We are a group of earth and life scientists that have gathered to document the relationship between environmental and biotic change on coral reefs and shallow tropical marine ecosystems in the Indo-West Pacific. This region has contained the global center of marine species diversity for at least the past 20 million years, and we aim to collect the basic geological and biological information required to document the long-term history of extinct and extant components of this diverse biota. Our new data set will be used to better understand the structure and functioning of tropical marine ecosystems and will be applied to address ongoing issues associated with accelerating anthropogenic environmental change on local to global scales.

THROUGHFLOW Midterm Meeting

Our Midterm Review meeting is scheduled for January 23, 2012 at NCB Naturalis in Leiden.  Representatives from the Research Executive Agency (REA) in Brussels will join us for this one day meeting to discuss progress in achieving the training and research objectives of the project.  A lead scientist from each host institutions and all ESRs must attend, and ESRs will have the opportunity to present reports on their experiences within the project.   For more information, see the agenda for the meeting or the

Dates for Network Training Activities 5 and 6

R/V Littorina out of IFM-GEOMAR KielThe dates for our remaing NTAs have been set. NTA-5 Palaeoceanographic proxies and biogeochemical modelling will be held during the week of June 24-29, 2012 in Kiel, Germany.

ESR Meeting in Granada

On the 24th and 25th of November a meeting of all the ESRs will take place in Granada, Spain. The main aim is to discuss cooperative publications and the interchange of data and ideas. Attached you find the programme and travel infos.

THROUGHFLOW Midterm Meeting

Pending confirmation from the Research Executive Agency in Brussels, the Throughflow ITN midterm meeting will be held on January 23, 2012 at NCB Naturalis in Leiden.  Check back in the next few weeks for more information about logistics and the meeting agenda.  See the attached document for more information about the midterm review process.

 

THROUGHFLOW: NTA-4 samples arrived!

We are happy to announce that our second shipment of samples from Indonesia have arrived safely! Yesterday morning our container filled with 93 crates was brought to NCB Naturalis. Crates were unloaded and divided according to different institutions and are now waiting for further shipment to their eager researchers!

Meeting (Utrecht University): Origins of the South East Asian Marine Biodiversity Maximum

In order to start our connexion with Utrecht University as part of our PhD activities, we will have a meeting on next Tuesday 4 October. A general overview of the project will be presented by Willem Renema, followed by talks about the geology of the Mahakan Delta (Nathan Marshall), as well as the biodiversity of Foraminifera (Vibor Novak), Mollusca (Sonja Reich), Bryozoa (Emanuela Di Martino), and Corals (Nadia Santodomingo). In addition, Viola Warter will show some preliminary results about the geochemistry.

Poster award!

I am happy to announce that my poster "Molluscs from meadows - An Early Miocene seagrass mollusc association from Java, Indonesia" won the student poster contest at the "82. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft" (82nd annual meeting of the German palaeontological society) in Vienna with more than 25% of the votes.

Welcome to new ESR: Viola Warter!

Viola joined the project at the beginning of this month, and she will cover the geochemistry component at the Royal Holloway University. She is visiting today the Natural History Museum, and I took advantage to take a picture with one of our nice Coral samples!

Our samples


This is the ship carrying our samples from Singapore to Rotterdam. currently near the Suez Canal, in a week time it (he/she?) will arrive in Rotterdam

Goodbye samples - see you in Europe!

Today our samples which had been collected in Bontang, Bengalon and
Sangkuliran started their journey to Balikpapan where they will go on board
in direction of Europe. A total of 74 wooden and plastic boxes filled up with fossils
and sediment samples were loaded on a truck. Each box has an average weight
of 50 kg which makes a total of about 3.7t! And it’s still not all! The hard work
of moving all the material was greatly performed by Ken, Willem, Aries, Asep, two
of our drivers and last but not least the local construction workers. They all did an

Syndicate content
Scratchpads developed and conceived by: Vince Smith, Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Ben Scott...