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Registered Charity No. 284013ISSN 0140-6730

January 2003Number 67

Edited by Jennifer Pike

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Notes from theChair

Society News

Specialist GroupNews

MicropalaeontologyNews

Photo Gallery

ForthcomingMeetings

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Notes from theChairHaydon Bailey<hwb20@aol.com>

It doesn’t seem 12 months since I took over therole as chairman of the Society, nevertheless inthis time we’ve seen the Society name changefinalised, we’ve moved to update the Societylogo, we’ve changed to the Geological SocietyPublishing House for the publication of theSociety special publications and we’ve hostedthe Joint Meeting with NAMS and the AASP.On this last point my congratulations andsincere thanks go to the organising committeewho did such an excellent job makingeverything run so smoothly. With almost twohundred delegates the event was definitesuccess and we are especially grateful to AlanLord and his team of technical helpers fromUCL who provided every assistance to speakersand those with poster demonstrations. I went along on the post-conference field trip tothe Isle of Wight which was graced by acombination of clear blue skies and good tidalconditions, making the visit to the eastern andsouthern corners of the island both practical andvery enjoyable (see notes elsewhere in thisNewsletter). My thanks to all three leaders, IainPrince, Ian Jarvis and Bruce Tocher who wereexemplary hosts to all our visitors. So what for the next year? On the mundaneside I’ve initiated a review of the SocietyConstitution rules, as these are somewhat out ofdate having remained essentially unaltered forthe last thirty years. I’m in contact with othersimilar organisations (Pal. Ass, INA) comparingnotes and would also welcome suggestionsfrom any members who wish to makecontributions towards the updating of thecurrent rules. Take some time to have a readthrough and please contact me with any ideas.We are already seeing quite a move to increasecollaboration between specialist groups when itcomes to meetings and field trips and this willbe encouraged, as will joint meetings with

similarly-minded groups outside the TMSstructure. There are also definite moves towardsspecialist group meetings being held inEuropean locations over the next year or so,which is a positive move reflecting our moreinternational status.It is interesting to note that one of MartinFarley’s conclusions at the close of hisexcellent presentation at the SeptemberConference social evening was that we cannotexpect micropalaeontology to have a long-termfuture if we only attend micropalaeontologymeetings. It is in our own interest, bothpersonal and as a representative of thediscipline, that we take micropalaeontology intoother spheres, making sure we attend andhopefully make presentations at more generalgeological meetings and even gatherings ofgeophysicists. We have an essential role to playin the definition of stratigraphic boundaries, inthe development of economic resources and inthe teaching of both existing and futuregeologists, to name but few. To take this discussion one step further, thepractical application of micropalaeontology inmore ‘unconventional’ areas has alwaysfascinated me, particularly in engineering andforensic science. Perhaps it is in fields such asthese where we should get ourselves even moreinvolved in order to introduce the discipline toa wider audience. Most of the time specialistsin these areas are unlikely to be aware of whatwe can do and often what we regard as being arelatively easy task. Maybe it’s time to get out abit more and talk to the uninitiated. At this point I shall follow the advice of thebroadcaster Cliff Michelmore who counseledafter dinner speakers that “if you haven’t struckoil after five minutes, stop boring and sitdown.” I think my five minutes is up.

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The cover picture for this Newsletter wasprovided by Susanne Feist-Burkhardt, NaturalHistory Museum. Scale bar in lower right corner is 20 microns

The palynomorph is Wanaea indotata.

Copy deadline for nextNewsletter is 1st May 2003.

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TMS FOUNDATION

The Micropalaeontological Society Foundation is a sponsorship scheme to helpsupport the Journal of Micropalaeontology. The Foundation is made up ofmembers, non-members and institutions who wish to support the science of

micropalaeontology via the production of the Journal. Any level of subscription iswelcome. A minimum annual donation of £25 is suggested; donors of £25 or more

will be acknowledged in the Journaland the Newsletter.

Subscription is welcome at any time. Please send donations to James B. Riding,Treasurer, The Micropalaeontological Society, British Geological Survey, Keyworth,

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG12 5GG, UK. Please make cheques/moneyorders/bankers drafts payable to “The Micropalaeontological Society

Foundation”. If you wish to pay by Visa or Mastercard, please include amount youwish to donate, the card number, expiry date and cardholders address. If you wish

to pay by Switch, please include the amount you wish to donate, the SwitchNumber, card issue number, expiry date and cardholders address.

BMS Foundation Donors of £25 or over (December 2002)

R A K Attewell J B Riding

B D Bade L Trevisan

D W Haig H Uffendorfe

G V Laursen D Wall

H J Oertli I P Wilkinson

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Society News

Secretary’s ReportJames Powell<ajp@dinosystems.co.uk>

Introduction2001/2002 has been my fifth year as TMSSecretary. My activity during the past 12months has been focused on coordinatingdesign of a new letterhead and logo for theSociety, arranging the 2002 AGM,administering the Grants-in-Aid schemeand the Charles Downie Award,maintaining the membership database,compiling the Directory of Members andco-convening a joint meeting of AASP,TMS and NAMS at University CollegeLondon, September 2002.

Letterhead and LogoThe Society’s letterhead and logo are inthe process of being redesigned in linewith the change of name. A professionaldesigner has been consulted and it is hopedthat the new ‘house style’ will be in placeby the 2003 AGM and in time for Volume23 (Part 1) of Journal ofMicropalaeontologyand Number 69 ofNewsletter of Micropalaeontology.

2002 AGMA report on the 2002 AGM appearselsewhere in the newsletter.

Grants-in-AidTMS Grants-in-Aid are awarded annuallyto help student members of the Society intheir fieldwork, conference attendance, orany other specific activity related to theirresearch which has not been budgeted for.Grants-in-Aid cannot be awarded formiscellaneous expenditure (e.g. slides,sample bags, sample preparation,

laboratory costs, SEM photography orproducing, photocopying, printing andbinding of theses), nor can they beawarded retrospectively. A maximum of £200 can be awarded toeach successful applicant, and a total of£600 is available annually. Awardees arealso expected to write a short report for theNewsletter once their grant has been used.Applications forms may be obtained fromthe Secretary <ajp@dinosystems.co.uk>.

Charles Downie AwardThe Charles Downie Award is an annualaward made to the member of TMS who,in the opinion of the Committee, haspublished the most significant paper, inany journal, based upon his or herpostgraduate research. Nominations for thebest paper published in 2002 should besubmitted either to the appropriatespecialist group or the Secretary<ajp@dinosystems.co.uk> by 31st March2003. Nominated papers can be eithersingle authorship or multiple authorship(as long as the nominee is the seniorauthor).

Membership DatabaseThe Society’s updated database comprises447 (447) individual members, of which235 (241) are resident in the UK, 106(105) in Europe, and 106 (101) in the Restof the World (last year’s figures inbrackets). Unfortunately, 51 members havestill not renewed their membership for2001/2002, and so may not be entitled toNewsletter No. 67 and Part 2 of Volume 21of the Journal.

Missing MembersThe following three members haveapparently changed address recently.Please let the Secretary<ajp@dinosystems.co.uk> if you knowtheir currentaddresses:G.K. GillmoreA.D.J. TaylorR.I. Whatley

Directory of MembersA new edition of The Directory ofMembers was compiled complete withEmail addresses, telephone and faxnumbers, as well as specialist groupaffiliations. When it is issued, membersshould check for any inaccuracies andnotify the Secretary accordingly. It is alsothe intention of the Committee for the

Directory of Members to be madeavailable electronically. Individualmembers who do not wish their details tobe made public in this fashion shouldcontact the Secretary.

AASP-BMS-NAMS Meeting 2002A very successful joint meeting of theAmerican Association of StratigraphicPalynologists (ASP), TheMicropalaeontological Society (TMS) andthe North American MicropaleontologySection (NAMS) of SEPM took place atUniversity College London between 11th

and 13th September 2002. Over twohundred delegates registered for themeeting from twenty-five differentcountries (Argentina, Austria, Australia,Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia,Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland,

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Grants-in-Aid 2002

TMS Grants-in-Aid are awarded annually to help student members ofthe Society in their fieldwork, conference attendance, or any other

specific activity related to their research which has not been budgetedfor. Grants-in-Aid cannot be awarded for miscellaneous expenditure(e.g. slides, sample bags, sample preparation, laboratory costs, SEMphotography or producing, photocopying, printing and binding of

theses), nor can they be awarded retrospectively.

A maximum of £200 can be awarded to each successful applicant, and atotal of £600 is available annually. Awardees are also expected to write a

short report for the Newsletter once their grant has been used.

Applications forms may be obtained from the Secretary<ajp@dinosystems.co.uk>.

Deadline for applications: 31st March 2003

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Directory of Members 2003

TMS are intending to produce a new Directory of Membersin the Summer 2003, which will bedistributed to Members in the usual way. We wish to ensure that it is as accurate as possible. If

you think any of the details held by TMS regarding your membership need updating, please couldyou fill out the form below and send it to the Secretary, Dr James Powell. If you are unsure

whether all your details are correct, better safe than sorry!!

TMS intends to place the Directory of Memberson it’s website, as well as produce a printed copy.If you are updating your information, and you decide that you do not want your details to appear inthe TMS Directory of Memberson the website, please can you tick the relevant box below. Manyof you will already have given your permission previously, when you were canvassed on this topic

two years ago so will not need to update this part of your information.

Please send any changes to the Secretary by 31st March 2003

Name _________________________________________________

Address _________________________________________________

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Telephone _________________________________________________

Fax _________________________________________________

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Specialist Group Affliation(s)*

Foraminifera Microvertebrate Nannofossil

Ostracod Palynology Silicofossil

I do not wish my details to appear on the TMS website*

* Please tick appropriate box(es)

Please send details to: Dr A. J. Powell (TMS Secretary)Dinosystems105 Albert RoadRichmondSurrey TW10 6DJ, UK

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CHARLES DOWNIE AWARD

The late Charles Downie was one of the pioneers of palynology in the U.K. and amentor who guided the thinking and development of a large number of postgraduate

students who passed through the University of Sheffield. Through the efforts offormer colleagues at Sheffield, a permanent memorial has now been established torecognize Charles’ contribution to micropalaeontology. An annual award will bemade to The Micropalaeontological Society member, who in the opinion of The

Micropalaeontological Society Committee, has published the most significant paper,in any journal, based upon his or her postgraduate research.

The second award of £200 will be made for the best paper published during 2001and will be presented at The Micropalaeontological Society AGM in November

2002. Nominations for the best paper published in 2001should be submitted either tothe appropriate TMS Specialist Group, or The Micropalaeontological Society

Secretary by 31st March 2003.

