Quaternary Paleolinks Page

• If you're not a Quaternary scientist, and don't even want to become one, but would like some general information on Quaternary topics, there are some very readable and informative pages out there (these are also recommended to Quaternary scientists):
• The Paleolimnology Page is concerned with diatoms and other indicators of past conditions in lakes.
• The Illinois State Museum has a number of Quaternary on-line exhibits.
• Elin Whitney-Smith has a fun page on her theory about the Late Wisconsin megafaunal extinction, presented in a detective-story format.
• Using the PAGES dataset, Lensyl Urbano and his colleagues have assembled some movies of tree migration across North America over the past ten thousand years.
• Jonathan Adams has a page full of reader-friendly information about past climates, including an Atlas of Ice Age Earth.
• Free Software for Quaternary Teaching and Research:
• Keith Bennett's Psimpoll, a very effective and documented stratigraphic diagramming program. It outputs .ps files that can be viewed and printed using Aladdin's free Ghostview software.
• Canplot is another pollen diagramming and statistics program and RACKS is a group of unranked keys that can be used to identify all sorts of things: pollen grains, fruits, airplanes, etc. These are available from Jock McAndrews' web site. Warning: slow server and evil Java bits!
• NOAA's Paleoclimate Page includes John Keltner's SiteSeer Program (an interactive program which will show pollen diagrams from selected locales across the US and Canada), Mappad, great for making maps showing where sites are, and PaleoVu.
• CALIB 4.2 is a program for computing radiocarbon dates into calendar dates.
• Quaternary Databases:
• The North American Pollen Database, maintained by Eric Grimm
• Keith Bennett's site also includes a pollen catalog for the British Isles,and images of many pollen types.
• A group of geologists in Potsdam, Germany, have assembled the Geolis Database, which will build a web page around the geological/geographical data you request. This page is in German.
• The BUGS database includes a lot of northern European lateglacial and Holocene data in handy .xls files.
• The BUGS people have put together a somewhat messy, frame-based, Quaternary bibliography.
• There is a list of online ¹⁴C databases maintained by RADIOCARBON.
• A number of universities have interdisciplinary programs for Quaternary studies, and have put info about the programs, their projects, and accomplishments on the Web, including:
• The University of Minnesota's Limnological Research Center; (includes a list of publications by the group since the 1950's)
• Uppsala University's Dept. of Quaternary Geology
• Colby College's Quaternary Paleoenvironments Program, (includes a nice paleoentomology subpage)
• The University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
• The Univerisity of Maine's Quaternary Research Program
• The University of Washington's Quaternary Research Center
• There are several professional groups of Quaternary scientists who have created pages with information about the organizations and their activities and meetings:
• The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
• The Canadian Association of Palynologists
• American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) and Friends of the Pleistocene (FOP)
• International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).
• Quaternary Research Association (QRA) - Warning: evil Java bits!
• An online organization, the Quaternary mailing list has archives that can be downloaded and/or searched by topic.
• PAGES
• Quaternary Australasia
• Professional Journals:
• The Journal of Paleolimnology - has tables of contents and other useful things posted
• Paleontologica Electronica
• Specific Projects
• Glenn Jackson's research on the Bridgenorth Esker in Peterborough, Ontario
• Alwynne B. Beaudoin's Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations contains over 1000 entries.

Last updated 1/21/00.