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ISSUE NUMBER 12, SPRING 2003

1993 was the year of the last issue of our good old paper-printed version of Friends of the Algae Newsletter (FotAN). Today, January 21, 2003 (ten years later) marks its renaissance.

The original FotAN was an informal publication of scientists working with, or just interested in, fossil algae and cyanobacteria. It consisted of the names and addresses, research interests and publications of the subscribers. The Newsletter was begun in the mid-1970's by, among others, Don Toomey and John Wray (if you can add to this story, please let us know!). It was produced over the years under the editorship of Don Toomey, John Wray, John Cys (whom we thank for much of this history), Corinne Danielli, and Andy Torres, among others. Its production was interrupted in 1993 because the editors (Corinne Danielli and Andy Torres, at the time) ran out of money for typing, printing and shipping via snail mail - especially the latter!

But now the WWW and related tools (browsers, e-mail) allow these production and distribution costs to be significantly cut. Corinne Danielli and Bruno Granier are very pleased to bring you this electronic version of FotAN. Bruno Granier has created the website for the IFAA, hosted by the server of the University of Kansas thanks to Andrew Torres and colleagues. FotAN pages in HTML will be hosted by the same server (more thanks to Andrew Torres and colleagues). In addition, FotAN pages in PDF will be hosted by the server of the University of Western Cape (thanks to Derek Keats and colleagues).

The IFAA, i.e. the International " Fossil Algae " Association, is a non-profit organisation - there are NO fees or dues - for the study of fossil algae: taxonomy, morphology, biology, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, mineralization, etc. Its website address is: http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/index.html. The IFAA page was launched on April 28th, 2000; see the News page for updates. The site includes parts where you can load information: entertainment pages (including a quiz page), a poll page, a message board, publication news, etc. Have you some feedback for us? If so, sign the Guestbook! This is - in addition to the CALCALGA list - the easiest way to communicate with us. A sidebar panel "Affiliate Ring" calls up a ring of websites called Fossil and Modern Algae that brings together a set of pages dealing with benthic algae and/or bacteria. 

We'd like the new FotAN to cover both fossil and modern algae for the benefit of everybody (biologists, ecologists, palaeontologists, stratigraphers, sedimentologists). Pages are planned with announcements for meetings, conferences, and other events. Accordingly, we are currently looking for a specialist in modern (including calcifying or mineralising) algae/Cyanobacteria to join us in organising the modern alga stuff. If you are interested, or if you know anyone who might be, do let us know! There may be enough work for two such individuals!

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CONTRIBUTORS

ALEX-SANDERS Mark

AGUIRRE Julio

BASSI Davide

BASSO Daniela

BERGER Sigrid

BRADLEY Peter

BRAGA Juan C.

BUCUR Ioan I.

CONRAD Marc André

CZARNECKI David

DANIELLI H.M. Corinne

DREW Ed

EDGELL H. Stewart

ESTEVEZ José Manuel

FEIST Monique

FISCHER Astrid

GARCIA Adriana

GHOSH Amit Kumar

GRANIER Bruno R.C.

GRGASOVIC Tonci

GUSSMANN Oliver A.

HAAS Jean Nicolas

HARVEY Adele

HILDEBRAND-HABEL Tania

HINDE Rosalind

KNEZ Martin

KOPASKA-MERKEL David C.

LODUCA Steve

MANDOLI Dina

MANNINO Anna Maria

MANNSCHRECK Beate

MORTON Osborne

PARENTE Mariano

RIDING Robert

SCHLAGINTWEIT Felix

SCHWEIGERT Guenter

SIMMS Dorothy Fay

SOULIÉ-MÄRSCHE Ingeborg

TORRES Andrew M.

VACHARD Daniel

WOELKERLING William

WUJEK Daniel E.

ZAYAS HERRERA Carmen Rosa

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DATE: DEC 16, 2002

TITLE: Ph.D., Univ. Grad. Eng. of  Geology, Assistant Professor

NAME: Martin KNEZ

ADDRESS: Karst Research Institute
Scientific Research Center of the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
P.O.Box 59, SI-6230 Postojna, Slovenia

TEL.: ++386 5 700 1915,  ++386 5 700 1900 MOBILE: ++386 41 272 636

FAX: ++386 5 700 1999

E-MAIL : knez"NO@SPAM"zrc-sazu.si

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Fossil: as a paleogeographical and paleoecological indication

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Interpretation of upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene beds regarding paleogeographical and paleoecological conditions in SW Slovenia

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:
D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 6, 2002

TITLE: MSc

NAME: Astrid FISCHER

ADDRESS : Delft University of Technology
Interfaculty Reactor Institute
Department of Radiochemistry
Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB Delft

E-MAIL: a.c.fischer"NO@SPAM"iri.tudelft.nl

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

modern

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Doing my PhD in chemistry, subject: effect of UV radiation on iron uptake by algae via iron speciation, especially looking at the kinetics of iron speciation and iron uptake by diatoms.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Working on first article now

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: DEC ., 2002

TITLE: PhD

NAME: Felix SCHLAGINTWEIT

ADDRESS: Lerchenauerstr. 167
D-8000 München 80, Germany

E-MAIL: EF.Schlagintweit"NO@SPAM"T-ONLINE.DE

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:
B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

MISSONI, S., SCHLAGINTWEIT, F., DIERSCHE, V. & GAWLICK, H.-J. (2000): Alter, Fazies und Komponentenbestand der polymikten Brekzienkörper in oberjuras-sischen Kieselsedimenten im Bereich des Königssees (Sillenköpfe, Abwärts-graben, Funtensee) und deren Bedeutung für die Rekonstruktion der oberjurassischen Tektonik in den Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Berchtesgadener Land, Deutschland). - Mitt. Ges. Geol. Bergbaustud. Österr., 43 (Sediment 2000: Kurzfassungen und Abstracts), 92-94; Wien.

SCHLAGINTWEIT, F. & EBLI, O. (2000): Short note on Clypeina catinula CAROZZI, 1956 (dasycladale). - Rev. Paléobiol., 19 (2): 465-473, 2 figs., 1 tab., 2 pl.; Geneve.

GAWLICK, H.-J., LEIN, R., SCHLAGINTWEIT, F., SUZUKI, H. & WEGERER, E. (2001): Der Hallstätter Salzberg und sein geologischer Rahmen - Geschichte und Stand der Erforschung, Interpretation und neue Ergebnisse. - Ber. Geol. B.-A., 56, 3. Symp. z. Gesch. der Erdwiss. in Österr. (27.-29. Sept. 2001), 45-48; Wien.

MISSONI, S., SCHLAGINTWEIT, F., SUZUKI, H. & GAWLICK, H.-J. (2001): Die oberjurassische Karbonatplattformentwicklung im Bereich der Berchtesgadener Kalkalpen (Deutschland) - eine Rekonstruktion auf der Basis von Untersuchungen polymikter Brekzienkörper in pelagischen Kieselsedimenten (Sillenkopf-Formation). - Zbl. Geol. Paläont., 1(2), 117-143; Stuttgart.

STRUCK, U., EBLI, O. & SCHLAGINTWEIT, F. (2001): Sauerstoff-Isotope aus der Plassen-Formation der Nördlichen Kalkalpen: Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion der Klimageschichte des Zeitbereichs Oberkimmeridge bis Berrias. - Mitt. Ges. Geol. Bergbaustud. Österr., 45, 175; Wien.

SCHLAGINTWEIT, F., MANDL G. & EBLI, O. (2001): Salpingoporella austriaca n.sp.; Revue de Paléobiologie (in press).

GAWLICK, H.-J., LEIN, R., SCHLAGINTWEIT, F., SUZUKI, H. & WEGERER, E. (in Prep.): Der Hallstätter Salzberg und sein geologischer Rahmen - Geschichte und Stand der Erforschung, Interpretationen und neue Ergebnisse.

SCHLAGINTWEIT, F. & GAWLICK, H.-J. (in Vorb.): Die Typlokalität der Plassen-Formation (Oberjura-Unterkreide): Fazies, Mikropaläontologie und Biostratigraphie.

SCHLAGINTWEIT, F., RUESTLER, H. & GAWLICK, H.-J. (in Vorb.): Über ein Vorkommen von Physoporella pauciforata (GUEMBEL; 1872) STEINMANN, 1903 (Dasycladacee) aus Hallstätter Kalken (Anis) des Rabenkogel (Steirisches Salzkammergut, Österreich).

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: DEC 12, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Mark ALEX-SANDERS

ADDRESS: Biostratigraphy (International) Robertson Research International Ltd. Llanrhos Llandudno North Wales LL30 1SA U.K.

TEL: + 00 44 (0)1492 581811 ext. 371

FAX: + 00 44 (0)1492 572961

email: meas""NO@SPAM"robresint.co.uk

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

The evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the Phanerozoic calcareous Algae, and in particular the fossil Corallinales, Gymnocodiaceae, Dasycladales and Bryopsidales.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Always very busy with professional (i.e. clients) biostratigraphic work, but currently (although very slowly) continuing my own research towards completing the following projects:

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) Santonian calcareous algae (Rhodophyta, Chlorophyta) from the subsurface Ilam Formation, southwestern Iran. Journal of Micropaleontology

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) Santonian Dasycladales (Chlorophyta) from the Ilam Formation, southwestern Iran, and their evolutionary significance. Journal of Micropaleontology.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) An occurrence of Russoella BARATTOLO, 1984 (Chlorophyta, Dasycladales) in the Santonian of southwestern Iran. Newsletters in Stratigraphy.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) Transported Tertiary calcareous (Rhodophycean) Algae from the Keramit Limestone, Northern Sarawak, East Malaysia, and its provenance.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) The pan-Tethyan distribution of Sporolithon lugeoni (PFENDER) MOUSSAVIAN, (Rhodophyta, Corallinales): an apparent example of Early Cenozoic benthic algal migration.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) Early Maastrichtian calcareous Algae (Rhodophyta, Chlorophyta) from the Simsima Formation, Jabal ar'Rawdah, northern Oman Mountains.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A & CLOWSER D. R. (In prep.) Thaumatoporella occidentalis JOHNSON, 1965 (Algae, Thaumatoporellales), senior synonym of Vermiporella ? tenuipora CONRAD, 1970 (Algae ?Dasycladales), and the problem of Mesozoic Vermiporellid algae.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. & DELHAYE-PRAT, V. (In prep.) Composition and structure of high-sphericity rhodoliths in the Maastrichtian Simsima Formation of the northern Oman Mountains: palaeoecological implications.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) Early Permian calcareous Algae from southern Sarawak, East Malaysia.

ALEX-SANDERS, M.E.A. (In prep) Palaeoecology of Late Palaeozoic calcareous algae from the Terbat Formation, Sarawak, East Malaysia.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (In prep.) Ecophenotypy in Late Palaeozoic reptant/encrusting benthic algae as a response to changing palaeoenvironmental stress: convergent trends in the evolutionary palaeoecology of benthic Rhodophyta.

ALEX-SANDERS, M.E.A. (In prep.) A critical review of the genus Trinocladus RAINERI, 1922 (Chlorophyta, Dasycladales).

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (Accepted) Marine Rhodophyceaen algae from the Miocene Subis Limestone (Sibuti Formation), Central Sarawak, East Malaysia. Facies

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. & ROOHI, G. (In press) Occurrence and distribution of Marine Rhodophycean Algae in the Miocene Subis Limestone (Sibuti Formation), Central Sarawak, East Malaysia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (Accepted) Calcareous Algae (Rhodophyta, Corallinales) from the Miocene Subis Limestone (Sibuti Formation), central Sarawak, East Malaysia: evidence for pre-closure benthic algal endemism within Eastern Tethys. Marine Micropaleontology.

ALEX-SANDERS, M. E. A. (Accepted) Palaeoecology and phycocommunity succession in an unusual Late Palaeozoic (Bashkirian-Bolorian) Mud-Mound: the Terbat Formation, Sarawak, East Malaysia. Facies

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 6, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Corinne DANIELLI

ADDRESS:
9426 Waving Fields Dr.
Houston TX 77064 USA

PHONE: (281)552-1216

FAX: (713)985-1875

E-MAIL: danielli.blackwell"NO@SPAM"sbcglobal.net

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

None at present but still interested.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:
D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 7, 2002

TITLE: Associate Professor

NAME: Rosalind HINDE

ADDRESS: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

E-MAIL: rhinde"NO@SPAM"bio.usyd.edu.au

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Modern

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Physiology of symbiotic algae in corals and sponges. We are working on the mechanisms by which hosts control the metabolism of their symbiotic algae, particularly the control of photosynthetic rate, release of photosynthate to the host and morphogenesis. We are also involved in studies of the effects of copper on symbiotic algae and on nuisance algae in Australian rice paddies.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Trautman D.A., Hinde R. & Borowitzka M.A. (2000) Population dynamics of an association between a coral reef sponge and a red macroalga. Journal of experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 244: 87-105.

Grant A.J., Rémond M., Withers K. & Hinde R. (2001) Inhibition of algal photosynthesis by a symbiotic coral. Hydrobiologia, 461: 63-69.

Trautman D.A., Hinde R., Cole L., Grant A.J. and Quinnell R. (2002) Visualisation of the symbiosome membrane surrounding cnidarian algal cells. Symbiosis, 32: 133-145 .

Trautman D.A. & Hinde R. (2002) Sponge/Algal Symbioses: A Diversity Of Associations, chapter in Seckbach, J. (ed.) "Symbiosis: Mechanisms And Model Systems", Kluwer Academic Publishers b.v., Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Hinde R. & Trautman D.A. (2002) Symbiosomes, chapter in Seckbach, J. (ed.) "Symbiosis: Mechanisms And Model Systems", Kluwer Academic Publishers b.v., Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Davy S.K., Trautman D., Borowitzka M.A. & Hinde R. Ammonium excretion by a sponge supplies the nitrogen requirements of its symbiotic rhodophyte partner. Journal of Experiment al Biology, August 2002, In press.

Trautman D., Hinde R & Borowitzka M.A. The role of habitat in determining the distribution of a sponge-red alga symbiosis on a coral reef. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, In press.