Dr James Powell, TMS Secretary,Dinosystems, 105 Albert Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6DJ, England, UK

Tel: +44 20 8948 6443; Fax: +44 20 89405917; Email: ajp@dinosystems.co.uk

Charles Downie Memorial Award Contributors (December 2002)

R. L. Austin W.A.M. JenkinsG. A. Booth J. K. LentinB. Braham R. S. W. NevilleJ. P. Bujak B. OwensG. Clayton T. L. Potter

M. D. Crane A. J. PowellS. Duxbury S. M. RasulG. L. Eaton M. Razzo

G. A. Forbes J. B. RidingK. J. Gueinn W. A. S. Sarjeant

A. M. Harding J. E. ThomasR. Harland J. Utting

K. Higgs D. WallP. J. Hill M. J. Whiteley

A. Hossein Zahiri G. L. Williams

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Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands,Norway, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Spain,Switzerland, Trinidad, UK, USA andVenezuela). The meeting opened on theevening of 10th September with anIcebreaker sponsored by StrataData Ltd.Over the next three days there were twoparallel sessions comprising seventy-eightoral presentations. Sessions were devotedto Quantitative Methods, Caribbean/SouthAmerica, Sultanate of Oman, SequenceBiostratigraphy, Reservoir Biostratigraphyand Faeces Facies as well as open sessionson micropalaeontology and palynology.There were also over forty posters ondisplay. On the evening of 12th Septembera special session was arranged at TheGeological Society at which two talkswere delivered; John Marshall spoke on‘Arthur Raistrick: Britain’s PremierPalynologist’ and martin Farley on‘Forging a Path for Biostratigraphy’. Thesewere followed by a reception sponsored byConoco Inc. On 13th September, the AASPBusiness Luncheon took place. Followingthe meeting a field trip to the Isle of Wightwas led by Iain Prince, Bruce Tocher andIan Jarvis, and a workshop on thebiostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphyof the Gulf of Mexico was run by GarryJones and Brian O’Neill.The vision of the meeting was toencourage trans-Atlantic exchange ofideas, ultimately to seed new researchinitiatives. In particular, the aim was todevelop an integrated multidisciplinaryapproach in both the academic andindustrial realms. The conveners hope thatthis goal was achieved. There are plans topublish selected papers as a volume inTMS’s Special Publication Series.

Positions VacantThe positions of TMS Secretary, JournalEditor and Special Publications Editorbecome vacant at the 2003 AGM.Applicants should be members of theSociety as should their proposers andseconders. Individual members who wishto be considered for these posts shouldcontact the Secretary<ajp@dinosystems.co.uk> as soon aspossible.

Treasurer’s ReportJames B. Riding<jbri@bgs.ac.uk>

I can again report that the finances of theSociety remain good and we should easilyachieve a balanced budget this year. Thisis largely due to the fact that theSeptember AASP/NAMS/TMS meeting inLondon appears to have made a modestprofit. I have prepared interim accountsfor this conference; these are preliminaryin that three bills have not yet beenreceived. I recall expressing worries thatthis conference might have been asignificant financial burden to the Societyin the last Newsletter, but these fears,happily, were unfounded. The Londonconference was a great success,scientifically, logistically and financially.There can be no doubt that it has done theprofile of TMS a great deal of good. I amvery much of the view that we should havemore of these meetings on a regular basis,despite any worries of financial risks.We are asking the membership to increaseindividual subscriptions from £25 to £30 atthe 2002 AGM in time for the 2003membership year. Student and retired rateswill remain the same (£15). We regret thisincrease, and have held off this moveabsolutely as long as possible. The reason

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THE MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETYSTATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2001/2002

INCOME

1. Balance from 2000/2001: £8,447.16

2. Membership Subscriptions:Individual/Student for 2000 £53.00Individual/Student for 2001 £871.00Individual/Student for 2002 £9,530.63Individual/Student for 2003 £125.00Individual/Student for 2004 £50.00

Subtotal Individual/Student: £10,629.63

Library/Inst. Subscriptions £12,813.83

Total subscription income: £23,443.46

3. Miscellaneous Income:Sale of Journal back parts V1-20 £113.00Sale of Stereo-Atlas back parts £565.00Advertising revenue £410.00TMS Foundation £245.00Interest from two bank accounts £106.57Charles Downie Fund interest £110.78Sponsorship, 2001AGM Reception £321.44

Subtotal miscellaneous income: £1,871.79

4. Joint Conference 2002: £31,267.47

TOTAL INCOME £65,029.88

EXPENDITURE

1. Journal of Micropalaeontology:Volume 21, Part 1 (inc. postage) £11,088.00Volume 21, Part 2 (inc. postage) £11,088.00Fee for putting the Journal online £350.00

Subtotal Jour. of Micropalaeo.: £22,526.00

2. Newsletter of Micropalaeontology:NL Number 65 £685.57NL Number 66 £873.38

Subtotal NL: £1,558.95

3. Annual General Meeting 2001:Hire of lecture theatre £440.00Reception £402.52Speaker’s expenses £149.35

Subtotal AGM 2001: £991.87

4. Miscellaneous Expenditure:Foramenifera Group Meeting £43.46Microvertebrate Group field trip £254.00Ostracod Group Meeting £53.97Palynology Group meeting £126.64Internet domain name fee £176.24Direct Debit fees £109.21Refunded Subscriptions £305.00IFPS subscription £100.00Charles Downie Award 2002 £200.00Ctee. meeting expenses (Nov. 01) £277.29Ctee. meeting expenses (June 02) £204.05Design fee for new TMS logo £352.00

Subtotal misc. expenditure: £2,201.86

*5. Joint Conference 2002: £22,417.25

TOTAL EXPENDITURE £49,695.93

BALANCE FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2001/2002: £15,333.95

* - Note that the 2002 Conference expenditure does not include an estimated £5,700 of liabilities due to

invoices not yet received.

This financial year ran from 17 November 2001 to 12 November 2002.

James B. Riding (Treasurer) Michael H. Stephenson and Ian P. Wilkinson (Auditors)12 November 2002

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is the increased cost of printing our Journalover several years. In 2002, for example,the individual/student/retired subscriptionswould not have paid for a single part of theJournal. This situation is clearlyunsustainable, and we hope not to have toraise subscriptions again for many years tocome.Please check if you have paid your 2002subscription invoice, which was mailed outlast January to all members who do nothave direct debits. If you have not paidyour 2002 subscription, please pay me assoon as possible.I retire as Treasurer at the 2002 AGM,bringing a spell of 14 years of serving onthe BMS/TMS committee to an end. Iwould like to here express my sincerethanks to the many committee members Ihave worked with over the years formaking my job as first Secretary and thenTreasurer so enjoyable. Back in 1988 Iwas somewhat unsure as whether or not toaccept the then committee’s offer of theposition. I am very pleased I decided to gofor it. Over the years I have seen manychanges in the Society; be assured thatthese moves have always been beneficialones. The present committee is anengaged, committed, imaginative andvibrant one and I feel that I am leaving theSociety in very good hands.

New MembersWe welcome the following new membersto the Society. Many of these joined at therecent AASP/NAMS/TMS conference inLondon. Erik Anthonissen, Frances V.Attwood, Alex Cullum, Rui de Gama, Stijnde Schepper, Sarah Emberson, RupertGreen, Kate Habgood, Michael Hardbattle,Caroline Hensley, Daniel Howard, Linn M.Johansen, Sev Kender, Peter Lunt, JamesManuel, Brian J. O’Neill, Andrea K.

Persons, Iain M. Prince, Daniela Schmidt,Robert P. Speijer, Bruce A. Tocher,Rebecca Turner and Yoann Van Eetvelde

Journal Editor’sReportMalcolm B. Hart<mhart@plymouth.ac.uk>

Journal ofMicropalaeontologyVolume 21, Part 1, May 2002

Volume 21 of the Journal ofMicropalaeontolopgyis nearingcompletion with the publication of part 2planned for November 2002. Vol. 21 part 1contained the usual mix of papersincluding two “Notebooks”. Submissionof Notebooks for publication in the Journalhas slowed in recent years and, in almostevery issue of the Journal, there is roomfor 2 or 3 one-pagepapers/comments/techniques/etc.Submission of full papers remains steadyat 20-25 per anum. Rejection rates havefallen slightly in the last year, largelythanks to authors submitting more‘finished’ papers. I would like to thank all those who havehelped the Journal by reviewing papers inthe last year. The work of referees is muchappreciated and I fully understand howmuch time is devoted to this task. Volume 21 has featured Bolivinoides dracodraco on the cover and I am now lookingfor a suitable image for Volume 22.Anyone with an appropriate image, whichshould not be too complicated, is invited tocontact me as soon as possible. We need(preferably) a digital image together with abrief statement on the fossil in question;see the back cover of the Journal for what

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is required. The Committee of TheMicropalaeontological Society are alsolooking for a new Journal Editor as I willhave completed two terms of 3 years byNovember 2003. Anyone wishing toconsider standing for the post may contactme informally and I can explain what isrequired (if most folks do not alreadyknow!) of the rôle. The new Journal Editorwould take over at the 2003 AGM, bywhich time the Autumn 2003 issue wouldbe completed and most of the manuscriptsfor the Spring 2004 would be with thePublishing House. There may be somework for the Spring 2004 issue remainingbut the first issue of the Journal for whichthere would be total responsibility wouldbe Autumn 2004. Should there be a floodof potential candidates then there mayhave to be an election, although I thinkthat this would be a ‘first’ for the Society.

Speical Publication Editor’sReportMalcolm Hart<mhart@plymouth.ac.uk>

The Micropalaeontological Society has notpublished a “Special” for a number ofyears. When Chapman & Hall were boughtout by Kluwer Academic our SpecialPublications passed into their hands.Kluwer Academic are now on the marketand we have little idea as to where thingswill end up. Elsevier is about the onlycompany big enough to purchase KluwerAcademic. Before this was even on thecards we had begun discussions with thegeological Society Publishing House todetermine whether they would beinterested in publishing “SpecialPublications” for us as they already

produce the Journal. The GSPH haveagreed in principle that they would beinteresting in entering into an agreementwith us – but we have no manuscripts atthe present time!There are a number of “SpecialPublications” either in production ordiscussion, and we invite other suggestionsfrom members (or non-members). Thesebooks can be single-authored or multi-authored or the proceedings of aconference. In the pipeline we have aSpores & Pollen Stratigraphical Index; awelcome addition to the range ofstratigraphical publications. The first suchindex, the Ostracod Index, is in process ofrevision and part-completed. There aresuggestions of compilations on JurassicForaminifera and Upper Cretaceousmicrofossils being discussed and potentialcontributors to these are invited to makecontact as soon as possible so that we candecide whether to proceed with theseprojects or not.

Webmaster’s ReportIan Boomer<ian.boomer@ncl.ac.uk>

The Web page has continued to develop,much as in previous years, with updatesbeing posted as and when they areprovided by individual research groups.There have been no major changes in theappearance or structure of the site over thelast 12 months. Details of the Joint AASP -TMS - NAMS meeting were hostedincluding registration and timetableinformation. Hopefully this helped to easethe role of the organisers to some extentand raise awareness of the meeting as wellas the society.After almost four years as Webmaster it is

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time for me to hand on to Andy Hendersonat the NHM following the CommitteeMeeting in November. Hopefully thisshould prove to be a seemless exercisegiven that the site is hosted at the NHM.Thanks to all who have supported me inthis role by providing copy for the variouspages. Please continue this support forAndy.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING20th November 2002, CruciformLecture Theatre 1, UniversityCollege London

IntroductionThe Chairman, Dr Haydon Bailey openedthe AGM by welcoming the members.

ReportsThere then followed reports by theSociety’s Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer,Journal Editor and Special Publications.

Conferment of HonoraryMembershipThe Chairman then conferred Honorarymembership on Dr Alan Higgins inrecognition of his services to the Society inhis capacity as Newsletter Editor,Secretary and Chairman, as well asnumerous duties carried out on behalf ofthe Conodont Group, as theMicrovertebrate Group was formerlycalled.

Presentation of CharlesDownie Award 2002Next Dr Higgins presented the CharlesDownie Award 2002 to Dr Gary Mullinsfor his paper entitled ‘Acritarchs andprasinophyte algae of the Elton Group,Ludlow Series, of the type area’.Monograph of the PalaeontographicalSociety London: 1-154, pls 1-18. (Publ.

No. 616, part of Vol. 155 for 2001).

Vote to IncreaseLibrary/InstitutionalMembership to £100/$165The members present voted to increaseLibrary/Institutional Membership to£100/$165. The motion was proposed byDr A.J. Powell and seconded by Prof. M.B.Hart.

Vote to Increase IndividualMembership to £30The members present voted to increaseLibrary/Institutional Membership to£100/$165. The motion was proposed byDr J.B. Riding and seconded by Dr J.Lees.

