Our Mission

The Foraminifera.eu Lab wants to foster the interest in foraminifera. Avocational to professional scientists shall get a free platform where they find valuable information and may show off their results.

We build a free accessible webpage on foraminifera based on a well structured image-database and easy-to-use interfaces. In the background we are open for projects of any kind and beyond the mere web-presentation. We build teams where avocational and professional scientists work together on well defined and scheduled projects.

The Foraminifera.eu Lab is non-commercial. We as staff and our contributors do not get a financial compensation as our work is based on naturalist enthusiasm. We will use donations of money or equipment only to cover costs for material, equipment and services bought from third parties.

Our Services

      Besides of the free-webpage and its features we offer:

• to shoot optical images from sent in samples
     
• identification of foraminifera
     
• sample exchange
     
• different talks about foraminifera and their usage at a beginners
  to intermediate level with many images and presentation of samples.
     
• an exhibition with 15 DIN A1 posters, foram-plastics and a variety of accompanying exhibits
     
• workshops in English or German with hands-on practising
     
• to work on projects: Working Group Foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous // Catalog of Portuguese Foraminifera // Foraminiferen des Sternberger Gesteins // Working Group Kasseler Meeressande // Foraminifera of the Mauritanian Shelf
     
• to answer questions, some kind of contribution is expected though.
     
• a booth at the Mineral fair in Hamburg each December
     

      Contact us at info [at] foraminifera.eu

As avocational scientists we only do, what we like to do and think we are able to handle :)

Organization

Contributing Scientists



   



   

  

  



    

  

                

          

     

     

