INA 19 Llandudno, CONWY, WALES - TIMETABLE AND ABSTRACTS

Saturday 7th September 2024

Sunday 8th September 2024

Monday 9th September 2024

08:00 – 09:00	Late Registration	Conwy Suite, St Georges Hotel
09:00 – 09:30	Welcome and Opening announcements	Simon Cole & Tamsin Lawrence, INA19 Conveyors; Emanuela Mattioli, INA President; Paul Cornick/David Rutledge, PetroStrat Directors
Session One	“Life thru a lens” - Viewing the bigger picture through a microscope Chairs: Odysseus Archontikis & Emma Sheldon
09:30 – 10:00	Mike Simmons	Biostratigraphy and the energy transition KEYNOTE
10:00 – 10:15	Jeremy Young & others	Developing tools to compile and visualize nannofossil occurrence data
10:15 – 10:30	Guillaume Lassus & others	A YOLO model for coccolithophore identification using images from ocean water samples
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:15	Osman Varol	Challenges of optical properties of calcareous nannofossils
11:15 – 11:30	Luc Beaufort	Artificial intelligence used for automatic detection of calcareous nannofossils with SYRACO
11:30 – 11:45	Sissa Stefanowicz & others	Nannofossil image searches using Scampi
11:45 – 12:00	Emma Hanson & others (Tom Dunkley Jones presenting)	Size-fraction coccolith stable isotopes and Sr/Ca from the Miocene to Recent
12:00 – 12:30	Flash talks for poster session
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch break (lunch provided)
13:30 – 14:00	Tamsin Lawrence & Emma Sheldon	Nannofossil biostratigraphy in industry; female pioneers in nannopaleontology and a story of life on the rigs KEYNOTE, in honour of Donata Zucchi
Session Two	Nannos in the Age of the Dinosaurs - Jurassic Chairs: Matthew Hampton & Yi Zhang
14:00 – 14:15	Dave Rutledge	Application of nannofossils (the missing piece of the puzzle) from offshore Newfoundland: Upgrading the regional stratigraphy via an integrated multidisciplinary approach
14:15 – 14:30	Mica Chaumeil Rodríguez & others	New biostratigraphic data for the Lower–Middle Jurassic Los Molles Formation in the Picún Leufú area, Argentina
14:30 – 14:45	Angela Fraguas & others	New insights on calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoecology around the Pliensbachian/Toarcian boundary in the South Iberian paleomargin
14:45 – 15:00	Jason Jeremiah & Stephen Schwartz	Nannofossil abundance and diversity changes - a reaction to changing paleoenvironments in the late Tithonian of the Flemish Pass Basin, offshore Newfoundland
15:00 – 15:15	Rajkumar Chowdhury & others	The microscale exoskeletal reconstruction of the genus Nannoconus - taxonomic insights
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee Break
Session Three	Nannos in the Age of the Dinosaurs - Cretaceous
15:45 – 16:00	Marie-Pierre Aubry & others	From alkenones to Cretaceous marine Isochrysidales to coccoliths
16:00 – 16:15	Eliza Anton & Mihaela Melinte-Dobrinescu	Calcareous nannofossils of the Valanginian/Hauterivian boundary interval in the Romanian Carpathians
16:15 – 16:30	Cinzia Bottini & others	Aptian–Albian calcareous nannofossils from the South Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleoclimate and paleogeography
16:30 – 16:45	Fabio Lamm & others	Calcareous nannofossils from the Poggio le Guaine core (Umbria-Marche Basin, central Italy): Biostratigraphy and discussion of Aptian–Albian bioevents
16:45 – 17:00	Paula Granero & others	Morphometric analysis of the calcareous nannofossil group Aspidolithus in the lower Campanian: Implications for taxonomy
17:00 – 17:15	Rich Howe	Ultrastructure and taxonomy of the Order Watznauriales
17:15 – 17:30	Day 1 Closing remarks

