International Nannoplankton Association

Welcome to the INA. This is an association of scientists worldwide who have an interest in living or fossil nannoplankton - including coccolithophores, nannoliths, and other mineralising nannoplankton such as silicoflagellates and calcispheres.

The International Nannoplankton Association was established in 1977 in order to enhance communication between the widely scattered academic and industrial scientists working on calcareous nannofossils and living coccolithophores. From 2010 the INA has been affiliated with The Micropalaeontological Society. We collaborate on web-hosting and newsletter production and support each others meetings where relevant.

Membership
Membership is open to any interested individuals, or libraries. Currently there are about 250 members worldwide. These include algologists, biostratigraphers, geologists, micropalaeontologists and oceanographers, in both universities and industry. Membership costs $50 per year, and $25 for students. See separate page for payment details.

Meetings
The INA organizes conferences approximately every two years. The next meeting will be held in France in 2021 - Convenors: Luc Beaufort, with Clara Bolton and Baptiste Suchéras-Marx.

Previous conferences have been held in Vienna (1985), London (1987), Florence (1989), Prague (1991), Salamanca (1993) Copenhagen (1995), Puerto Rico (1998) Bremen (2000), Parma (2002), Lisbon (2004), Lincoln, Nebraska (2006), Lyon (2008) and Yamagata (2010), Reston, Virginia (2013), Bohol the Philippines (2015), Athens, Greece (2017) and Santos, Brazil (2019).
In addition the INA organises occasional workshops and regional meetings, e. g. workshops on Boreal Lower Cretaceous nannofossils (Zurich, 1986), Jurassic nannofossils (London, 1990 and Lyon, 2016), terminology (London 1992), extant coccolithophores (Crete 2003 and 2014), Reticulofenestrid coccolith taxonomy (Birmingham 2014, with TMS), regional meetings in Woods Hole, USA (1986), Shanghai, China (1989), Yamagata, Japan (1992), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1994).
Additional European meetings are organized by the nannofossil group of The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS), since virtually all the TMS nanno group members are also INA hacks these have always felt like INA meetings and following our affiliation with TMS they will be co-sponsored by the INA. Recently we have had excellent joint meetings with the TMS foram group in Copenhagen (2004), Southampton (2005), Liverpool (2006), Angers (2007), Tubingen (2008), Zurich (2009, a special meeting to mark retirement of Hans Thierstein), London (2010), as part of the International Palaeontological Congress, Krakow (2011), Edinburgh (2012), Prague (2013), Texel (2014), Plymouth (2015), Fribourg, Switzerland (2019). See the TMS website for details.

INA Publications

Conference Proceedings
Abstracts from INA Conferences have been published by INA as special issues of the JNR, and its predecessor the International Nannoplankton Association Newsletter. Published proceedings have also been produced from most of the INA Conferences as special issues or volumes of various publications. These are mostly still in print & /or available for download and together form an extremely useful source of literature on nannofossils. For details see: conference proceedings

Journal of Nannoplankton Research (editor: Laurel Bybell)
The JNR is the journal of the INA. It is produced approximately twice yearly, and serves as a prime means of communication within the field. Circulation is predominantly to INA membership, with useful library coverage. JNR online; articles published in the last two years are available to members only, older articles are open access. See separate page for information for contributors.

INA News in The Newsletter of Micropalaeontology
Following our affiliation with The Micropalaeontological Society, INA News now appears as a separate item in the Newsletter of Micropalaeontology which all INA Members receive. The Newsletter is published twice a year and also carries news on a range of other micropalaeontology activities so we feel this is a major improvement in our services for INA members. Back issues of the Newsletter of Micropalaeontology can be downloaded from the TMS website