History
- 2007-Dec-22: First Release with 7 Forams
- 2007-Dec-27: Starting Contribution to Biolib
- 2008-Jan-04: Guestbook added in participate, 29 Forams online
- 2008-Jan-08: Starting Contribution to micro*scope, which ended in the WFD
- 2008-Feb-22: Postcard produced for Contributors, 59 Forams online
- 2008-March-21: First posting on forams in www.steinkern.de
- 2008-March-25 and following: Steinkern members send samples
- 2008-April-16: 100 Forams online
- 2008-June-04: Database Query added, 123 Forams online
- 2008-June-30: Google image search starts to show images
- 2008-July-16: First SEM-images, 177 Forams online
- 2008-July-27: Dr. Frontalini of the University of Urbino sends 34 ESEM and 12 REM images
- 2008-Aug-04: 264 Forams online
- 2008-Aug: Print of 2500 postcards with foram-images, on the back asking for samples
- 2008-OCt-17: giving a lecture + exercises on forams as bioindicators at Mikrobiologische Vereinigung Hamburg
- 2008-Nov: Database query improved and enlarged up to 13 criteria
- 2008-Dec-01: Google ranking on search "foraminifera" stabilises between position 3-15
- 2008-Dec-12-14: Presentation on the fair "Mineralien" (35.000 visitors), distribution of 600 postcards
- 2008-Dec-19: 683 Forams online
- 2008-Dec-21: Buttenheim-Foraminifera processed, publication with some of my images under way
- 2008-Dec: I. Polovodova from IFM-Geomar sends SEM images from the baltic
- 2008: about 120 samples have been sent or collected, about 40 are not yet processed
- 2009-Jan-01: becoming Member of The Micropalaeontological Society and Subscription to "Journal of Micropaleontology"
- 2009-Jan-21: Museum of Nature South Tyrol gives samples from Triassic of the Dolomites
- 2009-Feb-13: Exercises+lecture on foraminifera and Darwin with students
- 2009-Feb: Kai Nungesser sends 50+ images of foraminifera from Mainzer Becken, Oligocene
- 2009-Feb: Article "A foraminiferan adventure" published in Deposits Magazine 17, 2009, 5 pages
- 2009-Feb-21: First samples received/taken in USA: Calvert Cliffs, Maryland
- 2009-Feb-28: Lyby-Foraminifera processed, publication with some of my images under way
- 2009-March-13: 831 Forams online
- 2009-March: Publication on Buttenheim by Steinkern with several of my images
- 2009-April 20-25: Participation in the 2nd International Course on Benthic Foraminifera at Urbino
- 2009-April 25: in the train from Pesaro to Bologna Cidalina comes up with the idea of linking scientists with naturalists as the Mission
- 2009-May: breaking down the mission into single objectives: improvement of the database as a valuable tool for scientists, adding text descriptions, adding mini-lectures, looking for more co-workers
- 2009-May: Michael Kaminski provides images of lectoytypes from the Museum of Natural History London
- 2009-July: Taxonomical Guide is created using drawings from W. Rönnfeld to choose from
- 2009-Sept.: Oral presentation on foraminifera at the North Carolina Fossil Club, Eric provides sveral kg of sedimentary material from NC, which is partly processed: Peedee FM, Mosely Creek FM
- 2009-Oct: Amphistegina becomes a featured genus with an introductory text
- 2009-Nov: Irina Polovodava sends images of abnormal Elphidiums and Ammonias from the Baltic
- 2009-Nov: Wafa'a from Sana'a, Yemen sends Plummercells, 59 SEMs and identification has been done
- 2009-Dec-04-06: Oral presentation and booth on the fair "Mineralien" (30.000 visitors), distribution of postcards
- 2009-Dec: The first plummercell of Karl-Otto Bock goes online with the help of photographer Matthias Burba according to the concept of clickable single fields
- 2009-Dec-31: 1500+ Forams are online
- 2010-Spring: In Steinkern Heft 2 our SEM-images are published in an article on the classical site Buttenheim|
- 2010-May: Stefan Raveling provides several well processed samples from the Miocene core samples from Stade
- 2010-Summer: Kai Nungesser publishes two articles on the classical site Pfadberg, Mainz Basin with SEMs made by us in Steinkern Heft 4
- 2010-August-7 - 2010-October-31: Exhibition Foraminifera of Northern Europe
- 2010-August-31: 2100+ Forams are online
- David Calia, Malta publishes his dissertation "A students guide to the geology of the Maltese Islands." with our SEM-images and classifications of foraminifera
- 2010-September-6/7.: Forams2010, Poster Presentation and Discussion on Forams in the Internet
- 2010-Sept.: Results of discussions: Creditability needs to be improved: Backup-Policy needed, higher percentage of reviewed images, more genera rather than more specimens, naming harmonized with WoRMS, usage of illustrative drawings, motivating professionals to contribute images
- 2010-September: Bruno Granier offers Short Treatise on Foraminifera and the usage of all images of the Notebooks on Geology
- 2010-Sept.-21: About 310 images of two Notebooks on Geology are separated from the plates and need to be integrated.