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: DEC 11, 2002

TITLE: Dr

NAME: Robert RIDING

ADDRESS: Department of Earth Sciences
Cardiff University
Cardiff, CF10 3YE, UK

E-MAIL: riding"NO@SPAM"cardiff.ac.uk

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Systematics, sedimentology and biodiversity of calcified algae and cyanobacteria. Microbial carbonates in time and space.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Calcified biofilm. Microbial communities in aquatic environments colonize surfaces by forming adherent biofilms. These might be expected to have poor preservation potential and/or to be insufficiently distinctive for confident recognition. However, calcified examples up to ~500 Myr old from cryptic habitats in shallow marine sediments preserve architectural features typical of modern unmineralized biofilm (Riding 2002, Geology 30: 31-34). Recognition of ancient calcified biofilm sheds light on the significance of aggregated and channel-like features long known in stromatolites as spongiostrome and grumeleuse (clotted) fabric. These stromatolite-building fabrics differ from current concepts of biofilm by grading from localized thin veneers, on 100 nm scales, to millimetric and larger masses and layers. These deposits can be termed 'massive biofilm' and are 1-2 orders of magnitude thicker than normal biofilm. Recognition of the biofilm nature of clotted/spongiostrome carbonate would identify the origin of a key element of stromatolite microfabric, other main components being calcified cyanobacteria and trapped grains.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Riding, R. and Awramik, S.M. (eds). 2000. Microbial sediments. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 331 pp.

Riding, R. 2000. Microbial carbonates: the geological record of calcified bacterial-algal mats and biofilms. Sedimentology 47 (Supplement 1): 179-214.

Brooke, C. and Riding, R. 2000. Graticula and its derivatives, replacement name for the alga Craticula Brooke & Riding non Grunow. Lethaia 33: 82.

Aguirre, J., Riding, R. and Braga, J.C. 2000. Late Cretaceous incident light reduction: evidence from benthic algae. Lethaia 33: 205-213.

Watts, N.R., and Riding, R. 2000. Growth of rigid high-relief patch reefs, Mid-Silurian, Gotland, Sweden. Sedimentology 47: 979-994.

Aguirre, J., Riding, R., and Braga, J.C. 2000. Diversity of coralline red algae: origination and extinction patterns from the Early Cretaceous to the Pleistocene. Paleobiology 26: 651-667.

Zhuravlev, A.Yu. and Riding, R. (eds). 2001. The ecology of the Cambrian radiation. Columbia University Press, New York, 525 pp.

Riding, R. 2001. Calcified algae and bacteria. In: A.Yu. Zhuravlev and R. Riding (eds), The ecology of the Cambrian radiation. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 445-473.

Andrews, J.E. and Riding, R. 2001. Depositional facies and aqueous-solid geochemistry of travertine-depositing hot springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.) - Discussion. Journal of Sedimentary Research 71: 496-497.

Riding, R. and Fan, J. 2001. Ordovician calcified algae and cyanobacteria, northern Tarim Basin subsurface, China. Palaeontology 44: 783-810.

Riding, R. 2002. Biofilm architecture of Phanerozoic cryptic carbonate marine veneers. Geology 30: 31-34.

Riding, R. 2002. Structure and composition of organic reefs and carbonate mud mounds: concepts and categories. Earth-Science Reviews 58: 163-231.

Aguirre, J., Braga, J.C., and Riding, R. 2002. La diversificación de las algas rojas inarticuladas (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). In M. Soler (ed.), Evolución: la base de la biología. Proyecto Sur de Ediciones, Granada, Spain, pp. 527-534.

Riding, R. Algal and bacterial carbonate sediments. In: G.V. Middleton (ed.), Encyclopedia of sediments and sedimentary rocks, Kluwer, Dordrecht. In press.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://servant.geol.cf.ac.uk/palaeo/riding.htm

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DATE: DEC 11, 2002

TITLE: Dr

NAME: Julio AGUIRRE

ADDRESS: Dpto. Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Facultad de Ciencias
Fuentenueva s/n. Universidad de Granada
18071 Granada, Spain

PHONE: 00-34-958-248332

FAX: 00-34-958-248528

E-MAIL: jaguirre"NO@SPAM"goliat.ugr.es

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Taxonomy, (palaeo)ecology and diversity changes through time on non-geniculate coralline algae.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Pliocene coralline algal assemblages: palaeoecology and taxonomy Earliest Palaeocene algal assemblages: the effect of the K/T event and the Cenozoic recovery.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

AGUIRRE, J., RIDING, R. and BRAGA, J.C. (2000).- Late Cretaceous incident light reduction: evidence from benthic algae. Lethaia, Oslo, 33 (3): 205-213.

AGUIRRE, J., RIDING, R. and BRAGA, J.C. (2000).- Diversity of coralline red algae: origination and extinction patterns from the Early Cretaceous to the Pleistocene. Paleobiology, Lawrence, 26 (4): 651-667.

AGUIRRE, J. and BARATTOLO, F. (2001).- Presence of nemathecia in Parachaetetes asvapatii Pia, 1936 (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales ?): reproduction in 'solenoporaceans' revisited. Palaeontology, Oxford, 44 (6): 1113-1125.

BRAGA, J.C. and AGUIRRE, J. (2001).- Coralline algal assemblages in upper Neogene reef and temperate carbonates in southern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Amsterdam, 175 (1-4): 27-41.

AGUIRRE, J., BRAGA, J.C. and RIDING, R. (2002).- La diversificación de las algas rojas inarticuladas (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). In Soler, M. (ed.), Evolución: la base de la Biología, Proyecto Sur Ediciones, Granada: 527-534.

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: DEC 18, 2002

TITLE: Dr

NAME: Daniel VACHARD

ADDRESS: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
UFR des sciences de la Terre
Laboratoire LP3, Batiment SN5
59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cédex(France)

PHONE: 00.33.3.20.43.40.15

FAX: 00.33.3. 20.43.69.00

E-MAIL: Daniel.Vachard"NO@SPAM"univ-lille1.fr

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Palaeozoic calcareous algae and pseudo-algae. Dasycladales in general

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Classification and appartenance of Carboniferous pseudo-algae, especially Calcifolieae (with P. Cozar)

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

BERKHLI M. & VACHARD D. (2002) Le Carbonifère du Maroc central : les Formations de Migoumess, de Tirhela et d'Idmarrach. Lithologie, biostratigraphie et conséquences géodynamiques. C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris, 334 : 67-72.

VACHARD D., HAUSER M., MARTINI R., ZANINETTI L., MATTER A. & PETERS T. (2002) Middle Permian (Midian / Capitanian) fusulinid assemblages from the Aseelah Unit (Batain group) in the Batain Plain, East- Oman: their significance to Neotethys paleogeography. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, Washington, 32 (2) : 155-172.

KRAINER K. & VACHARD D. (2002) Late Serpukhovian (Namurian A) Microfavies and Carbonate Microfossils from the Carboniferous of Nötsch (Autriche). Facies, 46 : 1-26, 8 fig., pl. 1-4, Erlangen.

FONTAINE H., IBRAHIM B.A. & VACHARD D. (2002) Important discovery of late early Permian limestone in Southeastern Terpenggnu (Peninsular Malaysia). 9th Regional Congress on Geology, Mineralogy and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia, Geosea 98, Kuala-Lumpur (17-19 August 1998) : 453-460, 3 pl.

FONTAINE H., SALIAPONGSE S. & VACHARD D. (2002) The Carboniferous of east Thailand. New information from macrofossils. 9th Regional Congress of Geology, Mineralogy and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia, Geosea 98, Kuala-Lumpur (17-19 August 1998) : 461-465.

VACHARD D. & BOUYX E. (2002) Les Eopolydiexodina géantes (Foraminiferida, Fusulinina) du Permien moyen d'Afghanistan, remarques préliminaires. Ann. Soc. géol. Nord,Villeneuve d'Ascq, 9, 2e série, 163-189.

BERKHLI M., VACHARD D. & PAICHELER J.C. (2002) Viséen d'AgouraÏ (Maroc). Annales de la Société géologique du Nord , 9, 2e série, 191-196.

SKOURTSOS E., VACHARD D., ZAMBETAKIS-LEKKAS, A., MARTINI, R., ZANINETTI, L. (2002) Late Wuchiapingian (Late Dzhulfian, early Late Permian) limestone olistolites within the Tertiary flysch of Glypia Unit, (Mountain Parnon, central-eastern Peloponnesus (Greece). C.R. Geosciences, 334: 925-931, 3 fig. Paris.

CARIDROIT M., LAMERANDT A., DEGARDIN J.M., FLORES DE DIOS A. & VACHARD D. (2002) Discovery of radiolaria and conodonts in the Carboniferous//Permian of San Salvador Patlanoaya (Puebla, Mexico) ; biostratigraphic implications. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 1:205-211.

BERKHLI M., VACHARD D. & PAICHELER J.C. (2002) Les terrains viséens des boutonnières du Causse moyen-atlasique (Maroc) : faciès, environnements de dépôt et biostratigraphie. Africa Geoscience Review, 9 (2) : 135-142.

FONTAINE H., SALYAPONGSE S., NGUYEN DUC TIEN, & VACHARD D. (2002) Permian Fossils Recently Collected from Limestones of Nan Area, North Thailand. The Symposium on Geology of Thailand, 26-31 August 2002 : 45-57, 5 pl., 1 tabl., Bangkok, Thailand.

FONTAINE H., SALYAPONGSE S., NGUYEN DUC TIEN, & VACHARD D. (2002) The Permian of Khao Tham Yai area in Northeast Thailand. The Symposium on Geology of Thailand, 26-31 August 2002 : 58-76, 1 fig., 12 pl., 1 tabl., Bangkok, Thailand.

IZART A., VACHARD D., VASLET D. & MASLO A. (2002) Sedimentology of the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian in the Dnieper and Donetz Basins. Carboniferous and Permian of the World: XIV ICCP Proceedings, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 19: 120-143, 7 fig., 3 pl., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

IZART A., VACHARD D., FAUVEL J.P., VASLET D. KOSSOVAYA O. & MASLO A. (2002) Sequence Stratigraphy of the Serpukhovian, Bashkirian, and Moscovian in Gondwanaland, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and U.S.A. Carboniferous and Permian of the World: XIV ICCP Proceedings, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 19: 144-157, 5 fig., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

VACHARD D. & ARGYRIADIS I. Quelques problèmes de biostratigraphie dans le Permien mésogéen, des Alpes Carniques à la Turquie. Mémoire de l'Association des Géologues du Permien, 2 : 75-93, 7 fig.

VACHARD D. & FLORES DE DIOS, A. (2002) Discovery of Strunian (late Famennian, latest Devonian) microfossils in San Salvador Patlanoaya (Puebla, Mexico); biogeographic and geodynamic consequences. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 334:1-7, 5 fig., Paris.

MANUSCRITS SOUS PRESSE

FONTAINE H., IBRAHIM B. A. & VACHARD D. Kinta Valley displays startling Lithology and Biostratigraphy. Prodeeding of the 22nd Geological Conference- Technical Papers - Geological Survey of Malaysia.

VACHARD D., ZAMBETTAKIS-LEKAS A., SKOURTSOS E., MARTINI R. & ZANINETTI L. Foraminifers algae and carbonate microproblematica from the late Wuchiapingian (late Dzhulfian, early late Permian) of Peloponnesus (Greece). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia i Stratigrafia, PaléoForams 2001.

BERKHLI M. VACHARD D., TAHIRI A. & PAICHELER J.C. (2002) Caractères sédimentologiques et structuraux des dépôts volcanoclastiques du Viséen-Serpoukhovien de la Meseta orientale marocaine. Bull. Inst. Sc. Rabat.

MOKHTAT-AGHAÏ P. & VACHARD D. () Paradagmarita shahrezahensis new late Permian foraminifer. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia i Stratigrafia (acceptée août 2002).

FONTAINE H., SALIAPONGSE S., NGUYEN DUC TIEN & VACHARD D. () The Permian of Khao Tham Yai area in northeast Thailand. Conference on the Geology of Thailand, 26-29 July 2002 (sous presse).

FONTAINE H., SALIAPONGSE S., NGUYEN DUC TIEN & VACHARD D. () Permian fossils recently collected from limestones of Nan area. Conference on the Geology of Thailand, 26-29 July 2002 (sous presse).

KRAINER K., VACHARD D., LUCAS S.G. () Microfacies and microfossil assemblages (smaller foraminifers, algae, pseudo-algae of the Hueco Group and Laborcita Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian), south-central New Mexico (U.S.A.). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (acceptée novembre 2002). MANUSCRITS DEPOSES

FONTAINE H., IBRAHIM B.A. & VACHARD D. () Important discovery of Late Early Permian limestone in Southern Tereggan, Peninsular Malaysia (acceptée).

VACHARD D., FLORES DE DIOS A., BUITRON B. () Capitanian (Midian) and Lopingian microfaunas from Mexico. Géobios. (soumise le 26 Février 2002, sans nouvelles depuis)

VACHARD D. & COZAR P. () Saccamminopsis, Mississippian carbonate microproblematicum, interpeted as a gametophyte of Udoteacean algae (Chlorophyta, Siphonales) Géobios (soumise).

SHANG Q., VACHARD D. & CARIDROIT M. () Two microfaunal assemblages from the Changshingian (latest Permian) of southern China. Acta Micropaleontologica Sinica.

COZAR P. & VACHARD D. () Neoprincipia nov. gen., a new Mississippian red alga, and remarks on the Archaeolithophyllaceae (Rhodophyta). Géobios.

COZAR P. & VACHARD D. () New taxa of dasyclads (algae, Chlorophyta) from the Guadiato area (Misssissippian, SW Spain); implications for the reproductive evolution of the dasyclads during the late Paleozoic. Eclogae geol. Helvetiae.

VACHARD D. & COZAR P.() Protoinsolentitheca n. gen., Insolentitheca and Caligellidae, cysts or tests of Paleozoic Foraminiferida. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia i Stratigrafia

VACHARD, D. & ARETZ, M. () A carbonate algal microflora (cyanobacteria, algae and pseudo-algae) from the Earliest Serpukhovian (Mississippian, Early Carboniferous) of La Serre (Montagne Noire, France). Géobios: Lyon.

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DATE:DEC 10, 2002

TITLE: Dr

NAME: Ed DREW

ADDRESS: PO Box 361
Castletown
Townsville, Q 4812, Australia

E-MAIL: edrew1"NO@SPAM"austarnet.com.au

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Biology of Halimeda. Particularly the Recent Halimeda sediment mounds and the overlying Halimeda meadows which are generating them in the Great Barrier Reef.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Identification of segments in the sediment and how they reflect the composition of the overlying Halimeda community. Use of 3D animations to present research.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Drew, E.A. (2001). Ocean nutrients to Sediment Banks via Tidal Jets and Halimeda Meadows. In: Wolanski, E (ed)., Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs. CRC Press, pp 255-268

Please note this book has an accompanying CD with all illustrations in colour plus numerous animations.

