On December 30th, 2001, a set of pictures was loaded to better document Robert Riding's report on the excursions preceding and following the 4th IFAA Regional Symposium. Check our report page.
New "Links" added on December 9th.
Since November 18th, three screensavers are available here. Click on the "Entertainment" hover button.
On October 25th, Robert Riding reported on the excursions preceding and following the 4th IFAA Regional Symposium.
On October 1st, Nestor J. Sander announced his long-awaited English version of Julius Pia [1912].- "Neue Studien über die triadischen Siphoneae verticillatae" [Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients, Wien, Band XXV, p. 25-81, 7 pl. h.-t. (II-VIII [I-VII])]. It will be available for download from the IFAA Library. You may need a password to download this file: Check with the IFAA Librarian (that is the webmaster) concerning eligibility for a personal (free but not transferable) password!
On September 20th, 2001, a new gallery of fossil Charophytes was added to the site thanks to C. Martín-Closas. He sent us a set of 12 pictures of specimens recovered from Lower Cretaceous strata in Spain.
Since September 18th, the volume Program and Abstracts of the 4th Regional Symposium on Fossil Algae, Cluj-Napoca (2001), can be downloaded as a 'pdf' file (445KB) from the IFAA Library, using Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3 or higher.
The
4th Regional Symposium of the International " Fossil Algae "
Association, entitled « " Algae and Carbonate Platforms " in Rumania », was held in
Cluj-Napoca from
August 29th to September
5th:
- 4 days for the pre-symposium field trip (Padurea Craiului, Vascau, Resita, Anina, Bocsa, Calan Roman Spa, Lopadea
Veche),
- 2 days of scientific
sessions in Cluj-Napoca,
- 2 days of post-symposium field trips
(Cheile Turzii, Sandulesti, Prodanesti, Jibou).
On August 2nd, the 5000th person visited the IFAA homepage! The IFAA member directory is increasing. There are 80 subscribers to the CALCALGA list.
On July 30th, a new gallery with Modern Characeans - "Kranswieren" - from the Netherlands has been added to the site thanks to Emile Nat and his colleagues. It is based on a set of 19 images selected from the L.I.K. website (Landelijk Informatiecentrum voor Kranswieren). We have kept the original Dutch figure captions.
July
20th marked the time
for a little change: we have a new side bar [I am not sure it is a real
improvement unless you'll let me know]. The reason for the change is documented
herefater:
"Since July 16th, the members.tripod.com domain has been experiencing DNS difficulties. This has caused disruption of service for portions of our pages. As a matter of fact it
looked like the FrontPage Java Applets such as fphover.class were not operating anymore, which was seriously affecting our side navigation bar."
On July 18th, the IFAA member directory was officially launched by Michael Rasser. We aim to cover a wide range from nannoplankton to benthic macroalgae, from theoretical biology to sedimentology, and from the Precambrian times to the Recent. This directory is a search-able database, that is you will find there relevant information on people working on algae-related topics (contact, research summary); it is also edit-able which means that you can register online to the IFAA.
On July 16th, a new gallery with Western Pacific Crustose Corallines has been added to the site. This photo-album, which includes 18 images, is based on material provided by Derek Keats and his colleagues from the IMBI Workshop on Coralline Algae recently held in Kenting, Taiwan.
The same day, we loaded some java/javascript based entertainment (a Memory and 2 Metamorphosis games in addition to the existing one: the Bornetella jelly!).
As publicized recently in the CALCALGA list mailing, the big move to the IMBI [International Marine Biodiversity Initiative] server started on July 9th. Whole parts of our parent IFAA site as well as of some affiliates (PETRALGA and CCA, for instance) will be permanently hosted there. The IMBI softwares and website were developed for small groups in order to facilitate online collaboration around a theme (working together, developing short-term projects, staying in touch with each other, sharing images, documents, comments, etc.). All this was made available to us thanks to Derek Keats and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Globochaete alpina gets striking affinities to bacterially-induced CaCO3 (bio-) crystals! Let us check it with 34 S.E.M. pictures brought to us by Gérard Bignot and uploaded to our Gallery on July 3rd.
