INQUA Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods

Newsletter Author Index

• Anderson, D.M., et al., An Update on Data Sets and Data Handling Tools Available from the World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology, #14, p. 23-25
• Andrews, J.T., CORESEG: A Program for the Detection of Changes (i.e. Definition of Segments) in a Down-Core Property, #10, p. 8-11
• Anonymous,
  • Announcement: The Tilia List Server, #14, p. 27
  • How do I get On | Off the List? #15, p. 19
  • List Addresses that may be of Interest to Readers, #12, p. 12-14.
  • PaleoVu Browse and Visualization Software, #13, p. 24
  • Psimpoll PostScript Files and Adobe Illustrator, #13, p. 23
  • Tilia AND Tilia·graph 2.0, #10, p. 21
  • Useful Addresses Available to Public by Telnet or Anonymous Ftp, #11, p. 19, #12, p. 27.
  • Useful Addresses Available to Public by Telnet, Anonymous FTP, Mosaic, etc., #13, p. 31
  • Useful Addresses Available to Public by Telnet, Anonymous FTP, WWW, Etc., #14, p. 31
  • Voices from the Past: Pollen Analysis and Pollen & Spore Circulars, #15, p. 16
• Batten et al., Palynology at Aberystwyth, #6, p. 6-7
• Beaudoin, Alwynne B.,
  • A List Survey of Statistics Texts, #13, p. 17-19
  • Padding Around the Prairies, #14, p. 12-14
• Bennett, K.D.,
  • Graphics Conversion #16, p. 5
  • INQUA File Boutique #16, p. 8
  • LINUX: an alternative to Microsoft Windows? #19, 4
  • PSIMPOLL - A QuickBASIC Program that Generates PostScript Page Description Files of Pollen Diagrams, #8, p. 11-12
  • PSIMPOLL version 2.23: A C Program for Analysing Pollen Data and Plotting Pollen Diagrams, #11, p. 4-6
  • Pollen Counting on a Pocket Computer, #3, p. 5
  • So You Want to Run a World Wide Web Server?, #14, p. 14-16
  • Use of PostScript to Increase Portability of Pollen Diagrams, #7, p. 6-7
  • Useful programs for the Psion Series 3a/c, #15, 9-11
• Berglund, Björn, and Persson, Thomas, Information on Spore Tablets: Lycopodium Spore Tablets (Batch 124961), #12, p. 10 Birks, H.J.B.,
  • Achievements, Developments, and Future Challenges in Quantitative Quaternary Palaeoecology, #14, p. 2-8
  • Impact of Computer-Intensive Procedures in Testing Palaeoecological Hypothesis, #9, p. 1-5
  • New Bookshelf 1, #3, p. 7-8
  • New Bookshelf 2, #5, p. 6-7
  • New Bookshelf 3, #6, p. 8-9
  • New Bookshelf 4, #7, p. 8-9
  • New Bookshelf 5, #8, p. 16-17
  • New Bookshelf 6, #9, p. 17-18
  • New Bookshelf 7, #10, p. 13
  • New Bookshelf 8, #11, p. 17-18
  • New Bookshelf 9, #12, p. 19-20
  • New Bookshelf 10, #13, p. 21-22
  • New Bookshelf 11, #14, p. 20-21
  • New Bookshelf 12, #15, p. 11
  • New Bookshelf 13, #16, p. 7
  • New Bookshelf 14, #17, p. 4
  • New Bookshelf 15, #18, p. 7
  • New Bookshelf 16, #19, 5
  • New Bookshelf 17, #20, 4
  • Recent Publications in Multivariate Data Analysis and Practical Computing of Relevance to Palaeoecologists, #1, p. 5-10
  • Useful PC Software 1, #3, p. 8-10
  • Useful PC Software 2, #5, p. 7-8
  • Useful PC Software 3, #6, p. 9-10
• Birks, H.J.B., Juggins, Hazel, and Sætersdal, Magne, An Annotated Bibliography of Numerical Methods in Quaternary Pollen Analysis 1985-1989, #5, p. 8
• Birks, H.J.B., and Saetersdal, Magne, An Annotated Bibliography of Numerical Methods in Quaternary Pollen Analysis 1985 - 1989, #3, p. 6-7
• Bonnefille, Raymonde, Miscellaneous Notes, #1, p. 10
• Bulman, Dave, and Kershaw, Peter, On the Use of the Chi-Square Statistic for the Detection of Modern Analogues for Fossil Pollen Spectra, #10, p. 11-12
• Campbell, Ian,
  • A Short Introduction to PostScript Code, #10, p. 18-20
  • CANPLOT: A FORTRAN Program for Plotting Pollen (and other) Data, #10, p. 17-18
  • Tree-Ring Width and Density Measurement System, #14, p. 8-9
• Cato, Norm, PAGES, Paleoenvironmental Databases, Quaternary International, and INQUA, #18, p. 5
