1.	Announcement
2.	Organising Committee
3.	Preliminary conference schedule
	3.1.	Posters
	3.2.	Technical remarks
	3.3.	Workshops
4.	General information
	4.1.	Travel notes
	4.2.	Registration
	4.3.	Icebreaker party
	4.4.	Wednesdy afternoon, reception and conference dinner
	4.5.	Lunch
5.	Accomodation
6.	Publications
7.	Field trips
	7.1.	Pre-conference field trip (siliciclastic tidal flats)
	7.2.	Post-conference field trip (peat bog landscape)
8.	Acknowledgements
9.	Map of Bremen city centre
10.	Map of public transport network
11.	University of Bremen campus map

This year's 8^th International Nannoplankton Association Conference will be held at the University of Bremen in the Department of Geosciences, from September 11 - 15, 2000. The conference offers you the opportunity to present the results of your studies on all aspects of nannoplankton research, including both palaeonto-logical and biological aspects, to an international audience.

Chairman	Helmut Willems	willems@micropal.uni-bremen.de	+49/421/2182198
Assistance	Tania Hildebrand-Habel	hiha@micropal.uni-bremen.de	+49/421/2183926
	Christine Höll	hoell@micropal.uni-bremen.de	+49/421/2184313
Secretaries	Erna Friedel	erna@micropal.uni-bremen.de	+49/421/2182236
	Leslie Sütterlin
Technical assistance	Angelika Freesemann
	Anne Hübner
	Monika Kirsch
	Nicole Zatloukal

Workshops	Calcareous dinoflagellates	Karin Zonneveld et al.	zonnev@uni-bremen.de
	Trap studies/ cocco-carbonate fluxes	Patrizia Ziveri	zivp@geo.vu.nl
		Karl-Heinz Baumann	khb@mail.sedpal.uni-bremen.de

Sunday, Sept. 10

10:00 - 19:00	Pre-conference field trip: Siliciclastic tidal flats
19:00	Ice-breaker party and registration Locality: Entrance Hall, Geoscience Building (GEO II)

Monday, Sept. 11

8:30 - 9:00	Registration
	Presiding: Helmut Willems
9:00 - 9:30	Introduction Welcome by the Dean of the Geoscience Department
9:30 - 9:50	Jeremy Young: Presentation of the EU-Project CODENET
9:50 - 10:10	Elisabetta Erba: Presentation of the EU-Project C-T Net
10:10 - 10:30	Jeremy Young et al.: Phylogeny of coccolithophorids and the evolution of calcification
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee break
	Presiding: Elisabetta Erba
10:50 - 11:10	Stanislav Shumenko: New findings of Triassic, Palaeozoic and Proterozoic nannofossils
11:10 - 11:30	Emanuela Mattioli et al.: The contribution of calcareous nannoplankton to the carbonate production in the Jurassic
11:30 - 11:50	Nicola Perilli, María J. Comas-Rengifo: Pliensbachian calcareous nannofossil events of the Tudanca and Santotis sections (Basque-Cantabrian area, N Spain)
11:50 - 12:10	Kristalina Stoykova, Daria Ivanova: Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil and calcareous dinocyst occurrence and their relationship to sea-level changes: an example from the W Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria
12:10 - 12:30	Ute Aschwer, Jörg Mutterlose: Palaeobiogeography of Early Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils: sea-level versus palaeoclimate
12:30 - 13:50	Lunch
	Presiding: Richard Jordan
13:50 - 14:10	Osman Varol: Didemnid ascidian spicules and nannofossils from the Middle East
14:10 - 14:30	Jens Wendler et al.: Calcareous dinoflagellate cysts in the Upper Cretaceous: palaeoecology in cyclic sequences and sudden environmental changes
14:30 - 14:50	Fabienne Giraud et al.: Characterisation and significance of calcareous nannoplankton variations during an 'anoxic' event: the Breistroffer Level (Upper Albian, SE France)
14:50 - 15:10	Silke Kruse, Jörg Mutterlose: Coccoliths under stress? - Lower Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil assemblages of nearshore and pelagic settings (NW Africa)
15:10 - 15:30	Fabrizio Tremolada, Elisabette Erba: Late Valanginian and Early Aptian nannoconid crisis: a phytoplankton response to large igneous events?
15:30 - 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 - 16:40	Poster session
	Presiding: Jeremy Young
16:40 - 17:00	Jörg Mutterlose: Early Cretaceous climates: from an icehouse to a greenhouse world
17:00 - 17:20	Elisabetta Erba, Fabrizio Tremolada: Volume calculation of coccoliths and estimates of carbonate fluxes during the Cretaceous
17:20 - 17:40	Charles C. Smith: Regional lithostratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Arcola Limestone Member, Mooreville Chalk, eastern Mississippi and Alabama
17:40 - 18:00	Anatoliy Shumnyk: Upper Cretaceous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Ukraine
18:00 - 18.20	Andrew Matveyev: Latitude disturbance analysis of some Lower Maastrichtian species of the eastern Tethys
18.20 - 18.40	Yulin Xu, Shaozhi Mao: Cretaceous-Early Tertiary calcareous nannofossils from southern Tibet and the closing time of E Tethys in Tibet, China

