IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4 IGCP 609 4th Newsletter November 2015 CONTENT PAGE Address by project coordinator and secretary 2 1. Announcements 3 1.1. Call for Contributions 3 1.2. Upcoming Meetings and Workshops 4 2. IGCP 609 - 2015 Report - Some Landmarks 5 3. Meeting Reports 6 3.1. 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop, Nanjing, September 5-11 6 4. List of Participants 12 IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4 ADDRESS BY PROJECT COORDINATOR AND SECRETARY Vienna, 30th of November 2015 Dear Colleagues, we wish you all a very happy, gratifying and successful New Year 2016! IGCP 609 has developed into a prosperous and well-known project during 2014 and 2015, not least considerably benefiting from your great input and the successful meetings this year, most notably a session (Session 21) within the scope of the 2nd International Congress on Stratigraphy - STRATI 2015, July 19–23 in Graz, Austria and the 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop within the Scope of the “International Workshop on Climate and Environmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Greenhouse World & 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop on Cretaceous Sea-Level Change”, September 5–11 Nanjing, China, hosted by Xiumian Hu and his colleagues. A summarizing report of the latter is included in this newsletter. By November 2015, IGCP 609 has 136 participants from 41 countries (see actual list at the end of this newletter). We again would like to welcome our new participants! The IGCP 609 website (http://www.univie.ac.at/igcp609/) is continuously updated and complemented, especially as to news, participants, projects and publications. Please remem- ber, your contributions to the website and the newsletters are highly welcome! We particularly like to invite you to contribute to the publication list, scientific data and projects sections. Please consider to add IGCP 609 to the ac- knowledgements of your publication. Resulting from combined efforts of guest editors, authors and reviewers we are delighted to announce the proceedings volume of the joint 2nd IGCP 609 and Earthtime-EU Sequence Stratigraphy Workshop “Advances and perspectives in understanding Cretaceous sea-level change” in press in Palaeo3 (to be Volume 441, Part 3). We would also like to draw your attention to Session SSP2.6 “Mesozoic palaeoenvironments and greenhouse sea-level changes (IGCP 609)” during the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, April 17–22, Vi- enna, Austria and to the 35th International Geological Congress (35th IGC), August 27–September 4, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa, during which the 4th IGCP 609 Workshop will be held within the scope of a joint session of IGCP 609, 608, and ICDP Songliao Basin (see page 4). News will be sent to you as soon as there are details. We hope and look forward to seeing you in Vienna, Cape Town, or elsewhere this year! Yours sincerely, Michael Wagreich (IGCP 609 Coordinator) Benjamin Sames (IGCP 609 Secretary) 2 IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS ! 1.1. Call for Contributions ! A) As every year, the secretary wants to point out 4. Kinds of outreach and training the project has that the project, the website and the newsletters undertaken. depend on your contribution. Please send relevant information (within the scope of IGCP 609 or in 5. Kinds of public information (media reports the context of its topics) such as publications (also etc.) the project has generated and how we evalu- maps, sections, posters, newspaper articles, popular ate their impact. science activities), reports, meeting announcements and reports, field trip reports, talks given, research Please support us and send information in this activities of yours and your research group, scien- regard to the IGCP 609 secretary Benjamin Sa- tific outreach, running projects of yours etc. to the mes ([email protected]). secretary B. Sames([email protected]). B) We would also like to encourage you to recruit Please also report problems with or mistakes in the new participants for IGCP 609 and further propa- website, to the webmaster under the subject: gate the project on scientific meetings. “IGCP 609 website”. C) Please consider, and don’t forget, to add For the annual report to be submittetd by end of IGCP 609 to the Acknowledgements of related November each year, the quality of which deter- publications of yours (e.g. something like “… re- mines the amount of money we get from the search has been conducted in line with UNESCO/ UNESCO for the next year, we are required to IGCP Project 609” or similar). gather and give information on: D) We would also like to further supplement the 1. Additional funding besides the IGCP seed Projects list and links on the IGCP 609 website. funding the project has obtained thanks to the Please inform us on running or new projects of IGCP label (see item D below also). yours that fit into the context of IGCP 609. Because of its strict review process for IGCP pro- jects, your project proposals can benefit if they Thank you very much in advance! are conducted in context of a certain IGCP pro- ject and under the IGCP label. Here, we would need: total sum of project funding raised (in US Dollar), funding body or organisation, name of project leader, university/research institute, pe- riod the project is running (date, years only), title of project. 