• Charles, D. F., Smol, J.P., Uutala, A.J., Sweets, P.R., and Whitehead, D.R., The PIRLA DataBase Management System, #2, p. 3-6
• Chumbley, Craig A., PALYPLOT: A PC-based Program for Plotting Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Stratigraphic Data, #5, p. 2-4
• Clark, Malcolm,
  • A New Version of PCSLOT, #10, p. 21-22
  • Assessment of Sequence-Slotting, #9, p. 5-10
  • Corrections and Extensions to PCSLOT, #12, p. 21
  • Depth-Matching using PCSLOT Version 1.6, #13, p. 11-13
  • Extensions to Slotting Program PCSLOT, #14, p. 22-23
  • Sequence Comparisons and Sequence-Slotting, #8, p. 3-6
• Cushing, E.J.,
  • SARI: A HyperCard Stack for Describing and Identifying Spores and Pollen Grains, #6, p. 1-3
  • Sealing Compounds for Slides of Pollen in Silicone Oil, #9, p. 20-21
• Dalton, Catherine, Numerical Analysis of Environmental Data, #18, p. 6
• Davis, Owen K.,
  • A Questionnaire on Data-Handling, #7, p. 9-10
  • Preliminary Results of Data Format Survey, #8, p. 14-16
  • Program Sources, #10, p. 30-33
  • Specific Programs, #1, p. 4-5
  • The AASP Data Committee, #3, p. 5-6
• de Beaulieu, J-L, Guiot, J., and Cheddadi, R., The European Pollen Database, #7, p. 1-4
• Editorial, #1, p. 1, #2, p. 1, #4, p. 1, #5, p. 1, #6, p. 1, #7, p. 1, #8, p. 1, #9, p. 1, #10, p. 1, #11, p. 1, #12, p. 1, #13, p. 1-2, #14, p. 1-2, #15, p. 1, #15, p. 1-2, #16, p. 1, #17, p. 1 #18, p. 1 #19, 1
• Fritts, Hal, Diagnostic analyses of Tree-Ring Data, #2, p. 6-7
• Gajewski, Konrad,
  • A Pollen Database Bulletin Board?, #10, p. 22
  • Pollen Data Storage and Analysis on Microcomputers, #1, p. 2-4
• Gardner, Adam,
  • Sequence-slotting recovers dating disasters, #20, p. 3
• Goodman, D.K., and Becker, R.C., The PALCAT Interactive Paleontological Database and Image Storage and Retrieval System, #8, p. 6-8
• Green, David G.,
  • Databasing the World, #9, p. 12-17
  • The Environmental Challenge for Numerical Palynology, #15, p. 3-6
  • Hypermedia and Palaeoenvironmental Research, #10, p. 23-27
  • Miscellaneous Notes, #1, p. 10
  • Polsta Interactive Time Series Analysis, #2, p. 7-8
  • The Year of the Web, #11, p. 20-21
• Green, David G., and Stocker, Robert C., A Special Interest Network for Quaternary Research--SINQUA, #13, p. 14-17
• Green, David G., Wesley, Anthony, and Peters, David, Information Analysis via the World Wide Web, #12, p. 7-9
• Grimm, Eric C.,
  • BTA: Binary to ASCII Conversion Program, #8, p. 9-11
  • North American Pollen Database Call for Data, #10, p. 14
  • The Future of Tilia, #15, p. 2-3
  • The North American Pollen Database, #4, p. 4-5
  • The North American Pollen Database, #6, p. 7-8
  • TGView and Tilia for Windows, #20, p. 5
  • Tilia and Tilia·Graph: PC Spreadsheet and Graphics Software for Pollen Data, #4, p. 5-7
• Guiot, J., The Quantitative Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions using Biological Proxy Data: Recommendations, #11, p. 1-4
• Haberle, S., Working with psimpoll on a Mac, #16, p. 4
• Hicks, S., et al., Protocols of the European Pollen Database, #14, p. 26
• Hope, Geoff, Southwest Pacific Pollen Atlas, #12, p. 11-12
• Hope, Geoff, Martinello, Carlo, and Owen, Judy, Australian and Southwest Pacific Pollen Atlas Project, #8, p. 1-3
• Jacobson, George L., Jr., Workshop Leading to Creation of a European Repository for Late-Quaternary Pollen Data. August, 1989, Lund, Sweden, #2, p. 1-2
• Janssens, Jan A., Ecology of Peatland Bryophytes and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of Peatlands using Fossil Bryophytes Summary, #3, p. 1-5
• Joynt, Ernst H., III, and Wolfe, Alexander P., An Image Database for Diatom Identification and Nomenclature, #19, 3
• Juggins, Steve, Kovach, Warren, and Maher, L.J., The Data-Handling Internet, #8, p. 17-24
• Keltner, John,