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DATE: DEC 10, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Mariano PARENTE

ADDRESS: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università di Napoli "Federico II"
Largo San Marcellino,10
I-80138 Napoli, Italy

PHONE: +39+81+5473320

FAX: +39+81+5525611

E-MAIL: maparent"NO@SPAM"unina.it

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Morphology, systematics and stratigraphic distribution of fossil dasycladaleans

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Stratigraphic distribution of dasycladaleans in Mesozoic carbonate facies of Southern Apennines with description of new taxa.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

BARATTOLO F. & PARENTE M. (2000) - New observations on Uragiella liasica Lebouché & Lemoine (Green Algae, Dasycladales). Boll. Soc. Paleont. It., Modena, 39 (2): 123-137

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DATE: DEC 7, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Marc André CONRAD

ADDRESS: 71 Chemin de Planta
CH - 1223 Cologny
Switzerland

PHONE: +41 22 786 03 17

FAX: +41 22 786 03 17

E-MAIL: conrad"NO@SPAM"innet.ch

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Dasycladales of the Mesozoic - Biostratigraphy and biogeography

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Dasycladales of the Hauterivian

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

- Schroeder, R., B. Clavel, et al. (2001). "Corrélations biostratigraphiques entre la coupe d'Organya (Pyrénées Catalanes, NE de l'Espagne) et le Sud-Est de la France pour l'intervalle Valanginien - Aptien." Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 9 (2000): 5-41

- Conrad, M. A., I. Bodrogi, et al. (2002). "Hungariporella baconica n. gen., n.sp., (Dasycladales, calcareous green algae) from the Santonian of the Southern Bakony Mountains (Transdanubia, Hungary)." Revue de Paléobiologie 21(1): 279-289.

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DATE: NOV 30, 2002

TITLE: Professor

NAME: Jean Nicolas HAAS

ADDRESS: University of Innsbruck
Department of Botany
Division of Palynology, Systematics and Geobotany
Sternwartestraße 15
A-6020 Innsbruck
Österreich - Austria

TEL.:   +43-512-5075958

FAX:    +43-512-5072715

E-MAIL: Jean-Nicolas.Haas"NO@SPAM"uibk.ac.at

A. ("Fossil" or "Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Quaternary history of Charophyte Algae on the Northern Hemisphere

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Reconstruction of lake-levels and climatic change using Charophyte oospore determinations and species dynamics

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

HAAS, J.N. (2001): Der Bibersee und seine Ufer: Einblicke in prähistorische Milieuveränderungen. In: Gnepf Horisberger, U. & Hämmerle, S.: Cham-Oberwil, Hof (Kanton Zug) - Befunde und Funde aus der Glockenbecherphase und der Bronzezeit. Antiqua (Basel, Schweiz) 33: 182-194.

HAAS, J.N. (1999): Charophyte population dynamics during the Late Quaternary at Lake Bibersee, Switzerland. Australian Journal of Botany 47 (3): 315-324.
http://www.publish.csiro.au/books/detail.cfm?Key=2139&CID=2&SID=1

HAAS, J.N. (1994): First identification key for charophyte oospores from central Europe. Eur. J. Phycol. 29: 227-236.

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DATE: NOV 30, 2002

TITLE: Prof.

NAME: H. Stewart EDGELL

ADDRESS: 8 Barkly Crescent
Forrest
Canberra, ACT 2603 Australia

E-MAIL: sedgell"NO@SPAM"netspeed.com.au

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:
B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Edgell, H. Stewart (2002) "Upper Devonian Foraminifera and Charophyta of the Canning Basin, northwestern Australia". First International Palaeontological Congress, (IPC2002), Macquarie University, Sydney, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts Number 68, pp.45-46.

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DATE: NOV 28, 2002

TITLE: M. Sc.

NAME: Carmen Rosa ZAYAS HERRERA

ADDRESS: Calle 18 No. 1. e/ 1ra y Maceo. Rpto. El Llano
Holguín, Cuba

PHONE: 473446 - 462958

FAX:

E-MAIL: carmen"NO@SPAM"cisat.holguin.inf.cu

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:
B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Zayas, C.R. , Suárez, A.M. y Ocaña F.A () LISTA SISTEMATICA Y VARIACION ESTACIONAL DEL FITOBENTOS MARINO DE PLAYA GUARDALAVACA, CUBA. - CHECK LIST AND SEASONAL CHANGES OF THE MARINE FITOBENTHOS OF GUARDALAVACA BEACH, CUBA. Revista de Investigaciones Marinas. Vol. 23, No. 2, 2002.

Areces, A.J., Senties A. y Zayas C.R. () NUEVAS ADICIONES AL GÉNERO LAURENCIA (CERAMIALES, RHODOPHYTA) PARA EL ARCHIPIÉLAGO CUBANO - NEW ADDITIONS OF LAURENCIA (CERAMIALES, RHODOPHYTA) FOR CUBAN ARCHIPELAGO. Revista electrónica del Instituto de Oceanología, CITMA, 2002

Zayas C.R., Ocaña F.A., Suárez A.M., y La O´ J.A. () VARIACIÓN ESTACIONAL DEL EPIFITISMO DEL FITOBENTOS MARINO DE PLAYA GUARDALAVACA, CUBA - SEASONAL VARIATION OF EPIPHYTISM OF THE MARINE PHYTOBENTHOS OF GUARDALAVACA BEACH, CUBA. En prensa en la Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2002

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DATE: NOV 25, 2002

TITLE: PhD

NAME: Adriana GARCIA

ADDRESS: School of Geosciences
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522 Australia

PHONE: (061)242215966

FAX: (061)242215703

E-MAIL: adriana"NO@SPAM"uow.edu.au

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Extant and fossil Charophytes (Charales), from South America and Australia. Ecology and biogeography.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Systematics of charophytes from Australia; project that will end in 2004 with the preparation of a book for Environment Australia of the Systematics and Biogeography of extant charophytes from Australia.

Quaternary charophytes from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (with A. Chivas)

Cretaceous charophytes from Formacion El Rayo, Puerto Rico (with M. Martinez).

Tertiary Charophytes from Fm Desencuentro, Argentina (with R. Herbst)

Quaternary charophytes from UK (with C. Sayer)

Cretaceous and Tertiary charophtes from Australia (just beginning)

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Chivas, A.R., García, A. (plus 16 other authors) (2001). Sea-level and environmental changes since the Last Interglacial in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Quaternary International 83-85: 19-46. (Special reference to the Tribe Chareae).

García, A. (2001). Taxonomy and ecology of charophytes. 3rd Australian Algal Workshop, Brisbane, 23-25 July 2001, 58p.

García, A., Jones, B.G., Chenhall, B.E. and Murray-Wallace, C. (2002). Charophytes as environmental indicators: a Holocene example from Tom Thumbs Lagoon, NSW. Alcheringa 26; 507-518.

García, A. and Chivas, A.R. (2003). The euryhaline genus Lamprothamnium (Charales, Charophyta) from Australia: statistical analyses and application to paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Journal of Paleolimnology. (In press)

García, A. and Casanova, M.T. (2003). Lamprothamnium heraldii sp. nov.: a unique dioecious representative from Australia. Phycologia. (In press)

Casanova, M.T., García, A. and Feist, M. (2003). The ecology and conservation of Lychnothamnus barbatus (Meyen) Leonhardi. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica. Nanjing. (In press)

García, A. (2003). Gyrogonite and oospore morphology of Lychnothamnus barbatus (Meyen) Leonh. (Charales) from Australia: SEM data and comparison with the European populations. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica. Nanjing. (In press)

Casanova, M.T., García, A. and J.L. Porter (2003). Charophyte rediscoveries in Australia: what and why? Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica. Nanjing.(In press)

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DATE: NOV 29, 2002

TITLE: Dipl.- Biol.

NAME: Beate MANNSCHRECK

ADDRESS: Limnological Research Station
TU Munich, Hofmark 3
D-82393 Iffeldorf, Germany

E-MAIL: mannschreck"NO@SPAM"gmx.de

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

I am working on taxonomy of species belonging to the genus Chara (Charophyta) using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) and morphological traits.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

PhD thesis about genetical and morphological differentiation of selected Chara species

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Mannschreck, B., Fink T. & Melzer A. (2002).- Biosystematics of selected Chara species (Charophyta) using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP).- Phycologia, Edinburgh, 41 (issue 6): in press.

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DATE: NOV 9, 2002

TITLE: Professor Dr.

NAME: Ioan I. BUCUR

ADRESS: “Babes-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca
Department of Geology
str. M. Kogalniceanu nr.1
3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

E-MAIL: ibucur"NO@SPAM"bioge.ubbcluj.ro

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology; mainly Mesozoic Dasyclads and Halimedaceans, but also red algae and microbial carbonates.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Study on Middle Triassic calcareous algae (Dasycladales) from southern China (in collaboration with Paul Enos, Kansas University, Lawrence), further research on the Lower Cretaceous Dasycladales from Romania (including the description of a new species). Next year we will start a three year project on Microbial Carbonates from Mesozoic and Tertiary limestones of Romania.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

BUCUR I.I. (2000) - Lower Cretaceous dasyclad algae from the Pădurea craiului massif (Northern Apuseni Mountains, Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, Cluj-Napoca, 2 (1999), p.53-72, 4 fig., 6 pl.

BUCUR I.I. & FILIPESCU S. (eds.) (2000) - Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 2. Proceedings of the 2nd Romanian Symposium on Paleontology, Cluj-Napoca, 504 p.

BUCUR I.I., KOCH R., ZYA M. & TASLI K. (2000) - Lower Cretaceous Berdiga Limestone from Kirkaova (Kale-Gümüshane region, NE Turkey). Quantitative models on Cretaceous carbonates and the Eastern margin of the Apulia platform (Vieste, Gargano - Italy). Abstracts, p.6.

BUCUR I.I., KOCH R., ZYA M. & TASLI K. (2000) - Les algues dasycladales du Crétacé inférieur (Calcaire de Berdiga) de Kircaova (région de Kale-Gümüshane, NE Turqie). Revue de Paléobiologie, 19/2, p.435-463, 4 fig., 2 tab., 9 pl., Genève

BUCUR I.I. & ONAC P.B. (2000) - New data concerning the age of Mesozoic limestone from Scărişoara (Bihor Mountains). Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Geologia, Cluj-Napoca, XLV/2, p.13-20, 2 fig., 3 pl.

GRANIER B., BUCUR I.I. & TRABOLD G. (2000) - Falsolikanella danilovae RADOICIC ex BARATTOLO 1978, n. comb., a diploporacean alga from the Urgonian facies. Acta Paleontologica Romaniae, Cluj-Napoca, 2 (1999), p. 177-181, 1 pl.

SĂSĂRAN E., HOSU A., SPĂLNĂCAN R. & BUCUR I.I. (2000) - Microfacies, microfossils and sedimentary evolution of the Sănduleşti Limestone Formation in Cheile Turzii (Apuseni Mountains, Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, Cluj-Napoca, 2 (1999), p.453-462, 4 pls.

BUCUR I.I. (2001) - Upper Triassic deposits of Vaşcău Plateau. In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.19-29, 2 fig., 2 pl.

BUCUR I.I. (2001) - Lower Cretaceous algae of the Reşiţa-Moldova Nouă zone. In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p. 137-166, 8 fig., 15 pl.

BUCUR I.I. (2001) - New remarks on Kopetdagaria sphaerica Maslov, 1960. In: I.I. Bucur & I. Tanţău (eds.): 4th Regional Symposium of IFAA (Algae and carbonate platforms in Romania). Programme and abstracts, Cluj-Napoca, p. 22-23.

BUCUR I.I. (2001) - Palaeobiogeographic significance of some Cretaceous dasyclads from Mid- and Eastern Europe. In: J. de Vos (ed.) - Palaeontology, communicatuion and the public (The 3rd European Palaeontological Congress 2001), Leiden, abstracts, p.10,

BUCUR I.I. & COCIUBA I. (2001) - Lower Cretaceous algae of Pădurea Craiului. In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.119-127, 2 fig., 3 pl.

BUCUR I.I., BACIU C., HOSU A. & CODREA V. (2001) - Eocene red algae and Paleocene charophytes of Jibou area. In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.209-221, 3 fig., 6 pl.

BUCUR I.I. & ENOS P. (2001) - Middle Triassic dasyclad algae from Guizhou, China. Micropaleontology, Washington, 47/4, p.317-338, 5 fig., 7 pl.

BUCUR I.I. & FILIPESCU S. (2001) - Middle Miocene red algae from the western border of the Transylvanian Basin. In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.179-189, 3 fig., 6 pl.

BUCUR I.I., FILIPESCU S. & SĂSĂRAN E. (eds.) (2001) - Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania. 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj-Napoca, August 29 - September 5, 2001, Field trip Guide Book, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, 221 p.

BUCUR I.I. & SĂSĂRAN E. (2001) - Triassic loferites of Coleşti nappe (Vaşcău). In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.129-135, 2 fig., 3 pl.

GENOT P., BUCUR I.I. & IONESI V. (2001) - Discovery of Acetabulariaceae (Chloro[phyta, Dasycladales) fertile caps in Sarmatian sediments from Moldavia (Romania). In: I.I. Bucur & I. Tanţău (eds.): 4th Regional Symposium of IFAA (Algae and carbonate platforms in Romania), Cluj-Napoca. Programme and abstracts, p.57.

MASSE J.P. & BUCUR I.I. (2001) - Generic reappraisal of Angioporella? bakalovae Conrad & Peybernes (1978), Early Cretaceous Dasycladale from the eastern European Tethyan margin. In: I.I. Bucur & I. Tanţău (eds.): 4th Regional Symposium of IFAA (Algae and carbonate platforms in Romania), Cluj-Napoca. Programme and abstracts, p.22-23.

POP G. & BUCUR I.I. (2001) - Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sedimentary formations from the Vâlcan Mountains (South Carpathians). Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Geologia, Cluj-Napoca, XLVI/2, p.77-94, 4 fig., 8 pl.

