INQUA Working Group on Data-Handling Methods

Newsletter 9: January 1993

Edited by L.J. Maher, Jr

• Note from the Coordinator
• Impact of Computer-intensive Procedures in Testing Palaeoecological Hypothesis (H.J.B. Birks)
• Assessment of Sequence-slotting (Malcolm Clark)
• A Description of the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology (Robert S. Webb, Jonathan T. Overpeck, David M. Anderson and Bruce A. Bauer)
• Databasing the World (David G. Green)
• New Bookshelf 6 (H.J.B. Birks)
• Material Available by Anonymous FTP from geology.wisc.edu (L.J. Maher, Jr)
• The Silicone Database (L.J. Maher, Jr)
• Sealing Compounds for Slides of Pollen in Silicone Oil (Edward J. Cushing)
• SLOTDEEP.EXE: Manual Correlation Using the Dissimilarity Matrix (Louis J. Maher)
• First Aid for TILIA and PALYPLOT users (Dr Triage)