  • MapPad: A Windows Notepad for Map-based Information, #13, p. 3-5
  • MapPad II: The Sequel, John Keltner, #14, p. 9-12
  • New Webware for the World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology, #13, p. 25-28
  • SiteSeer & ShowTime: Pollen Database Visualization Tools, #12, p. 2-5
• Kovach, Warren L.,
  • MVSP 2.1, #10, p. 20-21
  • MVSP: A Multivariate Statistical Package, #4, p. 1-3
  • Togetherness - MVSP and SIMSTAT, #14, p. 21-22
• Kutzbach, J., and Behling, P., Comparison of Paleoclimate Simulations and Observations, #12, p. 5-7
• Leduc, P., Williams, J.W. and Webb III, T., Programs for Site Selection, Tabular Display, and Interpretation, #17, p. 2
• Leroy, S., Training sessions for the use of data handling programs, #16, p. 6
• Lotter, Andre, Book Review: "Statistical Modelling of Quaternary Science Data," #14, p. 17-18
• Lotter, André F., and Juggins, Steve, POLPROF, TRAN and ZONE: Programs for Plotting, Editing and Zoning Pollen and Diatom Data, #6, p. 4-6
• MacDonald, Glen M.,
  • CD-ROM Data Sets: Part 2 Global Ecosystems Database Version 1.0, #11, p. 8-10
  • Environmental Data Bases on CD-ROM Part I, #10, p. 1-3
  • Examining Large Files, #13, p. 24
• Maddy, Darrel, Statistical Modelling of Quaternary Science Data: Trials and Tribulations, #14, p. 18-20
• Maddy, D., and Brew, J.S. (editors) Statistical Modelling of Quaternary Science Data: A Practical Manual, #8, p. 13
• Maher, L.J.,
  • A Program for Counting Things on 16 Fingers, #11, p. 6-7
  • Automating the Dreary Measurements for Loss-on-Ignition, #18, p. 3
  • Borland Software, #7, p. 4
  • Calibrate your ¹⁴C Dates with the Latest Version of CALIB, #10, p. 12
  • Calibrating new spore tablets, #19, 2
  • Characters with Diacritical Marks and the Internet, #12, p. 14-15
  • Computer Class after Aix Palynology Congress, #6, p. 3, #7, p. 5
  • Convert Your Data, #14, p. 27
  • Data-Handling while Sampling Cores: SPOON-EZ.BAS, #10, p. 27-30
  • DEPTH-AGE Conversion of Pollen Data, #7, p. 13-17
  • EDITKEY: For When You Change Your Mind, #11, p. 12-14
  • Geodesics for Fun and Profit, #11, p. 28-29
  • INQUA File Boutique on World Wide Web: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~maher/inqua.html, #13, p. 6
  • Keep the Heart of the NAPD on a Single HD Floppy, #10, p. 15-17
  • LIGA and SLICE Colleagues, #13, p. 5-6
  • Locate your Scandinavian Sites with SITESCAN.BAS, #12, p. 21-23
  • MacPollen, #11, p. 29
  • Material Available by Anonymous ftp from geology.wisc.edu, #9, p. 8-19
  • Menu Structure of TILIA and TILIA·GRAPH, #12, p. 28-33
  • MODPOL.EXE: a tool for searching for modern analogs of Pleistocene pollen data, #20, p. 2
  • PLOT2.EXE, PLOTOVER.EXE, and PLOTLIM.EXE; Speciality Programs for Special Problems, #15, p. 6-9
  • POLPAL-L, A List-Server for Palynologists, #10, p. 22-23
  • POLPAL-Listserver, #11, p. 18-19
  • Programs Useful in the Pollen Lab, #4, p. 7-10
  • psimpoll FOR A FINAL EMERGENCY, #17, p. 3
  • Re-Configuring your Computer made Easy, #5, p. 4-5
  • Required Reading: (Bennett, K.D., 1994, Confidence intervals for age estimates and deposition times in late-Quaternary sediment sequences: The Holocene, v. 4, n. 4, p. 337-348), #13, p. 23
  • Seeing Laptop Cursors, #7, p. 8
  • Sending Binary Files by E-mail, #6, p. 10-31
  • SLOTDEEP.EXE: Manual Correlation using the Dissimilarity Matrix, #9, p. 21-26
  • SLOTDEEP v. 1.8 Adds DC Profiles to its DC Map, #18, p. 4
  • Synthetic Pollen Slides, #13, p. 28-31
  • The INQUA File Boutique, #10, p. 27
  • The Silicone Database, #9, p. 19-20
  • The Ultimate Palynological Database (Pollen Slides), #8, p. 17
  • Thoughts on Practical Data Exchange, #5, p. 8-10
  • TST2NORM.EXE Determines the Overlap in two Normal Populations, #15, 16-18
