Programme PaleoSalt Kick-off meeting 17 and 18 May 2006

Wednesday 17 May

13:00-13:15
Jelle Bijma; welcome and introduction + status WP1: Salinity effects on proxy incorporation in foraminifera  

13:15-13:30
Adrian Immenhauser: introduction to CASIOPEIA 13:30-13:45 Patrick Kanters; WP2: Ultra-high resolution element characterisation and molecular biomarkers fingerprinting in marine biogenic carbonates

13:45-14:00
Gert-Jan Reichart; WP3: Seasonality and habitat controls on benthic foraminiferal salinity proxies

 14:00-14:15
Stefan Schouten; WP4: Seasonality and habitat controls on planktonic foraminifera - Compound specific dD analysis of alkenones and particulate organic matter

14:15-14:30
Frank Dehairs: WP5: Salinity effects on proxy incorporation in bivalves

14:30-14:45
Luc André; WP6:Temperature-salinity dependent uptake of Mg into biogenic carbonates: constraints from magnesium isotopes

14:45-15:00
Frans Jorissen: WP7: Ecologic constraints on salinity proxies in benthic foraminifera 

15:00-15:15
Laurent Chauvaud; WP8: Physiologic controls on salinity proxies in bivalves  

15:15-15:45    Coffee break  

15:45-17:30
General discussion Wednesday

Thursday 18 May

09:00-10:30
individual presentations related to the project. ·
Veerle Beelaerts (VUB):“Time Averaging“.
Pol Gosselin (Calmars II): “Sclerosponges“.

10:30-11:00     coffee break

11:00-13:00
individual presentations related to the project.

13:00-14:00    lunch

14:00-16:00    continued discussions

16:00              End and departure

Summary of action plan:

1) The working groups were newly defined and responsibilities for each were fixed. The new devision was made on the basis of organisms each including aspects of ecology, culture, analysis, modelling and application:

Coccolithophorid WG: Stefan Schouten
Foram WG: Frans Jorissen and Geert-Jan Brummer
Bivalves WG: Frank Dehairs

In addition, we decided to keep the: Analytical WG: Gert-Jan Reichart Culturing WG: Delphine Dissard and Emmanuelle Geslin There will not be a specific modeling WG but we will try to team up with BioCalc for that.

2) The next annual meeting is scheduled for June 3-5 in Barcelona

3) With regards to publications funded by this project the acknowledgement sentence could be as follows:

Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the German research foundation (DFG) under grant no. BI 432/4-2 (“PaleoSalt”), and by the European Science Foundation (ESF) under the EUROCORES Programme EuroCLIMATE through contract No. ERAS-CT-2003-980409 of the European Commission, DG Research, FP6.

The first should be of course YOUR national science foundation.