• M.N. Abd Malek, Universiti Sains Malaysia
• Lúcia de Abreu, Portugal and UK
• Wafa'a Mugahed Ahmed Al-Qadassi, University of Sana'a, Yemen
• Mohammed Al-Wosabi, Earth & Environmental Sci. Dept. Faculty of Sci. - Sana'a' University, Yemen, Sana'a
• American Museum of Natural History, New York
• Geise de Santana dos Anjos Zerfass, Petrobras, Brazil
• Víctor Aramayo, Jorge Cardich, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Instituto del Mar del Perú, Callao, Lima, Perú
• Dr. Irina Polovodova Asteman, University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences
• Abdulrahman A. Bamerni, Assistant Lecturer - University of Duhok Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences Head's assistant of the Department of GeoSciences School of Applied Earth Science and Geoinformatics Duhok - Kurdistan Region Iraq
• Dr. Mostapha Benzina, University of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla, Algeria
• Micael Luã Bergamaschi, Biologist at Research Center of Petrobras
  (Fundação Gorceix - CENPES/PDGEO/BPA), Brazil
• Dr. Björn Berning, Head of Geosciences Collections at the Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen Linz, Austria
• Richard M. Besen, Freie Universität Berlin | FUB · Division of Paleontology
• David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org, USA. David scanned the drawings from the "Report on the Foraminifera dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-1876 by Henry B. Brady"
• Dr. Cesare Brizio, Bologna, Italy
• Miroslav Bubik, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic
• Calvert Marine Museum, Maryland, USA
• Sarita Camacho, University of the Algarve, Portugal
• Tomas Cedhagen, Aarhus University, Department of Biological Sciences (providing a revision of Bradys Challenger drawings based upon Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera)
• Claudia Cetean, NHML, consulting specialist on agglutinated foraminifera of the Cretaceous and Paleocene
• David P. Cilia, biologist teacher and avocational malacologist, Malta
• James E. Conkin and Barbara M. Conkin, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
• Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, USA
• Stephen J. Culver, Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, NC, USA
• Harry Dowsett, ex USGS, Reston, Virginia, USA provided slides with specimens.
• Eiszeitmuseum Lütjenburg, Germany, Lütjenburg, Foram-Exhibition and samples, Gisela Lentz
• Olaf Elicki, Head of the Palaeoecology & Micropalaeontology Group. Freiberg University, Geological Institute, Department of Palaeontology, Germany.
• Francisco Fatela, Universiy of Lisbon, Department of Geology, Portugal
• PD Dr. Peter Frenzel, Universiy of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Germany
• Virginia Friedman, M.S. Paleontology UTDallas (2004)
• Fabrizio Frontalini/Rodolfo Coccioni, DiSUAN, Laboratorio di Micropaleontologia Ambientale Facoltà di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo"
• Sascha Fürstenberg, Universiy of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Germany
• Stephen J. Gallagher, School of Earth Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  material not yet processed
• Geologisches Landesamt Hamburg, Germany
• Holger Gebhardt, Vienna, Austria
• Geological Survey of Austria, Vienna, Austria
• M. Dan Georgescu, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
• German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg, Germany
• Stephen J. Godfrey, Calvert Marine Museum, MD, USA
• Bruno Granier, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Univers, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
• Hans-Joachim Gregor, Palaeo Bavarian Geological Survey, Co-Editor of Documenta naturae, Germany, Bavaria
• Kirsten I. Grimm, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institute for Geosciences, Mainz, Germany
• Onno Groß ex WoRMS, Hamburg DEEPWAVE - NGO for the protection of the oceans
• The Grzybowski Foundation, promotes education and research in the field of Micropalaeontology.
  allows us to use images of their publications from the Hammerfest Basin and many more.
• Bruce Hayward, main WORMS-Editor on Forams, helping with classification and providing monographs.
• Angelika Hesse, Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte, Dessau
  provided several samples from the German Eocene/Oligocene, which are not yet processed
• Simone B. Hicks, ex CGG Llandudno
• Leon Hoffman, visiting scientist at Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven
• Hamed Hooshmand Koochi, formerly PhD student of carbonate sedimentology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Naples, Italy together with Manuchehr Shahmoradi, Maryam Eydani and Shideh Shidniya
• R.B.N. Jaff, University of Charmo, Kurdistan, Iraq
• Johannes Kalbe, formerly Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Universität Potsdam
• Michael A. Kaminski, Earth Sciences Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and Grzybowski Foundation
• Samia Khabouchi Marzouki, Laboratory of Reproductive Biology and Development and scalable biosystematics. Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Tunis, Campus University Tunis El Manar II, 2092 Tunis
• Daniel King, Wellington, New Zealand
• Lamont Doherty Core Repository, Palisades, New York
• Karla Kreisel, retired from Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald
• Lamont Doherty Core Repository, Palisades, New York
• Hans-Jürgen Lierl, retired preparator former "Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Hamburg" samples not yet processed
• Peter Lunt, Mitra Energy Ltd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Uwe Marheinecke, geological consultant, ISO-certification, Germany, Hamburg (first instructor on microfossils)
• Michael Martínez-Colón, Florida A&M University, School of the Environment, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
• Valeria I. Mikhalevich, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
• Mikroskopische Gesellschaft Wien, Sample exchange
• João Moreno, Universiy of Lisbon, Department of Geology, Portugal
• Renata Moura de Mello, Petrobras, Brazil
• Arnold Mueller, Geologisch - Palaeontologische Sammlung, University of Leipzig
• Siegfried Mueller, Dipl. Geologe
• Marianna Musco, PhD in Environmental Science, Institute for Marine Coastal Environment - IAMC, National Research Council - CNR, D.U. of Capo Granitola
• Museum Helgoland, Peter Schumacher, Germany
• Jenö Nagy, Institutt for geofag, Oslo, Norway
• John Nance, Paleontology Collections Manager, Calvert Marine Museum, Maryland, USA
• John Noad, Sedimentologist, Calgary, Canada
• Hermann Neumann, Research Associate at Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven
• Kai Nungesser, Hobby-Naturalist and author, Germany
• Mareike Oehms, M.Sc. Geosciences, Germany
• Shai Oron, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and The Interuniversity Institute of Eilat
• Ekaterina Ovsepyan, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
• Yaroslav Ovsepyan, Russian Academy of Sciences | RAS | Institute of Geology , Moscow, Russia
• Selvin Shyam Paul, India
• Andrea Perl, Germany
• Martina Pippèrr, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Paläontologie und Geobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Wilfried Rönnfeld, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen
• Eric M. Sadorf, North Carolina Fossil Club and USGS, NC, USA
• Christiane Schmidt, post-doctoral researcher at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
• Jens Schmieder, Houston, Biostratigrapher at BHP Billiton, his samples are not yet processed
• Gerhard Schmiedl, Professor for Micropaleontology, Geological and Paleontological Institute, University of Hamburg
• The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, UK
• Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven
• Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA
• Eiichi Setoyama, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• Lorand Silye, Department of Geology Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca , Romania
• Sönke Simonsen, Publisher and Editor of the magazine "Der Steinkern", Bielfeld, Germany
• András Szabolcs Sóron, PhD-student at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
• Jessica W. Spear, U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg, Coastal and Marine Science Center
• Robert P. Speijer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Morteza Taherpour, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Islamic Azad University-Mashhad branch, Iran, Masshad
• Hal Ray Tichenor, SandRidge Energy, Oklahoma City, OA, USA
• Akira Tsujimoto, Department of Education, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
• Els Ufkes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth, Cluster Earth and Climate
• United States Geological Survey
• Bridget Wade, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences.
• Feifei Wang, Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao, China
• Kuo-Yen Wei, Dr. Kuo-Yen Wei's laboratory, Department of Geosciences National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Anna Waskowska, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of General Geology and Geotourism
• Ines Wendler, University of Bremen, Department of Geological Sciences, Germany
• Brent Wilson, Petroleum Geoscience, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

