News (blog)

  • Accessing the EPD from R

    Until the EPD migrates to Neotoma, the most up-to-date version of the EPD is stored on the EPD website here. When this is complete then the Neotoma R package can be used to access much of the information. Until then, it is best to use the version stored on the EPD website. At this web…

  • Porting EPD into Neotoma, first steps…

    News from the workshop (3-7/11/2017) in Göttingen, Germany Background/History: The EPD was designed in the time before email and WWW as a Paradox database that would have a master copy on one particular computer with one person able to make changes to the database and distribute copies of it. The old system uses DOS programs…

  • EPD Meeting & training workshops (1-3/06/2016), Aix-en-Provence, France

    Workshop topics 1) Tilia and Neotoma: Eric Grimm 2) Charcoal software and database: Boris Vannière and Walter Finsinger 3) EPD Surface samples and modern analogue reconstructions: Basil Davis and Marco Zanon 4) Quantitative vegetation reconstructions using the Landscape Reconstruction Algorism (PPEs, REVEALS, LOVE) Petr Kuneš, Ralph Fyfe and Martin Theuerkauf 5) An introduction to Non…

  • Past global change and Mediterranean biodiversity

      A Symposium in memory of Armand Pons (25/01/2013, Marseille, France) Armand Pons, born in 1931, died this year in January 2012. This meeting is organised to celebrate a major pioneer of modern Palynology and Palaeoecology in France and to make a point on the state of the art in the fields he started to explore…

  • EPD workshop & training 2011, Aix-en-Provence (France)