Tuesday, Sept. 12

	Presiding: Jörg Mutterlose
9:00 - 9:20	Emma Sheldon: New nannofossil dating of the initial Paleocene volcanism in central W Greenland
9:20 - 9:40	Laurel M. Bybell, Thomas G. Gibson: Calcareous nannofossils associated with the Late Paleocene thermal maximum event in New Jersey
9:40 - 10:00	Michael Streng et al.: Cenozoic evolution of calcareous dinoflagellates in the eastern Indian Ocean (ODP Legs 120 and 122)
10:00 - 10:20	András Nagymarosy: Lower Oligocene nannoplankton in anoxic deposits of the central Paratethys
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10	Group photo to be taken
	Presiding: Yoram Eshet
11:10 - 11:30	Spyridon M. Bellas, Dimitris Frydas: Oligocene/Miocene boundary calcareous nannofossil events stratigraphy from siliciclastic successions 'Flysch' of the External Ionian Zone in Epirus and Corfu, NW Greece
11:30 - 11:50	Maria V. Triantaphyllou: Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene sediments from Cefallinia (Ionian Islands, W Greece)
11:50 - 12:10	Fabio Lottaroli: The stratigraphic framework of the Plio/Pleistocene sequence of the offshore eastern Nile Delta (eastern Mediterranean-Egypt)
12:10 - 12:30	Dimitris Frydas, Spyridon Bellas: Dependence of Late Quaternary coccolith associations on the impact of climatic changes: preliminary report from the Ionian Sea
12:30 - 13:50	Lunch
13:50 - 15:50	Poster session
15:50 - 16:00	Coffee break
	Presiding: Patrizia Ziveri
16:00 - 16:20	Markus Geisen et al.: Life-cycle associations involving pairs of holococcolithophorid species: complex life cycles or cryptic speciation?
16:20 - 16:40	Lluïsa Cros et al.: Coccolithophorid diversity in the genus Polycrater and possible relations with other genera?
16:40 - 17:00	Ian Probert et al.: Culture studies of Algirosphaera robusta
17:00 - 19:00	INA members' meeting

Wednesday, Sept. 13

	Presiding: Claire Findlay
9:00 - 9:20	Mário Cachão et al.: The ecological potential of the (cocco)liths versus (cocco)spheres
9:20 - 9:40	Karl-Heinz Baumann et al.: Biometric study of Coccolithus pelagicus and its palaeoenvironmental utility
9:40 - 10:00	Michael Knappertsbusch: 3D-animated views of the morphological evolution in the coccolithophorid Calcidiscus leptoporus from the Early Miocene to Recent
10:00 - 10:20	Hans R. Thierstein et al.: Automated coccolith classification
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee break
	Presiding: Hans R. Thierstein
10:50 - 11:10	Mário Cachão et al.: The morphometric response of Coccolithus pelagicus to glacial-interglacial couplets during the last 4my
11:10 - 11:30	Hanno Kinkel et al.: Size matters: the influence of coccolith size and growth variation on reconstructing past carbon cycles
11:30 - 11:50	Ingrid Zondervan et al.: Elevated CO2 concentrations slow down carbonate production in calcifying marine phytoplankton
11:50 - 12:10	Heather Stoll et al.: Sr/Ca of coccolith carbonate: testing the stories of the smallest carbonate repositories
12:10 - 12:30	Yoram Eshet: Frontiers ahead! - A virtual way to become an earth scientist
12:30 - 13:50	Lunch
14:30 - 18:00	Guided city tour, visit to BECK´s Brewery or spare time
18:00 - 19:00	Reception by the Mayor of the city of Bremen in the historical City Hall
19:30	Conference dinner

