[Aqualist] PalaeoWorks web site

[Simon Haberle]

Dear All,

I would like to announce the launch of a new web site, "PalaeoWorks", that 
is designed to be a portal to key resources being developed to facilitate 
palaeo- and archaeobotanical research in the Asia-Pacific region. Please 
take the time to visit the web site. Comments and contributions welcome...

PalaeoWorks home page http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/index.html

Contents include:
    * Information for <http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/students.html>students 
interested in studying palaeoecology and archaeobotany in the Department of 
Archaeology and Natural History at the ANU. 
(http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/students.html).
    * The <http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/databases.html>INDO-PACIFIC POLLEN 
DATABASE contains information on over 600 pollen sites from a region 
extending from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean. The database and is 
available as a FileMaker Pro 5 file and a bibliography of 645 references is 
also available as a PDF file.
    * The 
<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/databases.html>AUSTRALASIAN<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/databases.html> 
POLLEN AND SPORE ATLAS is a pollen image database under development at ANH 
that will provide web access to the pollen and spore collection held in the 
department. A draft version of the database is accessible through this site.
    * Publications include online 
"<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/publications.html>Technical Reports" that 
are intended to support palaeoecological and archaeobotanical research in 
the Asia-Pacific and Australian region. (e.g. Macphail, M. and Hope, G.S. 
2003. Natural Histories: An illustrated guide to fossil pollen and spores 
preserved in swamps and mires of the Southern Highlands, NSW. PalaeoWorks 
Technical Report 1. p.25 + 134 pollen and spore taxa as colour images).
    * Individual collections of pollen floras from sites investigated by 
members of PalaeoWorks are being developed and will be freely available. 
(e.g. A <http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/pollenbook1.pdf>New Caledonia Pollen 
Flora contains around 360 pollen and spore images from the flora of New 
Caledonia)
    * Up-to-date information on the groups current 
<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/wwd.html>research activities, 
<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/news.html>news and 
<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/publications.html>publications.
    * Price list for 
<http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/consulting.html>analytical services provided 
to Australian and international clients.


Cheers, Simon

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Dr Simon Haberle

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

tel:    +61 2 6125 3373
fax:    +61 2 6125 1635
web page:       http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/
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