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Institut Català De Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Edited By: © 2013, Institut Català De Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont 13’ Annual Report 2013 Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Edited by: © 2013, Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Graphic dessign: Marta Palmero Photography: Fons fotogràfic ICP Printed: Gràfiques Moncunill Contents 1Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont 6 Welcome to ICP 8 Key ICP news 9 Organizational Chart 10 Trustees 12 Scientific Advisory Board 12 Activity Summary 13 World institutions with which the ICP collaborates 17 2The ICP Research 18 Mesozoic Faunas 20 Neogene and Quaternary Faunas 22 Palaeoprimatology and Human Palaeontology 24 Evolutionary Paleobiology 26 Virtual Palaeontology 28 3The ICP Museum 30 4Research Support 34 Preparation and Conservation 36 Collections Management 38 Management of Palaeontological Deposits and Sites 40 Communication and Scientific Dissemination 42 Projects 46 5Scientific Production 50 Institut Català de 1 Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont 8 Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Headlines 9 Welcome to ICP ICP Headlines 2013 Pau’s pelvis under examination Four new species of dinosaur bone identified at Coll de Nargó An international team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the Institut Català de Paleontologia describe ICP researchers describe four new species of dinosaur bone the pelvis of Pau (Pierolapithecus catalaunicus), found at the from the Coll de Nargó site (Lleida) that show how differ- Can Mata landfill (Els Hostalets de Pierola) in 2003, in an ar- ent species of dinosaur shared this nesting area 70 million Salvador Moyà-Solà ticle published inthe Journal of Human Evolution. More than years ago. The finding has also made it possible to describe 8 years after the announcement of the discovery of Pau in the presence of the oogenus Cairanoolithus for the first time Director Science magazine, his fossils are still being studied and lead- in the Iberian Peninsula and has helped to more accurately ing to new scientific publications. determine the age of the site. 2013 was not an easy year for the ICP. The cutbacks However, we should also make it patently clear that Anoiapithecus brevirostris, the oldest hominoid caused by the economic crisis, the reduced availabil- the unstable economic situation, both in terms of The Banyoles Mandible inaugurates the ICP’s computed in the Iberian Peninsula ity of grants for public research bodies and the major our budget cuts and of the decrease in contracts with tomography system reduction in contacts with private companies have companies, grants and projects is a matter of concern. Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia (ICP) obliged us restructure our team of workers, reduce 2013 is a critical year when the effects of this situation The ICP inaugurated its new computed tomography (TC) sys- describe new dental remains from two females of the expenses and cut salaries. This pressure has also com- have started to have an impact on the centre, and if tem with an emblematic fossil: the Banyoles Mandible. It species Anoiapithecus brevirostris in an article published pelled us to seek new sources of income and to es- we don’t find solutions, we will start to slide down the took four hours to obtain the high-resolution images used in the Journal of Human Evolution. One of the fossils is to generate a three dimensional model of the inside and out- tablish links and collaborations with research centres international ranking and lose the high status that we between 12.3 and 12.2 million years old, which is evidence side of the jawbone, which will help to understand it bet- around the world. Thanks to this, we have maintained have striven so hard to achieve. of the Iberian Peninsula’s oldest hominoid (the group of ter and to answer some of the questions that are still being primates that includes gibbons, orangutans, chimpanzees, the same levels of productivity as in previous years. By asked about it, such as what species it belongs to. making our centre more efficient, we have been able The efforts of the last few years have led to a brilliant gorillas and humans). to turn the crisis into an opportunity. team of researchers together with a wonderful support structure, and these have obtained excellent results The ICP joins the Magnet programme The ICP presents the book «Un passeig per la història de We have to say that, despite the difficulties, the results in the 2013 evaluation, but from here onwards, all of with Samuntada School, Sabadell la biosfera”, by Josep Marmi in 2013 have been very good. For a medium sized cen- that is at risk. The training of researchers and the struc- tre, but one that is relatively large when we consider turing of projects with clear objectives is a long-term Samuntada School, Sabadell