Session 1: Our second keynote Flavia BoscoloGalazzo is now presenting new results #staytuned #TMSForamFestival21

Session 1: Soon Michael Adebayo, Ph.D. will be presenting his poster looking at the environmental controls on the size distribution of planktic forams in the Arabian Sea #TMSForamFestival21

Session 2 of the foraminifera festival is being kicked off by Giulia Margaritelli, with the talk Planktonic foraminifera and climate changes: the last 2000 years. Stay tuned for more great foram talks!

Sessions 2: stay tuned for @PalaeoLou's talk on the very exciting eSlide tool for online microfossil identification ☀️

Session 2: soon up Allison Hsiang, with her talk on Automated community ecology of planktonic foraminifera using deep learning ☀️

Our last speaker for session 2 (going live in a few min) is @jfabrombacher, giving us an introduction on how to use R, when studying foraminifera shell growth in 3D! ☀️

After the break we have our 2nd General Session at #TMSForamFestival2021, convened by @chloelouisetodd (University of Southampton), @geochemjess, Oghalomeno Ononeme (Oklahoma State Univ.), & Mavrommatis Nikolaos (Α.Π.Θ.). Stay tuned!

Session 3: Kicking off part 2 of our General Session is our keynote speaker Dr. Haruka Takagi (千葉大学広報) on the advances in planktic foraminifera photosymbiosis research: partnership, photophysiology, and implications on evolution.

Session 3: Next up we have a study of the September 28th 2018 Tsunamigenic Landslide Deposits in Palu, Central Sulawesi, using Foraminifera data, by Rikza Nur Faqih An Nahar (Iteraofficial).

Session 3: James Mulqueeney (University of Bristol) is assessing the impact of climate change on the structural integrity of benthic foraminifera during the Palaeocene Eocene Thermal Maximum and its implication for future climate change.

Session 3: our penultimate talk is from Prof. Kate Darling (The University of Edinburgh, University of Stirling) - Not seeing the woods for the trees: a case for obligate alteration of generation in non-spinose planktonic foraminifera.

Session 3: Our final talk is from Daniel Gaskell (Yale University), exploring how CO2 capture explains δ13C vital effects in foraminifera.

After Session 3 we have the Session 4 poster session featuring Leaky Gateways and Messinian Deposits!

Session 4 is all about Foramonitoring and understanding the past, present & future of marine environments. Convened by Dr. Basia Marcks | @basialikesrocks.bsky.social, Eileah Sims (@TAMUGandG grad), Danna Titelboim (UoB Palaeobiology) & Liliana de Castro Dias Guerra (@ualg).

Session 4: First on the agenda is a talk on the diversity and depth distribution of modern benthic foraminifera offshore Brunei Darussalam from Sulia Goeting (Università di Genova).

Session 4: Anna Saupe (Universität zu Köln) is talking us through the biogeographic patterns of benthic foraminifera in contourite drift systems of the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean any minute now!

Session 4: The Ecology of benthic foraminifera in a mudflat subjected to fable bacterial activity being explained by Maxime Daviray (Université d'Angers) now.

Session 4: Some planktic foraminifera now from Tiago Menezes Freire (Universität zu Köln) to explain the paleoceanographic conditions through MIS 4 in the mid-latitude Western South Atlantic.

Session 4: The penultimate talk of the session (& the day!) is from Yahel Eshed (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) - Benthic foraminifera associated with sea grass as a model ecosystem for monitoring environmental changes.

Session 4: The final talk of the day, and the keynote of the session, given by Abduljamiu Olalekan Amao (جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن | KFUPM) is on the future of benthic foraminiferal diversity in the Arabian Gulf: a system under pressure from climate change.