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
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