[Aqualist] Launch of The Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas v.1.0

[Simon Haberle]

Dear All,

This is a notice to announce the launch of The Australasian Pollen 
and Spore Atlas v.1.0. The APSA can be accessed directly at 
http://apsa.anu.edu.au/ or through the PalaeoWorks web page at 
http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/, and provides online accessibility to 
the largest collection of pollen and spore information in the 
Australasian region (currently >15,000 species cataloged, ~4000 with 
morphological descriptions, 500 species with high quality images). 
The database is still under development and there are many more 
features that we hope to add to the site, so feedback from users will 
be critical for future changes. Further details and demonstrations of 
the database will be given at INQUA, Cairns 2007.

If you would like to contribute to the APSA collection we offer a 
pre-designed template for the FileMaker database that you can use to 
collect pollen and spore data in an APSA compatible format. See the 
webpage for details.

The APSA project was funded through an ARC e-Research Special 
Initiative Scheme 2006-2007. Participants on the project included: at 
ANU; Dr Cassandra Rowe (project postdoc and author of the APSA user 
document),  Dr Simon Haberle, Stuart Hungerford, Paul Warren, Prof 
Geoff Hope, Feli Hopf, Andrew Thornhill, Iona Flett, Dr Janelle 
Stevenson, Pia Atahan (UWA intern), Xun Li (University of Auckland 
intern). In addition staff from other universities have contributed 
to the development of the APSA: Dr Chengyu Weng, Tongji University, 
China; Dr Peter Shimeld, University of Tasmania; Dr Sander Van Der 
Kaars, Monash University.

Rowe, C . (2006) The Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas User 
Document. PalaeoWorks Technical Report 8. p.30.
http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/pubs/APSA-user-document.pdf


Cheers, Simon


Dr Simon Haberle

Director of the Centre for Archaeological Research,
Department of Archaeology and Natural History,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia

phone: +61 2 6125 3373
fax: +61 2 6125 1635
webpage: http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/ and http://car.anu.edu.au/