Election of TreasurerThe Secretary reported that he hadreceived only one nomination for the postof Treasurer, that being Dr MichaelStephenson. The proposer was Dr J.B.Riding, and the seconder was Dr J. Pike.Dr Stephenson was elected unopposed.

Election of Newsletter EditorThe Secretary reported that he hadreceived only one nomination for the postof Newsletter Editor, that being Dr JennyPike (for a second term). The proposer wasDr J.A. Lees, and the seconder was Dr P.Dodsworth. Dr Pike was electedunopposed.

Election of Publicity OfficerThe Secretary reported that he hadreceived only one nomination for the postof Publicity Officer, that being Dr RachelPreece (for a second term). The proposerwas Dr M.R. Frogley, and the seconderwas Dr A.S. Henderson. Dr Preece waselected unopposed.

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Election of WebmasterThe Secretary reported that he hadreceived only one nomination for the postof Webmaster, that being Dr AndrewHenderson. The proposer was Dr I.D.Boomer and the seconder was Dr F.J.Gregory. Dr Henderson was electedunopposed.

Guest LecturesFollowing Society business, two talks weredelivered to the members. Professor SarahMetcalfe (Department of Geography,University of Edinburgh) spoke on‘Freshwater diatoms as monitors ofenvironmental change in the tropicalAmericas’ and Professor Felix Gradstein(Geological Museum, University of Oslo)on ‘International Commission onStratigraphy on Stage’. Both talks attractedmuch interest and debate.

Vote of ThanksThe Chairman, Dr Haydon Bailey,formally closed the AGM by thanking thespeakers for their interesting contributionsand Local Secretary, Jim Davy.

Wine ReceptionThe members then adjourned to the NorthCloisters where a wine reception,sponsored by Network StratigraphicConsulting Ltd, was held together with adisplay of posters, which attracted a lot ofinterest.

James PowellTMS Secretary<ajp@dinosystems.co.uk

Specialist Group News

Foraminifera GroupAndy HendersonForaminifera Group Chair<a.henderson@nhm.ac.uk>

The last couple of years has seen a verygood turn-out for our annual Springmeetings. This prompted discussion aboutthe possibility of holding more than onemeeting per year. Another suggestion wasthat the meeting should be held outside ofthe UK, in keeping with the name changeand international scope of the Society.Having recently discussed this option withJoachim Schoenfeld he has kindly offeredthe facilities of his institute to host the nextSpring meeting in April 2003. The next Spring meeting will be held atGEOMAR Research Center for MarineGeosciences in Kiel, Germany, on theFriday the 25th and Saturday the 26th ofApril, 2003.Presentations will be scheduled for Fridayand excursions on the on the followingSaturday. Joachim has suggested somepossible fieldtrip destinations (see below).If you would like to participate in thismeeting please email me indicating yourinterest. Abstracts should be submitted inthe usual format (see previous years andon the TMS website).I hope you will support this meeting whichwill facilitate the easier participation ofcolleagues from eastern and northernEuropean countries and provide a ForamGroup meeting with a more internationalflavour.More details will be posted to TMSwebsite shortly.Information from Joachim as follows:

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The venue has a long tradition inForaminiferal studies, even going back intothe 19th century with pioneer work byRHUMBLER. The activeMicropalaeontology Group at the Institutefor Geosciences of Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel pursues research onbenthic and planktonic foraminifers sincethe early ‘60s Kiel, with main focus on latePleistocene to recent assemblages of theAtlantic and Arctic Ocean and adjacentseas, and the western Pacific and marginalseas. Biostratigraphic andpalaeoenvironmental studies on Cretaceousassemblages are also made. The Grouphouses a comprehensive referencecollection on eastern Atlantic, Baltic, andArctic Foraminifera. The PalaeoceanologyDepartment of Geomar works in close co-operation and accomplishes the expertisewith contributions on the development ofbiotic and geochemical proxies.Geomar will provide meeting facilities as alecture hall with 200 seats including timelyprojection equipment (slides, overhead,electronic projector etc.). A large foyerdirectly adjacent to the lecture hall may beused for poster presentation and coffeebreaks. Refreshments and lunch may beprovided by our canteen on request.Geomar can also organise transportfacilities for transfers and excursion.With reference to earlier Foram Groupmeetings that were held in early May, wewould propose the entire Friday, the 25thof April 2003 for oral presentation andposters, and Saturday, 26th April 2003 forexcursion.Interesting locations for an excursion are1) the Bottsand Lagoon at the Baltic to thenorth of Kiel, where shallow water tosaltmarsh foraminiferal assemblages havebeen studied by LUTZE (1968) and quiterecently by LEHMANN (2000) in his PhD

study. 2) the tidal flats and marshes atSchobüll (close to Husum, North Sea) withinteresting saltmarsh foraminiferalassemblages that were also described byLEHMANN (2000). 3) The Schlei Fjord, abrackish environment with wind-driedwadden flats, lagoons etc. We have a fieldstation there and could go on the fjord withour vessel to take seafloor samples.Maximum participants are 6 personsdefined by the size of the boat. 4) Thechalk quarries of Lägerdorf. The entireCampanian and Lower Maastrichtian arecurrently exposed, and there are recentextensions of the quarry into thepolyplocum-zone. Which one we offershould depend on the response.Transport and accommodation. Forparticipants from abroad, the cheapestflights (20 GBP) are offered by Ryanairfrom London Stanstead to Lübeck (about70 km SE of Kiel). From there you maytake the bus to the city and train to Kiel(12,40 EUR one way adult single). Otherpossibilities are flights to Hamburg, fromthere the airport shuttle to Kiel (KIELIUS;24,00 EUR return), or simply the trainfrom anywhere else. For accommodation,there are two hotels close to Geomar, oneof them really next door where a singleroom is 49,00 EUR incl. breakfast. Budgetaccommodation is the youth hostel.Another possibility is to rent a holiday flatat the adjacent villages Laboe(www.laboe.de) or Schönberg with a groupof 4 to 6 persons for a couple of days (40-70 EUR per flat and day).

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Microvertebrate GroupMark PurnellMicrovertebrate Group Chair<map2@le.ac.uk>

This has been a summer of positivelyfrenetic activity.Members of the Microvertebrate Grouphave been very active over the last fewmonths. Indeed some members arecurrently so busy that they haven’t evenfound time to submit something forinclusion in this group report. Over thesummer several members attended ECOSVIII (the Eighth International ConodontMeeting held in Europe), and I think mostof us would agree that this meeting, held inToulouse and nearby Albi was mostentertaining in a variety of ways. DickAldridge, Howard Armstrong, RosieDhanda, Phil Donoghue, Mark Purnell,Paul Smith, and Linda Wickström allpresented talks or posters (or both), severalin the symposium on Bias andCompleteness in the Conodont FossilRecord (organised by Purnell andDonoghue). Papers from this symposiumare currently in the process of beingconverted into a volume to be published bythe Palaeontological Association, and thiswill be keeping several of us busy thisautumn.This was the last ECOS, as participants inToulouse voted to drop the “European”and make these meetings as internationalin name as they are in practice. So the nextevent in this sequence of ConodontOlympics will be ICOS 2006 (InternationalConodont Symposium 2006), to be held inthe UK. Phil Donoghue and I are leadingthe organising committee, and are in theprocess of putting together somepreliminary information. This will appearsoon on the new website for all things

conodont: www.conodont.netAfter ECOS Dick Aldridge flew toIPC2002 in Sydney, where a number ofantipodean and other conodont workers gottogether for an informal Pander Societydinner and several talks and posters in theformal sessions featured conodonts, with astrong leaning towards the Permo/Triassic.Congratulations are also due to Dick whowas elected President of the IPA (that’s theInternational Palaeontological Association,not the refreshing hoppy tipple).Continuing his jet-set summer Dick thenflew to China. I joined him in warmWuhan to spend two weeks working withLai Xulong on a phylogenetic analysis ofPermian and Triassic conodonts.Preferring cooler climes, Giles Millerreturned to the Sub-Polar Urals thissummer where he gave a talk on apparatusreconstructions of Frasnian conodontsfrom Timan Pechora at a symposium onDevonian Geology. Following that hespent a week in the field where hecollected a suite of 20 samples spanningthe Devonian of the Kozhym River area ofthe Sub-Polar Urals. In September heattended the Baltic StratigraphicalConference in Vilnius where he presenteda joint paper with Tiiu Marss (recentlysubmitted to Palaeontology) on BritishSilurian thelodonts and conodonts. On thepublication side, this summer saw thepublication in TRSE of a long paper byBlom, Marss and Miller on Silurian toLowermost Devonian birkeniid anaspids.Gareth Jones reports that work continuesas usual with conodonts as one of his tools.He has just completed his three-year termas President of the European Federation ofGeologists and hopes that he will nowhave some time to spend on bugs, work,life, etc. Howard Armstrong claims to havedone nothing with conodonts since ECOS,

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but presented a talk and poster atGondwana 11 in Christchurch on theOrdovician glaciation. As I compile this,Paul Smith is giving a talk on thebiogeography of early vertebrates at theGeobiology Group’s symposium at GSA,doing fieldwork on the Harding Sandstonein Colorado and looking at fishy/conodontcollections in Washington DC, Chicago,USGS Reston and New York.Finally, Phil Donoghue reports that DongXiping was over for three months thissummer working with him on the histologyand interrelationships of paraconodontsand early euconodonts (I think Phil’s TMSmembership may have lapsed, however, soI am not sure we are interested officially).Revealing his softer side, Phil says, “I willnot be attending the MicrovertebrateGroup field trip due to commitments on aproject concerning the early postnatalontogeny of ginger humans.” Altogethernow, aah.

Nannofossil groupJackie LeesNannofossil Group Chair<j.lees@ucl.ac.uk>

Having scoured the membership for over ayear for an industrial bod to replace ChrisStreet as TMS Nannofossil GroupSecretary (having had no offers and onerefusal!), Emma Sheldon (who works forGEUS in Copenhagen but who is alsoworking towards a PhD at UCL)eventually volunteered. We’re hoping thatthe inclusion of at least one industry bodas a Nanno Group representative will helpto stimulate more activity/participationfrom the industrial sector of the NannoGroup, and to make both industrialists andacademics feel equally represented by theactivities of the group, such as they are.

Please send any nanno-related news items,or any suggestions for group activities, toEmma (es@geus.dk) - See photo below.

Among a number of changes going on atUCL, Dr. Paul Bown became the newDirector of the Micropalaeontology MSccourse in September, Prof. Alan Lordhaving left the Department of EarthSciences to become Proprovost forLondon.It’s been an extraordinarily busy year forsome nanno-people, starting in Ascona(Switzerland) with the CoccoCo inFebruary, followed by the CretaceousClimate Workshop in Colorado (USA) inJuly, INA9 in early September in Parma(Italy), immediately followed by theJurassic Symposium in Mondello (Sicily).Reports on these three conferences appearin the Conference Reportssection later inthe Newletter. INA9 clashed with the JointMeeting of the AASP-TMS-NAMS, heldat UCL, 11th-13th September, and if anynanno-person who attended the latterwould like to submit a write-up, pleasesend that in for the next Newsletter.The year isn’t over yet, and forthcomingmeetings, in which nannofossils will make

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an appearance, include the ODP ScientificForum at UCL on November 6th, and theOrganic Carbon Burial, Climate Change &Ocean Chemistry Conference at the Geol.Soc. between 9th and 11th December.I must say that I had almost forgotten whatattending conferences, outside of purelynanno-related ones, was like. Apart frombeing exposed to a much wider range oftopics (many of which, however, do havesomething to contribute to my ownresearch themes), you do get to meet amore eclectic bunch of people. I havecemented many friendships, and enteredinto a number of new and excitingcollaborations, this year, through theseattendances and the social scene that goeswith them, oddly mostly with people fromthe UK who I had previously met only inpassing but whose work is of great interestto me professionally. Obviously, thedrawbacks are that it costs money to attendand that you usually have to present somework if you do want to be sponsored byyour company or the various charitieswhich fund this type of thing. However,despite the fact that I’m feeling prettyexhausted (and broke) this year, I’d urgeeveryone who thinks it’s too much troubleto think again next time. I’d be especiallyinterested to see all those old faces whohave disappeared into industry turning upto learn something new...!

