereoscopy as a tool in micropalaeontological investigations: echinoderms as a case study by Andrzej Boczarowski, Studia Geologica Polonica, 124: 21-36. Why not to use it for foraminifera?

• Mikrofossilien in der "dritten Dimension" – neue Wege in der Paläontologie by Harald Andruleit (BGR, Hannover)

Identification

• CLUES TO RECOGNIZING MICROFOSSILS IN SMEAR SLIDES

BIOLOGY of FORAMINIFERA

• The star*sand project, part of the micro*scope system of websites, is a cooperative database of information about foraminifera.

• The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History The largest type collection of foraminifera in the world.

• Foraminifera in BowserLab

• Reticulopodia in action: Gliding movement and phagocytosis in a foraminifer (Ammonia beccarii)

• MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY & OCEANOGRAPHY:
  • Molecular Phylogeny of Amoeboid Protists by Jan Pawlowski http://www.unige.ch/sciences/biologie/biani/msg/Amoeboids/Home.html
  • FORAMS DNA WEBPAGE by Jan Pawlowski http://www.unige.ch/sciences/biologie/biani/msg/people/Jan/forams.htm
  • MOLECULAR OCEANOGRAPHY by Colomban de Vargas: http://marine.rutgers.edu/dmcs/ms309/
  • EVOLUTION VON EINZELLERN ZU MULTIZELLULÄREN ORGANISMEN PALÄONTOLOGISCHE UND MOLEKULARBIOLOGISCHE ASPEKTE by Maria Holzmann (PDF-presentation in German)

FORAMINIFERA AS PROXIES

• Foraminifers as bioindicators http://www.marine.usf.edu/reefslab/foramcd/html_files/titlepage.htm

• Fabulous Foraminifera: examining past climates using microscopic marine organisms by Barbara Manighetti & Lisa Northcote in Water & Atmosphere, Vol. 8(3), © NIWA 2000

• Recent British Intertidal Foraminifera http://http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/ian.boomer/gallery/modern-IT-foraminifera.htm

• Benthic Foraminifers by U.S. Geological Survey http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/forams_b.shtml

• MicroWorld - Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/11.html

• Reconstructing Palaeotemperature from Planktonic Foraminifera Counts - MARGO

• PALEOBATHYMETRIC MODELLING & FORAMINIFERAL MORPHOTYPES

Foraminifera as pollution proxies

• Benthic foraminifera distribution in high polluted sediments from Niterói Harbor (Guanabara Bay), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Vilela et al. (2004)

• Environmental quality and preservation - Chemical pollutants and toxic effects on benthic organisms, Biscayne Bay: A pilot study preceding Florida Everglades restoration. USGS Open-File Report, 2002 - PDF

VIRTUAL COLLECTIONS OF FORAMINIFERA

• Chronos Portal - Resources:
  • Mesozoic Planktonic Foraminifera Taxonomic Dictionary, Huber, B.T., Coordinator, 2006
  • Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera - An HTML document that provides online access to text, figures and images that were published in the Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera (R.K. Olsson, C. Hemleben, W.A. Berggren, B.T. Huber, editors, 1999, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, No. 85).
  • Foraminifera Guide by Dr. Marius Dan Georgescu. An HTML-based illustrated guide to the taxonomy, descriptive morphology, and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera.

• Foraminiferal Atlas of the Bay of Biscay by Duchemin, G., Jorissen, F.J., et al.

• Visual Database of Planktonic foraminifera, Global Oceanographic Data Center, JAMSTEC

• e-Foram Stock - a new experimental website for the delivery of e-Specimen over computer networks, and is the new specimen reference system, making use of three-dimensional virtual models developed by Tohoku University Museum.

• Dynamic List of Neogene Benthic Foraminifera Species by Laurel S. Collins: http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu/database/bforam/foram_speclist.htm

• Biostrat Gallery of Australian Foraminifera by D. Haig & R. Howe, The University of Western Australia: http://biostrat.segs.uwa.edu.au/content/catalogues/index.htm
  • Cenozoic Wing
  • Mesozoic Wing

• DSDP/ODP Micropaleontological Reference Center Collection

• Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, PROTOCTISTA foraminiferans, amoeba, algae, diatoms

• GALLERY of Recent Foraminifera collected in Kongsfjorden, Isfjorden and Adventfjorden during the cruise of r/v « Oceania » between 22 July and 2 August 2004 (by Jan Pawlowski)

• STAR*SAND: The micro*scope foraminifera site - "This collection encompasses both modern and fossil foraminifera (and other Granuloreticulosea)."

• Arctic foraminifera by the Byrd Polar Research Center: ca 50 SEM images for 18 common Arctic species

• PICTURE GALLERY OF FORAMINIFERA by Maria Holzmann (PDF-file)

• Lausanne Foraminifera Databases - see The Lausanne foraminifera databases: Carribbean larger foraminifera- An online database by Claudia BAUMGARTNER-MORA, Robin Liechti & Pascal Tschudin

REFERENCES ON THE FORAMINIFERIDA

• FORAMREFS compiled by Michael A. Kaminski

DIRECTORIES OF FORAMINIFEROLOGISTS

• Selective directory of foraminiferologists: http://www.paleontology.uni-bonn.de/langer/FORAMW.HTM

MULTIMEDIAL RESOURCES

• Online Mediatheque Prototype of IWF Knowledge and Media includes a series of clips focused on the biology of foraminifera - Type "foraminifera" into Quick Search Filter to see 7 previews of the movies by Rudolf Röttger (Kiel) Christoph Hemleben (Tübingen), and Michael Spindler (Tübingen) in German or English versions. Other movies are also available.
• PREVIEW: Introduction to Protists, The Biology of Protists etc.

SOFTWARE

• PAST - PAlaeontological STatistics - [http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/
• The R Project for Statistical Computing - http://www.r-project.org/
• Palaeo Software from Bugware
• Time Scale Creator from The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) See the new site of the Time Scale Creator
• Tools for Biostratigraphic Zonation and Correlation: RASC & CASC

Links on EVOLUTION

• Darwin Exhibition http://amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/?src=picweek

• The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution http://darwinlibrary.amnh.org/

• Introduction to Evolutionary Biology by Chris Colby

• Issues in Evolution

• Species and Genus Level Evolution in the Fossil Record with an example of "The Evolution of Orbulina"

• EvoWiki