Tuesday 10th September 2024

Session One	“Who stole all the oxygen?” (Cretaceous Nannos and the OAEs) Chairs: Denise Kulhanek & Alessandro Menini
09:00 – 09:15	Yi Zhang et al.	Reconstructing Cretaceous climate: Insights from a new calcareous nannofossil occurrence database
09:15 – 09:30	Jean Self-Trail & others	Calcareous nannofossils, Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, and the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary in cores from eastern Louisiana, USA
09:30 – 09:45	Jon Schueth & others	Unusual calcareous nannofossil assemblages from the Cenomanian–Turonian (93.9 Ma) of North America: Implications for nannofloral response to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2
09:45 – 10:00	Edna Tungo & others	Morphometric analyses of Eprolithus floralis from Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in the Eastbourne section
10:00 – 10:15	Blandine Godet & others	Using extraterrestrial 3He to reconstruct terrigenous fluxes and their impacts on marine primary productivity and carbon burial during OAE2 in the Vocontian Basin (SE France)
10:15 – 10:30	Elisabetta Erba & others	Calcareous nannofossil palaeoceanography across Oceanic Anoxic Event 3: From local to global perturbations
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
Session Two	Nannos in the Age of the Dinosaurs - Cretaceous (continued)
11:00 – 11:15	Deborah Tangunan & others	Multivariate evaluation rubric for assessing the reliability of Cretaceous nannofossil index taxa and bioevents
11:15 – 11:30	Francesco Miniati & others	Revised calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy for the late Turonian–early Campanian at Seaford Head (southern England)
11:30 – 11:45	Sara Marconato & others	Orbitally paced bottom-water acidification episodes linked to the late Maastrichtian warming event: Calcareous nannofossil evidence in the Hor Hahar section, Israel
11:45 – 12:00	Carmen Chira & others	Integrated biostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous–Eocene deposits from Poiana Botizei-Botiza (Maramures, Romania)
12:00 – 12:15	Yasu Wang & others	Cretaceous–Paleogene calcareous nannofossils and their biostratigraphic and paleoceanographic implications in southern Tibet
12:15 – 12:30	Felipa Vallejo-Hincapié	Cretaceous and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the northwestern inland basins of Colombia
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch break (lunch provided)
Session Three	“Hwyl Fawr T-Rex; Bore Da Paleogene” - Paleogene Nannos Chairs: Boris Karatsolis & Andrea Pardon
13:30 – 14:00	Paul Bown & others	What drove nannoplankton evolution and community dynamics through the Paleogene? KEYNOTE
14:00 – 14:15	Meriam Chouar & others	Stratigraphy of the lower Danian in the Danish Basin: Perspectives from calcareous nannofossils and stable isotopes
14:15 – 14:30	Xuejiao Wang	Late Paleocene eastern Tethys paleoenvironmental reconstruction using calcareous nannofossils in the Patala Formation, Salt Range, Pakistan
14:30 – 14:45	Nicolas Pige & others	Temperature-dependent calcareous nannofossil exported productivity during early Paleogene hyperthermals
14:45 – 15:00	Masayuki Utsunomiya & others	Evolutionary change in crystallographic orientation and morphology of Cenozoic coccoliths: Insights from Toweius, Reticulofenestra, and Umbilicosphaera
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30	Workshops (four options - sign up required) Biostratigraphy Software StrataBugs: Paul Britton (StrataData) & BugWin Mitch Covington (BugWare) Jurassic Nannofossils Fabienne Giraud (Université Grenoble Alpes); Jason Jeremiah (Viridien); Emanuela Mattioli (Université C. Bernard Lyon 1) Extant Coccolithophore Biogeography Jeremy Young (University College London) Geochemical Proxies from Coccoliths Tom Dunkley Jones (University of Birmingham)
18:00 – 20:00	Mid-Conference Fieldtrip (1) Mini field trip to The Great Orme, Llandudno (Peter Lucas, PetroStrat)

