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April - Sept 2008

• Check out the diatom image that won the 2008 Visualization Challenge

• A new pollen flora from Georgia is now available on PalaeoWorks
  (compiled by Simon Connor and Eliso Kvavadze)
  
  

   

  
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• The launch of a new Key database in archaeology on PalaeoWorks

AustArch1: A database of 14C and luminescence ages from archaeological sites in the Australian arid zone. (compiled by A.N. Williams, M.A. Smith, C.S.M Turney and M. L Cupper, Australian Archaeology 66,99.)

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• Fully funded internship program now available at PalaeoWorks

Through support from the ARC Environmental Futures Network we are able to provide the opportunity for students and researchers using pollen and spore reference material valuable to their own research programs to participate in the development of The Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas (APSA).

Details about applying to the program can be found here .

 

• Les sediments de l'Histoire: Matthew Prebble and Nick Porch in the Austral Islands

Matthew Prebble and Nick Porch conducted palaeoecological fieldwork on human impact and invasive species histories in the Austral Islands during March 2008. This was reported in the La Depeche de Ilse on Thursday 13 Match 2008. Read media release here

 

 

• Pollen Nation: air particles hit fever pitch

PalaeoWorks has completed a 12-month study to record pollen levels in Canberra and Hobart and will continue through 2009. This was reported in the Canberra Times on Sunday 21 September 2008. Read media release here

• Galapagos Expedition and US Congressional Demonstration, June 2008

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Part of a two-day demonstration of field methods for members of the United States Congress House Committee on Science and Technology

 

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Last Updated 22nd September 2008