and the Institut Català de Pale- “Un passeig per la història de la biosfera” (‘a journey through the average size of palaeontology centres on an inter- matter and the results can take a long time in coming. ontologia (ICP) have set up a collaboration project as part of the history of the biosphere’) is a popular science book writ- national level, with a research staff made up of 34 peo- What has been achieved can be destroyed much more the «Magnet. Alliances for educational success» programme. ten by Josep Marmi, researcher from the ICP’s Mesozoic ple and a total number of 56 workers, 137 publications quickly. The current unstable economic situation can- In the 2013-2014 academic year, an innovative palaeontolo- group. The book was presented in the autumn and was pub- is a wonderful result that maintains the high standards not continue for much longer, for the damage caused gy-based educational project will be developed for the next lished by the Institute thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. achieved by the centre in previous years. to this centre’s results and the prestige it has achieved four years at this school. would be very hard to recover. Apart from these strictly research-based results, I would like to highlight three other aspects. The first is that in Harvard University and the ICP join forces to compare the 2013, and also stimulated to a certain extent by the cut- extraordinary Miocene fossil records of Catalonia and Pakistan backs, we have worked hard on finding sponsors, which Salvador Moyà-Solà Director we hope should start to produce results in 2014-15; sec- Researchers from the Department of Integrative Biology at ond, we have focused intensely on the use of paleonto- Harvard University and the Institut Català de Paleontologia logical heritage as something to boost cultural tourism met in Cambridge to study the possibility of a scientific col- in our country and, finally, we have made a major effort laboration to research Miocene fauna. The sites at Siwaliks to internationalise the teaching at the ICP. (between India and Pakistan), where the American research- ers are working, and those of the Vallès-Penedès basin are the most complete and best dated known to the world, and represent a unique opportunity to understand the dynam- ics of Eurasian fauna over the last 20 million years and their relationship with climate change. RESEARCH SUPPORT Organizational chart Fieldwork and Preparation and Management of Communication Projects Maintenance Conservation Paleontological and Scientific Deposits and Sites Dissemination Manel Llenas Carolina Cancelo Jordi Galindo Pere Figuerola Laila Pilgren Manel Méndez Head of department Head of department Head of department Head of department Technicians BOARD OF TRUS TEES Xènia Aymerich SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY Núria Guerrero DELEGATE COMMITTEE BOARD Marta Valls Preparators / Curators DIRECTION RESEARCH MANAGEMENT RESEARCH DIRECTION Mesozoic Faunas Neogene and Palaeoprimatology and Evolutionary Virtual Quaternary Faunas Human Palaeontology Paleobiology Palaeontology RESEARCH SUPPORT MUSEUM OF ICP RESEARCH Àngel Galobart David M. Alba Salvador Moyà-Solà Meike Köhler Josep Fortuny Head of group Head of group Head of group Head of group Coordinator ICREA Research professor ICREA Research professor DIRECTION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH DIRECTION Fabio Dalla Vecchia David M. Alba Sergio Almécija Xavier Jordana Sergio Llàcer Salvador Moyà-Solà Enric Menéndez Salvador Moyà-Solà Joan Cartanyà Ramón y Cajal Researcher Research associate Juan de la Cierva 3D Virtual Lab Albert Garcia technician Director Manager Research Director Isaac Casanovas Judit Marigó Researcher ICREA Research professor ICREA Research professor Bernat Vila Daniel DeMiguel Gretell García Raef Minwer-Barakat Josep Quintana Research associate Juan de la Cierva R.Maria Pérez i Pereira Àngels Huertos Postdoc Researcher Researcher ICP Publications Administration Joan Femenias Soledad de Esteban and Assistant Director Josep Fortuny Hanneke Meijer Miriam Pérez de los Ríos Josep Marmi Beatriu de Pinós Research associate Marta Pina Postdocs Researcher Nekane Marín THE ICP MUSEUM Predocs Juan Abella Blanca Moncunill Laura Celià Alejandro Blanco Chiara Angelone Marta Palmero Predocs Massimo Delfino Coordinator Arnau Bolet Scientific illustrator Novella Razzolini Anneke Madern Antonio Sánchez Ivette Susanna Predocs Gemma Prats Archives and Collections Educational and Jan Van Dam Collaborator Laboratory technician Documentation Management Dissemination Activities Research associate Marc Furió Teresa Requena Laura Celià Teresa Esquirol Mattia Baiano Joan Madurell Archivist and Head of department Head of department Collaborator Postdocs Documentalist Guillem Pons Laboratory technician Josep Aurell Mònica Cucurella Josep M.Robles Maria Pereira Víctor Vinuesa Reception and shop Collaborator
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