SĂSĂRAN E. & BUCUR I.I. (2001) - Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous microbolites and calcareous algae from the Stramberk-like limestones in Cheile Turzii area. In: Bucur I.I., Filipescu S. & Săsăran E. (eds.) -Algae and carbonate platforms in the western part of Romania, Field trip guige, 4th Regional Meeting of IFAA, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.191-207, 4 fig., 7 pl.

SĂSĂRAN E., BUCUR I.I. & PRICĂ I. (2001) - Microfacies and microfossils in Upper Jurasic limestones from Cheile Turenilor. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Geologia, XLVI/2, p.35-52, 2 fig., 10 pl., Cluj-Napoca.

BUCUR I.I. & BALTRES A. (2002) - Cenomanian microfossils in the shallow water limestones from Babadag basin: biostratigraphic significance. In: Baciu C., Bucur I.I., Filipescu S & Săsăran E. (eds.)-Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Special issue 1, Cluj Napoca, p.79-96, 2 fig., 6 pl.

AROLDI C. & BUCUR I.I. (2002) - Paleogene microfacies in some calcareous bloks of the Roaia Formation (wildflysch nappe-Maramureş). In: Baciu C., Bucur I.I., Filipescu S & Săsăran E. (eds.)-Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Special issue 1, Cluj Napoca , p.13-30, 6 fig., 5 pl.

BUCUR I.I. (2002) - New remarks on Kopetdagaria sphaerica Maslov. In: Bucur I.I. & Filipescu S. (eds.) - Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates. Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.79-90.

BUCUR I.I. & FILIPESCU S. (eds.) (2002) - Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates. Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, 208 p.

GENOT P., IONESI V. & BUCUR I.I. (2002) - Preliminary results from the study of Acetabulariaceae fertile caps discovered in Sarmatian sediments from Moldavia (Romania). In: Bucur I.I. & Filipescu S. (eds.) - Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates. Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.91-96.

MASSE J.-P. & BUCUR I.I. (2002) - Generic reappraisal of Angioporella? bakalovae Conrad & Peybernès (1978): Early Cretaceous dasycladalean from the Carpatho-Balkanic region. In: Bucur I.I. & Filipescu S. (eds.), Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates. Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, p.147-154

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DATE: NOV 8, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Ingeborg SOULIÉ-MÄRSCHE

ADRESS: Laboratoire de Paléobotanique
Université Montpellier II, C.P. 062
Place E. Bataillon
F - 34095 MONTPELLIER-Cedex 5 (FRANCE)

PHONE: +33 - 4-67 14 39 78

FAX: +33 - 4 67 14 30 31

E-MAIL: marsche"NO@SPAM"isem.univ-montp2.fr

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Fossil AND modern Charophyta (sensu Charales, Characeae) with emphasis on the calcified oospores ( gyrogonites )

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Research in progress focuses on the use of the Charophytes as biomarkers for palaeolimnology ( Miocene to Recent ) and as indicators of palaeoenvironmental changes especially during the Messinian salinity crisis; palaeoecology of continental aquatic environments in the Mediterranean region and Morocco ( Neogene, Quaternary, Holocene)

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Elkhiati, N., Soulié-Märsche, I., Ramdani, M. & Flower, R. (2002).- A study of the subfossil oospores of Nitella opaca (Charophyceae) from Megene Chitane (Tunisia). Cryptogamie Algol., 23 (1): 65-73.

Emblanch, C., Soulié-Märsche, I., Daniel, M., Simler, R. & Thiéry, A., (2002).- A karstic inflow vs. functioning and biota of a temporary pond in Provence: the case study of the Bonne-Cougne temporary pond (Var, southern France). In: Carrasco, F., Duran, J. J. & Andreo, B. (eds.) Karst and Environment, pp. 139-143.

Ghetti, P., Anadon, P., Bertini, A., Esu, D., Gliozzi, E., Rook, L. & Soulié-Märsche, I. (2002).- The Early Messinian Velona basin (Siena, central Italy): paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical reconstructions. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2925 (2002): 1-33.

Soulié-Märsche, I., Benammi, M. & Gemayel, P. (2002).- Biogeography of living and fossil Nitellopsis (Charophyta) in relationship to new finds from Morocco. J. of Biogeography, 29: 1-9.

Soulié-Märsche, I. (2002).- Les Charophytes comme biomarqueurs pour la reconstitution des paléoenvironnements lacustres. In: MISKOVSKY, J.C. (ed.) Géologie de la Préhistoire: Méthodes, Techniques, Applications, GEOPRE, Paris, pp. 751-768.

Soulié-Märsche, I. & Martin-Closas, C. Lynchnothamnus barbatus (Charophytes) from the Upper Miocene of La Cerdanya (Catalonia, Spain). Taxonomic and palaeoecological implications. Acta Micropal. Sinica (in press).

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 26, 2002

TITLE:

NAME: Tonci GRGASOVIC

ADDRESS: Institute of Geology
Sachsova 2
HR-10000 Zagreb, CROATIA

E-MAIL: tonci"NO@SPAM"igi.hr

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Permian and Mesozoic (focus on Triassic) Dasycladales

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Triassic Dasycladales (biostratigraphy, taxonomy, reefeal environment, etc.)

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

GRGASOVIC, T., SOKAC, B. & HALAMIC, J. (2002, in press).- Scinderella scopuliformis nov.gen., nov.sp. (Dasycladales, Green Algae) from the Middle Triassic of Croatia (Scinderella scopuliformis nov.gen., nov.sp. (Dasycladales, Algues verdes) du Triassic moyen de Croatie).- Geobios, Lyon, 5 fig.

GRGASOVIC, T. (2001).- Triassic Dasycladales from the reefeal facies: examples from NW Croatia.- In: BUCUR, I.I. & TANTAU, I. (eds.): 4th regional symposium of I.F.A.A. (Algae and carbonate platforms in Romania) (August 29 - September 5, 2001, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Programme and abstracts, p. 27, Cluj-Napoca.

GRANIER, B.R.C. & GRGASOVIC, T. (2000).- Les Algues Dasycladales du Permien et du Trias. Nouvelle tentative d'inventaire bibliographique, géographique et stratigraphique (Permian and Triassic Dasyclad algae. Bibliographic, geographic, and stratigraphic reappraisal).- Geologia Croatica, Zagreb, 53/1, 1-197, 27 fig., 1 tabl.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/jpg/Grgasovic/page_01.htm

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DATE: NOV 19, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Steve LoDuca

ADDRESS: Department of Geography and Geology
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA

TEL: 734-487-8589

FAX: 734-487-6979

E-MAIL: geo_loduca"NO@SPAM"ONLINE.EMICH.EDU

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

- Taxonomy of Paleozoic Dasyclads (especially noncalcified types)

- Systematics of Dasyclads

- Functional Morphology of Dasyclads

- Functional and Developmental Constraints on the Evolution of Dasyclad Morphology

- Using Stable Carbon Isotope Composition to Recognize Noncalcified Algae in the Fossil Record

- Taphonomy of Noncalcified Algae

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

I am currently describing several new noncalcified dasyclad species from the early Paleozoic (Ordovician and Silurian) of North America.

I am also currently working to develop biophysical models of dasyclads aimed at revealing functional constraints on the evolution of dasyclad morphology.

More details regarding this work can be found among the abstracts and reports listed below.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

LoDuca, S.T., and Pratt, L., 2002, Stable carbon-isotope compositions of compression fossils from Paleozoic Konservat-Lagerstätten; Palaios, 17:287-291

LoDuca, S.T., Kluessendorf, J., and Mikulic, D.G., 2002, A new noncalcified dasycladalean alga from the Silurian of Wisconsin; Journal of Paleontology, in press.

LoDuca, S.T., and Behringer, E.R., 2002, Evolutionary morphology of dasycladalean algae: Adaptive walks in the R landscape; Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, 34:14. [abstract]

LoDuca, S.T., and Behringer, E.R., 2001, Functional analysis and evolutionary morphology of dasycladalean algae; Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, Volume 33, 6:377. [abstract]

LoDuca, S.T., and Tetreault, D., 2001, A new thallophytic-alga-dominated biota from the Silurian Eramosa Formation, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario; Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, Volume 33, 5:36. [abstract]

D. Personal Web Page :

http://www.emich.edu/public/geo/loduca/loduca.htm

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DATE: NOV 20, 2002

TITLE: Curator, Freshwater Diatom Culture Collection

NAME: David CZARNECKI

ADDRESS: Dept. Biol., Loras College
Dubuque, IA 52001 USA

E-MAIL: CZDIATOM"NO@SPAM"loras.edu

PHONE: 1-563-588-7231

FAX: 1-563-557-4070

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Freshwater Diatom Assemblages; Diatom habitat specificity, Diatom Life Histories

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Ongoing collection and isolation of diatoms for culture; morphological variation in monoclonal culture; diatom heterotrophy/mixotrophy; diatom taxonomy

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:
D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 20, 2002

TITLE: Head, Ground Water Section

NAME: David C. KOPASKA-MERKEL

ADDRESS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA
PO BOX 869999,
USCALOOSA AL 35486-6999 USA

E-MAIL: davidkm"NO@SPAM"gsa.state.al.us

PHONE: 205-247-3695

FAX: 205-349-2861

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Fossil microbes, especially those that built Paleozoic and Mesozoic bioherms.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

In my spare time I am studying (with Douglas W. Haywick) microbial mounds in the Bangor Limestone, Chesterian (lower Carboniferous) of north Alabama. My other research in progress does not involve studying algae.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., and Haywick, D. W. (2001).- A lone biodetrital mound in the Chesterian of Alabama?- Sedimentary Geology, 145 (3-4): 253-268.

Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., and Haywick, D. W. (2001).- Carbonate mounds: Sedimentation, organismal response, and diagenesis.- Sedimentary Geology, 145 (3-4): 157-159.

Kopaska-Merkel, D. C. (2001).- Basin Analysis Of The Mississippi Interior Salt Basin And Petroleum System Modeling Of The Jurassic Smackover Formation, Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, year 5, Petrographic Study of Smackover Cores.- Geological Survey of Alabama Open-File Report, Tuscaloosa, 1-175.

Kopaska-Merkel, D. C. (2002).- Jurassic Cores from the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, Alabama, Circular 200.- Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1-83.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://home.earthlink.net/~dragontea/geology.html

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DATE: NOV 20, 2002

TITLE: Part-time Lecturer-Geology

NAME: Dorothy Fay SIMMS (I go by Fay)

ADDRESS:711 N. Grand Ave.
John Vaughan Library
Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, OK 74464

E-MAIL: simms"NO@SPAM"nsuok.edu

PHONE: 918-456-5511 x3206

FAX: 918-458-2197

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:
B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Working on a lab manual for Indroductory Invertebrate Paleontology and a Field guide for Earth Science Teacher field trips in NE Oklahoma

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:
D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 21, 2002

TITLE: Mr

NAME: Oliver A. GUSSMANN

ADDRESS: c/o Marine Science Department
The University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin, New Zealand

TEL:+643-479-7452

FAX:+643-479-8336

EMAIL: gusol423"NO@SPAM"student.otago.ac.nz

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Modern Halimeda sedimentology, taphonomy, ecology

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Carbonate production, preservation and budget of Halimeda (Chlorophyta: Bryopsidales) on reefs in Fiji (PhD Thesis)

Gussmann, O. A., and Smith, A. M. (2002).- Mixed siliciclastic-skeletal carbonate lagoon sediments from a high island, Fiji.- Pacific Science, Hawaii, 56 (2): 169-189.

Gussmann, O. A., and Smith, A. M. (in prep.). High volcanic islands as models for tropical in situ mixing of siliciclastic and carbonate sediments.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://www.otago.ac.nz/marinescience/sedimentology/sedsstudent.htm

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DATE: DEC 4, 2002

TITLE: Dr

NAME: Bruno R.C. GRANIER

ADDRESS: 14A rue de la Guaize
28130 Maintenon - France

TEL:00 33 (0)1 47 44 48 17 (office)

FAX:

EMAIL: brcgranier"NO@SPAM"wanadoo.fr; Bruno.GRANIER"NO@SPAM"TotalFinaElf.com

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Fossil calcareous algae and microbial structures - Carboniferous to modern

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Granier B., Poisson A., Ferré B. & Deloffre R. (2003).- New data on Petrascula iberica DRAGASTAN et TRAPPE 1986, n. comb., a Liassic club-shaped Dasycladacean. Preliminary note.-Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica. Nanjing. (In press)

Granier B. & Braik F. (2002) - Thyrsoporella pseudoperplexa n. sp., une Dasycladacée (algue verte calcaire) du Jurassique supérieur téthysien - Thyrsoporella pseudoperplexa n. sp., a Dasycladacean (green calcareous) alga from the Late Jurassic of the Tethyan Realm. - In: BUCUR, I. I. & FILIPESCU, S. (Eds.) Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates (Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca).

Granier B. & Berthou P.-Y. (2002) - Algues calcaires fossiles, nouvelles ou peu connues, du Portugal. 1ère partie - New or little known fossil calcareous algae from Portugal. Part I. - In: BUCUR, I. I. & FILIPESCU, S. (Eds.) Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates (Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca).

Granier B. & Hofmann T. (2002) - Un guide pour la collection de Julius PIA. 2ème partie - A guide to the collection of Julius PIA. 2nd part. - In: BUCUR, I. I. & FILIPESCU, S. (Eds.) Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates (Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca).

Granier B. (2002) - Algues Dasycladales, nouvelles ou peu connues, du Jurassique supérieur et du Crétacé inférieur du Moyen-Orient - New or little known Dasyclad algae from Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous series of the Middle East. - In: BUCUR, I. I. & FILIPESCU, S. (Eds.) Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates (Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca).

Granier B., Ait Sliman M.A. & Fedan B. (2002) - Validation de l'espèce Triploporella atlasica GRANIER, AIT SLIMAN et FEDAN, non 1997. - In: BUCUR, I. I. & FILIPESCU, S. (Eds.) Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates (Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca).

GRANIER B. (2001). - New or little known fossil calcareous algae from the Middle East. Part I. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca.

GRANIER B. and BERTHOU P.-Y. (2001). - New or little known fossil calcareous algae from Portugal. Part I. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca.

GRANIER B. and HOFMANN T. (2001). - A guide to collection of Julius Pia. 2nd part. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca.

