OTHER WWW SITES WITH RESOURCES FOR NANNOPLANKTON RESEARCH

Nannotax3 - nannofossil database

• Nannotax3 - interactive database of nannofossil taxa (>2000 taxa, >20,000 images)

Toby Tyrrell's EHUX site

• Coccolith structure
• Cell biology and Life-cycle
• Global impact and the GEM strategy
• Satellite images of coccolithophorid blooms

The IODP site

• Details of current ODP cruises
• ODP microfossil reference centres (see also Nanno MRC page on this site)
• Lists of nannofossil taxa, zones and datums from the JANUS database .
• Request samples for your next research project.
• Publications: Initial Reports of the DSPD and the ODP

Mitch Covington's BugWare site

• Biostratigraphic and database software developed for use with nannos, including some free downloads
• SEM gallery - beautiful SEMs of exceptionally preserved Cretaceous nannofossils from the Niobrara Fm.

Osman Varol's Varol Research site

The CODENET site

• CODENET - archived details of the EC TMR project "Coccolithophorid evolutionary biodiversity and ecology network"
• Publications - a summary listing of the >100 books, papers, and research theses that resulted from the CODENET project.
• Roscoff Culture Collection - the CODENET culture collection is now part of the Roscoff collection, which is the largest collection of coccolithophore strains anywhere.

A few other especially relevant sites

• The ICN - HTML version of the latest edition of the code
• The Micropalaeontological Society - within Europe many nannofossil meetings are organised jointly by the TMS Nannofossil Group and the INA
• NAMs - North American Micropaleontology Section - SEPM. This is the main American organisation for micropaleontology. INA members have long been active in the society so nannofossils have a high profile within it.
• University College London's MIRACLE Site, includes a decent general introduction to calcareous nannofossils, with many images
• Birmingham MSc course the nanno module on this MSc is probably best available nannofossil training course.
• Checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat from Mats Kuylenstierna & Bengt Karlson (Göteborg University) a remarkable illustrated checklist including a surprising diversity of cocolithophores - mostly colour LMs of cells.
• A video about chalk from the BBC
• Lyme Regis Fossil Festival something else I am involved with.