Wednesday 11th September 2024

Session One	“Everyone say wayo - E–O” - Oligocene to Miocene Nannos Chairs: Luc Beaufort & Deborah Tangunan
09:00 – 09:15	Allyson Viganò & Claudia Agnini	Unlocking the mystery of Clausicoccus subdistichus across the Eocene–Oligocene transition
09:15 – 09:30	Ric Jordan & others	The search for fossil siliceous haptophytes
09:30 – 09:45	Claire Routledge & others	Evaluating Oligocene calcareous nannoplankton diversity and community dynamics
09:45 – 10:00	Xiang Su & others	Calcareous nannofossil changes in reddish-brown sediments in the abyssal South China Sea during the Oligocene–Miocene
10:00 – 10:15	Boris Karatsolis & others	Oligocene to Recent North Atlantic biostratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil assemblages (IODP Expedition 395)
10:15 – 10:30	Katarína Holcová & Filip Scheiner	Calcareous nannoplankton and εNd as paleogeographic proxies: A case study from the Langhian junction of the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Paratethys
10:30 – 10:45	Xabier Puentes-Jorge & others	Middle to Late Miocene calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy and paleoecology at Broken Ridge, eastern Indian Ocean (ODP Site 752)
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
Session Two	“Take a Chill Pill” - Neogene Nannos
11:15 – 11:45	Mehdi Bendif	Comparative genomics of the Isochrysidales KEYNOTE
11:45 – 12:00	Elisavet Skampa & others	Early Pliocene calcareous nannofossils contribute to the paleoceanographic reconstruction of the Cretan Basin (southern Aegean Sea, NE Mediterranean)
12:00 – 12:15	Carlos Lancis & others	Structural developments within the Family Ceratolithaceae
12:15 – 12:30	Eric De Kaenel	A revision of Quaternary species of the genus Scyphosphaera
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch break (lunch not provided)
13:00 – 15:00	Schools outreach session (Running concurrently with poster session) 4×10–15 minute talks, microscope demonstration, posters, talk to scientists
14:00 - 15:00	Poster Session (1) (Running concurrently with schools outreach session)
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30	Workshop session 2 (four options -sign up required) Cretaceous Nannofossils: Paul Bown (University College London); Matthew Hampton (Network Stratigraphic); Richard Howe (Ellington Geological Services) Public Outreach: Mario Cachão (Universidade de Lisboa); Micaela Chaumeil Rodriguez (Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología); Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero (University of Portsmouth); Deborah Tangunan (University College London) Understanding Molecular Genetic Data: El Mahdi Bendif (Université du Québec à Rimouski) AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Automated Coccolith Identification: Luc Beaufort, (CEREGE)
18:00 – 23:59	Conference Dinner 3-course dinner at Dylan’s Llandudno followed by dancing (Twmpath band - Twmpathology)

Thursday 12th September 2024

Session One	“Blowing hot and cold” - Nannos in the Ice Age Chairs: Alyssa Peleo-Alampay & Masayuki Utsonomiya
09:00 – 09:30	Clara Bolton & others	Last glacial to Holocene sedimentation patterns and coccolithophore dynamics in the northwestern Bay of Bengal in response to South Asian monsoon strengthening KEYNOTE
09:30 – 09:45	Mohammed Razmjooei & others	Improving Arctic Quaternary geochronology and paleoceanographic reconstructions using calcareous nannofossils
09:45 – 10:00	Yu Wang & others	Impact of the biological carbon pump on atmospheric pCO2 over the past 800,000 years
10:00 – 10:15	Guilherme Pedrão & others	Coccolith dynamic distribution in the western tropical Atlantic during the last 300,000 years: Toward a better understanding of oceanic current dynamics
10:15 – 10:30	Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero & others	Particulate inorganic carbon in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean: Satellite measurements versus coccolithophore estimates
10:30 – 11:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session Two	“Life on the Ocean Wave” - Extant Nannos
11:30 – 11:45	Laura Bronzo & others	Paleoclimatic reconstruction of the past 28 kyr BP based on calcareous nannofossil assemblages in the Ligurian Sea
11:45 – 12:00	Miguel Frada & others	Phosphate-limiting conditions induce cell volume increase in natural coccolithophore populations
12:00 – 12:15	Maria González-Martín & others	Environmental influences on coccolithophore distribution and abundance in the water column of the western Iberian margin (August 2022)
12:15 – 12:30	Han Wang & others	Calcification response of Emiliania huxleyi to temperature and pH variations under calcitic and aragonitic sea conditions
12:30 – 12:45	Stefania Bianco & others	When CO2 increases, how does Helicosphaera carteri respond?
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch break (lunch provided)
Session Three	Tessellation, identification, calcification, precipitation Chairs: Jelena Godrijan & Mohammad Razmjooei
13:45 – 14:15	Kyoko Hagino	Recent progress in the studies of Braarudosphaera bigelowii KEYNOTE
14:15 – 14:30	Pietro Bazzicalupo & others	Coccolithophore response to marine alkalinization: The results of ocean alkalinity enhancement exposure
14:30 – 14:45	Glen Wheeler	Understanding the specialised cellular mechanisms that support calcification in coccolithophore
14:45 – 15:00	Justin Padre & others	Spatio-temporal variability of alkenone and calcareous nannofossil abundance records across the southeastern Philippines: Insights on alkenone production and paleoceanographic reconstructions
15:00 – 15:15	Mario Cachão & Maria Carvalho	Not a source of atmospheric CO2…
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee Break
Session Four	Awards, INA business meeting and reports Chairs: Emanuela Mattioli (INA President) & Simon Cole (conference convenor)
15:45 – 17:45	Including INA20 (2026) bids and votes. Close.
18:00 – 20:00	Mid-Conference Fieldtrip (2) Mini field trip to The Great Orme, Llandudno (Peter Lucas, PetroStrat)

Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September 2024 Post-conference field trip - Snowdonia (Eryri)

POSTERS

P-01	Maria-Carmen Alvarez & others	Changes in productivity in the Guaymas Basin over the last 22,000 years: Insights from coccolithophores in sediments from IODP Site U1549
P-02	Odysseas Archontikis & others	Recovery and diversification of coccolithophores after the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary mass extinction, IODP Expedition 392, the Agulhas Plateau
P-03	Carmen Argenio & others	Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic changes during the Quaternary at IODP Site U1586, Iberian margin
P-04	Joseph Asanbe & Jorijntje Henderiks	Biometric analysis of the genus Toweius across the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO; ~53—49 Ma) at ODP Site 1258, Demerara Rise
P-05	Chiara Bonatelli & others	The uncultivated side of coccolithophores: Digging into the organic matter
P-06	Laura Bronzo & others	Calcareous nannofossil assemblages as evidence of shifts in the Arctic/Polar Fronts during the past 24 kyr BP along the West Spitsbergen margin
P-07	Joeven Calvelo & others	Preliminary results of calcareous nannofossil analyses of Neogene and Quaternary units in northwestern Pangasinan, Philippines
P-08	Valentina Catelli & others	Gradual phyletic evolution of Reticulofenestra oamaruensis from Reticulofenestra clatrata: A rare example of calcareous nannoplankton microevolution preserved in the sedimentary record at IODP Site U1553 (southern Pacific Ocean)
P-09	Meriam Chouar & Nicolas Thibault	Biometric analysis of the Maastrichtian Arkhangelskiella group in the Indian Ocean (ODP Hole 762C): Taxonomy and evolution
P-10	Stjepan Coric & others	Calcareous nannofossils at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Wasserfallgraben section, Germany; Nussdorf section, Austria)
P-11	Shun Fujiyama & others	Early Miocene microfossils from Marmorito (Italy)
P-12	Azam Gholamifard & others	Early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a): Evidence based on calcareous nannofossils in the Qaleh Zoo section, central Kopet Dagh, Iran
P-13	Maria Gonzalez-Martin & others	Coccolithophore assemblages and paleoceanographic dynamics at IODP Site U1385: Insights from the Pliocene–Pleistocene transition (western Iberian margin)
P-14	Rich Howe	Ultrastructure and taxonomy of the Order Arkhangelskiales
P-15	Rich Howe	Ultrastructure and taxonomy of the Families Axopodorhabdaceae and Cretarhabdaceae
P-16	Xiaobo Jin & Chuanlian Liu 204	Estimating the coccolithophore ratio of particulate inorganic carbon to particulate organic carbon from the geometry of living cells
P-17	Ric Jordan & others	The search for fossil siliceous haptophytes
P-18	Francis Lancis & others	Ceratolithaceae biostratigraphy of ODP Site 1237, equatorial Pacific
P-19	Francis Lancis & others	Ceratolithaceae biostratigraphy of ODP Hole 999A, Caribbean Sea
P-20	Chuanlian Liu, Lishun Sun	The relationship between the carbonate counter pump and seawater CO2 in the Middle Miocene
P-21	Ruigang Ma & Chuanlian Liu	A decreased carbonate pump during the Oligocene–Miocene transition: Regulating the oceanic buffering capacity
P-22	Azam Mahanipour & Samira Nejadsahebi	Evidence of Discoaster multiradiatus size variation in the late Paleocene–early Eocene at the Zagros Basin (SW Iran)
P-23	Azam Mahanipour & others	Evidence of the mid-Valanginian Weissert Event in the Zagros Basin in Iran based on calcareous nannofossils and carbon isotope data
P-24	Frederico Malavolta & others	Distribution and diversity of coccolithophore communities living in the tropical and subtropical South Atlantic: Preliminary results from AMT28
