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Newsletter of Micropalaeontology the Micropalaeontological Society Newsletter of Micropalaeontology August 2008 Number 78 Edited by I. J. Slipper The Micropalae ontological Society MICROFOSSILS AND EXTINCTION In this issue our President sets out his vision for TMS CONTENTS in these increasingly difficult times, including a new initiative to support micropalaeontological education. Society News 3 Details of that together with a fine program of talks will Group News 12 be on offer at our AGM on Wednesday 19th November Conferences ahead 20 - mark your diary now! The theme - as shown above is Microfossils and Extinction and six speakers will be ad- Society Officers 26w dressing this topic: see pp 8-11 for further details. Grant in Aid Reports 29 Conference reports 35 TMS continues to support student members with Archive highlights 39 Grants-in-Aid; on pages 12-13 and 29-34 you can read Announcements 40 how they are benefiting from these grants. Obituaries 41 Copy date for next issue 1st December 2008 Diary 43 Registered Charity No. 284013 www.tmsoc.org ISSN 0140-6730 The Paly Parlour The one-stop shop for all your bio & chemostratigraphic laboratory services! Dr Rae Jones 15 years experience, references available State-of-the-art local authority backed lab Also Hotshots, Micro, Nanno, Kerogen, Vitrinite, etc. For barren strata we can offer additional chemostrat processing, analysis and interpretation Unit F4 Britannia Enterprise Centre Pengam Rd, Blackwood, Caerphilly, NP12 3SP Mobile 07841 750 945, Fax/Ansa 01443 862 331 Email [email protected] Let your samples unbind in our hot spas Enjoy a break with a relaxing massage Release the tensions of millions of years of sedimentary confinement in our saunas Lighten up in our jacuzzi Then shed any remaining mineralogical inhibitions Why? Because your fossils mean everything to you! 2 Society News Report from the President - Professsor Michal Kucera This summer is no doubt going to be memo- ety changing its name to TMS, the title of the rable for two events: the highest petrol prices senior officer to president, establishing a highly on record and yet another series of unpleas- prestigious Brady Medal, reviving its publish- ant weather phenomena that are increasingly ing activities and most significantly, increasing ascribed to the ominous anthropogenic global its membership base for several years running. warming. Even the normally sleepy and peace- The leadership and strategic decisions overseen ful Swabian countryside around Tübingen had by the past chairmen leave me with a rather its share, with flash floods uprooting medieval large pair of shoes to fill. How to live up to the bridges and leaving several casualties behind. expectations? By being ambitious! I believe we In times like these, the value of the services of ought to use our imagination and creativity and our science to the society is more palpable then set the agenda for the next decade. My visions ever, be it in hydrocarbon exploration, climate and ambitions as TMS President can be struc- research or issues like ocean acidification. Sure- tured along three main areas with a potential for ly, the governments and politicians of our coun- TMS to grow and a new niche to take. Firstly, I tries should react by increased support to our believe TMS should continue using the present science? There is clearly some logic to this ar- momentum in increasing its visibility and status. gument, but the reality is bitterly different. This We should aim towards increasing the member- spring, we learnt that the University College in ship beyond the 500 mark, devising an affilia- London decided by executive action without tion scheme for smaller and regional societies, prior consultation with the stakeholders to close developing a comprehensive PR policy and ex- its Micropalaeontology MSc course. No matter panding the Society’s awards scheme. Next, I where in the world you may be, I am sure you feel it is imperative to extend TMS services to can immediately think of a few colleagues who the profession, be it in education, in the indus- have graduated from this course. If not, ask trial sector or as an information hub. Finally, in around, and you will soon realise why this is order to be able to support such activities, it is such a blow to our field. A flagship micropalae- essential to raise TMS assets and income. To se- ontology course offering structured training cure financial stability and flexibility, the reserve throughout the entire spectrum of the discipline account should reach the mark of £100,000 is no more, because of misguided economic and this operation must succeed without further considerations of a few officials at UCL. increases to the membership fees. In today’s world, coordinated community action Ambitious as it is, this vision needs priorities. and lobbying, bottom-up initiatives and proac- I am afraid the short-sighted decision by UCL tive measures are