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The International Nannoplankton Association


Welcome to the INA. This is an association of scientists worldwide who have an interest in living or fossil nannoplankton - including coccolithophores, nannoliths, and other mineralising nannoplankton such as silicoflagellates and calcispheres. The Association exists to facilitate pure and applied study of nannoplankton and this site is intended to assist in doing so.

This site was last updated, September 2023

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THE ASSOCIATION
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INA CONFERENCES
  • INA20 La Plata, Argentina our next conference will be in La Plata Argentina, hosted by Juan Perez Panera and Mica Chaumeil. It is planned for 14-19 February 2027, with pre and post conference field trips providing the opportunity to visit some of the geological wonders of the country. (NB The February date is to allow the meeting to be held in the Austral Summer, and to allow us to celebrate together the 50th anniversary of the founding of INA)
  • INA19, our last conference was held 7th-15th September 2024, in Llandudno, Conwy, North Wales, hosted by Simon Cole and Tamsin Lawrence. Report and review, Conference website, Abstract volume
  • INA18 was held in the Palais des Papes, Avignon, Provence, France, 29th August-4th September 2022 and was convened by Luc Beaufort, Clara Bolton and Baptiste Sucheras-Marx. The website is still active, with program details, abstracts, etc. Abstracts volume, some photos
  • INA17 was held in Santos, Brazil, 15-20th September 2019 convenors Felipe Toledo, Giuliana Villa & Karen Costa.Abstracts, news, photos
  • Conferences after 19 conferences we have quite a history, explore them here.

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SOME INFORMATION ON NANNOPLANKTON
  • Nannotax3 - interactive database of nannofossil taxonomy
  • Bibliography - a rather comprehensive, searchable, bibliography of nannofossil and nanoplankton literature is maintained on the Nannotax website, including PDF copies of many articles.
  • Coccobiom macros some macros for assisting with measuring coccoliths using the pubic domain image analysis program ImageJ/Fiji
  • Nannoplankton terminology, a guide to coccolith and nannofossil terminology based on Young et al. (1997)
  • ICBN what you need to know - Shirley van Heck's classic guide to nomenclature now online
  • Generic-level overview of nannofossil taxonomy the Young & Bown (1997) review of nannofossil classification, from the JNR.
  • Datafiles some datafiles related to nannofossil publications
  • ODP Nanno MRCs - listing of nannofossil reference centres
  • Major Books A listing of the main book dealing with nannoplankton
  • Monographs - where you can buy books and monographs dealing with nannofossils
  • Dictionary file - 3000 word listing of nannofossil names etc. for your spell checker
SOME NANNOPLANKTON IMAGES
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This page was written by Jeremy R. Young, feedback welcome
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