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TMS-CFFR Foraminifera Spring Meeting 2024: Abstracts & Registration Now Open! - This meeting is HYBRID (online and in-person)The Micropalaeontological Society and the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, we are happy to invite for abstract submission to the TMS-CFFR Foraminifera Spring Meeting, held in Cologne (Germany) on May 21-24, 2024.
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Six scientific sessions and one workshop have been proposed, addressing an exciting range of current topics in foraminiferal research and reflecting the meeting’s theme, “Foraminifera & the Evolving Earth System”. Abstract submission for the scientific sessions is now possible until March 31, 2024, via the meeting homepage.
Two full days of scientific sessions and keynote lectures will be at the core of the conference on May 22 & May 23.
Session 1: Evolution and ecology of planktonic foraminifera
Session 2: Advances in geochemical proxy research in foraminifera, and integration with taxonomic data
Session 3: Applied Micropaleontology: Big Solutions from Small Fossils
Session 4: Benthic foraminifera in extreme habitats: adaptations and response to changes
Session 5: Modern and fossil benthic foraminifera used as indicators for rapidly changing environments
Session 6: Using foraminiferal monitoring to assess environmental variability
The full-day pre-conference field trip on May 21 will visit the historical Maastrichtian type section at Mount Saint Peter and the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the spectacular man-made caves of Geulhemmerberg (Netherlands).
The conference dinner on May 22 will take you to the Cologne brewery house.
An open workshop on biomonitoring will be hosted by the FOBIMO working group on May 24.
A meeting of the Working Group on Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera will be hosted on May 24.
Registration for the meeting is now open, with Early Bird offers until March 15, 2024.
Cologne is easy to reach by train and by air, and we look forward to meeting you in person on-site. To facilitate participation from abroad, particularly from outside Europe, the scientific sessions will be offered in full hybrid mode.
We also have an update on accommodation. A special offer will be available at NUNO hotel (https://nunohotel.com/), close to the venue. With our special university discount you can book a single room in the category „Comfort Medium“ for 85 € per night. To receive this discount you need to book via Email (not by phone!) with reference to „Foraminifera Spring Meeting“.
Patrick Grunert
on behalf of the local Organizing Commitiee & the Scientific Commitiee
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Köln, Germany, Cologne, Germany