all essential for the survival of pre-empted any discussion on this matter. The scientific disciplines. When I accepted the com- highest priority of TMS at present must be to mittee’s nomination to stand for the office of the stand up for micropalaeontology, team up first TMS president, I was aware that there was with the industrial sector and other stakehold- a significant momentum in positioning the So- ers and consider how to structure and support ciety as the leading professional organisation in graduate-level education in the field. This is a micropalaeontology and that there is an expec- completely new task for TMS; its international tation for TMS to increase its efforts in represent- significance and financial and political scope ing the interests of the membership and of the are beyond the Society’s previous experience. science at a more political level. Having served Therefore, I am extremely pleased to be able to at the Committee for six years, I saw the Soci- end this message on a positive note. Encour- 3 aged by overwhelmingly positive response by This is the right place to remind ourselves that colleagues from the industry, the Committee is TMS lives and breathes because of the unstint- preparing an ambitious plan for supporting and ing work of colleagues serving on the Com- coordinating applied micropalaeontology edu- mittee, organising conferences, meetings, field cation at an international level. We feel TMS trips, giving talks, editing special publications is the right body to lead this initiative; if not and much more. To all those who continue The Micropalaeontological Society, who else is supporting the Society in one way or the other going to raise the banner for the eponymous – your efforts are truly appreciated. To all mem- discipline? The initiative is spearheaded by the bers at large – do you want to do more for the Industry Liaison Officer, a new post established Society? Be it by standing for one of the vacant by the Committee, with the first co-opted of- offices listed in this Newsletter, or by organis- ficer being the former Chairman of TMS Hay- ing a meeting or by just having a good idea – don Bailey. All preparations going fine, the please raise your voice! first proposal will be presented to the Annual General Meeting in November. Besides the ex- Have a great micropalaeontological summer cellent line-up of speakers on the topic of Mi- and do not forget to take this Newsletter with crofossils and Extinctions and the second Brady you as you stroll towards the beach – it is full of Medal ceremony, perhaps this is another good great reading! reason to attend the AGM? Secretary’s Report - Dr David Horne I write these words on the ferry Clansman in One way in which the Society provides benefits transit between the island of Barra and main- for its membership is through the activities of land Scotland. With this year’s round of univer- its specialist groups, of which there are six: Os- sity exam boards and the June TMS Commit- tracod, Foraminifera, Palynology, Nannofossil, tee meeting behind me it was a pleasure to get Silicofossil and Microvertebrate. Each group, away to the Outer Hebrides for a few days to organized by a Chairman and a Secretary who collect freshwater ostracods. They have been are TMS Committee members, holds meetings wet and windy days but worthwhile neverthe- and field activities, reports of which may be less; field work, whatever the conditions, is one found in the pages of the current and past is- of the joys of micropalaeontology as far as I am sues of the Newsletter of Micropalaeontology. concerned. It has also been an opportunity to The focus of group meetings has traditionally reflect on the busy months since I was co-opted been on British venues and British micropalae- to this post when the former Secretary, Michal ontologists, but this is changing; the recent joint Kucera, was elected TMS President at the last meeting of the Foraminifera and Nannofossil AGM. While I have found the workload to be groups was held in Germany and the Ostracod greater than I had expected, this is tempered by Group meeting in the UK included participants the feeling of being part of a dynamic team of from the USA and Australia – you can read the officers committed to serving the Society and reports elsewhere in this newsletter. There is its members. It is only by seeing its workings no fundamental reason why group meetings from the inside, over the past seven months, should not be held in any country where there that I have begun to appreciate fully the ways in are TMS members willing to organize them. Are which the Society is thriving and growing into you missing out on activities that might interest its international role; it is inevitable that the ac- you? New members, when they join TMS, do tivities and duties of its officers should become not always indicate to which specialist group or both more demanding and more satisfying.
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