Facilities and resources

Facilities for palaeoecological research include the following:

[See also School of Geography and Archaeology web pages]

• Coring equipment. An Usinger piston corer that is capable of coring to depths of 40 m has recently been purchased. A platform suitable for lake coring with an Usinger corer is also available.
• Dedicated pollen preparation laboratory and a comprehensive pollen reference collection.
• High quality Leitz / Leica research microscopes. These include light microscopes with phase contrast and stereo microscopes; also a metallurgical microscope specifically for charcoal analysis.
• Photographic facilities for photographic (digital) documentation of cores and micro- and macrofossils.
• Easy access to a suite of new state-of-the-art microscopes and microprobe facilities in the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science.
• Comprehensive software for pollen data analysis and presentation. This includes the routine generation of high quality pollen diagrams in colour.
• Extensive palaeoecological literature collection (including specialist papers on Ireland, Great Britain and continental Europe). Also a substantial literature collection on cognate areas such as archaeology, geography and ecology.
• Last but not least, personnel with wide experience in palaeoecological research relating to Late-glacial and Holocene environments in Ireland and Europe generally.

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