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** Please note that the deadline for abstracts is the 15th March, 2003.** The Micropalaeontological Society's Foraminiferal Group (TMS-FG) Spring Meeting will take place on Friday, 25th and Saturday the 26th of April, 2003, at the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences in Kiel, Germany. The 2003 Spring meeting is the first meeting of the Foram Group to be held outside of the UK. In keeping with the Society's recent name change (formally the British Micropalaeontology Society) and the international scope of the Society, it was decided that this meeting should be held outside of the U.K. This will reduce some of the travel expenses for MSc and PhD students from continental Europe actively working on foraminifera and also facilitate the participation of micropalaeontologists from eastern and northern European countries as well. Joachim Schoenfeld is the contact at GEOMAR and he has suggested a number of field excursions for the Saturday: 1. The Bottsand Lagoon in the Baltic to the north of Kiel, where shallow water to saltmarsh foraminiferal assemblages have been studied by Lutze (1968) and quite recently by Lehmann (2000) in his PhD study. 2. The tidal flats and marshes at Schobüll (close to Husum, North Sea) with interesting saltmarsh foraminiferal assemblages that were also described by Lehmann (2000). 3) The Schlei Fjord, a brackish environment with wind-dried wadden flats, lagoons etc. There is a GEOMAR field station here where bottom samples may be taken from a research vessel. Maximum participants would be limited to 6 people defined by the size of the boat. 4) The chalk quarries of Lägerdorf. The entire Campanian and Lower Maastrichtian is currently exposed, and there are recent extensions of the quarry into the polyplocum Zone. Which field excursions run will obviously depend on interest and response. Transport: The closest Airports to Kiel are Lübeck (RyanAir cheapest flight 20GBP from UK) or Hamburg. Accommodation: Hotel (around 50 EUR per day), Youth Hostel, Holiday flat (4-6 people, 40-70EUR per day). Please check TMS website for more details. All TMS-FG 2003 abstracts will be published on TMS web site (http://www.tmsoc.org). Students and professionals are encouraged to present updates of their research, techniques, industrial applications, software, movies, etc. Additional information about the meeting and field trips will be posted to this listserver and will be available on TMS WWW pages. Anyone wishing to contribute a short technical presentation (or present a poster) should submit an abstract to Andy Henderson (see abstract format and address below). Also please will you indicate preferences for the field excursion. Regards, Andy Henderson. Chairman, TMS Foram. Group ---------- Abstract Format Sample Abstract for Submission by Paper or Electronic Copy for the 2003 Foraminifera Group Spring Meeting. Henderson, A. S., Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD. A.Henderson@nhm.ac.uk Please follow this format for all abstracts submitted on paper or electronically to The Micropalaeontological Society's Foram. Group Spring Meeting. Adherence to this format will speed the publication of the abstracts and the preparation of materials for the meeting. Abstracts may be sent electronically to A.Henderson@nhm.ac.uk. For paper-copy abstracts use a 12-point font and send a clean copy as these will be electronically scanned to produce the final WWW text. Please send paper-copy abstract to the address below. All abstracts must be less than or equal to 300 words of text. Finally, please provide five keywords in addition to your abstract. These will be used for electronic searching. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Dr. Andrew S. Henderson, Foraminifera Group Chair, The Micropalaeontological Society. Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, LONDON, SW7 5BD. E-mail: A.Henderson@nhm.ac.uk Tel.: +44 (0)20 7942 5684 (direct) Dept. Fax.: +44 (0)20 7942 5546 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
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