The North American Pollen Database is established at the Illinois State Museum and with funding from the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. Data are entered into the database at the Illinois State Museum and periodically delivered to the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder, Colorado. The data may be acquired from NGDC for free via FTP.
Most of the data now in the database were acquired from COHMAP, although some new data has been added. The COHMAP data is largely pre-1980. We are now actively soliciting and adding new data. We, of course, prefer the data in electronic form (almost any format is acceptable, although Tilia files are great). Data can be sent on diskette or by email. We also welcome data on paper. We understand that not all workers have the time or resources to computerize their old data.