This archive contains 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.
WebMapper
(Click on a region of the map...)
Pollen Database Projects
- 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.
- 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.
Pollen Database List (PDB_L)
This list provides a forum for discussion of fossil pollen databases and general paleopalynology. To subscribe, send an email as follows:
To: majordomo@medias.cnes.fr
From: <your-email-address>
Subject:
Body of message: SUBSCRIBE PDB_L <your-full-name>
[e.g. subscribe pdb_l Carolus Linnaeus]
Software
- 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).
- 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.