Older Projects


Catalog of Portuguese Foraminifera

The Working group of Portuguese Foraminifera has created a catalog of 800+ foraminifera from Portugal. It is based on eight years of fieldwork in the Algarve by Brian Otway and Michael Hesemann. Portuguese professionals contributed many SEM images. The catalog comprises modern specimens fossil foraminifera from the Miocene, Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic. ... to the catalog

Alaskan modern foraminifera

Fisherwomen Karen L. Johnson contacted us with the idea to build an illustrated catalog of foraminifera from off Sitka, southern Alaska. She found sediments attached to her fishing gear with lots of foraminifera in them. We received anchor-mud material collected by Karen and her colleagues from the waters off Sitka. You may find images made by Karen and us partly on iNaturalist and here ....

Foraminifera, Bolivina, Sitka, Alaska