- 2010-Sept.: Restructuring: specimens and species pages are now build automatically from database entries, mayor improvement for the integration of images.
- 2010-October: David C. Polly of Coquina Press who runs Palaeontologia Electronica gives permission to integrate several images from two articles I asked for: Holbourn, A. E. and Henderson, A., 2002: Re-illustration and revised taxonomy for selected deep-sea benthic foraminifers and FUSULINID SUCCESSION FROM THE MIDDLE-UPPER CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY BEDS ON SPITSBERGEN, ARCTIC NORWAY Vladimir I. Davydov and Inger Nilsson see results: PE
- 2010-October: Stefan Raveling provides several well processed samples from the Cretaceous Haltern Formation
- 2010-October: David C. Bossard gives permission to use his scans of the drawings from Bradys Report on the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition 1873-1876 with about 1500 illustrations of foraminifera. See results at Bradys Report on the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition
- 2010-November: Stefan Raveling provides well processed sample from the salt marsh Dorum-Neufeld, German North Sea
- 2010-Dec.3-5.: Hamburg Fair "Mineralien", booth and three talks Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- 2011-January: Miroslav Bubik, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic offers excellent drawings, illustrating their relevance still in times of digital imaging
- 2011-January: András Szabolcs Sóron, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences, Physical and Applied Geology, Budapest, Hungary offers about 130 SEM-images of Miocene foraminifera
- 2011-January: About 1800 images from scientists are now waiting to be integrated, which turns our work from analyzing samples into feeding computer systems. Though a bit boring the integration of by scientists published and reviewed images is very valuable for the creditability of Foraminifera.eu. A choice in the database-query to show only reviewed images now reveals more and more results.
- 2011 January: An advanced concept with automatically created webpages is established to integrate the images more easily. As a result in January 250 images could be integrated, in contrast to 60/month before.
- 2011-February: Jan Steger provides picked specimens from the Paški Kanal, Croatia, sampled from a fishing boat from 40-60m depth. About 40-50 SEMs are made.
- 2011-February: Meeting with John Nance, Paleontology Collections Manager of the Calvert Marine Museum and Aaron Alford, a fossil-diver. A rough plan is made to create a display on foraminifera comparing Miocene of the Calvert area with Miocene of the Hamburg area.
- 2011-March-1: 3000 illustrations of forams are online, 900 classified by scientists.
- Talk on foraminifera at the GFG Kiel
- 2011-March:CELKA provides as a sponsor many slides. In comparison to the so far used plastic slides, the cardboard-glas CELKA-slides are antistatic and a 4-hole version is quite useful.
- 2011-April: Foundation of the AK Mikropaläontologie within the Paläontologische Gesellschaft based at first on the activities of the foraminifera.eu project and AG Mikropaläontologie Hamburg
- 2011-April-15: Talk on foraminifera at the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde
- 2011-May: Foraminifera Exhibition will be shown Sep-Dec 2012 in the museum Naturpark Augsburg, Bavaria.
- 2011-May: Washed raw materail from the regional, bavarian Obere Meeresmolasse borehole Strass is provided by Dr. Pippèrr, Dep. Geosciencse, Section Paläontologie. Results shall be presented in the Augsburg exhibit
- 2011-May-15: Index Foraminifera Project started: www.foraminifera.eu/if.html
- 2011-June-1: 3500 illustrations of forams are online, ~1400 classified by scientists.