On June 24th, thanks to the Geological Survey of Austria [Geologische Bundesanstalt], the original German version of 1874 paper by C.W. Gümbel was made available to our Library. It can be downloaded in the form of a 'pdf' file (12KB) from the IFAA Library.
The same day, our affiliate ring of websites, namely Fossil and Modern Algae, was fully operational with a set of 8 sites [Dina Mandoli, Ed Drew, Bruno Granier, Andre Hospers, Michael Rasser].
On June 22nd, two new galleries have been added to the site: the first gallery with (mostly) Paleocene Algae (14 pictures) is inherited from - our colleague - Graham F. Elliott's collection; the second gallery dealing with Holocene Acetabulariacean remains (5 S.E.M. pictures only) is due to Bruno Granier.
On June 15th, thanks to the Geological Survey of Austria [Geologische Bundesanstalt], the original German version of 1907 paper by R.J. Schubert was made available to our Library. It can be downloaded in the form of a 'pdf' file (58KB) from the IFAA Library.
On June 10th, thanks to Rajka Radoičić, one of her 1990 papers has been added to our Library. The English text has been revisited by Nestor J. Sander. It can be downloaded in the form of two 'pdf' files (a total of 2,050KB) from the IFAA Library.
On June 2nd, we loaded to our Archives the Rajka Radoičić's list of publications at June 2001 prepared by Vuk Brstina. This file is also available in the form of a 'pdf' (125KB) from the IFAA Library.
On May 19th, there was a total of 94 subscribers to the CALCALGA list!
Since May 14th, the volume with Program and Abstracts of the 7th International Symposium on Fossil Algae, Nanjing (1999), can be downloaded in the form of a 'pdf' file (280KB) from the IFAA Library.
On April 28th, our site celebrated its first year of existence!
The same day, additional information about Cluj-Napoca where our next meeting will be hosted has been added to the site.
On March 26th, B. Granier inaugurated our first online quiz [remark: you can save the dedicated page onto your personal computer and answer the questions offline]. It is dealing with fossil Dasyclad algae (and related topics).
On March 20th, a new gallery with Miocene Halimeda facies has been added to the site: J.C. Braga and B. Granier have selected a set of 30 pictures to document these peculiar microfacies.
Since March 9th, we have launched a program of affiliate sites. If you are using Internet Explorer (at least its version 5), you did probably noticed that a new icon - distinct from the IE icon - is associated to the URL in the "Favorites" folder if bookmarked, as well as on the Address Bar and on the Status Bar when the pages are viewed. This icon appears at the left end of the URL instead of the IE icon; it highlights the site affiliation. More information can be find at the Fossil and Modern Algae URL.
On March 2nd, a new ring of websites was launched. The aim of Fossil and Modern Algae is to bring together a set of websites dealing with benthic algae and/or bacteria.
On February 13th, the Early Cretaceous Calcareous Algae site - an "affiliate" site - has been selected as a featured site in Lightspan's StudyWeb® as one of the best educational resources on the Web! The PETRALGA site - another "affiliate" site - also got this award in the past.
On February 11th, a "just for fun" page has been added too: How to get (little) fun with Bornetella sphaerica?!
On February 9th, thanks to S. Berger, 39 pictures of modern Dasycladales have been added to the site: they form 3 new galleries.
Since January 28th, the volume with Program and Abstracts of the 1st Regional Symposium on Fossil Algae, Granada (1989), can be downloaded in the form of a 'pdf' file (91KB) from the IFAA Library (thanks are due to J.C. Braga).
On
January 5th, 3 new galleries have been
added:
* 25
pictures of Early Jurassic Dasycladales from M.-C. Bernet-Rollande;
* 8 pictures of the famous Shark Bay
modern stromatolites from B. Virlouvet;
* 6
pictures of branched Salpingoporellae from E. Luperto Sinni and B.
Granier.
Since January 3rd, a chart with the stratigraphic distribution of the Mesozoic Dasycladalean algae can be downloaded in the form of a 'pdf' file (140KB) from the IFAA Library. In addition, the Cenozoic chart has been updated.