GRANIER B. and BRAIK F. (2001). - Thyrsoporella pseudoperplexa n. sp., a characteristic dasyclad (calcareous green alga) from the Late Jurassic Tethyan deposits. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca.

Granier B. & Grgasović T. [2000].- “Les Algues Dasycladales du Permien et du Trias. Nouvelle tentative d'inventaire bibliographique, géographique et stratigraphique”. Geologia Croatica, Zagreb, 53/1, p. 1-197, 27 fig., 1 table.

Granier B. [2000].- "Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates - A reappraisal“. 9th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, Conference Proceedings, ADIPEC 0918, Abu Dhabi, October 15th-18th, p. 526-535, 3 fig., 2 tabl.

Granier B., Bucur I.I. & Trabold G. [2000].- "Falsolikanella danilovae Radoicic ex Barattolo 1978, n. comb., a Diploporacean alga from the Urgonian facies”. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, Cluj Napoca, 2 [1999], p. 177-181, 1 pl.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/index.html International Fossil Algae Association

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/webring-algae.html Fossil and Modern Algae Ring (an affiliate ring)

http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/alga2000/ PETRALGA

http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/cretace/ Cretaceous Tethyan Stratigraphy

http://membres.tripod.fr/middle_east/ Geology of the Middle East Oil Province

http://uk.geocities.com/the_virtual_library/ The « Virtual » Geological Library

http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/ Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology ISSN 1634-0744

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DATE: NOV 20 , 2002

TITLE: Ph.D.

NAME: Davide BASSI

ADDRESS: Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali
Università di Ferrara,
Corso Ercole I° d'Este, 32

E-MAIL: bsd"NO@SPAM"unife.it

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Corallinaceae (Rhodophyta), Systematics, Palaeoecology

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Tertiary large benthic foraminiferal and coralline algal facies, facies analysis, palaeoecology, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, trophic analysis

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Bassi D. & Nebelsick J. H. (2000)- Calcareous algae from the Lower Oligocene Gornji Grad Limestones of Northern Slovenia.- Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Milan, 106 (1): 99-122.

Bassi D., Woelkerling W.J. & Nebelsick J. (2000)- Taxonomic and biostratigraphical re-assessments of Subterraniphyllum Elliott (Corallinales, Rhodophyta).- Palaeontology, London, 43 (3): 405-425.

Nebelsick J.H., Bassi D. & Drobne K. (2000)- Microfacies analysis and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Lower Oligocene, shallow-water carbonates (Gornji Grad Beds, Slovenia).- Facies, Erlangen, 43, 157-176.

Nebelsick J. & Bassi D. (2000)- Diversity, growth-forms and taphonomy: key factors controlling the fabric of coralline algal dominated shelf carbonates. In Insalaco E., Skelton P. & Palmer T. (eds), "Carbonate platform systems: components and interactions", The Geological Society of London, Special Volume No. 178, 89-107, London.

Bassi D. (ed.) (2000)- Shallow water benthic communities at the Middle-Upper Eocene boundary. Southern and north-eastern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary. Field trip guidebook of the 5th meeting IGCP 393 IUGS-UNESCO. Annali dell'Università di Ferrara, supplemento Scienze della Terra, Ferrara.

Nebelsick J.H., Rasser M. & Bassi D. (2002)- The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition as recorded in shallow water, circumalpine carbonates. In Prothero, D.R. (ed.) Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition, Columbia Univ. Press, p. 471-491.

Bassi D., Zakrevskaya E. & Fugagnoli A. (2002)- A guide to the collection of Vladimir Petrovich Maslov (Rhodophyta, Corallinales). In Bucur I. (ed.): 4th International Symp. IFAA, Cluj-Napoca, in press.

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 21, 2002

TITLE: PD Dr.

NAME: Sigrid BERGER

ADDRESS: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zellbiologie
Rosenhof
 68526 Ladenburg, Germany

TEL: 49 6203 106 100 

E-MAIL: sberger"NO@SPAM"zellbio.mpg.de

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Systematics, life cycle and morphogenesis of recent Dasycladales Nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:
D. Personal Web Page :

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/jpg/Berger/Berger_01.html

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DATE: NOV 22, 2002

TITLE: Dr. (Prof.)

NAME: Juan C. BRAGA

ADDRESS: Dpt. Estratigrafia y Paleontologia
Univ. Granada
Campus Fuentenueva
18002 Granada, Spain

E-MAIL: jbraga"NO@SPAM"ugr.es

PHONE: ++ 34 958 248332

FAX: ++ 34 958 248528

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Coralline red algae, Carbonates

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

I am working on Neogene fossil algae from southern Spain, and Neogene and Quaternary algae from NE Australia

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Aguirre, J., Riding, R. and Braga, J.C. (2000) Diversity of coralline red algae; origination and extinction patterns from Early Cretaceous to Pleistocene. Paleobiology, 26:651-667.

Aguirre, J., Riding, R. and Braga, J.C. (2000) Late Cretaceous incident light reduction: evidence from benthic algae. Lethaia, 33: 205-213.

Lund, M., Davies, P.J. and Braga, J.C. (2000) Coralline algal nodules off Fraser Island, Eastern Australia. Facies, 42: 25-34.

Braga, J.C. and Aguirre, J. (2001) Coralline algal assemblages in upper Neogene reef and temperate carbonates in southern Spain. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 175: 27-41

D. Personal Web Page :

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/jpg/Braga/Braga_01.html

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DATE: NOV 22, 2002

TITLE: Professor Emeritus

NAME: Andrew M. TORRES

ADDRESS: Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA

E-MAIL: andym"NO@SPAM"ku.edu

PHONE: 785/843-5566 FAX

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Permian and Triassic siphonous green algae.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

The morphology of Ivanovia using CT 3D imaging and modelling using 3D printing.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Andrew M. Torres, Andrew M. Christensen, Timothy E. Masters and Richard A. Ketcham. 2002. From CT scans of embedded Ivanovia to models using rapid prototyping . Palaeontology. In press.

Andrew M. Torres. 2002. Sexual reproductive structures in the green alga Ivanovia triassica. Lethaia. In press.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/Andy/ivanovia/index.html

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DATE: NOV 23, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Amit Kumar GHOSH

ADDRESS: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany 53 University Road, Lucknow - 226 007 Uttar Pradesh, INDIA

E-MAIL: akghosh_in"NO@SPAM"yahoo.com; amitkg1"NO@SPAM"rediffmail.com

PHONE: +91-522-2321743 (Residence)

FAX: +91-522-2381948, 2374528

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Fossil algae (Corallinales, Daycladales and Bryopsidales), taxonomy and palaeoenvironment.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Ongoing research project (in the 10th Five Year Plan of Government of India, W.E.F. April, 2002): Micropalaeontology of fossil algae from Late Cretaceous - Early Paleocene sequence of Cauvery Basin, South India. In this programme fresh samples have been collected, thin sections have been prepared and sprolithaceans and geniculate corallines have been studied for the first time from some Early Paleocene outcrop sections of Cauvery Basin. In addition, studies on the Corallines and Halimeds from the Neogene sequence of Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Paleocene of Meghalaya (NE India) are in progre ss with special reference to their implications on palaeoenvironment.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Papers Published / Accepted (in press):

I) Ghosh, Amit. K. (2002). Cenozoic coralline algal assemblage from southwestern Kutch and its importance in palaeoenvironment and palaeobathymetry, Current Science, Bangalore, India 83(2): 153-158.

II) Ghosh, Amit. K. (2000). Significance of benthic calcareous algae from Petroliferous basins of India. Proceedings of Symposium of National Conference on Plants, Microbes and Environment, Department of Botany, University of Burdwan, India (Accepted, In Press.).

III) Ghosh, Amit. K. (2001). Dasycladacean green algae: Their diversification in India in the geologic past, Glimpses of Indian Phycology (Publisher Bishen Singh-Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun, India), (Accepted, In Press.).

IV) Saxena, R.K., Ghosh, Amit. K. & Chandra, A. (2001). Calcareous algae from the Hut Bay Formation (Middle Miocene) of Little Andaman Island, India and their significance. Glimpses of Indian Phycology (Publisher Bishen Singh-Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun, India). (Accepted, In Press.).

V) Hassan S. Hassan & Ghosh, Amit K. (2002). Early Oligocene non-geniculate coralline algal assemblage from Al Bayda Formation, Northeast Libya. Current Science, Bangalore, India. (Accepted, In Press.)

VI) Ghosh, Amit K., Chandra, A. & Saxena, R.K. (2002). Middle Pliocene non-geniculate and geniculate coralline algae from the Car Nicobar Island, India, Vistas in Plant Morphology and Palaeobotany, Allahabad, India. (Accepted, In Press.).

Abstracts Published:

I) Ghosh, Amit K. (2000). Benthic calcareous algae from Petroliferous basins of India and their significance. National Conference on Plants, Microbes and Environment, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India pp. 75-76.

II) Ghosh, Amit K. (2000). Palaeoecology and taxonomy of the Tertiary Coralline algae from southwestern Kachchh. National Symposium on Kachchh Basin, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, pp. 41.

III) Ghosh, Amit K. (2001). Diversification of the family Sporolithaceae during Cretaceous - Tertiary Period in India, 7th International Phycological Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, August - 2001, Phycologia, Vol. 40, No. 4, Supplement, July 2001. Abstract No. 209, pp. 65.

Abstracts accepted and full paper finalised:

I) Ghosh, Amit K. Corallinaceaen and Halimedaceaean algae from the Neogene sediments of India and their implications on palaeoenvironment. 8th International Congress on Pacific Neogene Stratigraphy to be held at Chiang Mai, Thailand during 2-9 February, 2003.

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 21, 2002

TITLE:

NAME: Daniela BASSO

ADDRESS: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
 Piazza della Scienza 4
20126 Milano Italy

E-MAIL: daniela.basso"NO@SPAM"unimib.it

PHONE: +39-0264484333

FAX: +39-0264484273

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Neogene to Recent calcareous red algae, Corallinaceae, taxonomy, ecology/paleoecology, biogeography

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

-Coralline algae from actual Mediterranean soft bottoms: composition of maerl facies and comparison with non-Mediterranean and/or fossil analogues.

-The role of corallines in the global change in progress (increasing CO2, global warming)

-The corallines in the Oligocene Mediterranean reefs

-Molluscan associations related to modern Mediterranean algal facies

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Basso, D., Rodondi, G. & Mari, M. (in press).- New observations on the Mediterranean crustose coralline alga Lithothamnion minervae Basso (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) and comparison with the lectotype of Millepora fasciculata Lamarck.-Phycologia, Oxford.

Corselli, C., Giacobbe, S., Basso, D., Spanò, N., Rinelli, P. & Martinelli, M. (in press).- Taphonomy and sedimentology on the mediterranean shelf: sediments and macrobenthos of the Pontian archipelago. Results of the R/V Minerva cruises: July 1989, October-November 1989.- CoNISMa, Roma.

Basso, D., Bernasconi, M.P. & Robba, E. (2002).- Holocene environments in the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily). 3° Convegno Nazionale sulle Scienze del Mare. Bari, 27-30 novembre 2002.

Bressan, G., Babbini, L., Ghirardelli, L. & Basso, D. (2001).- Bio-costruzione e bio-distruzione di Corallinales nel mar Mediterraneo. Atti del 31° Congresso della Società Italiana di Biologia Marina, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 13-20/5/2000. Biologia marina mediterranea, 8 (1): 131-174.

Vannucci, G., Piazza, M., Fravega, P., Basso, D. (2000).- Revision and re-documentation of M. Airoldi’s species of Archaeolithothamnium from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy). Riv. It. Paleont. Strat., Milano, 106 (2): 191-202.

Vannucci, G., Basso, D. & Fravega, P. (2000).- New observations on the anatomy of the fossil calcareous alga Subterraniphyllum Elliott. Riv. It. Paleont. Strat., Milano, 106 (2): 237-246.

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DATE: NOV 21, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Tania HILDEBRAND-HABEL

ADDRESS: Department of Geology
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 104
 Blindern 0316 Oslo Norway

E-MAIL: hiha"NO@SPAM"geologi.uio.no

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Cretaceous to modern dinoflagellates (calcareous and organic-walled) and coccolithophorids. Palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology, biostratigraphy, systematics.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Focussing on petroleum-related biostratigraphy.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Hildebrand-Habel, T., Willems, H. (2000).- Distribution of calcareous dinoflagellates from the Maastrichtian to early Miocene of DSDP Site 357 (Rio Grande Rise, western South Atlantic Ocean).- International Journal of Earth Sciences, Berlin, 88: 694-707.

Hildebrand-Habel, T. (2002).- Die Entwicklung kalkiger Dinoflagellaten im Südatlantik seit der höheren Oberkreide.- Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, Bremen, 192: 1-152.

Streng, M., Hildebrand-Habel, T., Willems, H. (2002).- Revision of the genera Sphaerodinella Keupp and Versteegh, 1989 and Orthopithonella Keupp in Keupp and Mutterlose, 1984 (Calciodinelloideae, calcareous dinoflagellate cysts).- Journal of Paleontology, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 76(3): 397-407.

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DATE: NOV 19, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Monique FEIST

ADDRESS: Université Montpellier II
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution
Laboratoire de Paléobotanique (C.C.62)
Université Montpellier 2
Place Eugène Bataillon
F-34095 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 05

TEL: 33.(0)4.67.14.32.88

FAX: 33.(0)4.67.04.20.32

EMAIL: mofeist"NO@SPAM"isem.univ-montp2.fr

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Fields of interest: fossil and extant charophyta, non-marine environments

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Garcia, G., Feist, M., Cabot, A., Valentin, X. et Vianey-Liaud, M. 2000. Les oeufs de dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Bassin de Villeveyrac-Mèze (Hérault, France). Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Prismatvolithas. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 171, 3 : 283-289.

Garcia, G., Duffaud, S., Feist, M., Marandat, B., Tambareau, Y., Villatte, J., & Sigé, B. 2000. La Neuve, gisement à plantes, invertébrés et vertébrés du Bégudien (Sénonien supérieur continental) du bassin d'Aix-en-Provence. Geodiversitas, 22, 3 : 325-348.

Feist, M., Feist, R., Mawson, R., & Talent, J. 2000. First record of fossil charophytes in Australia: the Sycidiale from the Late Devonian Mytton Formation of Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 58:249-253.

