As of November 17th 2021, Hans Peter (Hamper) Luterbacher passed away. He was born in 1938 in Basel, Switzerland, and had graduated in 1960 at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Basel University, under the tutoring of Prof. Manfred Reichel. In the early sixties, at Bottaccione (Gubbio), he established with Isabella Premoli Silva the first biostratigraphic […]
Category Archives: Deep-Water Foraminifera
Soon out, a unique, global compilation of deep-sea benthic foraminifera as tracers of Paleogene global change: Alegret, L., Arreguín-Rodríguez, G. J., Trasviña-Moreno, C.A., Thomas, E. (in press). Turnover and stability in the deep sea: benthic foraminifera as tracers of Paleogene global change. Global and Planetary Change, in press.
Annual Report 2008 of the Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group. The Working Group on deep-water benthic foraminifera was created in 2008 in order to gain insight into the knowledge of Paleogene deep-sea benthic foraminifera, their palaeoecology, and potential for stratigraphic correlation. Michael A. Kaminski (University College London) was elected Chair and Laia Alegret (University […]
Annual Report 2009 of the Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group. The Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminiferal Working Group has continued its researches this year, investigating the benthic foraminiferal turnover and distribution across the Paleogene. Special attention has been paid to the following intervals: 1.- The Cretaceous/Paleogene transition: Investigations have been concentrated on the Pacific Ocean, […]
Annual Report 2010 of the Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group. This year, the working group has concentrated on analyzing the effects of Paleocene warming events (hyperthermals) on deep-sea benthic foraminifera. These results may serve as an analogue to understand the causes and potential consequences of the recent global warming. In addition, advances on the […]
Annual Report 2011 of the Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group. Following last year´s line of research, we have continued to study the behaviour of deep-sea benthic foraminifera during periods of sedimentary disturbance and global warming, such as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and a newly discovered hyperthermal event during the Ypresian (middle Eocene). Much progress […]
Annual Report 2012 of the Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group. The WG organized the 9th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera (IWAF-9), which was held at Zaragoza University (Spain) on September 3rd-7th 2012. More than 55 scientists attended the workshop, and 56 contributions were presented either as oral or as poster presentations. During the post-conference […]
Annual Report 2013 of the Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group. A special volume of Micropaleontology has been edited containing selected contributions that were presented in 2012 in the 9th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera (IWAF-9). This volume will be published in 2014. During 2013 the Working Group continued the work on taxonomy and evolution […]
Chairwoman: Laia Alegret (University of Zaragoza, Spain) laia@unizar.es Secretary: Gabriela de Jesús Arreguín-Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico) arreguing@uabc.edu.mx Former Chairman: Michael A. Kaminski (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia) kaminski@kfupm.edu.sa The scope of the Working group is to contribute to the main objectives of ISPS by studying deep-water benthic […]