Paleonet: The Micropalaeontological Society's Foraminifera and Nannofossil Spring Meeting 2009

[Tom Dunkley Jones (staff)]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to The Micropalaeontological  
Society forthcoming Foraminifera and Nannofossil Groups' Spring  
Meeting 2009:
Integrated Studies of evolution, taxonomy, ecology and geochemistry

Thursday 4th & Friday 5th June, 2009
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

The growing tradition of lively and exciting joint Foraminifera and  
Nannofossil Groups' meetings will continue this year with a meeting  
hosted by ETH Zürich, one of the major centres of  
micropalaeontological research. The 2009 meeting will focus on  
"Integrated Studies" that combine knowledge from across ecological,  
taxonomic, evolutionary, geochemical and stratigraphic analyses to  
understand an organism or its environment in the past, present or  
future. Micropalaeontology is being enhanced by the understanding of  
geochemical palaeoproxies and organisms ecology, and palaeontologists  
are increasingly using a range of geochemical and biotic tools to  
interpret palaeoenvironments. This integration of approaches is  
facilitating a far better understanding of microorgansims' response to  
changing environmental conditions and their role in ecosystem  
functioning today, in the geological record and into the future. We  
encourage contributions that demonstrate the advantages of integrated  
studies as applied to foraminifera and coccolithophores/nannofossils.  
Whilst we strongly encourage people to consider this broad theme in  
their submissions, this is an open meeting and we will be pleased to  
accept presentations covering other aspects of calcareous nannofossil  
and foraminiferal research.

The meeting will be followed by an excursion to Einsiedeln on  
Saturday, 6th June, into the Einsiedler Schuppenzone, including nice  
Molasse, Flysch and lots of Nummulites. The plan is to include a visit  
to the monastery in Einsiedeln (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsiedeln,_Switzerland 
).
This is a less formal meeting with plenty of constructive discussion  
that should be of especially interest for PhD Students and PostDocs to  
present the status of their research to an international audience of  
both peers and senior researchers. Both oral presentations and posters  
are welcome. The meeting will include extended poster sessions.  
Additional meeting information (abstract submission, deadlines, costs,  
schedule etc.) will be available soon on The Micropalaeontological  
Society's Internet pages (http://www.tmsoc.org).

Anyone wishing to contribute a presentation or a poster is kindly  
asked to send an expression of interest and a provisional title of the  
presentation to Karl-Heinz Baumann by the end of February 2009 (baumann at uni-bremen.de 
; Message subject: "TMS-FG&NG PRESENTATION"). Also please indicate  
whether you are planning to participate in the field excursion.

With best regards,

Kate Darling, Kalle Baumann, Robert Speijer, and Tom Dunkley Jones
(Chairs & Secretaries, TMS Foram. Group, TMS Nanno. Group)

Hans R. Thierstein, Ursi Brubacher, et al.
(organising committee in Zürich)


Tom Dunkley Jones
Research Associate (Paleoclimate)
Department of Geography
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT

Tel +44 (0)20 7679 0510
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