[Aqualist] New sites from Australia, Asia and the Pacific available on NEOTOMA Db

[Simon Haberle]

Dear colleagues,

Attention palaeoecologists in the Indo-Pacific region! In the last month, 10 new sites from our region have been added to NEOTOMA Db (https://www.neotomadb.org), bringing the grand total of sites visible in the constituent database “Indo-Pacific Pollen Database (IPPD)” up to 94 sites. This is part of a CABAH legacy project that aims to make available a range of archaeological and palaeoecological datasets on a collective platform. For pollen data these datasets (now 250+ sites and constantly growing!) will all be uploaded to NEOTOMA and then mirrored into Octopus for easily accessible and integrated analysis (https://epicaustralia.org.au/resource/octopus). We hope to have the Octopus version of the IPPD available by end 2024.

Please follow the NEOTOMA website for notification of new sites that are uploaded.

For assistance with the uploading process please contact Dr Annika Herbert (Annika.Herbert at anu.edu.au) who can help with uploading your data, or will direct you to another one of our NEOTOMA data stewards for help.

For more information on the IPPD and creating pollen datasets see Birks et al (2023) Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 319, 104989. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104989)


Dr Annika Herbert and Prof Simon Haberle
CABAH/Archaeology and Natural History
School of Culture, History and Language
ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
Coombs Building (Rm 3.378), Fellows Rd
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2600