Cooperation Partners

The Foraminifera.eu Lab is cooperating with the AG Mikropaläontologie im Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg (NWV). Until February 2016 SEM-images were made together with Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt from the Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg. Foraminifera.eu supports the AG Mikropaläontologie im Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg with samples.

Journals providing images

• micropaleontology
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Notebooks on Geology
  
  
  
  
  
• Palaeontologia Electronica

• 1st High School of Kissamos , Kissamos, Crete, Greece
• Werner Baubkus, Bad Bramstedt, Northern Germany
• Larry Bell, Dallas, Texas
• Karl-Otto Bock, Hamburg, Northern Germany
• Klaus Breitenbach, Germany
• Adrian Brokenshire, Dorset, UK
• Traute Bodien and Peter Apel, Germany, near Lübeck
• David Clark, USA providing raw material
• Michel Cougnon, France
• Jan Deppermann, Germany, Hamburg
• Michael Dietrich, Sandcollector, Germany
• Axel Cordes and Dirk Dettmers, Germany
• Dirk Fehse, Specialist on the Gastropod families Trivioidea und Cypraeoidea
• David Fenwick, APHOTO, Penzance, UK
• Elisah E. Gibbs
• Dirk Gille, Germany, Kassel
• Andreas Grant, Germany
• Renate Hesemann, Germany, Köln
• Koen Jellema, Eindoven, The Netherlands
• Karen L. Johnson, Sitka, Alaska, USA
• Bruce Kaufman, Sparta, Wisconsin, USA
• Helmut Krock, Germany
• Wieger Krul, Germany
• Manfred Kutscher, Kreidemuseum, Rügen, Germany, samples not yet processed
• Carla Lagendijk, Sandsamples collector and artist, The Netherlands
• Peter Laging, GFG Lüneburg, Germany
• Francois Le Coze, Portugal
• Prof. Lenzenweger, Austria,
• Bram Langeveld, The Netherlands
• Cidalina Lopes, Azores, Portugal
• Stephan Lorenz, Germany, Hamburg
• Laurene Mainguy, France
• John Maurice, Texas, USA
• Herb Miracle, USA, Kentucky, Louisville
• Eugen Müsch, Museum Zurholt in Altenberge, Northern Germany
• Dr. Ralf Nötzel, Netphen-Eschenbach im Siegerland, Germany
• Family Novak, Czech Republic, Prague
• Brian Ottway, Portugal, Lagos
• Paolo Petracci, Cesena, Italy
• Martina Pleyer and Ingo, Germany
• Stefan Polkowsky, Germany, Hamburg providing raw material
• Michael Popp, Louisvillefossils Blog, USA, Kentucky, Louisville
• Kirsten Quoll, Australia, Outback and Malaysia
• Bernard Remaud, from Sables du monde, France
• Johann Schobert, Germany, Hirscheid
• late Dieter Schmidt, Germany
• Steffen Schneider, Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde, Germany
• Horst Schomburg, Germany
• Andreas Simon, Germany, Hamburg providing beach sands
• Jan Steger, University of Vienna, Austria
• Karl Stekiel, Germany
• Thomas ?, Germany
• Brigitte Suhren and Jürgen Koch, Germany, Hamburg (mutual field trips, sharing of samples)
• Karina und Nils Thiede, Parchim, Germany
• Marion Troon, New Zealand
• Yasemin I. Tulu, USA, Michigan (consulting palaeontologist)
• Roland Verreet, Germany, Aachen
• Peter Vodila, Czech Republic (samples not yet processed)
• Georg Wawczyniak, Germany, optical images of plummercells
• Erich Wiesner, Germany, Frankfurt
• Renate Wilcke-Launer, Germany, Hamburg
• Sabine Wilcken, Germany, Hamburg
• Cai-Uso Wohler, teammember of foraminifera.eu and creator of www.sandphoto.de, Germany, Bispingen