Ostracod GroupMick FrogleyOstracod Group Secretary<m.r.frogley@sussex.ac.uk>

The most significant event to report sincethe last Newsletteris the success of therevitalised Autumn Meeting (see fulldetails below), this year visiting modernand fossil sites in Somerset. Particular

thanks are extended to Dave Horne andAlan Lord for the enthusiasm in organisingthis trip. The next Spring Meeting will beheld over the first weekend of March 2003at Leicester University, organised by DavidSiveter. We shall be circulating details ofthis event nearer the time, via our OstracodGroup e-mail list. If you are not currentlyon our list, but would like information,please get in touch with either Ian or Alan(see below).Alas, this is my last report as Secretary ofthe Ostracod Group and I would like totake this opportunity to thank thosecolleagues who have organised meetings,been persuaded to write up tales offieldtrip daring-do, or generally providedsupport over the past couple of years. Youwill be heartened to learn that thesecretarial duties of the Group are beingpassed into the safe hands of Alan Lord atUCL, who I’m sure will be more thanhappy to receive any newsworthy items forinclusion in the next Group report, orsuggested venues for future meetings(a.lord@ucl.ac.uk). Ian Slipper willremain as Group Chair.

The Great EscapeThe Autumn Meeting of the TMS OstracodGroup took place on the weekend of the6th to 8th September 2002 on the coast ofSomerset. This was a field meeting aimedat investigating living marine andfreshwater ostracods and Jurassicostracods. The meeting coincided with avisit to the University of Greenwich byJimmy van Itterbeeck, a Belgian PhDstudent working on ostracods fromdinosaur sites. Jimmy therefore joined theother participants for this meeting; AlanLord, Dave Horne, Ian Boomer, IanSlipper, Eric Robinson and Robin Smith.The trip kicked off on the Friday with our

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arrival at the Somerset Field Centre inKilve. The grounds of the field centre aredominated by a large house, which hadbeen taken over by the Coleridge Societythat weekend. Therefore we weredelegated to the accommodation out back.The accommodation had the look of a setfrom the Great Escape, minus the barbedwire, with a series of wooden cabinsarranged around a flagpole. However, theyprovided adequate accommodation, and aswe had the whole place to ourselves wehad a cabin each. ‘First blood’ was drawn by Dave, Jimmyand Robin, collecting at the beach at Kilve,while waiting for the other participants toarrive. A freshwater pool at the top of theshingle beach, fed by a stream yielded twospecies of Herpetocypris, H. reptans andH. chevreuxi,from the brown algae andmud in-between the pebbles.Saturday 7th SeptemberIn the morning we sampled inter tidalalgae (mostly Corallina and Cladophora)on the West side of Gore Point, PorlockWeir (at the marine end of the SevernEstuary), a little below mid-tide level. Thesample yielded the following speciesobserved under the microscope the sameevening:

Heterocythereis albomaculataHemicythere villosa

Loxoconcha rhomboideaHemicytherura cellulosaSemicytherura nigrescensParadoxostoma sarniense

Hirschmannia virdisCytherois fischeri

The sample was taken a little above thelevel of the main pool sampled regularlyby Dave Horne for his PhD (Horne, 1980).The occurrence of Cytherois fischeriis of

interest as this brackish water species wasnot previously recorded at this site. Itspresence this time may be due to the factthat we sampled quite close to where afreshwater stream seeps through theshingle beach and mixes with the sea wateracross part of the inter tidal zone- allprevious sampling was done further awayfrom this zone (Horne, 1980, 1982b).A second sample was taken in the saltmarsh creek at Porlock Weir, another siteregularly visited by Dave for his PhD. Thegreen algae (Enteromorpha) and mud atthe bottom of the creek yielded abundantLoxoconcha elliptica(similar to Horne,1980).A third sample from the mud andvegetation in a small freshwater streamentering the top of the salt marsh yielded afew candonids.The second stop of the day was at BlueAnchor a few km further up the Severnestuary and another of Dave’s PhD regularsampling sites. The tide was out and withthe chocolate coloured waves rolling ontothe shore in the distance we brieflyinvestigated the inter tidal zone. Largehumps of thick, light brown mud, coveredon the surface by diatoms wereinterspersed with many rock pools andSabellariareefs, formed of agglutinatedworm tubes, the ostracod fauna of whichwere described by Horne (1982a).A recent summary of the ostracod faunasof the Severn Estuary, with updatedtaxonomic names, is given by Smith andHorne (2002).We also briefly looked at the cliffs of BlueAnchor. The Mercia Mudstone at thispoint contains large amounts of pinkcoloured gypsum.The last stop of the day was at St. Audriesto view the Triassic/Jurassic strata, whichform the cliffs. Alan explained the

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situation of the proposed Triassic/ Jurassicboundary (see Warrington and Ivimey-Cook, 1995), and we set off to find thebase of the Jurassic. The strata represent amarine transgression, and therefore thesection is not an ideal type section for theT/J boundary. However, the strata are richin fauna, including ostracods, which is anadvantage over rival sections. We lookedfor Psiloceras planorbis, which is used toidentify the first ammonite zone of theJurassic.

Sunday 8th SeptemberEric Robinson led the field excursion onthe Sunday. An old flooded peat pit atShapwick on the Somerset Levels nearBurtle provided the first and only localityof the day with the opportunity ofcollecting living and Holocene material.The sequence consisted of a largeexcavated area cut into what appears to belate Pleistocene (?) or early Holocenegrey-buff clays with plant macrofossils(particularly Phragmites) visible at anumber of horizons. Four samples weretaken at the top, base, upper and lowermid-section.The assemblages were dominated bymarginal marine taxa of foraminifera and

ostracods. A semi-quantitative summary isshown in Table 1.

All of these taxa are typical of marginalmarine, estuarine habitats today. Thedominance of agglutinating foraminiferasuggests a level high within the tidal frameduring the deposition of much of thissequence with the lower Mid-sectionsample representing the most permanent or‘open-water’ conditions. Ostracods wereunfortunately relatively rare within thesesamples although the two most abundantspecies of Leptocytherepresent support themarginal marine, low salinity (10-15 ‰ ?)interpretation of this palaeoenvironment.Sampling was also undertaken from theedge of the large pond in the bottom of thepit for living specimens. The pond lookedrelatively recent, but none the less yieldeda Cypridopsisspecies. The soft parts andcarapace morphologies were similar to thatof C. vidua, but this population waslacking the dark brown stripes that oftencharacterises this species. The weekend was very enjoyable and wethank Alan Lord and Dave Horne fororganising and leading the meeting andEric Robinson for leading the fieldexcursion on Sunday.

Base Section Lr Mid-section Ur Mid Section Top sectionTrochammina inflata +++ ++ +++ ++Jadammina macrescens ++ ++ +++ ++Elphidium williamsoni ++ ++ ++Haynesina depressula ++ ++ +Ammonia sp ++ ++ ++ ++Quinqueloculina sp. ++ ++Leptocythere lacertosa ++ ++ ++Leptocythere castanea ++Semicytherura striata +Paradoxostoma sp. +Cyprideis torosa +

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ReferencesHorne, D.J. 1980. Recent Ostracoda fromthe Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel.Unpublished PhD thesis, University ofBristol, 320 pp.Horne, D.J. 1982a. The ostracod fauna ofan inter tidal Sabellariareef at BlueAnchor, Somerset, England. Estuarine,Coastal and Shelf Science, 15, 671-678.Horne, D.J. 1982b. The verticaldistribution of phytal ostracods in theintertidal zone at Gore Point, BristolChannel, U.K. Journal ofMicropalaeontology, 1, 71-84.Smith, A.J. & Horne, D.J. 2002. Ecologyof marine, marginal marine and nonmarineostracods. In: Holmes, J. A. & Chivas, A.R. (eds.), The Ostracoda: Applications inQuaternary Research, AGU GeophysicalMonograph Series, Vol. 131, 37-64.Warrington, G. & Ivimey-Cook, H.C.1995. The late Triassic and Early Jurassicof coastal sections in west Somerset andSouth and Mid-Glamorgan. In: Taylor, P.D. (ed.), Field Geology of the BritishJurassic, Geological Society, London, 9 -30.

Robin Smith,Dave Horne& Ian Boomer

Palynology GroupPaul DodsworthPalynology Group Secretary<dodsworth@ichron.com> & Susanne Feist-BurkhardtPalynology Group Chair<s.feist-burkhardt@nhm.ac.uk>

The 2003 Palynology Group meeting willbe held at the University of Leicester,hosted by Dr. Gary Mullins. Theprovisional date is Wednesday 19th March2003. If you are interested in attending, or

presenting work, please contact Paul orSusanne.Some members of the Palynology Groupattended a CIMP meeting in Lille, 5-7September 2002, entitled, “PalaeozoicPalynology in the Third Millennium: newdirections in acritarch, chitinozoan andmiospore research”. See ConferenceReports section later in Newsletter.

Silicofossil GroupAlexander G. MitlehnerSilicofossil Group Secretary<amitlehner@hotmail.com>

I’m afraid it’s a case of “all quiet on thewestern front” at the moment. Mainly dueto various offshore commitments(including encounters with pilot whales inthe North Atlantic- it’s a long story…) ithas not been possible to get much furtherwith organising a dedicated silicofossilsgroup meeting, though there are plans for ajoint meeting, probably with theForaminifera Group, in the Spring. Watchthis space…. However, as stated in theprevious newsletter this years’ AGM has adefinite siliceous theme and on this note Iam glad to welcome over from Belgium aPh.D. student, Yoann van Eetvelde, whowill be giving a poster in the northcloisters after the meeting. His research ison pyritised diatoms, a subject close to myheart (well, somebody’s got to look atthem as they are useful for offshorecorrelation at certain intervals, for onething!). His work focuses on theiroccurrences in the Palaeocene/Eocene ofthe Paris Basin, and he is hoping to be ableto do a refined correlation with North Seaassemblages, thus extending ourknowledge further south. I have seen someof his preliminary findings, and amlooking forward to discussing his findingsin person, as well as working with him in

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future. Yoann has kindly provided anabstract for his poster. It is presentedbelow.