P-25	Elisa Malinverno & others	Coccolithophore seasonal export production and fluxes in the Ionian Sea, eastern Mediterranean (June 2004–September 2005)
P-26	Sara Marconato & others	Size and morphological changes in Coccolithus pelagicus across the Danian and their link to environmental recovery from the K/Pg mass extinction in the SE Tethys, Israel
P-27	Laura Martin-Garcia & others	Reconstruction of the ocean surface dynamics of the Iberian Margin in the Miocene–Pliocene using calcareous nannofossil assemblages
P-28	Amy Murphy & others	Drivers of Neogene coccolithophore macroevolution
P-29	Elisa Palandri & others	Leveling the gap between different counting techniques in coccolithophore cultures
P-30	Patrick Penales & others	Coccolithophore assemblage dynamics and Emiliania huxleyi morphological patterns during the years 2017–2019 in the Aegean Sea (Greece, NE Mediterranean)
P-31	Juan Pablo Perez Panera & others	Insights into the last glacial–interglacial shift: Microfossils and geochemical evidence from the Argentine continental margin
P-32	Davide Righi & others	Study of the paleoclimatic transition from Greenhouse to Icehouse conditions by means of calcareous nannofossils in the Southern, Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
P-33	Andres Rigual Hernandez & others	Evolution of coccolithophore communities in the Atlantic Iberian margin during the Common Era
P-34	Andres Rigual Hernandez & others	Response of the coccolithophore Calcidiscus leptoporus to environmental change during the industrial era in the Subantarctic Southern Ocean
P-35	Lucia Rivas & others	Pleistocene–Holocene calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera from the Argentine Continental Margin, southwest Atlantic Ocean
P-36	Claire Routledge & others	Calcareous nannofossils from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, IODP Site U1557, South Atlantic Ocean
P-37	Jean Self-Trail & others	Preliminary biostratigraphy of the lower Cenomanian Buda Limestone from the U.S. Geological Survey GC-3 and GC-5 cores, Texas, USA
P-38	Emma Sheldon & others	Early to Middle Miocene nannofossils from the Valhall–Hod area, Norwegian North Sea
P-39	Medhavi Srivastava & others	Responses of calcareous nannoplankton to mid-Pliocene dynamics between climate and the carbon cycle in the North Atlantic
P-40	Kristalina Stoykova & Ivanov	Early Eocene hyperthermals in northern Bulgaria (SE Europe): New nannofossil and stable isotope data
P-41	Kristalina Stoykova & others	Calcareous nannofossil response to the early Oligocene Rhodope volcanic eruptions in some central and eastern Paratethyan basins: A comparison
P-42	Maria Triantaphyllou & others	Investigating the size variability and coccolith mass of Emiliania huxleyi in the Aegean Sea (NE Mediterranean): 20 years of evidence on modern assemblages compared to the last two thousand years
P-43	Masayuki Utsunomiya & others	Paleocene–Eocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Surprise Hill core from Virginia, USA
P-44	Allyson Vigano & Agnini	Mediterranean marine sediment core database: Unlocking paleoclimate signals for the last 20,000 years
P-45	Stefano Visentin & others	Early and Middle Jurassic Tethyan calcareous nannofossil zonation: Taxonomic updates and biostratigraphic improvements
P-46	Nikoleta Vitsou & others	Confocal laser imaging of calcareous nannofossils
P-47	Amos Winter & others	A high-resolution depth profile of coccolithophores from oligotrophic waters in the North Atlantic Gyre (part 2)
P-48	Dangpeng Xi & others	Paleocene to Eocene calcareous nannofossil zonation in the western Tarim Basin, Central Asia