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
Paleogene Deep-Water Benthic Foraminifera Working Group
The International Subcommission for Paleogene Stratigraphy announces the publication of the Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera, proposing a clear and workable taxonomy for all Oligocene planktonic foraminifera. The work includes the acquisition of new SEM images of holotypes and paratypes, some of which have never been imaged before, and assesses the distribution, stratigraphic ranges and […]
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 […]