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

该奖项将支持三位美国科学家参加一个研讨会，该研讨会将于1989年8月在瑞典隆德举行，旨在建立一个欧洲晚第四纪花粉数据储藏库。本次研讨会由缅因大学G. L. Jacobson博士和瑞典隆德大学Bjorn E. Berglund博士共同举办。化石花粉资料提供了过去2万年植被和气候变化的主要证据，是重建过去半个世纪欧洲长期气候变化和古生态研究测试的主要依据。不幸的是，大部分信息仍然分散在许多国家的许多实验室中。几乎所有用于气候重建和模型测试的定量方法都需要访问来自各个站点的原始数据，并且迫切需要为欧洲数据建立一个单一的存储库。本次讲习班的具体目标是达成以下协议：(1)数据库的地点和管理；（二）谁全面负责其发展和维护；(3)用户如何最方便地访问存储库中的数据；(4)贡献者如何保持对其数据处理的适当控制。研讨会的主要成果将是正式创建欧洲数据存储库，它将与布朗大学为北美数据建立的COHMAP数据库相媲美。

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.