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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems are a tool that once used you wonder how you ever survived without it. All of my research now makes use of GIS technology to a greater or lesser degree, not just in terms of mapping data, but also in terms of devising dynamic models of the Earth System, concentrating especially on the interaction of landscape, biota (biogeography and biodiversity) and climate. This is a huge task, but I believe tenable given the databases of floral and faunal data I have compiled together with the climate modeling work and palaeogeographic and landscape mapping.

LEFT: A screen capture showing part of the Maastichtian palaeogeography in ArcGIS 8 (ESRI). The different layers representing the intepreted topography and bathymetry, synthetic isochrons and other datasets.

Much of my research utilzing GIS is in preparation or awaiting publication. As soon as this work is published I'll add more to this page as well as to the GIS resources section.
RIGHT: A screen capture showing the application of ArcGIS 8 (ESRI) to analyzing the results of climate and ocean modeling experiments, in this example the runoff results for the Maastrichtian (Markwick et al., 2002; Markwick & Valdes, 2003).

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