- 2011-June-5: Excursion by the AG Mikropaläonotologie Hamburg to the chalkpit Saturn, sampling in the lower Maastrichtitian and Campanian, poster produced.
- 2011-June-10: Calvert Cliffs: 29 SEM-images for the Choptank-formation added. Material processed by Stefan Raveling.
- 2011-June-12: Call for Australian Cenozoic and Upper Cretaceous samples results in contact to Prof. Gallagher
- 2011-June-12: 40 cells with oligocene benthonics and 30 cells with Weddell Sea planktonics are send to the 4th International Schoool for Foraminifera to Urbino to promote foraminifera.eu and to get Italian samples in return.
- 2011-June-27 to July-1: Mikro-2011 / Annual TMS Foram/Nannofossil Meeting in Krakau: Oral and Poster Presentation, read my personal report
- 2011-June-29: Field-trip into the Outer Carpathians from the Mikro-2011 meeting. Dr. Anna Waskowska helps me with sample taking from the Lower Turoniana and Eocene.
- 2011-July-10: Specimens send by Prof. Mohammed Al-Wosabi from Salalah, Oman are now put online.
- 2011-July-12: Dr. Cetean and Prof. Kaminski provide 42 images of type specimens, published by them in the Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication No. 16. see Type Specimens
- 2011-July-12: Prof. Jenö Nagy, Oslo sends several samples from South China Sea, Barents Sea and Norwegian Fjords plus a thinsection slide of Carboniferous Neoschwagerinas.
- 2011-August-08: A rich and concentrated sample from the Puerto Rico Trench from 1815m depth is provided, containing a broad variety of well preserved planktic foraminifera. See Puerto Rico Trench
- 2011-August: Field-Trip by the AG Mikropaläonotologie Hamburg to the claypit Groß Pampau with Miocene material. The collected material is not yet processed.
- 2011-August: Dr. Geise de Santana dos Anjos Zerfass, Petrobras Brasil provides several SEM-images of Pliocene/Miocene foraminifera from the Pelotas Basin.
- 2011-September-10: Our first Workshop on Micropaleontology with 20 participants holds place in Hamburg. It is organized together with the AG Mikropaläontologie im Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Hamburg. Read the report on the workshop 2011
- 2011-September-15: Stefan Raveling provides among many other samples an Eocene sample from Kroge, Germany
- 2011-October-27: I visit Prof. Stephen J. Gallagher, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia and he provides Eocene rich and concentrated samples from Browns Creek, Otway Region, Victoria
- 2011-October: Georg Wawczyniak provides first images of single fields of Karl-Otto Bocks plummercells
- 2011-November-10: Virginia Friedman sends a rich and concentrated sample from Upper Cenomanian Eagle Ford Formation, Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Texas, USA
- 2011-November-26: Talk on foraminifera at the "Geologische Gruppe Lüneburg"
- 2011-November-26: Dr. Fabrizio Frontalini sends 20 rich and concentrated samples from the Mediterranean, conatin recent to Paleocene material for the Mediterranean Project. First samples are processed, but not yet online.
- 2011-November-11: Peter Laging provides a rich beach-sample from Cayo Coco, Cuba. Images will go online March 2012
- 2011-December 1: Prof. Brent Wilson, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago provides 3 Miocene samples from the Brasso FM and Tamana FM, Miocene. SEM-plate made will be processed in February 2012.
- 2011-December 2-5.: Hamburg Fair "Mineralien", booth and three talks Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- 2011-December-04: Karl Stekiel provides about 10kg of raw material sampled in the Upper Cretaceous from the Bochum-Dortmund-Essen area, Stefan Raveling cracks and cleans 3 samples. The result will go online in March/April 2013.
- 2011-December-23: The Hamburger Geologisches Landesamt provides 80 samples from a core at Moorburg (Hamburg) of Reinbekian to Langenfeldian age. The working group "Moorburg" is established to pick and count the foaminifera at a species level and make a stratigraphical interpretation. The members are Karl-Otto Bock, Dieter Ketelsen, Peter Laging, Stefan Raveling and me. The results shall be presented at the Hamburg Geological Survey March/April 2012.
