Workshop Leading to the Creation of a European Repository for Late-Quaternary Pollen Data, Lund Sweden, August 1989

该奖项将支持三个美国国家的参与。 科学家们在一个研讨会上， 欧洲晚第四纪花粉数据库，将举行 1989年8月在瑞典隆德。 该研讨会由 Dr. G. L.缅因州大学的雅各布森博士和比约恩·E. Berglund，瑞典隆德大学。 化石花粉数据提供了变异的主要证据 在过去的两万年里， 作为重建长期气候变化的主要基础 在整个欧洲的古生态学研究中， 过去的半个世纪。 不幸的是，信息仍然存在 大部分分散在许多实验室中， 国家 几乎所有的气候定量方法 重建和模型测试需要访问原始 数据从个别网站，并有迫切需要一个单一的 欧洲数据库。 具体目标 研讨会将就（1）地点和 （2）数据库的管理;（3）谁应该拥有全面的 （3）数据的开发和维护; 用户可以最方便地访问存储库中的内容; 以及（4）贡献者如何保持对 是用他们的数据完成的。 研讨会的主要成果将 正式建立欧洲数据库， 与布朗大学建立的COHMAP数据库相当 北美数据大学。

This award will support the participation of three U.S. scientists in a workshop intended to lead to the creation of a European repository for late Quarternary pollen data, to be held in Lund, Sweden in August 1989. The workshop is co-organized by Dr. G. L. Jacobson, University of Maine, and Dr. Bjorn E. Berglund, University of Lund, Sweden. Fossil-pollen data provide the principal evidence of variations in vegetation and climate during the past 20,000 years, and serve as the major basis for reconstructing long-term climatic changes and testing in paleoecological studies throughout Europe during the past half century. Unfortunately, the information remains for the most part scattered among many laboratories in many countries. Almost all quantitative approaches to climate reconstruction and model testing require access to the original data from individual sites, and there is urgent need for a single repository for the European data. Specific goals of this workshop are to reach agreements on (1) the location and administration of the databank; (2) who should have overall responsibility for its development and maintenance; (3) how data in the repository can be most conveniently accessible to users; and (4) how contributors can retain appropriate control over what is done with their data. The major result of the workshop will be formal creation of European Data Repository, which will be comparable to the COHMAP database that was established at Brown University for North American data.