2. Activities involving other IGCP projects, UNESCO, IUGS or others, 3. List of relevant meetings with approximate attendace and number of countries. 3 IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS Save the date: Meetings and Workshops 2015 1.2. Upcoming Meetings and Workshops EGU 2016 - SESSION SSP2.6 35th International Geological Congress “Mesozoic palaeoenvironments and greenhouse sea-level changes (IGCP 609)” Joint Session: “Cretaceous sea-level changes and Asia-Pacific Cretaceous Ecosystems (IGCP 609, Conveners: B. Sames, X. Hu, E. Wolfgring, S. Iqbal IGCP 608, ICDP Songliao Basin)” Location & date: Vienna, Austria, April 17–22, 2016 (incl. “4th IGCP 609 Workshop”) Deadline of Abstract submission: 13 Jan., 2016 Conveners: Michael Wagreich (Austria), Web addresses: Hisao Ando (Japan), Chengshan Wang (China) Session: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/ Location & date: August 27–September 4, 2016 session/20817 EGU 2016: http://egu2016.eu/home.html Web address: http://www.35igc.org/ Abstract submission: http://www.egu2016.eu/ abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html Deadline of Abstract submission: 31 Jan., 2016 The Mesozoic is believed to have differed from our Under the core topic “Fundamental Geoscience”, present world in multiple respects, such as climatic theme “Phanerozoic Earth History, Stratigraphy conditions of prolonged greenhouse phases, rapid and the Geologic Time Scale”, the above session palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental changes has been proposed by the conveners (http:// and patterns, unique palaeoceanographic condi- www.35igc.org/Themes/52/Phanerozoic-Earth- tions, and significant palaeoenvironmental and History-Stratigraphy-and-the-Geologic-Time- ecosystem changes. IGCP 609 addresses correla- Scale). It includes the 4th IGCP 609 workshop tion, causes and consequences of significant short- that will be conducted within the scope of the term climate-environmental deteriorations and sea- 35th IGC, as this is an IUGS and UNESCO sup- level changes during greenhouse climate phases of ported event. All participant will receive news and Earth history. Predictions of future sea-level rise deadline reminder e-mails. due to ongoing global change need a better under- standing of the geological record, and the causes The conveners kindly invite you to contribute to, and feedback processes of past climate events and and participate in, this session and meeting! sea-level changes, especially during greenhouse and hothouse climate episodes. We are looking forward to your con- tributions and participation! 4 IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4 2. IGCP 609 – 2015 REPORT Some Landmarks The yearly report for IGCP 609 has been sent to 6. “Calcareous nannoplankton assemblage changes linked to the representatives of the UNESCO and IUGS by paleoenvironmental deterioration and recovery across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in the Betic Cordillera 30th of November 2015. (Agost, Spain)” by Lamolda et al. (Link) As per November 2015, IGCP 609 has 7. “Stable isotopes and geochemistry of a Campanian– 136 participants from 41 countries, many of which Maastrichtian pelagic succession, Mudurnu–Göynük Basin, have been actively contributing to the project last NW Turkey: Implications for palaeoceanography, palaeocli- year (please find the list of participants and their E- mate and sea-level fluctuations” by Açıkalın et al. (Link) 8. “Assessing pelagic palaeoenvironments using foraminiferal mail at the end of this newsletter. More than 60 assemblages — A case study from the late Campanian new participants were recruited in 2014, including Radotruncana calcarata Zone (Upper Cretaceous, Austrian many young scientists. Alps)” by Wolfgring et al. (Link) We had a very successful IGCP 609 session 9. “Cenomanian–Campanian (Late Cretaceous) planktonic (Session 21) within the scope of the 2nd Interna- assemblages of the Crimea–Caucasus area: Palaeoceanogra- phy, palaeoclimate and sea level changes” by Kopaevich and tional Congress on Stratigraphy - STRATI 2015, Vishnevskaya (Link) July 19–23 in Graz, Austria (8 talks, 3 posters) and 10. “Late Cretaceous biostratigraphy and sea-level change in the 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop within the Scope of the southwest Tarim Basin” by Xi et al. (Link) the “International Workshop on Climate and En- 11. “Sea-level reconstruction for Turonian sediments from vironmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Green- Tanzania based on integration of sedimentology, microfacies, geochemistry and micropaleontology” by Wendler, I. et al house World & 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop on Cre- (Link) taceous Sea-Level Change”, September 5–11 Nan- 12. “The influence of regional factors in the expression of jing, China, the report of which you can find on oceanic anoxic event 1a (OAE1a) in the semi-restricted Or- page 6 ff. of this newsletter. ganyà Basin, south-central Pyrenees, Spain” by Sanchez- The proceedings volume of the 2nd Hernandez and Maurrasse (Link) 13.