Linnean Society Palynology Specialist Group

November 17, 2015
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Posted on behalf of Barry Lomax
Linnean Society Palynology Specialist Group meeting
Linnean Society of LondonTuesday 24 November 2015

Provisional program

10:30 – 11:00 Barry Thomas (Aberystwyth University). Ecological interpretations of Asturian and Cantabrian lycophyte microspore floras of the Variscan Foreland and the Appalachian Province of the Central Coalfields of the U.S.A

11:00 – 11:30 Adele Julier (Open University). Can FTIR spectroscopy be used to identify grass pollen?

Morning Coffee 11:30-12:00

12:00 – 12:30 Katrina Bakker (York University). Spore particles: new materials applications.

Lunch 12:30-14:00

14:00 – 14:30 Viktória Baranyi1 (Oslo Universiy). Morphology and wall-ultrastructure of Froelichsporites traversei, an enigmatic sporomorph from the Late Triassic in North America.

14:30 – 15:00 Hannah Banks (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew). Functional and phylogenetically useful structures in Caesalpinioid legume pollen.

15:00 – 15:30 Sam Slater (Sheffield University). A quantitative analysis of Middle Jurassic vegetation dynamics based on dispersed spore/pollen assemblages from the Ravenscar Group, North Yorkshire, UK.

Afternoon tea 15:30 – 16:00

16:00 – 16:30 Alex Askew (Sheffield University). A palynological investigation of the Middle Devonian of northern Spain: hunting for the Kačák event.

16:30 – 17:00 Phil Jardine (Open University). A new use for old pollen: reconstructing past solar irradiance using pollen chemistry.

Wine reception

To register please contact Barry Lomax (Group secretary)

The Palynology Specialist Group Meeting

November 6, 2014
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Linnean Society of LondonThe Palynology Specialist Group Meeting
13th November 2014
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF, UK

Program

Phillip Jardine 10:30 – 10:55
Recovering sporopollenin chemical information from processed palynological samples

Luke Mander 10:55 – 11:20
On the taxonomic resolution of pollen and spore records of Earth’s vegetation.

Hugh Dickinson 11:20 – 11:45
Asymmetry in pollen mitosis 1; how does it work and is it important

Mark Grosvenor 11:45 – 12:10
Human-landscape interactions during the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Cumbria

Guy Harrington 12:10 – 12:35
The fate of pollen in soils in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): The terrestrial response to global warming

– Lunch (not provided) at various locations around Burlington House –

Barry Lomax 14:00 — 14:25
Episodic perturbations of end Permian atmosphere recorded in plant spore chemistry

Matthew Pound 14:25 – 14:50
Global vegetation record indicates no atmospheric pCO2 decline at the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Peter Mark 14:50 – 15:15
The effect of heat stress on wheat pollen development: a multi-faceted approach to a better understanding of a potentially serious issue

Sam Salter 15:15 – 1540
Micro vs. Mega: A quantitative comparison of dispersed spores/pollen and plant megafossil assemblages from a Middle Jurassic plant bed from Yorkshire, UK.

– Tea in Linnean Society Library –

Carina Hoorn 16:00 — 16:25
Evidence of past marine conditions in Amazonia

Wes Fraser 16:25 – 16:50
Towards a unified cross-taxa sporopollenin composition

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