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American Association of Petroleum Geologists

American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Inc. (AASP): WORLDWIDE PALYNOLOGY E-MAIL & WWW DIRECTORY.

AASP Data Committee, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (this web site is made available by the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto): Palydisks. Downloadable collection of palynology files. Includes bibliographies, pollen diagrams, statistics, and various related programs. The Palydisks are in the "public domain" available for exchange, with explicit acknowledgement of the original author.

Associazione Italiana Per lo Studio del Quaternario (AIQUA): RESEARCH IN PALYNOLOGY IN ITALY. References.

British Micropalaeontological Society. The society comprises five groups, dealing with conodonts, foraminifera, nannofossils, ostracods, and last but not least palynology. Visit the Palynology Group.

Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP). Members of CAP are palynologists from universities, industry and government agencies. The association focusses on palynology from all geologic eras, spanning the Palaeozoic to the Quaternary. Palynologists from all branches of the discipline, from stratigraphic palynology, to palaeoecology, to melissopalynology, participate in the Association.

Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paléozoique (C.I.M.P.). C.I.M.P. is an international federation of palynologists interested in Palaeozoic palynology. The commission aims to advance knowledge in palynology and related subjects by the promotion of international co-operation and meetings between scientists of all regions and countries.

Commision Internationale de Microflore Paléozoique (C.I.M.P.), Subcommission on Spores and Pollen.

Commision Internationale de Microflore Paléozoique (C.I.M.P.), Acritarch Subcomission.

Institute of Petroleum, London: Links to Oil companies, UK and worldwide.

International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS). IFPS is a federation of regional, national, linguistic, and specialist palynological organizations of the world. Its goals are to advance knowledge in palynology and related subjects by promotion of international cooperation and sponsorship of regular meetings between palynologists of all countries and regions.

International Humic Substances Society: The motto of IHSS is "To Advance the Knowledge, Research and Application of Humic Substances". For scientists with interest in humic substances in the coal, soil, and water sciences, and to provide opportunities for them to exchange ideas, skills, and viewpoints.

The International Nannoplankton Association (hosted by The Natural History Museum in London): INA is a semi-formal association of scientists worldwide who have an interest in living or fossil nannoplankton - including coccolithophores, nannoliths, and other nannofossils such as silicoflagellates and calcisphere.

The North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM): The purpose of the Section is to promote all aspects of micropaleontology through application, research and education dealing with morphology, biostratigraphy, ecology/paleoecology, and geologic history of all groups of microfossils occurring in the stratigraphic record.

Michael E. Schudack, Institute of Palaeontology, FU Berlin: EUROPEAN GROUP OF CHAROPHYTE SPECIALISTS (G.E.C.) An informal association of specialists for charophyte algae (paleontologists and botanists) from European countries. Explore the bibliography.

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Keith W. Abineri, West Borough, Wimborne, Dorset, UK: Palynology - a microscopic view into the past. Illustrated with residues from treated Dorset coast sediments. See also: MICROSCOPIC FRAGMENTS OF MESOZOIC CONIFER WOOD FOUND IN THE KIMMERIDGE CLAY AND PURBECK SEDIMENTS AND RELATED TOPICS.

Volker Arnold, Museum of Prehistory, Dithmarschen at Heide, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany): Amber: A Perfect Fossil Trap. Worth checking out: Palynomorphs Embalmed in Amber.

Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP): World Wide Web Sites for Palynologists. The following list reflects an idiosyncratic selection of WWW sites (plus a few gopher, ftp, and telnet sites) which may contain information of relevance to palynologists and palaeobotanists.

Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP): Highlights from Recent CAP Newsletters. Selected articles online in palynology.

Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP): A List of Theses by Canadian Palynologists and about Canadian Palynology.

John H. Beck, Boston University and Weston Observatory Paleopalynology of the Silurian Arisaig Group, Nova Scotia.

Ian Boomer (University of Newcastle), and Giles Miller (Natural History Museum, London): Micropalaeontological Web Sites.

British Micropalaeontological Society. The society comprises five groups, dealing with conodonts, foraminifera, nannofossils, ostracods, and last but not least palynology. Visit the Palynology Group.

Palynology at The University of Calgary Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Calgary.

The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN): Palynology, Basic Laboratory Chemicals, and Herbarium code designations.