- 2011-December-31: 4500 images are online. In 2011 foraminifera.eu is visited 49.729 times and 263.350 pages are viewed.
- 2012-January-15: Dr. Fabrizio Frontalini sends several images of agglutinated foraminifera from the Marmara Sea. They are not yet online.
- 2012-January-26: Herb Miracle from Louisville, Kentucky sends washed samples from Blue Srpings, Mississippi, Ripley Formation, Maastrichtian and from 10 Mile Creek chipola FM, Althea Florida, Miocene.
- 2012-January-26: Dr. Wiesner, Frankfurt provides a cell with Miocene foraminifera from Iran.
- 2012-January-27: Virginia Friedman provides Paleozoic samples from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, not yet processed
- 2012-February-01: Stefan Raveling procides different samples of Maastrichtian origin, namely from Hemmoor, laegerdorf and from the bottom of the Baltic
- 2012-February: the Maastrichtian Working Group is established with the goal to work 2012 on according material, discuss the classification and make 200-300 images.
- 2012-March: several talks on foraminifera at local fossil-collector clubs in Northern Germany
- 2012-March-04: Prof. Barbara M. and Prof. James E. Conkin give the permission to use their publications mainly on Paleozoic foraminifera.
- 2012-March-12: I bring several industrial used sieves from the US and give them to team-members and contributors.
- 2012-March-05: The editor of Micropaleontology, Prof. van Couvering, gives the permission to use excerpts from publications in Micropaleontology.
- 2012-April-05: SEMs of foraminifera from the Bracki Channel, Croatia go online. The dived- samples are provided by long-time contributor Jan Steger, Austria
- 2012-April-11: Virginia Friedman provides a Mini-Lecture on Cenomanian planktonic foraminifera from the Eagle Ford Group
- 2012-April-16: An exhibit on Miocene foraminifera of the Calvert Cliffs is installed at the Calvert Marine Museum, Maryland, USA.
- 2012-May-20: Our only sponsor Celka sends the annual package of free microslides. Thanks a lot !
- 2012-May-30: During my holidays in Portugal I spend a day with Brian Ottway, who introduces me to the Barremian to Albian layers exposed near Lagos. We do some test-sampling
- 2012-June: we buy 20 foraminiferal publications from the POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK INSTYTUT PALEOBIOLOGII, which they want to dispose of and spread them among the team
- 2012-June-08: Abdulrahman A. Bamerni from the Department of GeoSciences School of Applied Earth Science and Geoinformatics
Duhok, Iraq sends picked specimens from Kurdistan, SEMs are made, but not yet online
- 2012-June-10: Paolo Petracci (collecting gastropods as a hobby) sends a package with picked Neogene specimens from Emilia Romagna, Italy. The specimens from Rio Merli, Pliocene are imaged and classified first. An ongoing cooperation is agreed. We will send a 100µm industrial sieve to allow him to extract the fraction 100µm to 2000µm for us.
- 2012-June-15: One of the test-samples (Portugal) from the Aptian Luz Formation shows a specific foraminiferal content with Trochamminas as the dominant genus
- 2012-June-18: the Maastrichtian Working Group has processed a core-drill sample from Hemmoor, Northern Germany with 100+ resulting SEMs
- 2012-June-26: the New York Times publishes some of our images in its print and online edition.
- 2012-June-30: 5250 images are online.
- 2012-July-06: A closer investigation of the foraminiferal content of the Luz Formation near Lagos, Portugal is agreed with Brian Ottway. He will sample a whole profile of a road cut. Meanwhile the test-sample will be processed further.
- 2012-July-10: the Maastrichtian Working Group agrees to have its annual meeting in November 2012 in a professional lab. Subject will be the discussion of classifications and how to move on in 2013.
- 2012-July-10: Feifei Wang from the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology
is the first Chinese contributor. He provides 80 SEMs of specimens from a core-drill in the South Yellow Sea of Late Quaternary age
- 2012-July-20: History continued on Twitter.
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