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Ostracode Research Activities inGERMANY
Correspondent: Dietmar Keyser <Keyser@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de>
Arlt, Guenther. Guenther is working about the significance of the meiofauna of the pelagial and benthal connections in the Baltic Sea. He is studying especially the activity of Cyprideis torosa in resuspension processes and its strong influence in particle structure of the upper layer of the sediment.
Becker, Gerhard. Gerhard has continued in (1) editing his Treatise pre-printing series (POC); from the Palaeozoic superfamilies asked to revise by the then Editor, the Superfamilies Kirkbyacea and Nodellacea have been finished (POC, Nos. 1-10), and the Superfamilies Bairdiocypridacea and Bairdiacea (Palaeozoic only) will follow. Part Q (Paleozoic Ostracoda, revised) will not appear at reasonable time, however, POC will offer Treatise standard. Furtherly, in (2) studies on pelagic ostracods along the Devonian/CarbonifeH. BLUMENSTENGEL is working on Devonian and lower Carboniferous ostracods especially connected to the Thueringer OEkotyp and also Devonian shallow water faunas near the Baltic Sea island Ruegen.
Frenzel, Peter. Peter has changed with a post-doc fellowship his working place to Angers (France) now. He is working on Holocene brackish water ostracods, foraminifera from the southern Baltic Sea and Pleistocene ostracods (marine, brackish and freshwater) and foraminifera from Northern Germany, and Upper Cretaceous benthic foraminifera from the European "Boreal". Here in Angers he is studying the influence of oyster farming on marine littoral ostracod and foraminifer associations within a bay of the French Atlantic coast.
Fuhrmann, Roland. The Recent and Quaternary freshwater ostracods are still the subject of his scientific interest.
Gramann, F. Dr. Gramann has now reached retirement and tries to catch up with his beloved ostracods. He is right now finishing a paper on nonmarine occurrences of pleistocene and recent Cyprideis torosa in Lower Saxonia.
Janz, Horst. I am continuing to work with freshwater ostracods (Recent to Teriary) and extend my work since last year to Miocene marine species. Together with Mark J. Grygier from Lake Biwa Museum (Japan) I carry on the investigation started in late 1997 about the recent ostracods from Lake Biwa. In the scope of the climatic research programme of the University of Tuebingen (SFB 275) I work together with Irene Zorn on the geochemical composition of marine ostracods of the Molasse in respect to oxygen and carbon.
Jellinkek, Thomas. 1998 was a busy year. I have had the unique opportunity to join several international projects dealing with deep-sea ecology and climatology mainly in the southern Pacific Ocean (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Zealand) and the Mediterranean. The greatest success in obtaining living ostracode material from the deep sea we had in the Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea. Therefore, future work will be focused on that material in co-operation with Kerry Swanson/New Zealand!
Kussius, Karina. I will hopefully finish my thesis this year. It concerns Upper Jurassic Ostracodes from Eastern Spain. In the meantime in collaboration with some collegues, I started an investigation about the Neogene Pigadia basin of Karpathos Island. We will be looking at calcareous nannofossils, ostracodes and fishes.
Langer, Wolfhart. Wolfhart is now retired and is keeping up his research of the Paleozoic.
Luger, Peter. Finally, I managed to re-join the "ostracon" community after having moved from Bremen back to Berlin. I wish to apologize to everyone who might have tried to reach me during the time of my absence from the list for not having announced this "event" - neither in time nor to the "ostracon" public. For those, who may have joined the community during the time of my "stay-away" (and for those who might be interested anyway). Now I'm housed at the Technical University of Berlin as a sort of a "visiting scientist". My special interests are (predominantly) marine Ostracoda from the Jurassic through Paleogene of Africa and Arabia; presently I'm struggling to complete my studies on Cretaceous Ostracoda from Somalia (Barremian: "Wealden-tye"; Aptian-Cenomanian, ?Campanian-Maastrichtian: shallow marine).
Matzke-Karasz, Renate. Renate is happy having found a half-time job at the University of Munich. She is now busy with a revision of the European Cyclocypris - fossil and living. Each spare specimen of this genus that you can find in your personal collections would be welcome and gratefully appreciated!
Mette, Wolfgang. I am still working on the ostracods of the alpine Upper Triasic (Koessener Formation, Zlambach Layers). Besides that I have started a cooperation with J.P.Colin about the ostracods of the alpine Upper Cretaceous (Gosau Gruppe). Planned is another project about the Jurassic and upper cretaceous ostracods of Madagaskar (Morondava Becken). The following papers are in preparation: 1) Sinuocythere n.gen. (Ostracoda, Limnocytheridae, Timiriaseviinae), new genus of limnic ostracode in the South Tethyan Middle and Upper Jurassic. - Micropalaeontology. 2) Rhaetische Ostrakoden aus der Slope- und Beckenfazies der noerdlichen Kalkalpen (Koessener Formation, Steinplatte von Waidring), Teil 1: Systematik. - Geologisch-Palaeontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck. 3) Rhaetische Ostrakoden aus der Slope- und beckenfazies der noerdlichen Kalkalpen (Koessener Formation, Steinplatte von Waidring), Teil 2: Paloekologie, Palaeobiogeographie. - Geologisch-Palaeontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck.
