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The Association Upcoming Meetings:
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The Quaternary Times Directory of Quaternary Scientists 2005 Northeastern Friends of the Pleistocene meeting Quaternary-Related Journal Discounts Quaternary Job Opportunities Quaternary-Related Abstracts Quaternary-Related Links Society of American Archaeology Fellowship Announcement Search the AMQUA Site
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New Web Sites The U.S. Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) has a newly-redesigned web site. GCDIS is a collection of distributed information systems operated by government agencies involved in global change research. GCDIS provides global change data to scientists and researchers, policy makers, educators, industry, and the public at large. GCDIS includes multidisciplinary data from atmospheric science, ecology, oceanography, as well as economics and sociology. Please visit the new GCDIS site at http:// www.gcdis.usgcrp.gov/. Questions are answered by scientists, researchers, and other experts in the field. Palaeontologia Electronica (PE), the first electronic paleontology journal, was released February 1, 1998 (http://www-odp.tamu.edu/paleo/ 1998_1/cover1.htm). In its first month the journal had been read by more than 1000 people worldwide. Issues of the PE are available free-of-charge on the World Wide Web for one year. After that year they will be placed onto CD-ROM and turned over to our sponsors. These organizations have redistribution rights, which will include selling subscriptions to libraries or distributing them with other print journals. In this way the long-term availability of PE will is insured. Palaeontologia Electronica is currently soliciting papers to appear in upcoming issues. Contributions from any area of paleontology will be considered. All technical contributions will be subject to normal peer-review. If you would be interested in submitting a paper, contact: Tim Patterson, Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada; tpatters@ccs. carleton.ca or Norm MacLeod; N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk Entangled in the Past: Archaeology on the World Wide Web is a survey of what's available for archaeologists, written for a novice web user. The article can be found as part of The Provincial Museum of Alberta's web presentation at http://www. pma.edmonton.ab.ca or at http://www. pma.edmonton.ab.ca/human/archaeo/aspects/paper.htm The new Dust-Flux Working Group focuses on the role that dust had in reinforcing past climate changes. See: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/ern/qen/dust.html African Surface Conditions A new data set on "African (plus the Arabian Peninsula) 6K Land Surface Conditions" is now available at the WDC-A for Paleoclimatology archive. The files may now be accesssed on the web at ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ pollen/africa6k . There are also links from the Paleovegetation (http://www. ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleoveg.html) and Contributions Series web pages. The dataset describes land-surface conditions at 6000 years B.P. across northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It includes information on the percentage of each grid cell occupied by specific vegetation types (steppe, savanna, xerophytic woods/scrub, tropical deciduous forest, and tropical montane evergreen forest), open lakes, and wetlands, plus information on the flow direction of major drainage channels. Beringian Paleoclimates The Program and Abstracts of the September 20-23, 1997 workshop are available as an electronic file for viewing or downloading through the AMQUA web site (http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/amqua/). Directory of Graduate Programs in Archaeological Geology The 1998 Directory of Graduate Programs in Archaeological Geology and Geoarchaeology is on AMQUA's Web site (http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/amqua/). Rolfe Mandel took over the responsibility of updating Rip Rapp's Directory. Past Global Changes and their Significance for the Future: abstracts of the 1st IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting (April 20-23, 1998, University of London, UK) are available for viewing or downloading at: http://www.pages.unibe.ch/pages.html |