University of Athens (UOA), Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR Crete), Institute of Oceanography
Assoc. Prof. Maria Triantaphyllou (UoA) *, Dr. Stella Psarra (HCMR), Dr. Jeremy R. Young (UCL) * mtriant@geol.uoa.gr
We now have a provisional participants list of nearly 50 people for our Crete Workshop; it seems there are quite a lot of us interested in the subject! Really, it is a very pleasing response and we think it should make for a useful workshop.
Original invitation.UPDATE - 19th JUNE 2014. We now have formally 50 registered participants and this is the maximum we can handle in the conference space are using. So, we are not able to accept any more participants. If you do think there are special reasons why the workshop would be especially valuable to you then you are welcome to contact us and ask to be put on a reserve list.
UPDATE - 9th SEPT 2014. The provisional schedule (PDF file) for the meeting is available now. Also the JNR special issue is now in press with eight papers and about 40 abstracts. Extra talks cannot be accepted but if you want to bring an extra poster just let us know.
UPDATE - 1st OCT 2014. The schedule is now finalised (until something changes) - and the excursion is to Spinalonga, which looks really beautiful. The abstract books are printed and on their way to Crete, Stella is busy finalising things at the Aquarium. Have a safe journey.
For each topic we will arrange a review talk and also invite a small panel of experienced scientists to summarise progress and facilitate discussion on the final day of the workshop.
In addition a training session will take place including practical methods and training covering coccolithophore culturing and isolation, molecular genetics methods and morphometric approaches.
During the open scientific sessions we invite all participants to give at least a short presentation on their current work and their interests in extant coccolithophores. There will also be space for poster presentations. Informal discussions and sharing of experience should be a very valuable part of the workshop and will be facilitated by us staying in the same place, and by the small scale of the workshop.
Please send a provisional title of your presentation by May 15th, to help with planning.
We are planning two publications related to the meeting. First a special issue of the JNR to be produced in time for the meeting and second a thematic issue of Micropaleontology from presentations given at the meeting.
Abstracts
All participants who will give oral or poster presentations should send their abstracts or extended abstracts (including figures and references) for publication in the JNR theme issue. Abstracts should be sent by June 15th. Absttracts can include a single figure but should no be longer than one printed page of the JNR. They should be sent to Maria Triantaphylou.Short communications on modern coccolithophores
Objective - most workers have numerous observations which are of interest but not easily suitable for publication in a full blown article in a high-ranking scientific journal. This is especially true in natural history fields such as coccolithophore research. The purpose of the special issue will be to get a suite of these observations published so as to enhance our knowledge of taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of coccolithophores. Types of article wanted - articles should be equivalent in length to 1 to 5 pages of the JNR and could include one or two plates. The format should be that of a regular article (see examples here), including references and short abstract. Introductory paragraphs on the nature of coccolithophores are not, however, needed. Suitable topics would include:Timescale - the intention is that these papers will be published in a dedicated issue of the Journal of Nannoplankton Research before the meeting. To facilitate rapid publication manuscripts must be submitted by June 15th. Articles will be reviewed by an expert editorial committee. We hope you will take this opportunity to publish some of your observations on extant coccolithophores. If you have any queries please contact Jeremy. Format, bibiliographies etc. should follow the normal guidelines for the JNR. Send submitted mss to Jeremy Young.
The editorial team of Micropalaeontology has invited us to publish a thematic issue, of six to ten articles following the meeting and we believe this will be a valuable way to progress the field. Deadline for submissions and further details will be discussed during the meeting. If you are interested in contributing to this issue please contact Maria.
We are looking forward to see you all in Crete,
Maria, Stella, JeremyUPDATE - 19th JUNE 2014. We have now received quite enough short papers (including a couple we have not received yet but are promised very shortly). So the call for these papers is now closed, and all promised papers really do need to be submitted by 30th June. For abstracts we will extend the deadline to 30th June, since we did not send out as many reminders as we might have done. Many thanks to the numerous people who did send in an abstracts on time.