Mistiaen, B., Gholamalian, H., Gourvennec, R., Plusquellec, Y., Bigey, F., Brice, D., Feist, M., Feist, R., M., G. P., Kebria-EE, M., Milhau, B., Nicollin, J.-P., Rohart, J.-C., Vachard, D. & Yazdi, M. 2000. Preliminary data on the Upper Devonian (Frasnian, Famennian) and Permian fauna and flora from the chah-riseh area (Esfahan Province, Central Iran). Ann. Soc. Géol. du Nord, 8 (2ème série) : 93-102.

Lopez-Martinez, N., Canudo, J. I., Ardèvol, L., Suberbiola, X. P., Extebarria, X., Cuenca-Bescos, G., Ruiz-Omenaca, J. L., Murelaga, X. & Feist, M. 2001. New Dinosaur sites correlated with Upper Maastrichtian pelagic deposits in the Spanish Pyrenees: implications for the Dinosaur extinction pattern in Europe. Cretaceous Research, 22, 1 : 41-61.

Feist, M., Génot, P. & Grambast-Fessard, N. Ancient Dasycladales and Charophyta: convergences and differences, with special attention to Munieria baconica Deecke. Phycologia (in press).

Haddoumi, H., Charrière, A. Feist, M & Andreu, B. Nouvelles datations (Hauterivien supérieur-Barrémien inférieur) dans les "Couches rouges" continentales du Haut-Atlas central marocain; conséquences sur l'âge du magmatisme et des structurations mésozoïques de la chaîne atlasique. C. R. Acad. Sci. (in press).

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DATE: NOV 25, 2002

TITLE: Associate Professor, Research

NAME: Dina MANDOLI

ADDRESS: Box 355325
Department of Biology & Center for Developmental Biology 
1521 NE Pacific Street
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195-5325

E-MAIL: mandoli"NO@SPAM"u.washington.edu

PHONE: 206-543-4335 (lab) -8917 (office)

FAX: 206 685-1728

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Modern predominantly, with work on evolution as well.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Please see our web site for ongoing research.

We are pleased to announce NSF funding of 2 genomics initiatives in our lab that will provide genomic resources to the scientific community as a whole. Both are collaborative awards involving many PIs and several institutions. Many algae are represented in both grants and we will make these genomic resources available to the scientific community when they have passed our quality control.

One is to make BAC libraries of 16 taxa that exemplify innovations in the transition to land (Developmental Mechanisms, First One Hundred Program). 
http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/awards/bachome.htm

The second is to clone and sequence the genomes of chloroplasts and mitochondria from 51 species in order to resolve 5 fuzzy nodes in green plant phylogeny (Tree of Life Program). http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view.asp?Article=2002112510414

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Mandoli, DF (2002) Plant Physiology. Lincoln Taiz, ed. The Mermaid's Wineglass: major discoveries in a beautiful unicell. Academic press. In press.

Henry, I & DF Mandoli (2002) Precious cells contain precious information: strategies and pitfalls in expression analysis from a few cells. IN Plant Functional Genomics: Methods and Protocols. E. Grotewold, ed. The Humana Press Inc., in press.

Arkblad, EL, Christer Betsholtz, C, Mandoli, DF & Rydström J (2001) Characterization of a nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase gene from the green algae Acetabularia acetabulum and comparison of its structure with those of the corresponding genes in mouse and Caenorhabditis elegans. BBA, 1520: 115-123.

Von Dassow, M, G Odell & DF Mandoli (2001) Relationships between growth, morphology and wall stress in the stalk of Acetabularia acetabulum. Planta, 213:659-666.

Serikawa, KA, Porterfield, DM & DF Mandoli (2001) Asymmetric subcellular mRNA distribution correlates with carbonic anhydrase activity in Acetabularia acetabulum. Plant Physiology, 125(2): 900-911.

Mandoli, DF (ed) (2000) Emerging Models in Plant Biology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Vol 19: 368 pages.

Dumais, J, Serikawa, KA & Mandoli, DF (2000) Acetabularia: a unicellular model for understanding subcellular localization and morphogenesis during development IN Emerging Models in Plant Biology, DF Mandoli, ed. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 19: 253-264.

Mandoli, DF & R Olmstead (2000) The importance of emerging models in plant biology IN Emerging Models in Plant Biology, DF Mandoli, ed. Journal Plant Growth Regulation, 19: 249-252.

Serikawa, KA, Porterfield, DM, Smith, PJ & DF Mandoli (2000) Calcification and measurements of proton and oxygen flux reveal subcellular domains in Acetabularia acetabulum. Planta, 211(4): 474-483.

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DATE: NOV 26, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Michael W. RASSER

ADDRESS: Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Heinrichstrasse 26, A-8010 Graz, Austria

E-MAIL: michael.rasser"NO@SPAM"paleoweb.net

TEL: (++43) 0316-380/8732

FAX: (++43) 0316-380/9871

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

1. Present-day encrusting assocations and their relevance for palecological interpretations: Rhodoliths, foraminiferal macroids and autochthonous encrusting associations of the Northern Red Sea. Palecological factors influencing the distribution and formation of rhodoliths and macroids. Depth distribution of autochthonous encrusting assemblages. Importance of crustose coralline algae for coral reef rubble binding

2. Systematics of Paleogene coralline red algae and the applicability of neontological concepts: Providing the systematic basis for the usage of coralline algae as palecological indicators. Application of taxonomics concepts used for present-day coralline algae.

3. Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous green algae, especially Dasycladales in the Northern Calcareous Alps: Palecology, Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

LUKENEDER, A., KRYSTYN, L., RASSER, M. W. & MÄRZENDORFER, G. (accepted) Ammonites Biostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Loser section (Northern Calcareous Alps, Salzkammergut). - In: PILLER, W. E. (ed.): Stratigrafia Austriaca (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).

RASSER, M. W (accepted). Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous carbonate platforms and reefs of the Eastern Alps: epeiric and intra-basinal settings compared. - In: PILLER, W. E. & HUBMANN, B. (Eds.): Fossil Reefs in Austria (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).

RASSER, M. W. & NEBELSICK, J. H. (accepted). Provenance analysis of allochthonous Oligocene coralline algal assemblages: a quantitative approach. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

RASSER, M. W., VASICEK, Z., SKUPIEN, P., LOBITZER, H. & BOOROVA, D. (accepted). Die Schrambach-Formation an ihrer Typuslokalität (Unter-Kreide, Nördliche Kalkalpen, Salzburg): Lithostratigraphische Formalisierung und "historische" Irrtümer. - In: PILLER, W. E. (ed.): Stratigrafia Austriaca (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).

NEBELSICK, J., RASSER, M. W. & BASSI, D. (in press). The Development of Facies Patterns of Middle Eocene to Lower Oligocene Circum-Alpine, Shallow Water Carbonate Environments. In: PROTHERO, D. R. (ed.) Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition (Columbia Univ. Press).

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A., (in press). Biostratigraphy of Dasycladales in the Northern Calcareous Alps: a critical review and comparisons with other occurrences using similarity indices. - In: BUCUR, I. I. & FILIPESCU, S. (Eds.) Research advances in calcareous algae and microbial carbonates (Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca).

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2002). Paleoenvironmental and Diagenetic Implications of Delta-18O and Delta-13C Isotope Ratios from the Upper Jurassic Plassen Limestone (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). - Geobios, 35: 41-49.

RASSER, M. W. & RIEGL, B. (2002). Holocene Coral Reef Rubble and its Binding Agents. - Coral Reefs, 21: 57-72.

KAISER, D., RASSER, M. W., NEBELSICK, J. H. & PILLER, W. E. (2001). Upper Oligocene Algal Limestones on a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Ramp at the Southern Margin of the Bohemian Massif (Upper Austria). - In: PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (Eds.): Paleogene of the Eastern Alps. - Österr. Akad. Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Kom., 14: 197-224.

NEBELSICK, J. H., STINGL, V. & RASSER, M. (2001). Autochthonous facies and Allochthonous debris flows compared: Lower Oligocene carbonates of the Lower Inn Valley (Tyrol, Austria). - Facies, 44: 31-46.

PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (Eds.) (2001). Paleogene of the Eastern Alps. - Österr. Akad. Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Kom. 14, 795 pp., 27 Tabs., 144 Figs., 72 Pls.

RASSER, M. W. (2001). Paleoecology and Taphonomy of Polystrata alba (red alga) from the Late Eocene Alpine Foreland: a new tool for the reconstruction of sedimentary environments. - Palaios, 16: 532-538.

RASSER, M. W. & PILLER, W. E. (2001a). Paleogene of the Eastern Alps - an Introduction - In: PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (Eds.): Paleogene of the Eastern Alps. - Österr. Akad. Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Kom., 14: 5-11.

RASSER, M. W. & PILLER, W. E. (2001b). Facies Patterns, Subsidence and Sea-Level Changes in Ferruginous and Glauconitic Environments : The Paleogene Helvetic Shelf in Austria and Bavaria - In: PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (Eds.): Paleogene of the Eastern Alps. - Österr. Akad.  Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Kom., 14: 77-110.

RASSER, M. W. (2000). Coralline red algal limestones of the Late Eocene Alpine Foreland Basin in Upper Austria: component analysis, facies and palecology. - Facies, 42: 59-92.

RASSER, M. W. & PILLER, W. E. (2000). Designation of Phymatolithon in fossil material and its paleoclimatological implications. - Micropaleontology, 46(1): 89-95.

Conference Abstracts:

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2002). The Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Northern Calcareous Alps: structure and evolution. - Accepted for oral presentation: 6th International Symposium on the Jurassic System, 12.-22. 9. 2002, Palermo.

RASSER, M. W., FENNINGER, A. & FRITZ, H. (2002). Quantitative Biogeographie von Dasycladales im Ober-Jura/Unter-Kreide des mediterran-tethyalen Raumes und ihre Bedeutung für paläogeographische Rekonstruktionen. - Accepted for oral presentation: Geo-2002, 1.-5. 10. 2002, Würzburg.

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2002). Oberjurassisch-unterkretazische Karbonatplattformen der Nördlichen Kalkalpen: Konzepte - offene Fragen - neue Ansätze. - Abstracts Sediment 2002, Frankfurt-Darmstadt. - Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 17: 161-162

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2002). Das Einsetzen von Karbonatplattformen im Ober-Jura der Nördlichen Kalkalpen: Progradationsmuster, Mikrofazies und Riffstrukturen. - Abstracts PanGeo I, Salzburg: 142.

NEBELSICK, J. H., RASSER, M. W. & BASSI, D. (2002). Eozäne/Oligozäne Plattformkarbonate des zirkumalpinen Raumes: physikalische und biologische Steuerungsfaktoren an der 'Greenhouse'/'Icehouse' Wende. - Abstracts Sediment 2002, Frankfurt-Darmstadt. - Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 17: 148.

FENNINGER, A. & RASSER, M. W. (2001). Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Dasycladaleans of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria) - the State of Knowledge. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca: 24.

NEBELSICK, J. H., BASSI, D. & RASSER, M. W. (2001). Microtaphofacies of Middle Eocene to Lower Oligocene carbonates from the Circum-Alpine Region. - Abstracts International conference on Paleobiogeography & Paleoecology, Piacenza & Castell'Arquato: 101-102.

PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (2001). Late Eocene Crustose Algal Buildups of the Alpine Foreland in Upper Austria. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca: 40.

PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (2001). Encrusting Coralline Algae from the Oligo-Miocene of Central Iran. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca: 58.

PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (2001). The Identification of Fossil Coralline Algae (Corallinaceae and Sporolithaceae: Rhodophyta): Perspectives and Illusions. - Abstracts 4th Regional Symposium of the International Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca: 58.

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2001). Dynamik und Faziesmuster jurassisch/kretazischer Karbonatplattformen der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (FWF-Projektvorstellung). - Abstracts 6. Österr. Sedimentologenworkshop, Seewalchen.

RASSER, M. W., WAGREICH, M. & PILLER, W. E. (2001). Paleogene Sedimentation and Subsidence of the Helvetic Shelf (Austria, Bavaria). - Abstracts 5th Workshop of Alpine Geological Studies. - Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Insbruck, 25: 170.

CACHAO,M., RASSER, M., RODRIGUES, D. & MARQUES DA SILVA, C. (2000). Paleoenvironmental and taphonomical interpretation of Miocene rhodoliths from Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Preliminary data. Abstracts I Congresso Iberico de Paleontologia, Évora: 42-43.

LOBITZER, H., VASICEK, Z., SKUPIEN, P., BOOROVA, D. & RASSER, M. W. (2000). Stratigraphie der Schrambachschichten (Schrambach-Formation) an der Typuslokalität: Lithostratigraphisches Konzept und neue biostratigraphische Daten. - Abstracts zur AustroStrat 2000, Gossing. - Ber. Inst. Geol. Paläont. Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz, 2: 13-15.

NEBELSICK, J. H., BASSI, D. & RASSER, M. W. (2000). Taphonomic Comparison of Middle Eocene - Early Oligocene Carbonates. - Abstracts ISRS, Bali.

NEBELSICK, J., RASSER, M. W. & BASSI, D. (2000). Facies development of Middle Eoceen to Lower Oligocene circum-alpine carbonates. Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the IGCP 393 IUGS-UNESCO, "Shallow water benthic communities at the Middle-Upper Eocene boundary", Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Ferrara, vol. 3 (2000), p. 21.

PILLER, W. E. & RASSER, M. W. (2000). Late Eocene Crustose Algal Buildups of the Alpine Foreland - a New Type of Coralline Algal Reefs? - Abstracts ISRS, Bali.

RASSER, M. W., 2000. Der aktuelle Stand im Datenbankprojekt "Lithstrat". - AustroStrat 2000, Gossing.

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2000). Paleoenvironmental and Diagenetic Implications of Delta 18-O and Delta 13-C Isotope Data from the Upper Jurassic Plassen Limestone (Northern Calcareous Alps). - EPA Workshop 2000 - Isotopes in Palaeontology, Frankfurt.

RASSER, M. W. & FENNINGER, A. (2000). Delta 18-O und 13-C Isotopen aus dem oberjurassischen Plassenkalk (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Österreich) und ihre Bedeutung für die Rekonstruktion der Diagenesebedeingungen und des Ablagerungsraumes. - Abstracts zum 5. Sedimentologenworkshop, Seewalchen.

RASSER, M. W. & PILLER, W. E. (2000). Facies Distribution on a Carbonate Ramp Controlled by Underground Relief and Subsidence. - Abstracts 31st IGC, Rio de Janeiro.

