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Resilience in East African Landscapes

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      • Mats Widgren
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Useful Links

Scientific Publishing

Elsevier Publication tips
Scrivener Software to help manage writing projects

GIS Tools

Online geographic coordinate conversions
Another online geographic coordinate converter
Online UTM and decimal degree converter
Montana State University’s online coordinate converter

Software

Data Visualizations
GeoGebra

Graphics Software
ImageJ Image processing and analysis

Geology software toolsSoftware
CAU Kiel Institut für GeowissenschaftenUseful minerology tools

Online Tools
Random number generator

Palaeoenvironmental Data Analysis and Visualizations
C2 version 1.7.5 graphing software
PAST

R Language Code
R
R Tools
BACON and CLAM age-modeling code
Paleofire Global Charcoal Database code [Github] [CRAN]

Spatial Analysis
SAM Spatial Analysis in Macroecology
ENVI geospatial and image analysis software

Time series analysis
A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis

Plant identification

African flora ID photo guide

Palynology
Pollen Info
Online counters for tallying pollen and other microfossils

African Pollen Reference Collections
African Pollen Database (APD)
African Pollen Database (APD) catalog
Palynology and Palaeobotany Section, Earth Sciences Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

Demographic and Social Data

Socio-demographic
CIA World Fact Book
Worldpop Global, high resolution, human population distribution data

Road Networks
gROADS – Global Roads Open Access Data Set

Environmental Data and Databases

Atmospherics and Lightning Data
NAMMA Lightning ZEUS Data
STARNET – Sferics Timing and Ranging Network

Dendrochronology
DendroBox Webtool locator of ITRDBFOR sites and data developed by Christian Zang

Fire Activity
LANCE Rapid Response global fire maps

Hydrological Data
Global Hydrology Resource Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center

Land Cover Maps
ISPRS Global Land Cover Working Group Earth’s land cover 2000 and 2010

Soils Data
AFSIS – African Soils Information Service
ISRIC World Soils Information 1 km soil grids

Palaeoenvironmental Databases

African Environmental and Societal Dataset links compiled by Phil Platts
Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences
Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community
NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center
NOW (New and Old Worlds) fossil mammal database
Paleobiology Database (PBDB)
PALEO DATABASES Data Archives list compiled by Jennifer Marlon

Palaeoclimatic Modelling
Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase III

Archaeological Databases

Metal Africa – archaeological metal sites

Air Photographs

PHOTOMAP Kenya, Ltd. (Nairobi)
Survey of Kenya
RCAHMS (Edinburgh)
RCAHMS Directorate of Overseas Surveys available air photos
Royal Air Force Air Historical Branch

Working Groups

UK Charcoal and Wood Working Group (CWWG)
Global Palaeofire Working Group – Global Charcoal Database (GPWG – GCD)
Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase III (PMIP3)

Kenyan maps

1:10 000 Forest maps
PHOTOMAP Kenya, Ltd. (Nairobi)

1:50 000
Archaeology Section, Earth Sciences Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

1:50 000, 1:100 000, 1:250 000
British Institute in East Africa, Nairobi, storeroom
Rhodes House, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Survey of Kenya, Nairobi

Think Tanks and Fora

Council on Foreign Relations
TED Talks
Wikistrat

Grey Literature

Africa Adaptation Newsletter
BIEA Annual Reports

Lectures

Royal Society (UK)

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Prof. Paul Lane
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
Uppsala University, and
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

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