Pollen Data
NEOTOMA Database : Fast becoming the global go-to database for palaeoecological data
European Pollen Database (EPD) : Data currently being integrated into NEOTOMA
African Pollen Database (APD) : Data currently being integrated into NEOTOMA
PANGAEA data archive : For all kinds of palaeo data, including pollen data to download as individual sites
NOAA Palaeoclimate data archive : Similar to PANGAEA, although it has an older format
Chinese Pollen Database : Currently not public, information here
Indo-Pacific Pollen Database : Currently not public, status unknown, inventory of published sites here
Analysis Tools
C2 : A plotting and analysis program from Steve Juggins
RIOJA : An R package for pollen-climate reconstruction (and lots of other analysis), also from Steve Juggins
TILIA : Eric Grimm’s popular pollen diagram plotting program
CLAM & BACON : Maarten Blaauw’s packages for age-depth modelling
Other Web Tools
Convert spreadsheets into kml online (so you can see your sites on google earth)
Find the modern climate for any site location (lat/long/elevation)
Online radiocarbon calibration
The Plant List: official plant names
High-resolution global forest data
Interesting Blogs
Other
Past Global Changes (PAGES) Organisation : For all things palaeo..
Chris Brierley’s model climate variability pages
The Pollen Monitoring Program (for pollen trap data)
An interesting youtube video about palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using pollen analysis in the Sierra Nevada, Spain (in Spanish with English subtitles). Thanks to Prof Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno at the University of Granada.