The distribution of pyritizeddiatoms in Thanetian andYpresian sediments from theParis Basin and theirbiostratigraphic potential.Yoann van EetveldeFacultés Universitaires Notre Dame de laPaix, Département de géologie, rue deBruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium

The borehole of Saint-Josse and the Aillysections from the Paris Basin, both locatedin northern France, have been studied inorder to record the diatomaceousassemblages present in the UpperPalaeocene and the Lower Eocene, and toexamine their biostratigraphic potentialand value. The Carbon Isotope Excursionwhich is the official Palaeocene-Eoceneboundary, is recorded in the both sitesstudies.Pyritized diatoms are preserved in thedeposits by epigenesis or by earlydiagenetic infilling of the frustule by pyritecrystals (octahedrons, framboids,cubes,…). Pictures of some species arepresented in the aim to illustrate thedifferent ways of pyritization.Preliminary results show that three majordiatom biozones may be defined andprovide a key reference marker for thePalaeogene (near the Palaeocene-Eoceneboundary) sediments from the Paris Basin.The first biozone, D1, is characterized by alow diversity of the species and the mostabundant diatom is Coscinodiscusmorsianusvar. moelleri. The D1 biozoneis dated from Thanetian age. The second,D2, is defined by the abundance ofFenestrella antiqua, the downhole

occurrence of the Coscinodiscus morsianusand the high diversity of circular diatoms.The top of this zone is marked by thehighest occurrence of the Fenestrellaantiquaand the extinction of theCoscinodiscus morsianusvar. moelleri.This biozone corresponds to thePalaeocene-Eocene interval called“Sparnacian” facies in the Paris Basin.The last biozone (D3), of Lower Ypresianage, is characterized by the presence ofAulacodiscus, Trinacria,Craspedodiscus,… and the high diversityof the triangular, oval and bipolar species ;indicating a marked increase in marineinfluence. These diatom assemblages from the ParisBasin show similarities with those fromthe North Sea Basin. Comparisons andcorrelations of the lithostratigraphy of thetwo basins are now possible by the use ofthe pyritized diatoms.

MicropalaeontologyNews

“The Jurassic Coast”Following inscription by UNESCO on thelist of World Heritage Sites in December2001 the Dorset/East Devon Coast wasofficially launched on the 3rd October byH.R.H. Prince Charles. For those luckyenough to be in Lulworth Castle for theevent it was a great day and we were allimpressed by the genuine interest shownby the Prince. He thanked thoseresponsible for gaining World Heritagestatus for the coast and ‘instructed’ us totake good care of it for the nation.

The site was inscribed by UNESCO on thebasis of its geology and geomorphologyand it is important that all those with a

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scientific interest in the Dorset/East DevonCoast join the “Scientific Network” that isnow being created. Anyone from thepalaeontological community that isinterested in joining the network shouldemail me with a copy to Richard Edmondsof Dorset County Council<r.edmonds@dorset-cc.gov.uk>. Onceformed the network will be able tocirculate all those interested withinformation about the coast, details ofmeetings and conferences, etc. There willclearly be those who will want to becomeheavily involved in the work of theNetwork while there are others who mayjust want to be kept ‘in touch’. My contactis <mhart@plymouth.ac.uk> and it wouldbe useful if you could indicate your area ofinterest (in case I do not already knowwhat it is!).Professor Malcolm HartUniversity of Plymouth

Network Half MarathonCongratulations are due to fivemicropalaeontologists from NetworkStratigraphic Consulting Ltd. who allcompleted the Windsor half Marathon onSunday September 29th. In the process theyalso managed to raise just short of £700 forthe Great Ormond Street Children’sHospital. The Network challenge started when Matt‘the hare’ Hampton decided to try the runfollowing considerable treadmill training inthe gym whilst offshore. He convinced ex-London Marathon veteran Liam ‘the wind’Gallagher to take his running shoes off theshelf and the challenge began to snowball.Tim ‘the tortoise’ Wright was tempted tomake up a threesome and they then realisedthat with one more runner they could enteras a ‘Network’ team.Fortunately, coincident with the marathon

plans, the company had been in the processof employing additional staff. Imagine, ifyou can, arriving for your first day at workin early July only to be told that you werealready registered as part of the Companyhalf-marathon team running in Windsor ineight weeks time. As Rui ‘Prinsius’ deGama commented “I didn’t see any mentionof this in the small print to my contract!”Nevertheless, both he and Sue ‘the pace’Kinsey took up the challenge and startedtheir training schedules in haste.On the day itself, the five took their placesamidst a field of over 6,500 and ran over anundulating topography (‘The next one hasto be over a flat course’) in fairly warm anddry conditions. Families, girlfriends andolder (non-running) colleagues turned outto cheer and encourage the team, withbanners carrying the company name andlogo. At least one other runner was heard toshout as he ran passed “What the *****’s aStratigraphic Consultant?”. We trust hewent home to look it up.All five runners successfully completed thecourse and collected their medals beforemoving on to a nearby hostelry forrefreshment. It’s unlikely that this team willbe seen in it’s entirety repeating this feat ascomments such as “Once is enough” havebeen heard in the office. However, shouldany members of the Society wish tocontribute to sponsorship already raised inrecognition of this successful run pleasesend cheques to the Network Potters Baroffice made payable to GOSHCC and theteam will pass them on to the Great OrmondStreet Hospital. Many thanks.Haydon Bailey<hwb20@aol.com>

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Dr Haydon W. Bailey (Chair)Network Stratigraphic Consulting LtdUnit 60, The Enterprise CentreCranborne RoadPotters Bar EN6 3DQ, UKTel: +44 (0)1707 661868Fax: +44 (0)1707 665248Email: hwb20@aol.com

Dr A. James Powell(Secretary)Dinosystems105 Albert RoadRichmondSurrey TW10 6DJ, UKTel: +44 (0)20 8948 6443Fax: +44 (0)20 8940 5917Email: ajp@dinosystems.co.uk

Dr James B. Riding(Co-opted Treasurer)British Geological SurveyKingsley Dunham CentreKeyworthNottingham NG12 5GG, UKTel: +44 (0)115 9363447Fax: +44 (0)115 9363437Email: jbri@bgs.ac.uk

Professor Malcolm B. Hart (Journal &Special Publications Editor)Department of Geological SciencesUniversity of PlymouthDrake CircusPlymouth PL4 8AA, UKTel: +44 (0)1752 233122Fax: +44 (0)1752 233117Email: mhart@plymouth.ac.uk

Dr Jennifer Pike (Newsletter Editor)Department of Earth SciencesUniversity of CardiffP.O. Box 914Cardiff CF10 3YE, UKTel: +44 (0)29 2087 5181Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 4326Email: pikej@cardiff.ac.uk

Dr Rachel Preece(Publicity Officer)ChevronTexaco EPTC6001 Bollinger Canyon RoadSan RamonCA 94583-2324, USATel: +1 925 842 0231Fax: +1 925 842 3030Email: rpreece@chevrontexaco.com

Dr Andrew S Henderson(Webmaster)Department of PalaeontologyThe Natural History MuseumCromwell RoadLondon SW7 5BD, UKTel: +44 (0)20 7942 5684Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5546Email: a.henderson@nhm.ac.uk

FORAMINIFERA GROUPDr Andrew S Henderson(Chair)Department of PalaeontologyThe Natural History MuseumCromwell RoadLondon SW7 5BD, UKTel: +44 (0)20 7942 5684Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5546Email: a.henderson@nhm.ac.uk

Dr Michal Kucera (Secretary)Department of GeologyRoyal Holloway, University of LondonEgham Hill, EghamSurrey TW20 0EX, UKTel: +44 (0)1784 443586Fax: +44 (0)1784 471780Email: m.kucera@gl.rhul.ac.uk

MICROVERTEBRATE GROUPDr Mark A. Purnell (Chair)Department of GeologyUniversity of LeicesterUniversity RoadLeicester LE1 7RH, UKTel: +44 (0)116 252 3645Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3918Email: map2@le.ac.uk

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Dr M. Paul Smith (Secretary)School of Earth SciencesUniversity of BirminghamEdgbastonBirmingham B15 2TT, UKTel: +44 (0)121 414 4173Fax: +44 (0)121 414 4942Email: m.p.smith@bham.ac.uk

NANNOFOSSIL GROUPDr Steve Starkie(Chair)DatumStrat Ltd12, The MeadeChorltonvilleManchester M21 8FA, UKTel: +44 (0)161 882 0082Fax: +44 (0)161 860 0077Email: steve.Starkie@datumstrat.com

Dr Emma Sheldon(Secretary)GEUSØster Voldgade 10dk-1350Copenhagen K, DenmarkTel: +45 (0)381 42726Fax: +45 (0)381 42050Email: es@geus.dk

OSTRACOD GROUPDr Ian J. Slipper (Chair)Department of Earthand Environmental SciencesUniversity of GreenwichChatham Maritime ME4 4TB, UKTel: +44 (0)20 8331 9824Fax: +44 (0)20 8331 9805Email: i.j.slipper@gre.ac.uk

Professor Alan R. Lord (Secretary)Pro-ProvostUniversity College LondonGower StreetLondon WC1E 6BT, UKTel: +44 (0)20 7679 2000Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 7920Email: a.lord@ucl.ac.uk

PALYNOLOGY GROUPDr Susanne Feist-Burkhardt (Chair)Department of PalaeontologyThe Natural History MuseumCromwell RoadLondon SW7 5BD, UKTel: +44 (0)20 7942 5142Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5546Email: s.feist-burkhardt@nhm.ac.uk

Dr Paul Dodsworth (Secretary)Ichron Ltd5 Dalby CourtGadbrooke Business CentreNorthwich CW9 7TN, UKTel: +44 (0)1606 46113Fax: +44 (0)1606 46114Email: Dodsworth@ichron.com

SILICOFOSSIL GROUPDr F. John Gregory (Chair)Kronos Consultants33 Royston RoadSt AlbansHertfordshire AL1 5NF, UKTel: +44 (0)1727 843056Fax: +44 (0)1727 843056Email: john@jgregory.demon.co.uk

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Plymouth ReunionHaydon Bailey on (01707) 661868 oremail hwb20@aol.com.Haydon Bailey<hwb20@aol.com>

2003 will mark the 30th anniversary ofpostgraduate Micropalaeontology researchin Plymouth and this seems as good anexcuse as any to regroup some of thepersonalities who passed through the doorof 8 Queen Anne Terrace and theirsuccessors. It is therefore planned that those whoqualify as Plymouth post-graduates shouldgather during the May 1st bank holiday

weekend next year (2003) in order toremind themselves of their origins.Suggestions are still coming in for variouscultural visits including the Ivor DewdneyPastie shop, the Students Union for asupply of chips and a late nightdrinkingsession at the Angling Club. Aformal dinner has been proposed and asuitable location is currently being sought.All ex-Plymouth bretheren (and ‘sisteren’)who have not already been contacted dueto a lack of email numbers should contactHaydon Bailey on (01707) 661868 oremail hwb20@aol.com.

Photo Gallery

L-R: Daniel Michoux, SharmaGapanott and Jim Riding at the AASPBusiness Lunch

Alan Lord (left) and Alfred Traverse (right)

The following pictures are a selection take at the AASP-NAMS-TMS meeting inSeptember 2002. Photographs provided by Jim Riding.

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Registration!

The 3 Aussie delegates at the Icebreaker, Geoff Wood,Eric Montere and John Backhouse

Fred Rich outlining the AASP Awards2002 at the AASP Business Lunch.

Haydon Bailey introducing theSocial Evening

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Rogues GalleryEver wondered what your Officers andGroup Representatives looked like??

