All data in the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archive are contributed by research scientists. Contributors and references are available in readme or data file headers. Here is a Sample Data Citation.

The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program distributes the product of various collaborative efforts to collect and organize pollen records from around the globe. These data include the pollen counts and related information, as well as several different derived data sets.

Contributing Data

WebMapper

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Obtaining Data at the WDC

• Pollen Search Engine
• Download Pollen Data via FTP
• • Gajewski LIA Reconstructions
  • Vegetation Mapping for eastern North America
  • BIOME 6000 African and European 6K Climate and Surface Reconstructions
  • Ray and Adams 2001 GIS-based Vegetation Map of the World at the Last Glacial Maximum
  • Williams et al. 2004 Pollen Viewer for Quaternary North America and gridded pollen data.
• Search by Contributor

Pollen Viewer

Other Data Archives

• African Pollen Database: a tool for all scientists involved in African palynology.
• Base de données polliniques et macrofossiles du Québec at the Université de Montréal.
• Canadian Pollen Database, at the Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa.
• European Pollen Database: Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, the Middle East.
• Pollen Monitoring Programme: monitoring pollen deposition across Europe.
• Global Pollen Database: spanning the globe. Go here to see What's New.
• Indo-Pacific Pollen Database: India, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.
• Latin American Pollen Database: Mexico, Central and South America.
• North American Pollen Database: Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the United States.
• The INQUA File Boutique contains newsletters, pollen data programs, and other information on Quaternary pollen research (from the INQUA Commission for Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data Handling Methods).
• North American Packrat Midden Database: Southwest USA and Mexico Packrat Midden Data.

Pollen Database List (GPD-L)

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From: <your-email-address>
Subject:
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Free Pollen Database Software

Other Software

• Tilia and TGView, spreadsheet and diagramming programs for stratigraphic data are available from Dr. Eric Grimm of the Illinois State Museum. See the Tilia page for more information.
• PALYHELP is a suite of six programs from L.J. Maher, Jr. at the University of Wisconsin. These programs address common statistical questions in palynological and paleoecological research.

Other Places of Interest

• Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
• An Internet Directory for Botany lists resources of interest to botanists.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden maintains a searchable database of plant taxonomic information.
• The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.

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