Thursday, Sept. 14

	Presiding: Karl-Heinz Baumann
9:00 - 9:20	Patrizia Ziveri et al.: Is stable isotope composition of coccolith carbonate an effective paleoceanographic proxy?
9:20 - 9:40	Karin Zonneveld: delta18O of Thoracosphaera heimii from cultures and S Atlantic surface sediments in relation to temperature and salinity gradients
9:40 - 10:00	Sebastian Meier et al.: Previously undescribed calcareous dinoflagellates from the Mediterranean Sea: aspects of morphology and ecology
10:00 - 10:20	Dorothea Janofske: Calcification in dinoflagellates as survival strategy in the open ocean
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee break
	Presiding: Karin Zonneveld
10:50 - 11:10	Richard Jordan: Phytoplankton studies from the N Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea
11:10 - 11:30	Kyoko Hagino: Distribution of coccolithophore assemblages in the equatorial and subequatorial Pacific Ocean
11:30 - 11:50	Alyssa Peleo-Alampay et al.: Coccolith flux from sediment traps in the South China Sea
11:50 - 12:10	Claire Findlay: Calcareous nannoplankton from the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean: implications for palaeoceanography
12:10 - 12:30	Mário Cachão et al.: The distribution of the coccolithophore community off Lisbon (Portugal), during June 1999 (CODENET II Cruise): ecological interpretation
12:30 - 13:50	Lunch
	Presiding: Mário Cachão
13:50 - 14:10	Claudia Sprengel et al.: Modern coccolithophore and carbonate sedimentation along a productivity gradient in the Canary Islands region: seasonal export production and surface accumulation rates
14:10 - 14:30	Babette Böckel et al.: Distribution and carbonate contribution of coccoliths from surface sediments of the S Atlantic
14:30 - 14:50	Annemiek Vink et al.: Calcareous dinoflagellate cysts as sensitive indicators of rapid climate change: Reflection of Heinrich events in the western subtropical Atlantic Ocean
14:50 - 15:10	Anders Henriksson: Coccolithophore and dimethylsulfide production variations over the last 200 000 years in the equatorial Atlantic
15:10 - 15:30	Oliver Esper et al.: Reconstruction of Late Quaternary palaeoceanographic conditions in the S Atlantic Ocean based on calcareous dinoflagellate cysts
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
	Presiding: Christine Höll
16:00 - 16:20	Daniela Crudeli, Elisabetta Erba: High-resolution quantitative study of calcareous nannofossils of the Holocene eastern Mediterranean sedimentary record: response to palaeoceanographic changes leading to Sapropel S1 deposition
16:20 - 16:40	Patrizia Ziveri et al.: Coccolithophorid response to an upwelling hydrographic system: example from offshore Somalia
16:40 - 17:00	Ines Wendler et al.: Calcareous dinoflagellates in the Arabian Sea: signals of production and diagenesis
17:00 - 17:20	Ulf Rogalla et al.: Calcareous nannofossil variations in sediments of the NE Arabian Sea over the past 200ky
17:20 - 17:40	Jay P. Muza: Oceanographic history of the Japan Sea during the last one million years based on the calcareous nannofossil record derived from ODP Leg 128, Hole 798A cores
17:40 - 18:00	David Jutson, K. Dybkjær: Composite biostratigraphy of the Ryazanian-Hauterivian succession in the Iris-1 (5604/30b1) well, Danish Sector, North Sea

Friday, Sept. 15

9:00 - 15:00 9:00 - 11:00

Workshops: Calcareous dinoflagellates: Karin Zonneveld et al. Trap studies/fluxes: Patrizia Ziveri, Karl-Heinz Baumann

Saturday, Sept. 16

10:00 - 17:00

Post-conference field trip: Peat bog landscape

Posters to be presented during INA8 conference:

All speakers will be allocated 15 minutes for their oral presentation, to be followed by 5 minutes for discussion.

Two workshops will take place on Friday, Sept. 15, 2000. At the moment, both workshops overlap with respect to time. If it turns out that several people want to participate in both workshops, we will think about a different time arrangement during the conference.

