Pollen and Seed Laboratory - Research Topics

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Neogene cooling in the North Pacific region
   A. Miocene pollen stratigraphy of Usibelli Group and Cook Inlet area, Alaska
       With Linda Reinink-Smith and Bernard Hallet, QRC,. UW.

   B. Perceived development of rain shadow for Alaska Range
       With Gerard Roe, QRC,UW

Marsh ecology in vicinity of Seattle Fault, Puget Sound.
   Ascertaining salinity of local environments using Holocene pollen and seed stratigraphy
   With Gengwu Liu and Dan Ekblaw

Plio-Pleistocene climatic transition and the lifting of the Teton Range, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
   With Gengwu Liu (UW), David W. Love (Socorro, New Mexico)

Miocene climate trends of the Teewinot Formation., Jackson Hole, Wyoming
   Pollen analysis of the 4000 foot-thick Teewinot Formationm
   With J David Love, Gengwu Liu and Cathy Whitlock (Montana State U.)

Miocene pollen of Washington State
   Pollen samples from Lewiston, Wash. and from near the Seattle Fault, King Co, WA.
   With Brian Sherrod, (US Geological Survey Seattle)

Analysis of the Tertiary floras relating to the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora concept of Ralph Chaney (UC Berkeley.
   With Cindy Updegrave, Alan Yen et al (Seattle)


Pollen photographs provided by Linda Reinink-Smith; seed photographs from Berggren's (1968) Atlas of Seeds, Swedish Natural Science Research Council