From:	PO2::"QUATERNARY@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA" "Canadian Research in Quaternary Science" 18-APR-1995 16:14:55.73
To:	Multiple recipients of list QUATERNARY <QUATERNARY@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA>
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Subj:	Educational Slide Sets on Pollen

To Quaternary pollen researchers:
 
NOAA's Paleoclimatology Program is producing a series of educational slide
sets on paleoclimatic research methods.  One of these sets will be on
pollen paleoecology and paleoclimatology.
 
Our sets are intended for general, non-specialist audiences and are aimed
at those with a basic understanding of scientific concepts but nothing more
(college lecture courses, at least initially, will be the primary users of
the sets).  The pollen set will probably include 20-30 slides and will
cover all the basics of pollen research.
 
I would like to ask those in the pollen research community if they might be
willing to donate slides for use in the set.  These topics will be
included:
 
--pollen and pollination
 
--composition and appearance of modern pollen rain (perhaps a photo of a
lake covered with pine pollen?)
 
--how pollen ends up in sediment (diagram of catchment basin)
 
--coring procedures
 
--photographs of fossil spores
 
--significant data sets and there importance (pollen paleoecology, human
disturbance in the pollen record, transfer functions linking pollen to
climate, etc.)
 
--a little about regional paleoecological or paleoclimatic reconstructions
based on palynological research.
 
The set is not constrained to these topics, but they seem to be the most
obvious and essential components.
 
We will pay for slides to be FedEx'd to us, duplicate them as quickly as
possible, and FedEx them right back to you.
 
As an incentive to contributors, we generally provide 2-3 completed sets of
your choice.  By June, 1995, completed sets will cover Pollen, Packrat
Middens, Polar Ice Cores, Low-Latitude Ice Cores, Coral Paleoclimatology,
and perhaps one or two others.
 
If interested, please contact me at tga@ngdc.noaa.gov or phone
303-497-6297. I would be very appreciative of any help.  With your input,
we can put together a top-notch set that will do much to educate those
outside of the field on the important contributions pollen research has
made in the last several decades.  Such exposure can only benefit the
field.
 
Sincerely,
 
Thomas Andrews
Paleoclimatology Program
NGDC/NOAA
Boulder, Colorado, USA
ph. 303-497-6297
fax 303-497-6513