Haydon BaileyChair

James PowellSecretary

James RidingTreasurer

Malcolm HartJournal EditorSpecial Publications Editor

Jenny PikeNewletter Editor

Rachel PreecePublicity Officer

Andrew HendersonWebmaster

Andrew HendersonForaminifera Group Chair

Michal KuceraForaminifera Group Secretary

Mark PurnellMicrovertebrate Group Chair

Paul SmithMicrovertebrate Group Secretary

Steve StarkieNannofossil Group Chair

Emma SheldonNannofossil Group Secretary

Ian SlipperOstracod Group Chair

Alan LordOstracod Group Secretary

Susanne Feist-BurkhardtPalynology Group Chair

Paul DodsworthPalynology Group Secretary

John GregorySilicofossil Group Chair

Alex MitlehnerSilicofossil Group Secretary

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Forthcoming Conferences

FORAMS 2006

Though the details are not finalisedDr Eduardo Koutsoukos hasinformed me that FORAMS 2006will most likely take place from the10th – 15th September 2006 withfield trips planned for both the pre-conference and post-conferenceperiods. The location is to be Natalin Northern Brazil. A conference“home-page” is under constructionand it is hoped to be on-line by theend of the year. Foraminiferaworkers – start saving the pennies(or Euros) now!Malcolm HartUniversity of Plymouth<mhart@plymouth.ac.uk>

The 3rd InternationalLimnogeology CongressRadisson Hotel City Center,Tucson, Arizona, March 29 -April 2, 2003

The 3rd International LimnogeologyCongress (ILIC 3) will be held in Tucson,Arizona, from 29 March- 2 April 2003, atthe Tucson Radisson Downtown Hotel.The International Limno- geologicalCongress is the quadrennial meeting of theInternational Association of Limnogeology(IAL), a relatively new organizationdevoted to promoting the study of lakes asrepositories of earth history. Membershipin the IAL, however, is not a pre-requisiteto attend the ILIC #3, nor to submit an

abstract. ILIC #3 is co-hosted by theDepartment of Geosciences, the Faculty ofScience, and the Institute for the Study ofPlanet Earth (ISPE), all of the Universityof Arizona. The UA has a long tradition ofinterest in Quaternary geology, lakedeposits, and paleolimnology, both withinthe units hosting this conference and inother major research units of interest to thelimnogeology community, including thewell-known AMS Laboratory, theLaboratory of Tree Ring Research, and theUS Geological Survey’s Desert Laboratory, The ILIC #3 Congress follows in thefootsteps of the two highly successfulearlier ILIC meetings, ILIC #1 inCopenhagen, in 1995, and ILIC #2 inBrest, France, in 1999. We invite you tojoin us in making ILIC #3 just asrewarding and exciting a meeting as theprevious two congresses, and to spendsome time in Arizona either before or afterthe congress, to visit the beautiful Sonorandesert at the height of springtime! As withprior ILIC meetings, we hope to havepresentations covering the breadth ofmodern limnogeology. We want themeeting to showcase the most currenttrends and exciting findings in the field,and we encourage your ideas forconference themes, special workshops, androundtable discussion groups to keep thismeeting as lively as possible.For more details :http://w3.arizona.edu/%7Euaextend/ilic3/

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5th EuropeanOstracodologists’ Meeting(EOM V), Cuenca, Spain,21-27 July 2003 Ostracods as(paleo)biological proxies

Focusing on the biology of Ostracods, theusefulness of these microcrustaceans indifferent disciplines (limnology,oceanography, palaeoecology, evolution,climate change and human impact studies)will be the main subject of this conference.The meeting will also serve as a platformto discuss the use of recent models basedon individual and/or populationcharacteristics, which provide powerfultools for palaeoenvironmentalinterpretation and studies of evolutionarytrends from the Palaeozoic to the Recent.For more details : http://www.uv.es/EOM-V/index.html

15th InternationalSymposium on Ostracoda(15th ISO), Free Universityof Berlin, September 2005

This meeting is officially sponsored by theInternational Research Group on Ostracoda(IRGO) and the Free University of Berlin.IRGO is affiliated with the InternationalPaleontological Association under theInternational Council of Scientific Unionsand UNESCO. We also hope to getsponsorship by the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).For more details : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~palaeont/iso15/iso15-main.htm

4th International Congresson EnvironmentalMicropaleontology,Microbiology andMeiobenthology. Isparta,Turkey, 6-11 September 2004

Every two years, the EnvironmentalMicropaleontology, Microbiology andMeiobenthology Congress (EMMM )provides an opportunity to discuss recentand fossil eco-systems. The mainobjectives of EMMM 2004 are: (1) tocontinue the discussions initiated duringthe previous three symposia and enhancefurther exchange of ideas, (2) to bringtogether specialists with biological,geological and environmental backgroundsfrom different countries to discuss in acollaborative manner the environmentalproblems of global and regional changes,(3) to promote innovative multidisciplinaryresearch in recent and fossil micro andmeioorganisms, (4) to introduce theutilization of micro and meioorganisms toa broader audience and to bridge the gapbetween science, industry, nationalgovernments and interactive organizationsand (5) to increase knowledge in theenvironmental field and awareness of theworld’s environmental problems. This firstcircular of EMMM 2004(www.isemmm.org) includes importantinformation on the organization committeeand scientific committee, the themes, placeand dates of the congress, andaccommodation and pre-registration forms.The goals of the congress are to build uponthe accomplishments of 2002, with thevision of improving the world we live in.Main Subjects of the Fourth InternationalEMMM Congress, 2004

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The conference will cover a wide range oftopics, with special emphasis on thefollowing:

• Micro- and meioorganisms asindicators of past and recentenvironments

• Micro- and meioorganisms asindicators of pollution forecological risk assessment

• Industrial applications(including environmentalapplications) of micro- andmeioorganisms

• Application of micro- andmeioorganisms toarchaeology and medicine

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ConferenceReports

The AASP - NAMS -TMSJoint Conference (UCL,September, 2002) Haydon Bailey<hwb20@aol.com>

- a brief appreciationLet me admit right at the start that I didn’tmake it to all the conference; that wouldhave been physically impossible given thedual sessions. I missed part of theThursday morning session and then wenton the field trip on the Friday afternoon.Nevertheless, I’ll present a personalimpression of three really enjoyable daysat UCL and if anyone wishes to fill a fewof the gaps, then that would be verywelcome.

Tuesday evening - made it to the Icebreaker in the cloisters at UCL. Lots of‘old’ familiar faces there, many of whomI’ve not seen for 10 years plus, so this is agreat opportunity to reminisce and catchup on a lot of lost ground. By far the mostimportant publication available that nightwas an August edition of Womanmagazine, carrying the results of aninterview with Neil Hulme (exPaleoservices, Kronos, etc) on one-nightstands (copies still available!). Perhaps asad, if curious, illustration of wherepalaeontology is heading. Ended theevening dining very well with Jim Fenton,Roger Davey, Mike Charnock, PaulMilner, et al.- as a non-Robertson,smicropalaeontologist I was made verywelcome - a good indication of howfriendly the meeting was to be.Wednesday 11th September. A difficult day

to start for all our American colleagueswho’d joined us in spite of the tragicevents just 12 months ago. We shared aminutes silence with them in keeping withthe anniversary and in the hope that suchan event is never repeated.The start of the formal presentations fell toFelix Gradstein, where he very ably re-introduced us to quantitativemethodologies. He was followed by PaulSikora who, with his colleagues at BP,Utah and Andy Gale, presented the resultsof several studies of proposed LateCretaceous stage boundary stratotypes.Whilst I don’t always agree with Paul’sconclusions, it was excellent to hear himpresent his results and interpretations soclearly. Jim White concluded the firstsession with a status review of the workcarried out in Canada developing thePalynodata Early Cretaceous database andit’s related software Palynoplot. This vastreference source includes information fromover 20,000 items of literature collatedover several decades and deserves to beacknowledged as an amazing tool instratigraphic interpretation.After coffee I was faced with a verydifficult choice, Palynology orPalynology? I resisted the urge to visitWaterstone’s and headed for down under.Jim Riding gave us a fascinating review ofthe similarities (and important differences)between the Jurassic palynofloras ofAustralia versus those of the northernhemisphere. Just another ‘Ashes’competition as far as I could see. BillCornell gave us a really good insight intothe dinocyst assemblages from the Albianof New Mexico and Dan Michoux roundedoff with an excellent guided tour aroundthe palynology of the Lower CretaecousMcMurray Formation. It was worth sittingin on this just for the panoramic photos of

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Alberta taken from the helicopter. Thescenery and outcrops looked amazing and Inever thought I’d see evidence of Danbelaying down a very sheer rock face inorder to collect those all importantsamples.Back on home ground after lunch, withWynn Hughes presenting the results of ahuge amount of core evaluation from theAptian Shu’aiba Formation of SaudiArabia. This was a fascinating presentationof a really good story and one of myhighlights of the day. We stayed with mid-Cretaceous ‘larger’ forams for the nextpresentation and I was feeling much moreat home. Stephan Coric then went on torelate an unusual use ofmicropalaeontology when he and FredRögl had to determine the precisestratigraphic level for the origin ofsediment contamination in a mineral watersupply in the Vienna basin. The combineduse of nannoplankton and plankticforaminiferids allowed the provenance ofthe offending marls to be identified. Acombined German/Egyptian teampresented the results of a major fieldprogramme over the Paleocene/Eoceneboundary succession in both platform andbasinal settings, again providing us with aninsight into the value of integrated studies. We returned to quantitative methods forthe last session of the day, giving SilviaSpezzaferri the opportunity to review sea-level changes in the Eastern MediterraneanNeogene succession. The discussion of‘fuzzy’ logic by Gary & Johnson whichfollowed, was probably a little late in theday for me and I admit to feeling a littlefuzzy for the last talk of the day when wereturned to Felix Gradstein. On thisoccasion Felix introduced the audience towww.based biostratigraphy and thepotential of the up and coming Chronos

database system. I’m sure this is thedirection we’re all heading, we just have totry to keep up with the rapid pace of theadvances.the talks were followed with a two houropportunity to inspect and catch up withthe Poster presentations in the cloisters,and these always impress me with the highquality of the formats used and thefinished results.Thursday: I missed much of the morningsession due pressures of work, so myapologies to all those speakers aboutOman…. I did really want to hear them,but unfortunately missed out this timearound. I made it in part way through thesecond session and was pleased to be intime to catch the two talks re-introducingme to the sequence stratigraphy of theMid-Cretaceous succession in the WesternInterior of the U.S.A. The post-lunch session kicked off with afascinating review of the Cretaceoussuccession off northwestern Australia(Backhouse et al.) and then it was back tonortherly climates. Paul Milner and MikeCharnock presented two talks on the LateCretaceous reservoir sections of theNorwegian Sea region. Both clearlyillustrated the importance of good quality,high resolution analytical work in order toprovide the development geologists withthe information they need. I made it to the last two talks of the dayand benefitted from Pete McLaughlin’sdetailed work on the Neogenepalynostratigraphy of the Atlantic coastalregion. Naresh Mehrotra ably closed theformal sessions of the day with asystematic and thorough run through thepalynostratigraphy of the majorpetroliferous basins of India.A number of delegates, by judicious use ofmobile phones, managed to congregate in a

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St. James’s hostelry and were in a pleasantframe of mind prior to the start of theevenings entertainment, for that is what itwas. John Marshall presented a fullbiography of the palynological pioneerArthur Raistrck. This was a real eye-opener, as John enthusiastically presenteda detailed piece of research into thecomplete life-story of this complex,conscientious and hard-working scientist.It was a difficult act to follow, but MartinFarley was up to it. Having considered oneof our pioneers, it was time to considerwhere we go from here. Martin has, oflate, taken on the role of playing devil’sadvocate in his assessments of the futureof biostratigraphy, but his conclusionswere by no means bleak. With the sciencewe have available to us there are newapplications opening up all the time. It’sjust up to us to market them and maximiseour opportunities.Friday morning; slightly bleary, occasionalsnoring in the crowd, obviously the aftereffects of the night before. Chris Denisonand Rachel Preece made an ambitiousdouble-act providing us a valuable insightinto the practical uses of biostratigraphicdata integration. I was on second - stillnoises off from somnolent well wishers -and was grateful to hand over to WynnHughes who, like me, presented the resultsof some detailed biofacies work.The post-coffee session was just like oldtimes with three talks on the Jurassicpalynology of the North Sea (yes, I waspleased I’d had that coffee). Drs. Butler etal. and Hogg et al.covered the MiddleJurassic and Les Riley managed to get onstage again and bring us back to hisfavorite Oxfordian - Volgian succession,this time in the Janice Field. The heavens smiled upon us overlunchtime so that the group photograph

could be taken on the steps of UCL andafter that it was off to the Isle of Wight forthe field trip (more on that elsewhere). I’dsat through a lot of talks, learnt an awfullot (I hope), still missed out on much,including all that Faeces Facies (yes, therewas a whole day on it) and met up withmany old friends and we’re still goodfriends. That to me was one verysuccessful event and my sincere thanks goto all the organizers and particularly to JimRiding and Jamie Powell who achieved somuch. To Alan Lord and all his helpers atUCL, a really big thank you. I’m suremuch went as smoothly as it did becauseof their attention to detail and willingnessto help. Looking forward to the next one!