Collections

Four collections with approx. 1200 unprocessed and processed samples,
75 plummercell slides with about 50.000 (75x~700) specimens .
Samples of dubious origin are used for beginner-training.

List of Publications

• Hesemann, M. 2009. A foraminiferan adventure in Deposits Magazine 17, 2009  PDF
• Hesemann, M. 2009. The Foraminifera.eu Internet Project: in Spec. Publ. 15 - "Seventh Micropalaeontological Workshop, MIKRO-2009, Sw. Katarzyna, Poland September 28-30, 2009. Abstracts and Excursion Guide Edited by: D. Perit and M.A. Kaminski.  PDF
• Hesemann, M. 2010. Concept for a foraminiferal database in Abstracts Volume with Program, Forams 2010, International Symposium on Foraminifera, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, September 5-10, 2010 Germany  PDF
• Hesemann, M. 2011. Die Foraminiferen des Sternberger Gesteins Teil 1 in Geschiebekunde Aktuell, Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde
• Hesemann, M. 2011. The Foraminifera.eu Project - status and perspectives in Bak, M. Kaminski, M.A. & Waskowska, A. (editors), 2011: Integrating Microfossil Records from the Oceans and Epicontinental Seas. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 17. PDF
• Hesemann, M. 2012. The Foraminifera.eu Project - status and perspectives in Witzmann et alt. 2012, Centenary Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft Abstracts in Terra Nostra 2012/3
• Hesemann, M. 2013: Building a foraminiferal database for the 21st. century in TMSOC foraminifera and nanofossil groups spring meeting Prague, abstracts
• Hesemann, M. and Gregor, H.J. 2013. Foraminiferen aus dem Quartär von Spitzbergen in der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums an der Akademie zu Dillingen - gesammelt von Prof. Paul Zenetti auf der Expedition des 11. Internationalen Geologischen Kongresses 1910 in Documenta Naturae Sonderband 65, Palaeo Bavarian Geological Survey, München
• Hesemann, M., Ottway, B. and Legoinha, P. 2014. The Foraminifera.eu Project - A paleoinformatics bridge between science and community. O Projecto Foraminifera.eu. Um elo paleontológico e informático entre ciência e sociedade Comunicações Geológicas 12/2014; 101(I):447-450. PDF
• Hesemann, M. 2015: The foraminifera.eu database: concept and status. Palaeontologia Electronica 18.3.48A: 1-14 PDF
• Hesemann, M., Ketelsen, D. 2017: Index Foraminifera in Chalk Marl Smaers at the Brodtener Ufer (Coast of the Western Baltic Sea) in Geschiebekunde aktuell 33 (4): pages 111 to 117 PDF
• Hesemann, M. 2020: Foraminifera in the glacial erratic rock Heiligenhafener Kieselgestein of northern Germany in Micropaleontology 66(5):397-418 Abstract
• Hesemann, M., Hoffman, L.; Ottway, B.; Freiwald, A. 2023: Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the Mauritanian shelf and upper slope and their association with cold-water coral habitats in Natur im Fokus 53, Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany: 21-154. Full paper with 31 plates PDF