Monday, August 6, 2018
244, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Jack Williams1, Jessica L. Blois2, Eric C. Grimm3, Simon J Goring4, Alison Smith5, Allan Ashworth6, Julio L. Betancourt7, Robert K. Booth8, Philip Buckland9, Don F Charles10, Stephen Crawford11, Brandon Curry12, Edward Davis13, Thomas Giesecke14, Claudio Latorre15, Jonathan Nichols16, Suzanne Pilaar-Birch17, Robert Roth1, Michael Stryker11 and Hikaru Takahara18, (1)Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (2)School of Natural Sciences, University of California - Merced, Merced, CA, (3)Research and Collections Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, (4)Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (5)Geology, Kent State, (6)Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, (7)US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, (8)Earth and Environmental Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, (9)Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (10)Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, (11)Pennsylvania State University, (12)Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, (13)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, (14)University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, (15)Pontificia Univeridad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (16)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NJ, (17)University of Georgia, (18)Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database supports paleoecological, global-change, and macroecological research by providing an open, community-curated resource for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental data. Data volumes are growing rapidly, with active data uploads including vertebrates, pollen, insects, diatoms, and ostracodes. New supported data types include organic biomarkers and isotopic measurements on fossil specimens. New constituent databases include the Neotoma Biomarkers Database and ALPADABA. DOIs are being automatically assigned to Neotoma datasets and new tools enable joint querying of Neotoma and Paleobiology Database. Neotoma's membership base is growing and open to interested experts; Neotoma held its first elections in 2018 for its Leadership Council.
