NOAA Paleoclimatology Program |
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Latin American Pollen Database |
Report on the Paleovegetation of the Americas (POA) Workshop for the Development of a Latin American Pollen Database (LAPD) |
Springfield, Illinois, November 16 to 19, 1994 |
Coordinated by Eric Grimm, Illinois State Museum, John Keltner, NOAA/NGDC, and Vera Markgraf, University of Colorado |
Assisted by Lysanna Anderson and Pietra Muller |
Sponsored by the Paleoclimatology Program of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
Twenty scientists from Mexico, Central and South America,
Europe, and North America representing groups of major palynological
research activity in Latin America attended the workshop at the
Illinois State Museum, the center for the development of the
Paleovegetation Database for the Americas (POA). The goals of the
workshop were:
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Some terms and their definitions:
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The coordinators and advisory boards of the European and North American Pollen Databases spent considerable time and effort to create a comprehensive database structure and computer software for data entry and retrieval. It, therefore, seems most sensible for other database efforts to build on this well-tested foundation. All attending agreed that it would be advantageous to use the existing structure for the Latin American Pollen Database. |
The discussion focused on how to most efficiently initiate the interaction
among all researchers involved in palynological research in Latin America.
To this end the following steps were proposed:
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Vera Markgraf, Eric Grimm, J. Keltner - Boulder, November 26, 1994 |
Participants at the Springfield Workshop |
L. Anderson, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0450,
USA (andersol@spot.colorado.edu)
H. Behling, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948, USA (strem103@sivm.si.edu) K. Graf, Geographisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland (kgraf@gis.geogr.unizh.ch) E. Grimm, Illinois State Museum, Research and Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, Il 62703, USA (grimm@museum.state.il.us) B. Hansen, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, 220 Pillsbury Hall, Minneapolis, Mn 55455-0219, USA (hanse057@maroon.tc.umn.edu) H. Hooghiemstra, Hugo de Vries Laboratory, Dep. of Palynology and Actuo-Ecology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, NL-1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands (hooghiemstra@sara.nl) J. Keltner, NOAA/NGDC/PALEO, 325 Broadway E/GCx3, Boulder, Co 80303, USA (john.keltner@noaa.gov) L. Kennedy, Dep. Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tn 37996-1420, USA (lkennedy@utkux1.utk.edu) for S. Horn (shorn@utkux1.utk.edu) M.-P. Ledru, ORSTOM, 72 Route d'Aulnay, F-93143 Bondy-Cedex, France (ledru@bondy.orstom.fr) B. Leyden, Dep. Geology, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Av. SCA 203, Tampa, Fl 33620- 5200, USA (leyden@chuma.cas.usf.edu) S. Lozano-Garcia, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Ancional Antónoma de México, Aptdo Postal 70-296, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico (mslozano@unamvm1.dgsca.unam.mx) V. Markgraf, Institute of Arctic and Alpine research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co 80309-0450, USA (markgraf@spot.colorado.edu) E. Moreno, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948, USA (strem103@sivm.si.edu) P. Moreno, Dep. Plant Biology, University of Maine, Deering Hall, Orono, Me 04469, USA (pmoren41@maine.maine.edu) P. Mueller, Illinois State Museum, Research and Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, Il 62703, USA P. E. de Oliveira, Dep. Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Il 60605-2496, USA (deolive@fmnh785.fmnh.org) F. Schäbitz (Geographisches Institut der Universität Bamberg, Am Kranen 1, D-96045 Bamberg, Germany G. van Reenen, Hugo de Vries Laboratory, Dep. of Palynology and Actuo-Ecology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, NL-1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands (guido@sara.nl) C. Villagrán, Fac. de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile (dendro@abello.seci.uchile.cl) H. Witte, Hugo de Vries Laboratory, Dep. of Palynology and Actuo-Ecology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, NL-1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands (a433henk@sara.nl) |
27 June 1997