RASSER, M. W., GAWLIK, H.-J. & STEIGER, T. (2000). Konzept zur formalen lithostratigraphischen Gliederung des kalkalpinen Oberjuras. - Abstracts zur AustroStrat 2000, Gossing. - Ber. Inst. Geol. Paläont. Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz, 2: 16-20.

D. Personal Web Page :

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DATE: NOV 29, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Anna Maria MANNINO

ADDRESS: Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche,
Via Archirafi n. 38
90123 Palermo (Italy).

TEL: 0039 091 6238264/111

FAX: 0039 091 6238203

E-MAIL: annamannino"NO@SPAM"libero.it

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

- Biology and taxonomy of Rhodophyta with particulary attention to Corallinaceae.

- Freshwater and marine benthic flora with particulary attention to Rhodophyta, Cyanophyta and Bacillariophyta.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

- Benthic flora of a thermal-sulphur sicilian river; morpho-anatomy and mineralogy of Lithophyllum byssoides (Lamarck) Foslie; marine invasive species.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Mannino A.M., 2001 - New records from the Oreto River (NW Sicily). Phycologia, Lawrence, Supplement (ipc 7 abstracts) 40 (4): 71-72.

Mannino A.M., Barone R. & Raimondo F.M., 2001 - First record of Paralemanea catenata (Kützing) Vis & Sheath (Rhodophyta) from Italian Peninsula. Atti X OPTIMA Meeting (Palermo, 13-19 settembre): 238.

Barone R., Mannino A.M. & Marino M., 2001 - Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan spread in the Mediterranean sea. First record along Italian coasts and its ecological importance as a potential invasive species. Atti X OPTIMA Meeting (Palermo, 13-19 settembre): 233.

Mannino A.M., Barone R. & Raimondo F. M., 2002 - First record of Paralemanea catenata (Kützing) Vis & Sheath (Rhodophyta) from Italian Peninsula. Bocconea, Palermo,16: 6 pp. (in press).

Barone R., Mannino A.M. & Marino M., 2002 - Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan (Bonnemaisoniales, Rhodophyta): first record of gametophytes on the Italian coast. Bocconea, Palermo, 16: 5 pp. (in press).

Mannino A.M., & Raimondo F. M., 2002 - Nuovi reperti per la collezione algologica dell’Herbarium Mediterraneum. Naturalista sicil., Palermo, S. IV, XXVI (1-2): 101-116.

Mannino A.M., Castriota L., Beltrano A. M. & Sunseri G., 2002 - The epiflora of a rhodolith bed from the Island of Ustica (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea). Flora Mediterranea, Palermo, 12: 11-28 (in press).

Mannino A.M., 2002 - Le peuplement diatomique des eaux sulfureuses-thermales du Fleuve Caldo (Sicile nord-occidentale): premiers résultats. Atti 21 ème Colloque de l’ADLaF (Nantes, 10-13 settembre 2002): 22.

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DATE: NOV 25, 2002

TITLE: Dr

NAME: William WOELKERLING

ADDRESS:

E-MAIL: W.Woelkerling"NO@SPAM"latrobe.edu.au

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Systematics and ecology of the coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta)

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Monographic studies of modern nongeniculate coralline red algae of south-eastern Australia (with Adele Harvey and Alan Millar).

An analysis of the recorded biodiversity of modern Corallinales of New Zealand and its island dependencies.

Taxonomic studies of modern nongeniculate coralline red algae of New Zealand (with Adele Harvey).

Type collections of geniculate Corallinales housed in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris.

Molecular systematics and phylogeny of selected coralline red algae based on multiple gene data (with Louise Phillips).

Monographic studies of modern coralline red algae (both geniculate and nongeniculate species) of the Gulf of California, Mexico (with Rafael Riosmenaq-Rodriguez).

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Bassi D., Woelkerling Wm J. & Nebelsick J.H. (2000). Taxonomic and biostratigraphical re-assessments of Subterraniphyllum Elliott Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Palaeontology 43: 405-425.

Morcom, N.F. & Woelkerling, Wm J. (2000). A critical interpretation of coralline-coralline (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and coralline-other ‘plant’ interactions. Cryptogamie, algologie 21: 1-31 (Invited Review 2).

Riosmena-Rodriguez R. & Woelkerling Wm J. (2000). Taxonomic biodiversity of Corallinales (Rhodophyta) in the Gulf of California, Mexico: towards an initial assessment. Cryptogamie Algologie 21: 315-354. (Invited Review 3).

Woelkerling, Wm. J. (2001). Cataloguing the world’s seaweed biodiveraity: an impossible dream? Phycologia 40 (suppl.): 49 (abstract).

Woelkerling, Wm J. & Mann, D.G. (2001). Marking the fortieth anniversary. Phycologia 40: 1.

Wynne, M.J. & Woelkerling, Wm J. (2001). IPS Presidents during the first forty years. Phycologia 40: 172-181.

Broadwater, S.T., Harvey, A.S., LaPoint, E.A. & Woelkerling Wm J. (2002). Conceptacle structure of the parasitic coralline red alga Choreonema thuretii (Corallinales) and its taxonomic implications. Journal of Phycology 38(6): in press.

Harvey, A.S., Woelkerling, Wm J. & Millar, A.J.K. (2002). The Sporolithaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia: taxonomy and 18S rDNA phylogeny. Phycologia 41: 207-227.

Woelklerling, Wm J., Furnari, G. & Cormaci, M. (2002). Leptophytum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta): To be or not to be? - That is the question, but what is the answer. Australian Systematic Botany 15: 597-618

Woelkerling, Wm J., Sartoni, G. & Boddi, S. (2002). Paulsilvella huveorum gen. et. sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Holocene of Somalia and Kenya with a reassessment of Lithothrix antiqua from the Pleistocene of Mauritius. Phycologia 41 (4): 358-373.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://

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DATE: NOV 21, 2002

TITLE: Dr.

NAME: Guenter SCHWEIGERT

ADDRESS: Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde
Rosenstein 1
70191 Stuttgart, GERMANY

E-MAIL: schweigert.smns"NO@SPAM"naturkundemuseum-bw.de

PHONE:(0049)-711-8936147

FAX: (0049)-711-8936100

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Marine algae from the Jurassic

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:
C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Schweigert G. (2001).- Über Medusites Germar (Koprolith) und echte Algen aus oberjurassischen Plattenkalken Süddeutschlands.- Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Monatshefte, Stuttgart, 2001: 237-249.

Dietl G. & Schweigert G. (2001): Im Reich der Meerengel - der Nusplinger Plattenkalk und seine Fossilien. Pfeil, Munich: 144 pp.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://mitglied.lycos.de/nusplfossilsmns/home.htm

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DATE: NOV 6, 2002

TITLE:Professor

NAME: Peter BRADLEY

ADDRESS: Dept of Biology
Worcester State College
486 Chandler St.
Worcester MA 01602-2597.

E-MAIL: pbradley"NO@SPAM"worcester.edu

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Modern: Plant growth substances, bioremediation

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Nuisance algae study in a drinking water facility, effects of polluting chemicals on the growth of algae

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:
D. Personal Web Page :

http://

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DATE: 06 November 2002

TITLE: Professor

NAME: Daniel E. WUJEK

ADDRESS: Department of Biology
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant
MI 48859 USA

E-MAIL: wujek1de"NO@SPAM"cmich.edu

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Silica-scaled chrysophyte taxonomy, ecology & distribution

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

See "A" above.

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

2001. O'Kelly, C.J. and D.E. Wujek. Cell structure and asexual reproduction in Lagynion delicatulum (Stylococcaceae, Chrysophyceae). Eur. J. Phycol. 36(1):51-59.

2001. Wujek, D.E. and L.S. Moghadam. Scaled chrysophytes from Florida. VII. Observations on the flora from the southeast. Florida Scientist 64(4):274-282.

2001. Wujek, D.E. and R.H. Thompson. The chrysophycean genera Synuropsis Schiller, Volvochrysis Schiller, Synochromonas Korshikov, Pseudosynura Kisselew, Pseudosyncrypta Kisselew, Chrysomoron Skuja, and Syncrypta Ehrenberg. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 104(1-2):71-88.

2001. Swinehart, A.L., G.R. Parker and D.E. Wujek. The structure and composition of vegetation in the lake-fill peatlands of Indiana. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 110(1): 51-78.

2002. Wujek, D.E., J.L. Wee and J.E. Van Kley. Silica-scaled chrysophytes and synurophytes from east Texas. Texas J. Sci. 54(1): 27-36.

2002. Wujek, D.E. and R.H. Thompson. The genera Uroglena, Uroglenopsis and Eusphaerella (Chrysophyceae). Phycologia 41(3): 293-305.

2002. Wujek, D.E. and O.T. Ogundipe. Silica-scaled Chrysophyceae and Synurophyceae (Chrysophyta) from Nigeria. Nigerian J. Bot. (In press)

2002. Wujek, D.E. and S.A. Carter. Identification, ecology, and distribution of silica-scale bearing chrysophytes from the Carolinas. II. Mountain Region. J. North Carolina Acad. Sci. 118(3):137-144.

2003. Wujek, D.E. First report of the protists Cochliopodium and Lepidotrachelophyllum in Florida. Florida Scient. 65(4): 7-10.

2003. S. Carty and D.E. Wujek. Dinoflagellates and silica-scaled chrysophytes from Belize. Caribbean J. Sci. (In press).

Books and Book Chapters

2002. Nicholls, K.H. and D.E. Wujek. Chrysophycean Algae. In: J.D. Wehr and R. G. Sheath, eds., Freshwater Algae of North America. Academic Press, NY, pp. 471-509.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://

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DATE: NOV 6, 2002

TITLE: Cell wall polysaccharides of red seaweeds

NAME: José Manuel ESTEVEZ

ADDRESS: Cuidad Universitaria, Pab .2 cp 1428
Buenos Aires-Argentina

E-MAIL: jestevez"NO@SPAM"qo.fcen.uba.ar

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

Cell wall polysaccharides of red seaweeds: carrageenan, agarans and D/L-hybrids.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Presence of galactans hybrids in Carragenophytes

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Estevez, J. M., Ciancia, M. & A. S. Cerezo. 2000. The system of low-molecular weight carrageenans and agaroids from the room temperature-extracted fraction of Kappaphycus alvarezii. Carbohydrates Research 325: 287-299.

Estevez, J. M. ; M. Ciancia & A. Cerezo. 2001. D/L-Galactans hybrids and agarans from gametophytes of the red seaweed Gymnogongrus torulosus (Phyllophoraceae, Rhodophyta). Carbohydrates Research 331: 27-41.

Estevez, J. M. ; M. Ciancia & A. Cerezo. 2002. Carrageenans biosynthesized by carposporophytes of red seaweed Gigartina skottsbergii (Gigartinaceae) and Gymnogongrus torulosus (Phyllophoraceae). Journal of Phycology.38: 344-350.

C.A. Pujols, C.; Estevez, J. M.; Ciancia, M. & E. Damonte. 2002. Novel DL-galactan hybrids from the red seaweed Gymnogongrus torulosus, potent inhibitors of herpes simplex virus and dengue virus. Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy. En prensa.

D. Personal Web Page :

http://

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DATE: NOV 7, 2002

TITLE: Curator of Botany

NAME: Osborne MORTON

ADDRESS: Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens
Belfast, BT9 5AB

PHONE: (028) 90383151

E-MAIL: osborne.morton.um"NO@SPAM"nics.gov.uk

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DATE: NOV 12, 2002

TITLE: Doctor

NAME: Adela HARVEY

ADDRESS: Department of Botany
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Australia

E-MAIL: A.Harvey"NO@SPAM"LaTrobe.edu.au

A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:

"Modern" Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of non-geniculate coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from Australia and New Zealand.

B. Discussion of Research in Progress:

Current research includes two projects

1: Assessing the biodiversity of non-geniculate coralline red algae from central New Zealand.

The project includes the collection of coralline algae from targeted locations in central New Zealand, detailed anatomical and morphological study of the collected samples and the completion of an identification guide to the common central New Zealand species. The identification guide will include descriptions and photographs of the most commonly occurring non-geniculate species with an emphasis on distinguishing features to facilitate identification (including morphological and anatomical data, ecological and field characteristics, distribution information and comparative/distinguishing features) with reference to herbarium material lodged in the national collections.

The identification guide (and identification keys) will provide a reliable and durable reference to be utilised in fisheries and coastal management, marine resource protection, conservation and ecological studies as well provide anatomical and morphological data important for coralline algal taxonomy.

2: Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of non-geniculate coralline red algae from south-eastern Australia.

This project includes the first detailed monographic accounts of south-eastern Australian non-geniculate coralline red algae. In addition to the taxonomy, morphology and anatomy, limited molecular data are also included with a consideration of the phylogenetic implications. Collections from nine major areas in south eastern Australia were made , detailed accounts of taxa are provided including keys to genera and species. Phylogenetic relationships based on 18S rRNA gene sequences were examined to further assess evolutionary relationships amongst coralline red algae and to determine the impact on the current classification

C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:

Ringeltaube P. & Harvey A. (2000). Non-geniculate coralline algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) on Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef (Australia). Botanica Marina: 43, 431-454

Harvey, A.S., Woelkerling, Wm J. & Millar, A.J. (2002). The Sporolithaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia: taxonomy and 18S rRNA phylogeny. Phycologia: 41(3), 207-227

Broadwater S.T., Harvey A.S., LaPoint, E.A. and Woelkerling Wm. J. (2002). Conceptacle structure of the parasitic coralline red alga Choreonema thuretii (Corallinales) and its taxonomic implications. Journal of Phycology: 38 (6) in press.

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EVENTS

Registration form “5th European Workshop: Biotechnology of Microalgae”

Please fill out and send back to: boback"NO@SPAM"igv-gmbh.de or 

IGV Institut für Getreideverarbeitung GmbH
Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 40-41
14558 Bergholz-Rehbrücke
Germany

Prof. Dr. Mr. Mrs.

Name:

E-Mail:

Address Organization/Company:

Homepage:

Title of poster or paper:

Date of arrival: 
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Date: 
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8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOSSIL ALGAE

Granada, Spain, 18-20 September 2003

The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for all researchers interested in any aspect of the palaeobiology, biology and geological significance of calcareous algae and bacteria.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Sessions will be held in Granada, located in the heart of southern Spain. Granada is at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, with the highest peaks of the Iberian Peninsula.