• history of calcisphere investigations
• general introduction into calcareous dinoflagellate morphology, ecology, distribution
• case studies of Cretaceous, Quaternary and Recent calcareous dinoflagellates

• Quantitative counting techniques
• coccolith mass estimates
• calculations of palaeo-fluxes

Travel from Bremen airport to hotel and youth hostel:

• from airport tram no. 6 (direction: Universität) to stop Domsheide (10 min)

and

• from Domsheide bus no. 25 (direction: Weidedamm) to stop Faulenstraße (5 min) or
  from Domsheide tram no. 2 (direction: Gröpelingen) to stop Faulenstraße (6 min.) or
  from Domsheide tram no. 3 (direction: Gröpelingen) to stop Faulenstraße (6 min)

• from stop Faulenstraße bus no. 25 (direction: Weserpark) to stop Domsheide (5 min) or
  from stop Faulenstraße tram no. 2 (direction: Sebaldsbrück) to stop Domsheide (6 min.) or
  from stop Faulenstraße tram no. 3 (direction: Weserwehr) to stop Domsheide (6 min)

and

• from Domsheide tram no. 6 (direction: Universität) to stop Universität/Zentralbereich (18 min)

• from stop Universität/Zentralbereich tram no. 6 (direction: Flughafen) to stop Domsheide (18 min)
  and
  
• from Domsheide bus no. 25 (direction: Weidedamm) to stop Faulenstraße (5 min) or
  from Domsheide tram no. 2 (direction: Gröpelingen) to stop Faulenstraße (6 min.) or
  from Domsheide tram no. 3 (direction: Gröpelingen) to stop Faulenstraße (6 min)

• from railway station ("Hauptbahnhof") tram no. 1 (direction: Roland-Center) to stop Am Brill (4 min.)
and

• from stop Am Brill bus no. 25 (direction: Weidedamm) to stop Faulenstraße (1 min)
  or

• from railway station ("Hauptbahnhof") tram no. 8 (direction: Roland-Center) to stop Am Brill (4 min)
and

• from stop Am Brill tram no. 3 (direction: Gröpelingen) to stop Faulenstraße (2 min)

or
• from railway station ("Hauptbahnhof") bus no. 25 (direction: Weidedamm) to stop Faulenstraße (10 min)

Registration and payment will be possible on Sunday, Sept. 10 (19:00 - 21:00 h) and on Monday, Sept. 11 (8:30 - 9:00 h) in the entrance hall of the Geoscience building (GEO II).

The Icebreaker Party will take place on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 19:00 h in the entrance hall of the Geoscience building (GEO II). Drinks and finger food will hopefully contribute to a good warm up party!

Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 13) can be used for a guided city tour, a visit to BECK´s Brewery or spare time. Costs for the city tour will be 6 DEM, for the visit of the Beck´s brewery 5 DEM.

At 18:00 h the participants of INA 8 are invited to a reception by the mayor of the city of Bremen (Dr. Henning Scherf) in the historical city hall. Later on, at 19:30h the Conference Dinner is arranged in the restaurant "Friesenhof" (Hinter dem Schütting 12/13, city map no. 5).

The campus of Bremen university offers a variety of possibilities for having breakfast and lunch:

• Mensa (Mon - Fri 11:30 - 14:00 h) and Café Central (Mon-Fri 8:00 - 18:00 h)
• Hoyer´s Unikum (Mon - Fri 11:00 - 21:00 h)
• Cafeteria GW 2 (Mon - Thurs 9:00 - 17:15 h; Fri 9:00 - 14:30 h); snacks
• Café Unique (Mon - Fri 9:00 - 18:00 h), buffet
• Cafeteria Sportturm; snacks and meals
• Quarkstube (Mon - Fri 9:00 -17:00, lunch from 11:45 h); mainly turkish food
• BioBiss (Mon - Thurs 9:00 - 16:00 h; Fri 9:00 - 14:00 h; lunch from 12:30 h)

For each location see campus map.

Hotel: Hotel Ibis Bremen Altstadt Faulenstr. 45 D-28195 Bremen Germany phone: ++49/421/30480 fax: ++49/421/3048600 e-mail: h1442@accor-hotels.com

Youth hostel: Jugendgästehaus Bremen Kalkstr. 6 D-28195 Bremen Germany phone: ++49/421/171369 fax: ++49/421/171102

If you arrive after 19 h at the Hotel Ibis, please inform the hotel in advance!

The Conference Proceedings will be published in a special issue of the "Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg". Manuscripts shall be of 30 pages maximum (incl. figures and tables), to be submitted by December 15, 2000.

Marsh Settlement, Dikes & Siliciclastic Tidal Flats (Sunday, 10 September 2000)

Peat bog landscape "Goldenstedter Moor" (Saturday, 16 September 2000)

We would like to express our thanks to the following sponsors:

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