EGS XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, March 2001

PC4. Foraminifera as proxies in palaeoceanography: geochemical signals, processes and applications:

Report

Although the session was relatively small, consisting of 7 oral and 4 poster contributions, the oral session attracted an audience of about 50 people on Friday morning. The poster session on Friday evening was less attended then during the days before. During both parts vivid and interesting discussions took place. Five contributions dealt with stable oxygen and carbon isotopes, two with boron isotopes, one with trace metals in foraminifera. Color reflectance of these organisms as a new tool was presented in a poster. The contributions ranged from in depth presentations to better understand, quantify and model the signals to application of these tools as tracers for climatic change. The other presentations showed application of foraminiferal distributions in the present and past. Most of the contributions gave significant new insights and were of high quality. 

Conveners: G.M. Ganssen, J. Bijma, D. Kroon