COCCOLITHOPHORES 2003
INA Workshop on extant Coccolithophorid research - PROGRAM


Wednesday, 1/10/03
19:00 ice-breaker apero, Magda Hotel
Thursday, 2/10/03
08:00-09:00 Breakfast at Magda Hotel
09:00 Walk to the conference hall at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC)
Registration
9:45 Welcome by the Organizing Committee
Welcome Addresses by the host Institutes
Prof. M.D.Dermitzakis (Vice Rector of the University of Athens)
Dr. A. Tselepides (Director of IMBC)
10:15 Jeremy Young, Maria Triantaphyllou Objectives of the meeting, trivia

Coccolithophorid Ecology, Biology, Biogeography
Chair: Harald Andruleit
10:30 Babette Boeckel & Karl-Heinz Baumann: Variations in coccolithophore standing crop: examples from the Atlantic Ocean
10:50 Tien-Nan Yang, Kuo-Yen Wei, Min-Pen Chen, Su-Jen Ji, Gwo-Ching Gong & Fei-Jan Lin: Summer and winter distributions of coccolithophorids in the East China Sea
11:10-11:30 Coffee
Chair: Marie-Pierre Aubry
11:30 Karl-Heinz Baumann, Harald Andruleit & Christian Samtleben: Distribution, composition, and seasonal variation of coccolithophores in the nordic seas
11:50 Margarita Dimiza, Maria Triantaphyllou & Michael D. Dermitzakis: Emiliania huxleyi dynamics in the summer coccolithophore assemblages of Andros Island (middle Aegean Sea) coastal environments: first results
12:10 Patrizia Ziveri: Species-specific coccolith calcite isotopes: new results from culture and sediment trap samples.
12:20 Patrizia Ziveri, Karl-Heinz Baumann, Babette Boeckel, Joerg Bollmann & Jeremy Young: Biogeography of selected coccolithophores in the Atlantic Ocean, what we know and what we donŐt know.
12:30 Barbara Balestra, Patrizia Ziveri , Simonetta Monechi and Simon Troelstra: Living coccolithophorids in the Greenland Margin coastal environment, late summer 1997.
12:50 Markus Geisen, Christian Hamm & Jeremy Young: Material properties and functional morphology of coccoliths - testing old hypotheses
13:15-14:30- Lunch Poster viewing
Poster presentations (Presenters are invited to give a 10min oral introduction to their posters. Overhead and PowerPoint facilities are available)
Chair: Karl-Heinz Baumann
14:30 Joana Barcelos e Ramos : Preliminary Study of Coccolithophores in the Azores
14:40 Elisa Malinverno: Deep photic zone coccolithophorid species: some examples of their possible ecological relationships (eastern Mediterranean, present-day and recent sediments).
14:50 Babette Boeckel, Karl-Heinz Baumann, Rüdiger Henrich &Hanno Kinkel: Distribution patterns of coccoliths in South Atlantic and Southern Ocean surface sediments in relation to environmental gradients
15:00 Maria Triantaphyllou, Margarita Dimiza & Michael D. Dermitzakis: A new Coccolithophore life-cycle association: Syracosphaera halldalii (Heterococcolithophore) and Calyptrolithina divergens var. tuberosa (Holococcolithophore)
15:10 Jorge Ferreira, Mário Cachao & Fátima Araœjo: Calcareous nannoplankton from the eastern Algarve offshore and the Guadiana estuary
15:20 Aurea Parente & Mário Cachao: Morphometry of Coccolithus pelagicus (Coccolithophore) from offshore Portugal, during the last 200 ka.
15:30 Barbara Balestra, Lluisa Cros, Maria Marino, Barbara Messe & Simonetta Monechi: Coccolithophorids biogeography in the Gulf of Manfredonia (South Adriatic Sea): preliminary results from water samples and surface sediments
15:40 Barbara Balestra Patrizia Ziveri, Maarten A. Prins, Antoni Rosell-Melé, Simonetta Monechi and Simon Troelstra: Nannofossil fluctuations in the Reykjanes Ridge during the last 20000 years: preliminary results by biomarker and isotope approach.
15:50 Sebastian Meier: DINO-CULT: Life-cycle studies on oceanic calcareous dinoflagellates
16:00 Discussion
16:15-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 Workshop: Coccolithophorid ecology. Can we devise structures to share data? (Chair: Jeremy Young, Patrizia Ziveri, Markus Geisen; Rapporteur: Elisa Malinverno)
17:30 Return to the hotel
20:00 Buffet dinner at Magda Hotel
Friday, 3/10/03
08:00-09:00 Breakfast at Magda Hotel
09:00 Walk to the conference hall at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete(IMBC)

