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Return to the Pliocene at Altavilla Milicia, Sicily
Our last stop of the day on the IBA field trip was to a classic fossil locality on the north coast of Sicily about an hour east of Palermo. These are fine sandstones and marls preserving a diverse...
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Sediments, fossils and vistas at the Capo Milazzo Peninsula, Sicily
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–This was the last day of our International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field trip through Sicily. We had an excellent time and covered an extraordinary amount of...
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A visit to ancient Syracuse
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–One of the treats of many small scientific meetings, like the International Bryozoology Association conference I am attending now, is that we can have a variety of short field...
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Limestones, basalts, the wine-dark sea and the brooding volcano
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–Today we had our last field trip associated with the 2013 International Bryozoology Conference. We traveled to the east coast of Sicily at Castelluccio, which is south of Catania...
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Return to Mount Etna
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–The very last field trip stop — and final event — of the International Bryozoology Association Conference was a trip to the south side of Mount Etna. We drove to a spot that had...
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The 16th Conference of the International Bryozoology Association
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–The IBA meeting has now ended and, as this is posted, I should be winging my way home across the Atlantic. It was a fantastic experience. This is a unique organization, of which...
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A foraminiferal ooze from the Pleistocene of...
On a recent field trip to Sicily, our paleontological party visited outcrops at Cala Sant’Antonino on the western side of the Milazzo Peninsula in the northwestern part of the island. We saw there an...
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: An ancient predator/prey system from the Lower...
The above fossils were collected from a Lower Pleistocene silty marl exposed near the Megara archaeological site east of Augusta, Sicily, Italy. I was on that epic International Bryozoology Association...
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Bits of a bamboo coral from the Lower...
Earlier this summer I participated on a pre-conference field trip of the International Bryozoology Association throughout Sicily. We had an excellent time and saw many wondrous things. At one stop on...
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Pleistocene octocoral holdfast from Sicily
My Italian colleague Agostina Vertino collected this beautiful specimen from the Pleistocene of Sicily and brought it to Wooster when she visited five years ago. It is the attaching base (holdfast) of...
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