Granada is a beautiful city with an impressively rich Arabic and Spanish Renaissance heritage. These historical attractions combine with a lively street-life and a dynamic modern University.

PROGRAMME

16-17 September. Pre-Symposium Field Excursion: Castellón and Alicante

18-20 September. Scientific sessions: Granada

21-22 September. Post-Symposium Field Excursion: Almería

ACCOMMODATION

Granada offers a wide range of hotel accommodation close to the University, and nearby in the centre of the old town. Details of accommodation will be provided in the Second Circular.

REGISTRATION FEES

* Prices might be lower if the number of participants is more than 20

SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
  1. Biomineralization
  2. Skeletal structure and ultrastructure
  3. Taxonomy and Systematics
  4. Evolutionary history
  5. Biogeography
  6. Ecology and Palaeoecology
  7. Sedimentology
  8. Biostratigraphy
  9. Taphonomy

Proposals for additional special sessions are very welcome. Please contact: Juan C. Braga or Julio Aguirre jbraga"NO@SPAM"ugr.es or jaguirre"NO@SPAM"ugr.es

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

Participants are invited to give oral and/or poster presentations. Posters can be up to 1.20 m in height and 0.90 m in width.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee before their final acceptance. Instructions for authors will be provided in the Second Circular. Official language of the meeting is English.

DEADLINES

Symposium and field trip registration: 31 May 2003

Submission of abstracts: 31 May 2003

Final payment of all fees: 15 July 2003

PRE-SYMPOSIUM FIELD TRIP

16-17 SEPTEMBER

The Pre-Symposium Field Excursion will focus on Cretaceous charales and corallinales, and Cretaceous dasycladaleans and microbial structures in well-exposed carbonate platform sequences of Castellón and Alicante, eastern Spain. The trip will start in Barcelona and finish in Granada. Leaders: Bruno Granier and Carles Martín-Closas.

POST-SYMPOSIUM FIELD TRIP

21-22 SEPTEMBER

The Post-Symposium Field Excursion will examine Late Miocene microbial carbonates, Halimeda bioherms, and Pliocene coralline red algae in Neogene basins of the eastern Betic Cordillera in the 'Spaghetti-Western' semi-desert of Almería, SE Spain. The trip will start and finish in Granada. Leaders: Julio Aguirre, Juan C. Braga, Jose M. Martín and Robert Riding.

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

We strongly encourage all participants to complete the electronic Pre-Registration Form available at:

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/symposium-8thinternational.htm

or, by clicking on the “8th Int. Symposium” button of the main page of the IFAA web site:

http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/

Otherwise, please return the enclosed Pre-Registration Form to:

Julio Aguirre
Dpto. Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Facultad de Ciencias, Fuentenueva s/n
Universidad de Granada
18002 Granada - SPAIN

Contact us if you have any query or comment.

More on-line information in the IFAA web page: http://web.ku.edu/ifaa/

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Juan C. Braga (jbraga"NO@SPAM"ugr.es)
Julio Aguirre (jaguirre"NO@SPAM"ugr.es)
Bruno Granier (Bruno.GRANIER"NO@SPAM"totalfinaelf.com

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Filippo Barattolo
Davide Bassi
Ioan Bucur
Carles Martín-Closas
Patrick Genot
José M. Martín 
Werner Piller
Robert Riding
Mu Xinan

8th International Symposium on Fossil Algae
Granada, Spain (18-20 September 2003)

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Given name...................
Family name...................

Title/Position...................
Organisation...................

Address...................
Zip/Postal code...................
City...................
State/Province...................
Country...................

Phone...................
Fax...................
E-mail...................

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Student □
Accompanying □

I intend to present:
Oral communication □
Poster □

I will attend the pre-Symposium field trip:
Yes □
No □

I will attend the post-Symposium field trip:
Yes □
No □

Please specify your option for the hotel in Granada (September, 18th-20th):
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Are you a member of the CALCALGA mailing list (Recent and fossil calcareous algae)?

To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to CALCALGA@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES. This is called "sending mail to the list," because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the people who have subscribed. This address (CALCALGA@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES) is also called the "list address." 

You must never try to send any command to that address, as it would be distributed to all the people who have subscribed. All commands must be sent to the "LISTSERV address," LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES. It is very important to understand the difference between the two, but fortunately it is not complicated. The LISTSERV address is like a FAX number that connects you to a machine, whereas the list address is like a normal voice line connecting you to a person. If you make a mistake and dial the FAX number when you wanted to talk to someone on the phone, you will quickly realize that you used the wrong number and call again. No harm will have been done. If on the other hand you accidentally make your FAX call someone's voice line, the person receiving the call will be inconvenienced, especially if your FAX then re-dials every 5 minutes. The fact that most people will eventually connect the FAX machine to the voice line to allow the FAX to go through and make the calls stop does not mean that you should continue to send FAXes to the voice number. People would just get mad at you. It works pretty much the same way with mailing lists, with the difference that you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time, and consequently you can expect a lot of people to get upset if you consistently send commands to the list address. 

You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF CALCALGA" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES. It is recommended that you send an e-mail to both list moderators, Bruno Granier and Juan Carlos Carlos Braga.

You can also tell LISTSERV how you want it to confirm the receipt of messages you send to the list. If you do not trust the system, send a "SET CALCALGA REPRO" command and LISTSERV will send you a copy of your own messages, so that you can see that the message was distributed and did not get damaged on the way. After a while you may find that this is getting annoying, especially if your mail program does not tell you that the message is from you when it informs you that new mail has arrived from CALCALGA. If you send a "SET CALCALGA ACK NOREPRO" command, LISTSERV will mail you a short acknowledgement instead, which will look different in your mailbox directory. With most mail programs you will know immediately that this is an acknowledgement you can read later. Finally, you can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET CALCALGA NOACK NOREPRO". Following instructions from the list owner, your subscription options have been set to "MAIL REPRO SUBJECTHDR" rather than the usual LISTSERV defaults. For more information about subscription options, send a "QUERY CALCALGA" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES

Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX CALCALGA" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES. You can then order these files with a "GET CALCALGA LOGxxxx" command, or using LISTSERV's database search facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the latter. This list is available in digest form. If you wish to receive the digested version of the postings, just issue a SET CALCALGA DIGEST command. More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the LISTSERV reference card, which you can retrieve by sending an "INFO REFCARD" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES.

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13th Meeting of the Group of European Charophytologists (GEC)

Iffeldorf, Germany

11–13 October 2003

1st circular and call for abstracts

The aim of the meeting is to bring together all researchers interested in Charophytes. The meeting is open to all aspects of Charophyte research, including both living and fossil Charophytes.

General information

The meeting will be held at the Limnologische Station Iffeldorf, Germany (http://www.limno.biologie.tu-muenchen.de). The Limnologische Station belongs to the Technische Universität München and is situated in a beautiful landscape some 50 km south of Munich. The lakes Osterseen present not only an ideal basis for all fields of limnological research, but also provide possibilities for recreative walks in the area.

Official language of the meeting is English.

Iffeldorf can be reached by car (A 95 München – Garmisch, exit Iffeldorf) and by train (note: railway station Staltach). The nearest airport is Munich, from there you can go by train via Munich to Staltach. We will arrange a pick up service from the railway station Staltach to the Limnologische Station Friday afternoon/evening (from 16.00 to 22.00) and Saturday morning (8.00 and 9.00). Please inform us about your time of arrival, especially if you will arrive before or after this time.

You can find additional information and a plan of site on our homepage: http://www.limno.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/infocenter/kontakt/index.html (click “Anfahrt” and “Kartenseite”)

Programme

Friday evening: warming-up meeting at the Limnologische Station
Saturday: welcome address and lectures
Sunday : lectures
Monday: field trip to the lakes Osterseen and to a paleolimnological site near Iffeldorf (organized by Arnulf Melzer and Barbara Bassler)

Accomodation

The Limnologische Station can offer limited dormitory-accomodation (shared bed rooms).

Alternatively, the hotel “Landgasthof Osterseen” is situated very close to the Limnologische Station: 
Address: Hofmark 9, 
82393 Iffeldorf 
Phone: ++49/ (0)8856 -9286-0 
Fax: ++49/ (0)8856 - 9286-45 
http://www.landgasthof-osterseen.de/

For additional appartments in Iffeldorf and Antdorf (3 km from Iffeldorf) see attached list.

Registration fees

GEC-member 25 €
Non GEC-member 30 €
Student 10 € (please bring a copy of the student ID)

Scientific Presentations

Participants are invited to give oral and/or poster presentations.
Time allotted for oral presentations is 15 min plus 5 min discussion.
Posters can measure up to 1.20 m in height and 0.90 m in width.
Abstracts of contributions to the GEC-13 meeting should be up to one page A4, written in English, font: Arial or Times New Roman, size 12.
Headlines should contain title of abstract, name(s) of author(s), and address (including e-mail).
Please send the abstract by e-mail to susi.schneider"NO@SPAM"wzw.tum.de

Deadlines

Meeting and field trip registration: 31 May 2003
Submission of abstracts: 31 May 2003
Final payment: 15 July 2003

Payment

We will inform registered participants about banking details at the beginning of June.

Quiz: To which species do the oospores on the first page of this circular belong?
(Free bottle of wine for the best answer!)

Registration form

Please return the registration form no later than May 31, 2003 to 
Dr. Susanne Schneider 
Limnologische Station Hofmark 1-3 
82393 Iffeldorf Germany 
Email: susi.schneider"NO@SPAM"wzw.tum.de 
Tel.: +49 8856 81027 
Fax: +49 8856 81040

I register for the GEC-13 meeting:

NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE 
FAX 
E-mail

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student □

I intend to present 
oral presentation □ 
poster □

Authors

Title of presentation

Equipment needed 
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slide-projector □ 
beamer □

I will attend the field trip 
□ yes 
□ no

Please specify your preferred choice of accomodation:
Dormitory at the Limnologische Station □
Hotel Landgasthof Osterseen in Iffeldorf □
Hotel or appartment around Iffeldorf □

Please arrange accomodation yourself if you intend to stay in a hotel or appartment!

I need to be picked up from the train station: 
□yes 
□no

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Time of departure:

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Preliminary Announcement for the Phycological Society of America 2003 Annual Meeting

Please plan to join us this year at the Phycological Society of America annual meeting that will be held jointly with the Society of Protozoologists on June 14-19, 2003, at the Westin Salishan Lodge and Golf Resort in Gleneden Beach, Oregon. This deluxe AAA Four Diamond Resort is located about 90 miles southwest of Portland, midway along the spectacular Oregon coast, and next to the recently established Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Be sure to bring your wading boots because at the beginning of the meeting, the tides will be some of the lowest of the year. Seaweed enthusiasts are encouraged to come one day early to join the Northwest Algal Symposium participants in a special intertidal trip to Seal Rock State Park and then to join us the following day in a PSA-sponsored trip to the protected Marine Gardens at Otter Rock.

The meeting will begin with registration and a mixer on Saturday evening, June 14, and end with the banquet and awards ceremony on Wednesday night, June 18. There are 4 excellent symposia planned: (1) Advances in Protistology (chaired by Rothschild) (2) Controls of Planktonic Microalgae (chaired by Coats) (3) Changing Coastal Ecosystems: A Challenge to Phycologists (chaired by Murray and Williams), and (4) PISCO: Partnership for Interdiciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (chaired by Britt and Nielsen). Special lectures will include talks by Pat Tester (National Ocean Service, NOAA) on “Copepod-ology for the phycologist" and by David Scott (University of Illinois) on “The densest of organelles – acidocalcisomes in Trypanosomatids and other microorganisms”. A special workshop has been organized by Roy Lehman (Texas A&M) on “Using Algae as Model Organisms in Education”.

We have arranged for discounted non-web airfares for our participants with American Airlines (Code 8763 AM), Alaska Airlines (CMT0841), Northwest Airlines (International Code RBAJY; Domestic Code NMZHL), Delta Airlines (Code 194127A), and their international partners. Although rental cars will be available at the airport, bus transportation from Portland International Airport (PDX) to Salishan and back has also been arranged for only $30 roundtrip/person. On June 14th, this trip will depart from PDX at 2 pm and arrive at Salishan at 5 pm. It will return on June 19, departing from Salishan at 8 am and arriving at PDX at 11 am. Further details on transportation will be mentioned on the website.

The final website for the meeting with registration and abstract forms will be posted at <http://conferences.orst.edu/PSAandSOP> and linked to the Phycological Society of America Website early in February. Abstracts will be due by April 1. We anticipate that Registration Fees will be $300 for professionals and $200 for students and cover, in addition to our coffee/tea breaks, our Opening Mixer (with hors d’oeuvres), Sit-down Dinner/Auction, Mixer/Poster Session (with hors d’oeuvres), and Banquet which will be a Potlatch Salmon Barbecue with wine. The Salishan Lodge is renown for its fabulous cuisine, so be prepared for a treat.

We hope to see you there!

Gayle Hansen
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Oregon State University 
2030 SE Marine Science Dr. 
Newport, Oregon 97365 USA

PSA/SOP 2003 Meetings:

PSA Program Chair: Larry Fritz (Lawrence.Fritz@NAU.EDU)

SOP Program Chair: Wayne Coats (coatsw@si.edu)

PSA/SOP Local Organizer: Gayle Hansen (Gayle.Hansen@oregonstate.edu)

Hyperlinks:

Phycological Society of America <http://www.psaalgae.org/>

Society of Protozoologists <http://www.uga.edu/~protozoa>

Westin Salishan Lodge and Golf Resort <http://www.salishan.com/>

Oregon Coast <http://coastvisitor.com/>

Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge <http://oregoncoast.fws.gov/siletzbay>

Northwest Algal Symposium <http://www.spu.edu/depts/biology/nwas/>

PSA/SOP 2003 Meeting <http://conferences.orst.edu/PSAandSOP> (after February 10)

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<h5>A. ("Fossil" or " Modern") Algal Research Topics:</h5>

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<h5>B. Discussion of Research in Progress:</h5>

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<h5>C. Publications since 2000, including those in press:</h5>

<p>FAMILY NAME, Initials (Date).- Title of paper.- Journal, city,

volume #

(issue #): pages. OR:

In: Last name, Initials (ed.), Book title.- Publisher, city: pages.

<h5>D. Personal Web page:</h5>

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