INQUA Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods

Newsletter 18: August 1998

Note from the Co-ordinator

This issue contains articles by Robert Marchant (on the burgeoning African Pollen Database), and by Lou Maher (automating loss-on-ignition measurements, and an update on SLOTDEEP). Norm Cato has contributed ideas about the archiving of palaeoenvironmental databases, and Catherine Dalton gives news of the next numerical analysis course at University College London. John Birks has provided a list of recent books. I have added short notes on a new ordination listserver, an Italian TILIA manual, the latest from SPECTRUM, and the latest INQUA Palaeoclimate newsletter.

I have received numerous notifications of e-mail addresses, and I hope that the list is now more complete and accurate. Again, I would greatly appreciate co-operation with using the WWW version of the newsletter wherever possible, to avoid the cost of paper distribution. However, I have not been inundated with suggestions for `subscribers' in the less well-developed parts of the world: please keep these names coming. Paper copies can and will be sent to those without full (or any) internet access.

As ever, I would be grateful for suggestions for future issues. I hope to put together the January 1999 issue in December 1998, so contributions by mid-December would be especially welcome.

However, this will be the last newsletter produced in Cambridge. In October, I shall be moving to the University of Uppsala, Sweden, to take up the post of Chair in Quaternary Geology. The WWW site hosting the newsletter will also change, but I hope that any disruption to service to minimal. Please watch out for news of a new web address, and a new e-mail address for the co-ordinator!

Keith Bennett


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