Mischke, Steffen. Steffen continues his investigations of Pleistocene and Holocene nonmarine ostracodes from Central Asia (NW China and Mongolia) in order to reconstruct the history of environment and climate. He is interested in an exchange not only of information about ostracode taxonomy and palaeoclimatic studies, but also of specimens from this region.
Mostafawi, Nasser. Nasser continues to study the systematic, ecology and stratigraphy of Neogene ostracods in the Aegean area. He is working with M. Handl and H. Brueckener (Marburg) on Holocene ostracods of Milet (west Turkey) and with B. Chatenoux and A. Weber ( student at the University of Geneva )on Plio-Pleistocene ostracods of Crete. A paper on Upper Oligocene ostracods of NorthwesternGermany is in press. Other studies include ecology of the living ostracods in the Persian Gulf. During the Gulf war (1991), Kuwaiti oil springs were destroyed and set fire to. So an immense amount of oil ran into the Persian Gulf and contaminated the fauna and flora, especially at the western coast of the Persian Gulf. Recent ostracods dredged November 1991, show the extent of the ecological damage of the senseless war.
Nuernberg, Dirk. Dirk is working at a project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), August 1, 1997 -July 31, 1999, Nuernberg, D.: "Paleoceanographic reconstructions from earth alkaline metals in calcitic microorganisms: Case study Westiberian continental margin". Abstract: The general objective of the research project is the paleoceanographic reconstruction of the study area based on Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios in biotic calcite. The Western Iberian continental slope, the late Pleistocene oceanography of whperformed in addition to the investigation of selected sediment cores.
Pietrzeniuk, Erika. The projects "Ostracods from the sauria chalks from Tendaguru" and "Pleistocene and Holocene freshwaterostracods in Jakutien" are continued.
Scharf, Burkhard. Burkhard has a new address. He is working on the living and fossil ostracods of lakes in Northern Germany. He supervised some Ph.D-students with paleoclimatic themes, including some on Ostracoda, especially in Sweden and Germany.
Schudack, Michael. Michael continues research on ostracods, charophytes, and foraminifers. Main current activities on ostracods include Late Jurassic in Europe (with K. Kussius and U. Schudack, Berlin), East Africa (Tendaguru Formation) and North America (Morrison Formation). Main focus (depending on the project) is on biostratigraphy, paleoecology, biogeography, paleoclimatology, and stable isotope shell geochemistry. Thesis supervision: (1) Late Jurassic ostracods from eastern Spain (K. Kussius), (2) Rhaetian ostracods from northern Germany (K. Oppermann), and (3) Quaternary ostracods from lakes in the Gobi Desert (S. Mischke).
Schudack, Ulla. Ulla has finished research on the marine and non-marine ostracods from the Upper Jurassic of northern Spain. She is currently working on the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania (Tendaguru Formation). A future project (in the state of application) deals with the Upper Jurassic ostracods of southwestern France, Portugal, and Nova Scotia, as part of the Upper Jurassic biogeography project.
Schwalb, Antje. 1998 started with a month of fieldwork in Patagonia, Argentina. As a member of the Patagonian Lake Drilling Team, a USA-CH-AR-D research initiative, I sampled modern sediments, ostracods and waters that will serve as calibration sets for future work on lake cores. Other sites I am currently working on are Lake Constance, lakes in the Midwest, USA, and the Chilean Altiplano. With Huw Griffiths we are analyzing lacustrine ostracod assemblages from Iran (DAAD-ARC grant).
Uffenorde, Henning. Henning has completed his paper entitled "Untermiozaene Ostracoden-Faunen. Ein Vergleich norddeutscher, daenischer und niederlaendischer Profile" in January 1998, which will be published in the "Greifswalder Geowiss. Beitraege, 6 (Festschrift Prof. Herrig), started work on the NW German Tertiary lithostratigraphic scheme for the German Subcommission on Tertiary Stratigraphy.
Viehberg, Finn. Vinn thinks that the following information would be of interest for the community. 1) I started on ostracods in 1995. My main interests focused on the individual density of recent fresh-water ostracods. By now I worked out a simple method of collecting for both aims quantity and quality. On the other side I still have a look through the Instituts collected material. 2) I will finish my diploma thesis this year. "Faunistical and ecological research on the Ostracod fauna in chosen freshwaters around Greifswald". Its aim is to get a check- list of the Freshwater-Ostracoda around Greifswald, compare it with the material found a century ago and estimates the biomass percentage of Ostracoda in eutrophic small ponds.
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