Re: paleonet Microfossils video/DVD wanted

[Phil Novack-Gottshall <pn2@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Whitey,

We haven't met, but I'm so envious of your position at Amherst.  What a 
great area, and a great program.  Do you know if any of the Amherst Valley 
Five colleges have plans for future paleo., ecology, or organismal biology 
positions?  I'm in my last year of grad school with Dan McShea's at Duke 
(in the Biology Department), studying comparative paleoecology of deep 
subtidal marine communities.

I don't know of a really good video, but I've used portions of the Shape of 
Life series (which I know you're aware of) in our organismal diversity 
classes.  In the segment on sponges, there's an animation that shows sponge 
feeding.  You're swept along with coccoliths, radiolarians, 
dinoflagellates, and diatoms as you travel through the collar cells and out 
the osculum, some of them getting caught by the amebocytes.  The protists 
aren't specifically mentioned (and there's no real information given about 
them), but it shows us life from their perspective a bit.  I use it in our 
sponge lab, and pause it when the protists are on scene to quiz the 
students about what they're looking at (they'd studied them several weeks 
earlier.)

It's not what you're looking for, but it's a nice snapshot and the students 
seem to like it.

If you get any good suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.

Cheers,
Phil

At 10:26 PM 10/29/2003, you wrote:
>I'm looking for a video/DVD that focuses on microfossils, or videos/DVDs 
>that focus on any of the following groups of organisms (extant or extinct):
>
>Radiolarians
>Foraminifera
>Diatoms
>Coccolithophores
>Dinoflagellates
>Tintinnids
>Acritarchs
>Spores, pollen
>Conodonts
>
>Do you know of any such videos/DVDs, either out-of-print or in-print?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Whitey Hagadorn
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