BGU Foram's Lab

 Our research involves multidisciplinary investigations of living and fossil foraminifera and their use as indicators of recent and ancient marine environments.

 

 ‘Forams’ are marine unicellular protists that are found globally in the oceans. They are among the most ancient and abundant fossils and also the most productive rock builders.

They typically appear in great numbers in all marine habitats (planktonic and benthonic), and are extremely sensitive indicators of environmental conditions and climate changes.

The geochemical properties of their shells also allow us to determine important environmental parameters. These qualities make them amenable for interdisciplinary approach that combines traditional and molecular taxonomy, phylogeny, stratigraphic faunal analysis, and stable isotopes geochemistry.