News (blog)

  • PalaeoNoma 2026 – Nomenclature & Neotoma

    The PalaeoNoma 2026 workshop, funded by COST Action PalaeOpen, will be a full immersion in the taxonomy of fossils. The workshop will be focused on learning and working with rules and conventions in the taxonomy of fossil fungi, algae and plants, dealing with key points in the subject such as how to name a new…

  • BoostEPD meeting, Göttingen (Germany) 30-31 March 2023

    Boosting Neotoma through the European Pollen Database to gain a better understanding of long-term whole ecosystem change Aims The main aim of this INQUA-funded workshop is to start the process of creating a multi-proxy European representation in the Neotoma database (www.neotomadb.org) that will harness the power of Neotoma as a tool facilitating multi proxy data…

  • EPD Open Science Meeting and workshops. Prague, 1st-3rd June, 2022.

    Latest news, accommodation details and practicals. We are looking forward to meet you in Prague! Before our meeting, you may find this document useful. In it you will find details about the venue, transport, accommodation, lunches, posters and more! we would like to draw you attention to some final details: 1. For those of you…

  • An obituary to Eric Grimm by the EPD community

    On November 15 we lost a good friend, a brilliant scientist and pioneer in striving for open shared scientific data. Eric Grimm’s passing leaves a large empty space in our hearts. Eric is known worldwide to the palynological community as the maker of the “Tilia” program to manage pollen data and produce pollen diagrams. He…

  • Accessing the pollen counts

    For any analysis using the EPD, it’s likely you will want to access the pollen counts, either to plot a diagram or so that they can be included in some larger, macro-ecological study. The goal of this post is to create an object for a single pollen record, containing counts, variable names and taxa group…