INQUA Working Group on Data-Handling Methods

Newsletter 9: January 1993

NOTE FROM THE COORDINATOR

The Newsletter deals with a number of very different topics this time. John Birks agreed to contribute an article on computer-intensive techniques--a topic he discussed at Aix last September--which appear to open up a number of possibilities to those studying the Holocene. Malcolm Clark provides the second of his two articles on correlation by the technique of slotting. Robert Webb, Jonathan Overpeck, David Anderson, and Bruce Bauer discuss the establishment of the World Data Center-A (WDC-A) for Paleoclimatology at Boulder, Colorado, and outline what they can do for us. David Green discusses the world electronic databases and provides timely information that should be of interest to many readers. John Birks provides his useful Bookshelf 6. There is a list of the material we now have available for anonymous ftp at geology.wisc.edu. I discuss SLOTDEEP.EXE, a program that is fun and also useful. And Dr. Triage is back as well.

During the 1993-94 academic year (Sept-May) I am to be on sabbatical to learn as much as I can about the Internet, electronic databases, e-mail, and computer uses in paleoecology. I hope to do some travelling during the year. If you are doing something you would like to share--or if I could help you with a problem of yours--please let me know, and I will try to schedule a visit if I am anywhere near your base of operations.

I ask the readers of the Newsletter to send me information on any of the data-handling techniques that you have used which could be helpful to others. Please check your regular and e-mail addresses for accuracy. Send any corrections/suggestions to:

Louis J. Maher, Jr.
Department of Geology & Geophysics
University of Wisconsin
1215 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Phone: (608) 262-9595 FAX: (608) 262-0693
E-mail: maher@geology.wisc.edu

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