[Aqualist] Tilia/Neotoma/Bacon-Clam Workshop, 24-26th Nov, ANU

[Simon Haberle]

Dear all,

There will be a workshop on key and emerging tools in palaeo-research at the ANU from the 24th-26th Nov, presented by Prof Eric Grimm (Director of Science, Illinois State Museum; ISM:http://www.museum.state.il.us; Neotoma Paleoecology Database:http://www.neotomadb.org). Eric is visiting ANU for this week and will present a hands-on approach using the new tools he has developed for global databases and analysis of palaeoecological data. An outline of the workshop is given below.

All those who are interested in attending should contact me to register your interest. There is no registration fee. There will be morning and afternoon teas provided during the workshop though all other food requirements will have to be covered by individual participants. You are also required to organise your own travel and accommodation in Canberra. For further information please contact

Simon Haberle
+61 2 61253373
Simon.Haberle at anu.edu.au
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Tilia/Neotoma/Bacon-Clam Workshop, 24-26th Nov, Crawford (Building 132) in the "Lennox Room", ANU

General topics addressed in this workshop will be (1) the use of the Tilia program for managing, analyzing, and graphing pollen and other stratigraphic or paleo data; (2) the Neotoma Paleoecology Database; and (3) age modelling with the Bacon and clam programs and importing results into Tilia.

Requirements
Participants should bring their own laptops and should have administrative rights to install new software. Software will be distributed on on flash drives for participants to install. R should be installed in advance, but optionally can be installed at the workshop. Prior knowledge of R is not needed. Tilia is a Windows program, and laptops must be running Windows. If the participant brings a Mac, it must be configured to run Windows either through e.g. Parallels or by booting to Windows, and the participant must know how to run and install Windows programs in advance. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data to work with throughout the workshop.

Brief Outline of Course Content
Day 1: Introduction to Tilia and the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. Entering data into the spreadsheet. Making pollen (or other paleo-data) diagrams. Metadata forms.
Day 2: Geochronological data, simple age models, and chronologies. Concentration and influx data. Cluster analysis (CONISS).
Day 3: Interactivity between Tilia and the Neotoma database. Age modelling with clam. Introduction to Bayesian age modelling and age modelling with Bacon. Clam/Bacon age modeling with Tilia.
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