Coccolithophores and marine carbonate cycles
Chair: Babette Boeckel
10:00 Anastasios Tselepides: Downward fluxes of settling particles in the deep Cretan Sea: an overview
10:20 Maria Triantaphyllou, Patrizia Ziveri & Anastasios Tselepides: Coccolithophore export production in the oligotrophic Cretan Sea (E.Mediterranean)
10:40 E. Malinverno, C. Corselli, P. Ziveri, G. de Lange, A. Hübner: Coccolithophorid export production and fluxes in the Ionian Basin, eastern Mediterranean
11:00 Coffee - Poster viewing
Chair: Patrizia Ziveri
11:20 Bianca De Bernardi, Patrizia Ziveri, Elisabetta Erba, Robert C. Thunell: El Nino 97-98 in the Santa Barbara basin (California): The response of Coccolithophore
11:40 Meral Kobrich, G. Fischer, K.-H. Baumann: Seasonal and interannual variability of coccolithophores fluxes and species composition in sediment traps off Cape Blanc (NW-Africa)
Poster presentations (Presenters are invited to give a 10min oral introduction to their posters. Overhead and Powerpoint fascilities are available)
12:00 Karl-Heinz Baumann & Babette Bockel: Coccolith contribution to South Atlantic carbonate sedimentation
12:10 Harald Andruleit: From living communities to fossil assemblages: origin and fate of coccolithophores in the northern Arabian Sea
12:20 Jens Olaf Herrle & Jšrg Bollmann: Overview about preparation techniques for calcareous nannoplankton
12:30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch / Free afternoon
20:00 Buffet dinner at Magda Hotel
Saturday, 4/10/03
08:00 Breakfast at Magda Hotel
09:00 Walk to the conference hall at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC)

Culture-based coccolithophorid research
* For Training Session I, the participants will be split into two groups (A and B). Beach for the group that is not working on part 1!
10:00-12:30 Training Session I (Group A): Living coccolithophore: net collection, single cell sorting, culture isolation (Instructors: Ian Probert, Colomban de Vargas)
13:00-15:30 Training Session I (Group B): Living coccolithophore: net collection, single cell sorting, culture isolation (Instructors: Ian Probert, Colomban de Vargas)
15:30-15:45 Coffee
Molecular genetics. Application on Coccolithophorid research
15:45-17:15 Training Session II (everybody): Living plankton: A primer of molecular phylogenetics and evolution (Instructor: Colomban de Vargas)
17:15-17:35 Betsy Read: Analysis of Expressed Sequenced Tags from Emiliania huxleyi
17:35-18:00 Discussion
18:00 Return to the hotel
20:00 Buffet dinner at Magda Hotel
Sunday, 5/10/03
08:00 Breakfast at Magda Hotel
09:00 Walk to the conference hall at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC)

Evolutionary Biodiversity - Taxonomy
Chair: Lluisa Cros
10:00 Patrick Quinn, Mara Cortés & Joerg Bollmann: Morphological variation in the deep-dwelling coccolithophore species Florisphaera profunda (Okada & Honjo)
10:20 Marie-Pierre Aubry: Testing the concept that the present is a key to the past: Do Extant Nannoplankton constitute a key to understanding the dynamics of extinct Nannoplankton?
10:40 Richard W. Jordan, Lluisa Cros & Jeremy R. Young: A revised classification scheme for living haptophytes
11:00 Jeremy Young: How many species? -Analysis of extant coccolithophorid
11:20-11:40 Coffee - Posters viewing
Posters presentation (Presenters are invited to give a 10min oral introduction to their posters. Overhead and Powerpoint facilities are available)
Chair: Ric Jordan
11:40 Daniela Crudeli & Hanno Kinkel: Specific diversity among Reticulofenestrids: a comparison between modern and Lower Pliocene coccoliths.
11:50 Lluïsa Cros, Markus Geisen and Jeremy R. Young: On Mediterranean Papposphaeraceae Jordan et Young
12:00-13:15 Workshop: Coccolithophorid Taxonomy. Life-cycle stages and nomenclature problems (Chair: Jeremy Young, Ric Jordan, Rapporteur: Maria Triantaphyllou)
13:15-14:30 Lunch. Collaboration time
14:30-15:30 Workshop: Calcification and carbon acquisition. (Chair:Patrizia Ziveri, Markus Geisen, Rapporteur: Patrick Quinn)
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-16:45 Workshop: Estimation of biodiversity in extant calcareous nannoplankton and implications for the past. (Chair: Marie-Pierre Aubry, Rapporteur: Markus Geisen)
16:45 Jeremy Young. Wrap-up. Present status of coccolithophore research. Short-, mid- and long- termed goals. Collaboration time. Last chance discussion
Conclusions and recommendations
17:30 Maria Triantaphyllou & Organizing Committee. Participants contribution to the Workshop Special Issue in Micropaleontology (Micropaleontology Press)
17:45 End
20:00 Closing dinner at Magda Hotel
Monday, 6/10/03
09:00 Breakfast at Magda Hotel
10:30 Organizing Committee meeting
10:00+ Departure of participants