EAGER: Development of a Forensic Pollen Database and Climate Modeling Platform

该项目在早期探索性研究概念补助金(AGERGE)奖概念的支持下，利用资金协助开发一种新的生物地理工具，该工具使用花粉作为一种地理位置标记，以确定样本中一组花粉的可能来源。这一工具将使花粉分析员能够以比以往任何时候都更容易和更一致的方式产生古气候数据，并允许扩大花粉和气候分析的基础研究，从而使关于花粉样本来源的准确、可重复和精确的生态和地理信息成为可能。研究人员的目标是建立一个完整和先进的孢粉学数据库，称为POLCLIM，用于新热带和亚热带花粉气候。该数据库将向公众开放，使人们能够在一个关于花粉类型、分布元数据和共同出现的概率的综合地理关系数据库中确定重要的花粉分类群。

This project uses funds, under the auspices of the EArly Concept Grant For Exploratory Research (EAGER) award concept, to assist in the development of a new biogeographic tool that uses pollen as a geo-locational marker for the probable origin of a suite of pollen in a sample. Such a tool would allow pollen analysts to generate paleoclimate data in a far easier and more consistent way than ever before and allow for expansion of basic research in pollen and climate analysis thereby enabling accurate, reproducible, and precise ecological and geographical information regarding the provenance of a pollen sample.The researcher aims to build a complete and advanced palynological database, called POLCLIM for pollen-climate, for Neotropical and subtropical pollen. The database would be publically available and enable the identification of important pollen taxa in a comprehensive geo-relational database of pollen types, distributional metadata, and probabilities of co-occurrence.