The AASP-NAMS-TMSpost-conference field tripAfter two and a half days incarcerated invarious lecture theatres it was great to beon the open road and heading off to theIsle of Wight, only it was very open. It wasa Friday afternoon and the traffic out ofLondon wasn’t moving all too quickly.Nevertheless, we battled on or at least ourdrivers did. It was also a little ominous tobe travelling to the Isle of Wight in mini-buses hired from ‘Parkhursts’.Anyway we made it and ouraccommodation was extremely welcoming,down one of the main streets in Ryde asopposed to a visit to Her Majesty’s PrisonParkhurst as the name on the bus implied.The hotel staff were really helpful, thefood was good and the motleyinternational collection ofmicropalaeontologists were getting toknow each other over a beer or two.The Saturday morning was spent onSandown Bay, initially yomping along thebeach in order to maximise our time on theheadland at Culver before the tide

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threatened to cut us off. Although the aimwas to cover the section up as far as theTop Rock in the Upper Turonian chalksection, we were able to amble our wayback through the mid-Cretaceoussuccession, allowing those who wished tosample at as many levels as possible.There was much discussion regardingperiodites, organic fluxes, eustatic controlsand hardground formation during this partof the trip.We then managed to introduce ouroverseas guests to the joys of an Englishcream tea taken in a cottage garden in OldShanklin. If they forget the geology, theywon’t forget the calories they stoked awaybetween sections as we followed this witha brisk walk down on to the beach at St.Catherines Point in order to scavenge formacrofossil remains.Back to the hotel for a shower, shave andmove to the bar and dining room. Thedinner on the Saturday night was excellentand it seemed no time at all until the staffwere trying to kick us out. Sunday was spent on the northern side ofthe eastern end of the island, workingthrough the White Chalk sequence ofWhitecliff Bay, effectively from theConiacian section at the top of ‘TheNostrils’ through to the top of the chalkwithin the Upper Campanian mucronataZone. Many of the party also found time toventure into the overlying Tertiary section,although personally reasons for thisseemed a little wasted on me. We managedto fit in considerable discussion about flintformation, during the morning withnumerous levels of paramoudra flintsvisible and some excellent exposures ofThalassinoidesburrowing due to recentrock falls.The trip was organised and led by IainPrince, Bruce Tocher and Ian Jarvis; the

two ‘Ians’ also acting as mini-bus driversfor the trip. They did a brilliant job,providing all those essentials for such atrip….good accommodation, a clear fieldguide, low tides, safe driving, good foodand even transport to Newport hospital A& E department for the minor wristfracture inherited by Kaj Pedersen due to afall whilst scrambling over one of therockfalls at the end of Sandown Bayduring Saturday’s excursion.It all provided a fitting close to anexcellent conference and we thoroughlyenjoyed ourselves, as the attachedphotograph shows - glorious weather aswell - it even made it worth fightingthrough that London traffic.Haydon Bailey<hwb20@aol.com>

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ISJS – Sicilly 2002The 6th International Symposium on theJurassic System was held in Mondello(Palermo), Sicilly, in September 2002.With the pre-conference and post-conference excursions this was a majorundertaking and the organisation was firstclass. Manuscripts were collected fromauthors at the meeting and Guido Parisiprocessed these and identified reviewersduring the meeting. Many of us leftPalermo with an envelope of papers toreview! The final proceedings volume is,therefore, in production and it would begood to see the papers published as soonas possible. During the meeting, whichwas attended by ~180 geologists from allover the world, there were a series ofkeynote talks to plenary groups followedby parallel sessions on identified themes.Things flowed smoothly and there werefew grumbles from participants, althoughthere were the inevitable clashes ofinterest. The UK was well represented, with anumber of papers and posters presented byattendees from a wide range of institutions.During the meeting there were a number ofmeetings of the various Working Groupsthat are primarily concerned with theGSSP definitions. Of particular interest isthe fact that the Pleinsbachian GSSP nowlooks as though it will be defined in theWine Haven (Robin Hood’s Bay) sectionon the Yorkshire Coast. The WorkingGroup, led by Christian Meister (Geneva)presented their final report in Palermo. Thebase of the Toarcian will be the subject ofa detailed investigation of the Penichesection in Portugal and any(micro)palaeontologists with informationon that succession should contact amember of the Working Group. The GSSPfor the Oxfordian had initially been

proposed for a section in SE France but itnow seems that an alternative might befound in Ham Cliff on the Dorset Coast. Ateam of specialists is being assembled togenerate a proposal for that section thatmust involve as wide a range of disciplinesas possible. Some work is alreadycompleted and there is a strong possibilitythat this section could become the GSSPfor the stage. The Kimmeridgian WorkingGroup gave an update on progress with thesection on Skye. There were four proposals for the locationof the 2006 meeting of ISJS; S.W.England,Warsaw (Poland), Nanjing (China) andVaranasi (India). The choice of the locationfor the next ISJS, following a vote, wasPoland, with the meeting being held atsome time during the summer of 2006. Asthis is the same year as FORAMS 2006 Ican only hope that there is no clash!The Sicilly ISJS was a good meeting,enjoyed by most and we congratulate ourItalian hosts on their organisation. Thelocation, on the shoreline just outsidePalermo, was beautiful (as was theswimming pool for those not involved inthe sessions!).Malcolm HartUniversity of Plymouth<mhart@plymouth.ac.uk>

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CoccoCo: Coccolithophores -from molecular processes toglobal impact, CentroStefano Franscini, MonteVerita, Ascona, Switzerland,10th-15th February, 2002(www.coccoco.ethz.ch)

Jeremy Young’s CODENET(Coccolithophore EvolutionaryBiodiversity and Ecology Network) andthe ETH group (led by Hans Thierstein)joined forces to host this conference in thebeautiful surroundings of Monte Verita,with its unique Italian-Swiss flavour (Imust say, I am no longer a fan of polenta,though!). The ‘organic’ conferencecentre/hotel (in the late 19th century, thepreserve of a group of intellectualnaturists) is perched above Lago Maggioreand surrounded by pines and magnolias,this scenery visible from extensivewindows and terraces. Although the paceand breadth of the science, predominantlythe culmination of four year’s worth ofresearch under the EU-funded CODENETumbrella, was exhausting to those of usonly familiar with the fossilised side ofthings, we were fed and watered threetimes a day (all included in the conferencefee), and allowed to help ourselves fromthe bar-fridge in the evenings. This gave usplenty of opportunity to mingle in arelaxing atmosphere, and consequently Ibelieve that everyone came away with amuch deeper understanding of the broadnature of coccolithophores.We got to see a little of the town ofBellinzona, with an organised trip to thecastle. Social bonding was cemented at theconference dinner, held in an atmosphericrestaurant (up a mountain and across astream - very romantic!), where the waiters

forced us to drink wine from jugs, ratherthan glasses, and Linda Medlin forcedevery male at the dinner to dance with her(apart from the really stroppy ones)!The meeting encompassed seven themes:cell biology & biochemistry;coccolithophore ecology; E. huxleyiphysiological ecology & bloom studies;molecular phylogeny & evolutionarybiodiversity; microevolution & species-level variation; modern & ancientcoccolith carbonate fluxes; andevolutionary development ofcoccolithophorids vs. global change. Thepresenters, ranging in specialisation fromplant biologists, through ‘culture nerds’, tonannofossil stratigraphers and systemmodellers, covered a range of subjectsfrom the molecular clock (Linda Medlin)through the history of the evolution of thegroup (Paul Bown), and monitoring livingcoccolithophorids on a variety of scales(William Balch), to determining feedbacksbetween their long-term evolution andcarbonate flux (Bill Hay, Hanno Kinkel).The conference also acted as a forum forco-ordinating future studies. A selection ofthe presentations will be included in aconference volume, to be published as abook (see the website for details).

Jackie Lees<j.lees@ucl.ac.uk>

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Workshop on CretaceousClimate and OceanDynamics, Florissant,Colorado, USA, 14th-18thJuly, 2002(www.whoi.edu/ccod/information.html)

This limited-attendance (100 scientists)meeting was simply brilliant! Organised byTim Bralower, Karen Bice et al. to bringtogether the ‘top names’ in Cretaceousresearch (yes, and me), and held at TheNature Place, a ‘dry’ conference hall andcabin complex set in a pine forest, milesfrom anywhere (well, a couple of milesfrom the Florissant fossil beds), we workedfrom 8am to 9pm with breaks for coffee,lunch and dinner. But it didn’t feel likehard work at all...Stumbling out of yourcabin into clean, crisp air, with blue-jaysflitting around the pines, and sittingoutside for breakfast with hummingbirdsquarrelling over the feeders overhead and aview of the Rockies in front of you wasalmost like being in a Disney film! Then towork - another stroll through the trees, andpast the gym (which only made me feel alittle guilty every day). The sessions were divided into themescovering everything to do with Cretaceousclimate: isotopic records, biotic records,environmental & biotic consequences oflarge igneous provinces, OAEs & criticalintervals, sea-level records & mechanismsfor global eustatic change, and atmospheric& ocean circulation. Each day, there wereone or two keynote lectures on top of theregular program, the final one after dinner.These included: Cretaceous climatechanges: a palaeobiological perspective(Elisabetta Erba); the Cretaceous carboncycle: interpreting the carbon isotoperecord (Mike Arthur); terrestrial linkagesbetween the atmosphere and biosphere:

Cretaceous applications (Hope Jahren);speculations on circulation of theCretaceous ocean (Bill Hay); coupledocean-atmosphere-vegetation models ofwarm climates (Paul Valdes); and mid-Cretaceous igneous events and geologicalresponses: the devil is in the details (RogerLarson).This was a dry locale but did I say it was adry conference? Actually, the organiserscircumvented this by bringing in a truck-load of beer and wine (literally), which weall paid a contribution to on arrival (youget a lot for your $20 in Colorado!). Thekegs were rolled out for the poster-sessions, and then the networking reallygot underway. I’m obviously biased, but Ireckon people working on the Cretaceousare the nicest. I met a number of peoplewhose names were familiar to me from theliterature but who I never thought I’d everrub shoulders with. What struck meparticularly about this group was howdynamic they are in their research - I haveto assume some people never sleep, thenumber of (quality) publications they getout each year!The conference field-trip took us to see theAlbian through Turonian at the potentialstratotype location for theCenomanian/Turonian boundary at theRock Canyon Anticline, in Lake PuebloState Park. This was extremely well-organised, the field-leaders being equippedwith posters showing us exactly where wewere and what was what and why, andwhat we were going to do next. One of thethings I love about the US is its geology.The scale is so much larger than the Britishequivalent, and for me this makes it mucheasier to understand the context of thesediments and appreciate the vastness ofgeological time. And for someone who, asa student, wondered why we only ever

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went on field-trips during foul weather ,Colorado in summer was perfect! That wasuntil mid afternoon, when we wereslogging up the Fort Hays Limestone inbaking heat (the photo on page 38 showsus at the bottom of the ascent) with nowater left! But waiting for us at the topwere the buses with coolers full of chilledwater (David Watkins - what a gentleman -he gave me the last cupful!) and softdrinks...absolutely perfect timing.