The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN): Palynology. The Canadian Museum of Nature has created one of the world's largest pools of information on fossil and recent pollen and spores. The Palynology Database includes taxonomic, collection, geographic, preparation, and photographic information on about 15 000 species of plants. Take advantage of the 30-day free trial Individual Subscription.

Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN): Palynology. This is a large pool of information on fossil and recent pollen and spores. The palynology database includes taxonomic, collection, geographic, preparation, and photographic information on about 15 000 species of plants. Geographic representation is worldwide, with emphasis on tropical and subtropical regions. All specimens come from vouchered herbarium material and therefore represent collections that may be referenced. With costs. See Links to other Palynology Sites and References.

! Owen Davis, Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson: PALYNOLOGY. This site has pointers to palynology definitions and illustrations, palynology references, AASP Palydisks and links to other palynology organizations and other palynologists. Excellent! Worth checking out: Palynology Sites & People. See also: PALYNOLOGY WEB SITES OF THE MONTH for 1998-99.

! Owen Kent Davis, Department of Geosciences University of Arizona, Tucson: Palynology, go to: Catalog of Internet Pollen and Spore Images. Excellent!

Palynology Laboratory Collections, Human History, Archaeology Collections, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton

Elf Aquitaine Inc., Paris: The odyssey. Encyclopedia on Oil Exploitation. The odyssey encyclopedia is divided into eight sections - Genesis, Exploration, Drilling, Development, Production, International Trading, Oil by sea, and Refining - and nearly 100 screens (including numerous animated sequences).

Susanne Feist-Burkhardt, Institute for Geology and Palaeontology Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, and Jörg Pross, Institute and Museum for Geology and Palaeontology University of Tübingen, Germany: New methods in light microscopy and their application to fossil dinoflagellate cysts. The application of confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). CLSM is a conventional microscope which is equipped with a laser light source, the laser scanning head, an automatic focusing stage, and connected to a monitor and PC.

Michael T. Garrison: Websurfer´s Biweekly Earth Sciences Review. A review of internet sites devoted to the terrestrial and planetary sciences. Go to: Paleontology and Fossils, Paleobotany Websites. This paleobotany listings are grouped into five categories: General Concepts, Palynology, Online Fossil Collections, Paleobotany of Specific Localities, and Fossil Wood.

David G. Green, School of Environmental and Information Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury , New South Wales: Paleo Life, and via Australian National University´s Bioinformatics Hypermedia Service: Palynology & palaeoclimatology. This information and resources will be of interest to pollen analysts and others interested in palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments.

Terry J. Hutter, TH Geological Services, Inc., Sand Springs, OK, U.S.A.: Palynomorph of the Month.

S.Jaeger: European Pollen Information. This site provides actual pollen-concentration-forecasts and pollen-information countrywise.

J. Jansonius, Institute of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology, Calgary, & L.V. Hills: Jansonius & Hill´s Catalogue This site demonstrate the use of the genera file of fossil palynomorphs on the World Wide Web. It is a card index of great value to those studying fossil pollen and spores and gives descriptive detail and a simple drawing of most known taxa of these fossils.

Lycos: Palynology. Top Rated Websites.

Palaeobotanical Research Group, Münster, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany. History of Palaeozoic Forests, MODES OF PRESERVATION. Link list page with picture rankings. The links give the most direct connections to pictures available on the web.

Florin Neumann, Department of Geology, University of Toronto: Internet Discussion Lists of Interest to Palynologists. Versions of this article originally appeared in CAP Newsletter 17(2):27-29, 1994, and AASP Newsletter 28(1):20-21, 1995.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, WDC for Paleoclimatology: Modern and Fossil Pollen Data. All data in the WDC-A archive is contributed by research scientists. See also:
What´s New in the Global Pollen Database. New data on paleobotanical pollen cores and pollen distribution are added to this US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Paleoclimatology Program site regularly. Users can browse a list of newly-acquired data and click links to detailed information on the pollen data from each site.

Olaf Ronneberger, Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung und Bildverarbeitung, Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: Automatic Identification and Counting of Airborne Pollen Grains.

O. Ronneberger, U. Heimann, E. Schultz, V. Dietze, H. Burkhardt, R. Gehrig: Automated pollen recognition using gray scale invariants on 3D volume image data. Second European Symposium on Aerobiology, Vienna / Austria, Sept. 5 - 9, 2000.

