Program (download the ABSTRACT VOLUME pdf >>)
Sunday 16 May - 18.30
“RED Oceans: the fire of passion”
special lecture by Isabella Premoli Silva
Monday 17 May - Morning
Session 1: "WHITE Oceans: Foraminifers and other calcifiers"
Chair-persons: Michele Caron and Bill Berggren
9:00 Keynote: Malcolm Hart - White Oceans: Foraminifers
9:30: Eduardo Koutsoukos - Benthic foraminifera and paleobathymetric changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene in eastern Brazil
9:45: Paul Pearson - Evolution of the Eocene planktonic foraminifer Turborotalia
10:00: Bridget Wade - Biotic response and paleoceanography of the western North Atlantic in the late middle Eocene: a foraminiferal, radiolarian and nannofossil perspective
10:15: Simone Galeotti - Amplification of climatic feedback to orbital forcing following the K/T boundary: implication for calcareous plankton evolution
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00 Keynote: Silvia Spezzaferri - Benthic foraminifera associated with cold-water coral ecosystems: Toward the assessment of regional bioindicators.
11:30: Jens Herrle - High resolution benthic foraminiferal stable isotope and Mg/Ca records from the late Early Oligocene
11:45: Helen Coxall - Hantkeninid planktonic foraminifera evolution and Eocene global cooling
12:00: Rolf Schroeder - Paleogeographic distribution of Orbitolinids in the Early Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Western Mediterranean area. Comparison with the Pericaribbean Region.
Monday 17 May - Afternoon
Session 2: "BLACK Oceans: black shales and OAEs"
Chair-persons: Jochen Erbacher and Rodolfo Coccioni
14:00 Keynote: Hugh Jenkyns - Geochemistry of Oceanic Anoxic Events
14:30: Karl Föllmi - Green continents, blue platforms, and black oceans during the Early Cretaceous
14:45: Gianluca Frijia - Marine Sr-isotope evidence for a pulse of enhanced continental weathering at the onset of the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event.
15:00 Keynote: Junichiro Kuroda - Black Oceans: Black shales and OAEs
15:30: Anthony Cohen - Assessing the cause and extent of Black oceans
15:45: Mariano Parente - Changing without drowning: The record of Mesozoic OAEs in the southern Apenninic carbonate platform (Italy)
16:00: Poppe de Boer - Orbitally forced variations of the ocean tide on Milankovitch time scales and their possible reflection in the deep sea sedimentary record
Late afternoon: An Italian "aperitivo" at Isola dei Pescatori (Island of the Fishermen) during a boat trip along the coast of the Lago Maggiore
Departure time:16:45
Tuesday 18 May - Morning
Session 3: "PINK Oceans: Ladies in marine geology"
Chair-persons: Daniele Bernoulli and Hanspeter Luterbacher
9:00 Keynote: Maria Bianca Cita - Ladies first or ladies last????
9:30: Linda Hinnov - The Cretaceous Piobbico core: a 25 million year window on Earth and Solar System history
9:45: Judith McKenzie - Hypersaline Pink Oceans and In Situ Extremophiles: Analogs for Ancient Extreme Environments
10:00: Gloria Andreini - Integrated magneto-biostratigraphy across Tithonian - Valanginian time interval from the Fonte del Giordano Section (Umbria - Marche Domain, central Italy)
10:15 Keynote: Pamela Hallock-Muller - Cenozoic Evolution of Benthic Carbonate Systems: Solving Paradoxes to Understand the Past and Predict the Future
10:45: Coffee Break
Session 4: "RAINBOW Oceans: multifaceted stories"
Chair-persons: Simonetta Monechi and Hans Thierstein
11:15 Keynote: Jim Zachos - Tempo of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Carbonate and Carbon Isotope Cycles: Implications for the Origin of Hyperthermals
11:45: Darren Grocke - High-resolution terrestrial GDGT data from the Albian/Cenomanian boundary: significant continental temperature changes
12:00: Stuart Robinson - The Nd-isotopic composition of late Cretaceous bathyal-abyssal seawater from fossil fish skeletal debris
Tuesday 18 May - Afternoon
14:00: Andy Gale - Cretaceous oceans to continents: development of an integrated stratigraphy
14:15: Giovanni Napoleone - A turbiditic Upper Cretaceous Scaglia from deep bore-hole in southern Italy dated by core and well log data magnetic and cyclic stratigraphy
14:30: Alberto Malinverno - An M-sequence geomagnetic polarity time scale that minimizes global spreading rate variations and incorporates cyclostratigraphic information
14:45: Bruno d'Argenio - Eustatic cycles and tectonics in the white seas of the shallow Tethys
15:00: Brian Huber - Commotion in the late Aptian-early Albian Ocean
15:15: Coffee Break
Session 5: "GREEN Oceans: Phytoplankton and Algae"
Chair-persons: Isabella Raffi and Jens Herrle
15:45 Keynote: Joerg Mutterlose - The colour green, the Cretaceous oceans and phytoplankton - some considerations
16:15: Marie-Pierre Aubry - Over the Rainbow: Biologic and Physiologic Significance of Morphologic Evolution in the Coccolithophores
16:30: Paul Bown - Do coastal coccolithophores hold clues to environmental change at key events in Earth history?
16:45: Cinzia Bottini - Coccolith dwarfism and malformation during early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a: response to surface-water acidification
17:00: Jan Backman - A spectrum of dia- and synchrony among late Neogene calcareous nannofossil events over a short distance across the Pacific Ocean paleo-Equator
17:15: Giuliana Villa - Middle Eocene-Late Oligocene paleoceanographic changes inferred by calcareous nannofossils from Kerguelen Plateau and Maud Rise
17:30 Keynote: Appy Sluijs - Dinoflagellates: from protist to proxy
Wednesday 19 May - Morning
Session 6: "DEEP BLUE oceans: pelagic and deep-sea sedimentation
– THE GRAND FINAL"
Chair-persons: Judith McKenzie and Dick Olsson
9:00 Keynote: Al Fischer - The Deep Blue
9:30 Keynote: Lisa Pratt - Applying lessons learned from pelagic sequences on Earth to the exploration of Mars
10:00 Keynote: Tim Herbert - Variations in the hydrological cycle: common thread for deep ocean cycles?
10:15: Coffee Break
11:00 Keynote: Helmut Weissert - White and black sediments: our guides through blue and green Cretaceous Oceans from the deep abyss to the coast