Jackie Lees<j.lees@ucl.ac.uk>

INA9, Parma, Italy, 9th-13thSeptember, 2002(www.geo.unipr.it/~ina9/)This year the 9th INA Conference washeld in the historical city of Parma, Italy.First of all some statistics: there were 113official attendees, two unofficial(underage) attendees, 39 talks were givenand 35 posters were exhibited. Talk andposter sessions were held in the AulaMagna building in the centre of Parma forthe first couple of days, then for latter halfof the week we transferred to theuniversity campus on the outskirts of thecity. A variety of subjects were tackled,including Mesozoic and Cenozoicbiostratigraphy, palaeoecology,palaeobiology, coccolith carbonate fluxand nannoplankton as climate proxies.Amongst other high-quality presentations,innovative talks were given by Jean Self-Trail, on impact shocking effects on thedistruibution and taphonomy of calcareousnannofossils from the Chesapeake Bayimpact crater (SE Virginia), and by KarenHenriksen et al., on atomoc forcemicroscopy of coccoliths, and impliactionsfor biomineralisation and diagenesis.

For those of us who had never visitedParma (or Italy) before, various small tourswere organised so we could get a taste ofthe region: a visit to the BibliotecaPalatina, where an impressive piano andsoprano recital was held, and later in theweek, a tour was organised to visit amedieval caslte (Torrechiara, where thefilm Ladyhawke, starring Michelle Pfeifferand Matthew Broderick, was filmed), theMagnani-Rocca Art Museum (containingan original Monet painting), and a Parmaham factory (the few veggies amongst uswho couldn’t stomach that part took refugein a trucker’s cafe a short walk away alongthe motorway…!).Most of us attended the excellentconference dinner that was held in theSocieta di Lettura. After a delicious meal,an informal meeting was held to deal withvarious bits of official INA business. After13 years of excellent service, Bill Siesserstood down as the INA Bibliographer,leaving the position vacant (it has sincebeen decided that Mário Cachão, RicJordan and Harald Andruleit will sharejoint responsibility for this job). Katharinavon Salis was awarded a plaque and thefirst Honorary Membership of the INA inrecognition of her having founded theINA, acted as its Presedient for 16 years,and for continuing to be an inspiration. Toend off the night, three presentations weregiven, by David Watkins, EmanuelaMattioli and Mário Cachão, sellingLincoln, Nebraska (and car-henge), Lyons,France (and French cuisine and bars), andLisbon, Portugal (plus field/boat-trips andPort) as possible venues for the next,INA10, conference in 2004….we await theresults!Awards (copies of the NannoWare CDROM) were given at the end of theconference for the best student talk

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(awarded to Davide Persico for a talk onhigh-resolution calcareous nannofossilbiostratigraphy and palaeoecology fromEocene-Oligocene sediments, Maud Rise,Weddell Sea and Kerguelen Plateau,Antarctica), and the best student poster(awarded to Elisa Malinverno for herposter on morphological variability withinthe genus Calciosolenia, and itsrelationship to the genus Anoplosolenia:extant coccolithophorids from the easternMediterranean). A third award was givento the second youngest conferenceattendant, Kieran (nine months old - theyoungest being Eliza, aged 8 months!) forsquealing in the right places during themost exciting talks!Once the conference was over, about afifth of the attendees headed off on thefield-trip to Cinque Terre, a stretch of theLigurian coastline notable for itspicturesque fishing villages nestledbetween rugged cliffs and subverticalvineyards. The trip was a model oforganisation, and had folk clambering frombus to restaurant to boat with ease. Arrivalin the Cinque Terre on the Fridayafternoon gave time for a relaxing swimoff the beach of Monterosso, where thenight was spent. The next day saw a tripout on a boat, from where the Triassic-Tertiary Tuscanid succession was leisurelyviewed. Lunch was held in Portovenereand from there we were driven back toParma across the Apennines, stopping tosee the Romanic cathedral of Berceto.Thanks go to Guiliana Villa and her teamat the Universita’ Degli Studi di Parma fororganising an excellent conference andfield-trip, also to Ben Walsworth-Bell andElena Colmenero-Hidalgo for contributingto this summary. A selection of photos areviewable on the INA website(www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/galleries/

ina9/index.htm). Two conference volumeswill be produced: a special issue of MarineMicropalaeontology and a special issue ofthe JNR.

Emma Sheldon<es@geus.dk>

6th InternationalSymposium on the JurassicSystem, Mondello, Sicily,Italy, 16th-19th September,2002 (www.dst.unito.it/6thISJS/)

Uncomfortably, nannopalaeontologistswere massively outnumbered byammonitologists (as they call themselves)in Mondello! This was a large conference,with the science presented between twosets of field-trips. I didn’t attend any of thefield-trips but all conference participantsreceived a rather spectacular and thoroughfield-guide (partly the work of anannopalaeontologist, Dr. FrancescaLozar). In addition, we all received twobeautifully-presented volumes on Jurassicammonites and other fauna. Theconference was expertly-organised by,primarily, Giulio Pavia, Luca Martire andFrancesca Lozar, all from TorinoUniversity.Another conference hosted on-site (formost people), in the lovely Splendid HotelLa Torre, which boasts a decent-sized pool,leading onto a fair-sized sunbathing terraceoverlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, a piece ofwhich was roped off for our use (there wasa reasonably strong current going roundthe headland!). With a water temperature>20˚C, this proved to be a good place tochat and exercise during the extendedlunch periods (1-3pm)! As with all large conferences, each dayyou really had to plan your talks-

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attendance in advance, with three separateoral sessions being run at once. My onlycriticism of this is that session overseersreally need to keep to the timetable, so thatyou don’t end up missing talks in othersessions, and speakers aren’t interrupted bypeople coming and going. Keynote talksincluded the themes of Sicilian Jurassicgeology, Jurassic stratigraphy, and Jurassicammonite biogeography. The sessions (oraland poster) were divided into a variety ofthemes: integrated stratigraphy and GSSPs,palaeoenvironment, palaeoceanography,palaeobiology, tectonics andsedimentation, and geoconservation. Thislatter theme should be of interest to us all,since there still seems to be much todebate about whether and how this shouldproceed, and the real problems associatedwith physically conserving sites. Thesewell-informed presentations encompassedthe need for protection of sites and fossils,the legal framework and socialmanagement of protected sites, and thestate of the art and associated problems ofparticular case studies.In general, microfossil science was well-represented, with oral/poster presentationsconcerning nannofossils(four oral:Pliensbachian-Toarcian and Jurassic-Cretaceous integrated biostratigraphy -Comas-Rengifo et al., Marino et al.;synchroneity of the Early Toarcian anoxiccrisis - Mailliot et al.; palaeoceanography -Bown et al.; and seven posters: KenyanMiddle Jurassic litho- and biostratigraphy -Chiocchini et al.; Kimmeridge Claypalaeoenvironment - Lees & Bown;Sicilian integrated biostratigraphy - Chiariet al.; Spanish Pliensbachian/Toarcianintegrated biostratigraphy - Comas-Rengifo et al.; Portuguese Toarcianintegrated chemo- and biostratigraphy -Duarte et al.; Spanish Lower/Upper

Bajocian integrated stratigraphy - Sandovalet al.; Italian Pliensbachian biotic andisotope changes -Mattioli et al.),radiolaria (6/13), foraminifera (7/5),palynomorphs (3/1), ostracods(0/4) anddinoflagellates(1/1).Of major interest to myself was the sessionon palaeoceanography and palaeobiology.Hugh Jenkyns (Oxford) presented thestate-of-the-art Jurassic chemostratigraphicdata (the relatively reliable 87Sr/86Sr,∂12Ccarb, ∂

13Corg curves, and less soMg/Ca, ∂18O, ∂15Norg), highlighted itslimitations, but made a case formultiparameter chemostratigraphy beingvery useful in providing higherstratigraphical resolution than attainablethrough fossils, and for illustrating gaps inthe sedimentary record and changes insedimentation rate. He then summarisedthe palaeoceanographic implicationsassociated with such data: although blackshale accumulation was significant throughthe Jurassic, the Lower Toarcian is theonly interval which contained globallyhigh TOC values, i.e. is an Oceanic AnoxicEvent. Complementarily, Helmut Weissertet al. (Zürich) explained how the LateJurassic (13C curve shows an underlyingtrend towards lighter values through theLate Jurassic, reflecting decreasing Corgaccumulation (reduced C reservoir) andincreasing coccolith-carbonate preservation(oxidised C reservoir). This switchoverapparently came about due to falling sea-levels, a lowered CCD, and increasedweathering rates, which caused an increasein oceanic alkalinity and decreased CO2

levels.Using the Belemnite Marls (Pliensbachian)and Kimmeridge Clay (Kimmeridgian) ascase studies, Paul Bown et al. (London)explained how we can use nannofossils asindicators of Jurassic surface-water

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environments. In the former case,nannofloral assemblages differsignificantly between the light- and dark-marl bedding couplets. Lower-diversityassemblages in the light marls aredominated by Crepidolithus crassus, andare interpreted as the product ofheightened surface-water productivity,caused by nutrient influx delivered throughvertical mixing in the water-column. In thesecond case, all of the assemblages arelow-diversity and dominated bywatznaueriaceans. This primary signal isinterpreted as resulting from dominance ofthe photic zone by r-selected (growth-maximising) coccolithophores in virtually-permanently nutrient-enriched surface-waters.Malcolm Hart et al. (Plymouth) linkedeustatic sea-level change, particularly theexploitation of ecological niches followingsea-level rise and/or anoxia, to theenigmatic Jurassic evolution of planktonicforaminifera. He expressed the hope thatthis could be corroborated by future findsof these rare specimens.At the ISJS plenary meeting on the finalday, it was decided that the 7th symposiumwill be held in Poland.It wasn’t all hard work - the ice-breaker onthe first evening, held on one of theterraces, was accompanied by a fortuitousbut spectacular and very noisy fireworksdisplay from a boat out in the bay. Theconference dinner was held in thecourtyard of an old building in Palermo,and featured delicacies such as pricklypear, which went down well after the pinkand green cocktail aperitifs!

Jackie Lees<j.lees@ucl.ac.uk>

International Meeting andWorkshops of theCommission Internationalede Microflore duPaléozoique (CIMP – 2002):Palaeozoic Palynology in theThird Millennium: newdirections in acritarch,chitinozoan and miosporeresearch”

This summer has been a test of social andacademic stamina even for the mostseasoned palynological conference-goers.The latest CIMP meeting was sandwichedbetween the 6th European Palaeobotany-Palynology conference and our ownTMS/AASP/NAMS London meeting. TheCIMP meeting was hosted during the firstweek of September by the Université desSciences et Technologies in the delightfulFrench city of Lille. An excellenttechnical programme included over fiftyoral presentations and around twentyposters covering many diverse Palaeozoicpalynological topics; from the calibrationof Devonian spore zones with U-Pbzircon-dated ash beds (Hughes & Higgs) tothe palaeoclimatic significance of theDevonian-Carboniferous boundary(Marshall et al.). The healthy volume ofpresentations made it necessary to runparallel programmes for the Spore/Pollenand Acritarch/ChitinozoanSubcommissions for three of the ninesessions. There was a pre-conferenceexcursion looking at the Lower Palaeozoicof Brittany and the meeting was followedby a glimpse at the Palaeozoic of Belgium.The meeting was, as ever, augmented by astrong social component including a drinksreception at the Lille Museum of NaturalHistory and a gala dinner across theBelgian border in Tournai, following a

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guided tour of the historic town itself.Additionally, more informal Anglo-Irish‘discussions’ took place in the plethora oflate-opening bars and clubs, which Lillehad to offer. Special thanks must go toThomas Servais and Ludovic Stricanne fororganising the successful event.

Dan FinucaneIchron Limited

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