Valentí Rull, Barcelona: High-impact palynology in petroleum geology. Worth checking out: Palynomorph pictures, and Links to Palynology/Palecplogy.

The Centre for Palynology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Sheffield.

Palynological laboratory, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm

Richard Tyson, Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry, Newcastle Research Group (NRG), Newcastle: Kerogen image gallery index. These images concentrate mainly on non-palynomorph particulate organic matter, plus some oil-prone "algal" palynomorphs.

YAHOO: Science:Biology:Botany: Palynology.

Home / Palynology / Palynofacies

Keith W. Abineri, West Borough, Wimborne, Dorset, UK: Palynology - a microscopic view into the past. Illustrated with residues from treated Dorset coast sediments. See also: MICROSCOPIC FRAGMENTS OF MESOZOIC CONIFER WOOD FOUND IN THE KIMMERIDGE CLAY AND PURBECK SEDIMENTS AND RELATED TOPICS.

British Micropalaeontological Society. The society comprises five groups, dealing with conodonts, foraminifera, nannofossils, ostracods, and last but not least palynology. Visit the Palynology Group.

Andreas Clausing, Palaeontology Section, Institute for Geological Sciences, University of Halle: The Palynofacies Page. A huge references list about Organic Matter - Organic Petrology - Palynofacies with information of relations to coal petrology studies.

Elf Aquitaine Inc., Paris: The odyssey. Encyclopedia on Oil Exploitation. The odyssey encyclopedia is divided into eight sections - Genesis, Exploration, Drilling, Development, Production, International Trading, Oil by sea, and Refining - and nearly 100 screens (including numerous animated sequences).

Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry, Newcastle Research Group (NRG): Palynofacies, Organic Petrology and Organic Facies.

Palaeobotanical Research Group, Münster, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany. History of Palaeozoic Forests, MODES OF PRESERVATION. Link list page with picture rankings. The links give the most direct connections to pictures available on the web.

Florentin Paris and Danièle Bernard, Géosciences, Université de Rennes I, France: Chitinozoans - List of species. Alphabetic list of chitinozoan species (sub-species and "varieties") described up to now.

P. K. Strother, Paleobotanical Laboratory at Weston Observatory: Grand Canyon: Paleobotanical Research on the Bright Angel Shale. Fossil spore polyads and a dyad as well as cryptospores and spore clusters of Middle Cambrian age.

Richard Tyson, Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry, Newcastle Research Group (NRG), Newcastle: Kerogen image gallery index. These images concentrate mainly on non-palynomorph particulate organic matter, plus some oil-prone "algal" palynomorphs.

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Commision Internationale de Microflore Paléozoique (C.I.M.P.), Acritarch Subcomission. Visit the Acritarch Newsletter.

Ben Waggoner, Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR: Eukaryota, I-caryota ... See here.

Home / Palynology / Silicoflagellates and Others

Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: Introduction to the Dinoflagellata.

Ian Boomer (University of Newcastle), and Giles Miller (Natural History Museum, London): Micropalaeontological Web Sites.

britanica.com: dinoflagellate. Encyclopædia Britannica article. See also: Protozoan, General features.

Rob Fensome, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Andrew MacRae, and Graham Williams, Dinoflagellate Classification Database (DINOFLAJ): Bibliographical references.

Rob Fensome, Andrew MacRae, and Graham Williams, Project of the Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic): Dinoflagellate Classification Database (DINOFLAJ). DINOFLAJ is a database system containing a current classification of fossil and living dinoflagellates down to generic rank, and an index of fossil dinoflagellates at generic, specific, and infraspecific ranks.

Svenolov Lindgren: Lindgren Labs for Paleontology & Biology. Provides information e.g. about peridinioid dinoflagellates from the Upper Cretaceous of Trelleborg, southern Sweden.

Kevin McCartney, Northern Maine Museum of Science, University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME: Silicoflagellates.

Andrew MacRae, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary: What is paleopalynology?, Go to: Dinoflagellates.

Florentin Paris and Danièle Bernard, Géosciences, Université de Rennes I, France: Chitinozoans - List of species. Alphabetic list of chitinozoan species (sub-species and "varieties") described up to now.

Hans Schrader, Eureka: Diatoms, "Nature´s Marbles" The intention of this site is to cover all aspects of modern diatom research coupled with a show off of the beauty of these opaline gems

P. Roger Sweets, Biology Department, Indiana University: Diatom Home Page.