Pollen grains which are washed or blown into lakes can accumulate in sediments and provide a record of past vegetation.
Different types of pollen in lake sediments reflect the vegetation that was present around the lake, and therefore the climate conditions
favorable for that vegetation. 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.
Data archived here were last updated in February 2005. Data contributed since March 2005 are available from
PaleoScienceData.net
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Data archived here were last updated in February 2005.
Data contributed since March 2005 are available from
PaleoScienceData.net
Pollen Viewer
North American Pollen Atlas
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. Updates since March 2005 available from
PaleoScienceData.net
- 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 Modern Pollen Data:
Whitmore et al. 2005.
- North American Packrat Midden Database:
Southwest USA and Mexico Packrat Midden Data.
Pollen Database List (GPD-L)
This list provides a forum for discussion of fossil pollen databases and general paleopalynology.
To subscribe, send an email message to:
To: listproc@lists.colorado.edu
From: <your-email-address>
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Body of message: SUBSCRIBE GPD-L <your-full-name> [e.g.
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Free Pollen Database Software
Visit NOAA Paleoclimatology Program's Free Software page
to find out about applications such as PaleoVu, MapPad, SiteSeer, and ShowTime.
Other Software
- Tilia and TGView, spreadsheet and
diagramming programs for stratigraphic data are available from Dr. Eric Grimm of the
Illinois State Museum.
- 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.
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