  • Turn Your Expensive Old PC into a Dumb Pollen Counter, #8, p. 24-27
  • Using the Global Positioning System, #11, p. 23-28
• Marchant, Robert, African Pollen Database - an overview, #18, p. 2
• Marcoux, Nancy, and Richard, P.J.H., A New Look at Betula Pollen Curves, #10, p. 6-8
• Matthews, John, Multimedia Science Presentations and Teaching Aids, #15, p. 12-16
• McAndrews, J.H., and Yu, Zicheng, Random Access Computer Keys (RACKs), #11, p. 10-12
• Naldrett, Dana L.,
  • An Internet Guide to Quaternary Library Resources (1), #11, p. 14-17
  • An Internet Guide to Quaternary Library Resources (2) - Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, #12, p. 15-18
  • An Internet Guide to Quaternary Library Resources (3) -- The Pacific Rim, #13, p. 19-21
• Odgaard, Bent, Speeding up Screen Plotting in Tilia·Graph, #7, p. 5
• Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, Magdalena, and Walanus, Adam, Polish Palynological Database (POLPAL) in Course of Building, #5, p. 1-2
• Reimer, Paula, Radiocarbon Calibration News, #11, p. 21-23
• Ritchie, Jim, Pollen Data Bases, General and Particular, #4, p. 3-4
• Schulz, M., and Stattegger, K., SPECTRUM: A PC-program for spectral analysis of unevenly spaced time series #16, p. 2
• Schweitzer, Peter N., ANALOG: A Program for Estimating Paleoclimate Parameters using the Method of Modern Analogs, #13, p. 7-9
• Shepherd, K.M., Computerized cataloguing: Paleobiology Division, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, #2, p. 2-3
• Short notes,
  • #17, p. 6
  • #18, p. 8
  • #19, 6
• Smol, John P., and Last, William M., Computer Applications to Paleolimnology, #13, p. 2-3
• Suc, J.-P., Call to all Pollen Analysts, #12, p. 11
• Sweets, P. Roger,
  • DIATOM-L, A Listserver for Diatom Research, #11, p. 19
  • Paleolimnology/Diatom Home Page, #13, p. 24
• Telford, Richard, CNT-WIS.XLM: an EXCEL Macro for Concatenating POLCOUNT files for Importation into Tilia, #15, p. 18-19
• Treloar, W.J., Automation of Pollen Identification and Counting using Digital Image Processing Techniques, #10, p. 3-5
• Triage, Dr.,
  • A Solution to a Particular Pet Peeve; Could it help you?, #14, p. 30
  • First Aid for PSIMPOLL and TILIA Users, #12, p. 24-27
  • First Aid for TILIA and PALYPLOT Users, #6, p. 13-14
  • First Aid for TILIA and PALYPLOT Users, #7, p. 18-20
  • First Aid for TILIA and PALYPLOT Users, #8, p. 27-28
  • First Aid for TILIA and PALYPLOT Users, #9, p. 26-27
  • First Aid for Tilia, psimpoll, MapPad, Windows95, & Netscape, #14, p. 28-30
  • First Aid for Windows95^TM, DEP-AGE, and SLOTDEEP Users, #17, p. 5
• Walanus, Adam,
  • Optimizing Taxon Codes in Pollen Counting, #11, p. 6
  • Pollen Data in Space and Time - Local Approach, #13, p. 13-14
• Walanus, Adam, and Nalepka, Dorota, Palynological diagram drawing in Polish POLPAL for Windows #16, p. 3
• Walker, Ian, Emulation of DOS-based Programs on the Powermac, #12, p. 20
• Ward, Jerome, and Maher, L.J., Spore Marker Tablets - Help!, #11, p. 7
• Webb, Robert S., and Bauer, Bruce A., World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology Database Holdings and Data Documentation Requirements, #12, p. 23-24
• Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., Anderson, D.M., and Bauer, B.A.,
  • A Description of the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology, #9, p. 10-12
  • World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology at the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: July 1993 Update, #10, p. 14-15
• Wells, Lisa, Help with MAPINFO, #14, p. 25
• Whitmore, Tom, and Brenner, Mark, Paleolimnology Listserv, #13, p. 25
• Wolfe, Alexander, Rarefaction Analysis and Microfossil Count Size, #13, p. 9-11
• Zippi, Pierre, A.,
  • Scientific Software for Apple Macintosh, #7, p. 10-13
  • Spreadsheet Conversion Utility, #14, p. 23