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Neotoma Paleoecology Database

Supporting global-change research and education via open, community-curated data and services for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental data

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State of the Database

Sites 25,208

Datapoints 12,284,113

Datasets 38,921

Publications 13,397
Full Database Summary

News posted April 28, 2025

Updated bylaws and data policy

News posted March 20, 2025

LAPD ciclo de charlas, evento 3: Una introducción a R para paleoecólog@s

News posted February 27, 2025

LAPD ciclo de charlas, evento 2: Construyendo bases de datos para registros paleoecológicos inusuales del norte de Chile

News posted February 20, 2025

LAPD ciclo de charlas, evento 1: Una introducción a la Base de Datos Latinoamericana de polen y a Neotoma

News posted February 20, 2025

LAPD 2025 ciclo de charlas

News posted October 18, 2024

Temporal Limit of Neotoma Expanded

News posted October 01, 2024

Two new NSF awards to support Neotoma

News posted December 22, 2023

Downtime alert: Neotoma transition to AWS in January

News posted October 05, 2023

Tilia v3.0.3 now available

News posted June 28, 2023

INQUA 2023: Neotoma events & meetup

News posted June 07, 2023

neotoma2 R package posted to CRAN

News posted May 25, 2023

PAGES Magazine Update about Paleodata Resources

News posted April 21, 2023

New Release: Range Mapper, Animated Maps of Species Distributions

News posted April 12, 2023

Neotoma All-Hands Meeting Starts Monday, April 17!

News posted February 16, 2023

Upcoming Neotoma2 R package workshops

News posted November 20, 2022

NeotomaDB services restored after scheduled maintenance

News posted November 11, 2022

NeotomaDB will be down for scheduled maintenance Nov 19-20

News posted September 23, 2022

New NSF FAIROS RCN grant to advance ethical open science

Event posted July 05, 2022

Summer 2022 Virtual Drop-In Hours

News posted May 27, 2022

Neotoma R 1.0->2.0 rapid transition

News posted February 11, 2022

Beta version of neotoma2 R package released!

News posted September 20, 2021

NSF Facilities, Resources, and Equipment standard text available

Event posted May 14, 2020

Eric24 Event, Good overview talks about Neotoma

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Explore

The Explorer app provides an interactive starting place for interested users to quickly explore and discover Neotoma data. Other resources, built by members of the Neotoma community, offer more ways to see and understand past ecological change.

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Analyze

The Neotoma software stack supports multiple pathways for scientists and software developers to build their own data queries, download data, and develop their own data analyses and visualizations. When using Neotoma data, please read and follow our data use policy.

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Contribute and Curate

We welcome and regularly receive new data contributions. Neotoma's data quality is made possible by continual curation by Data Stewards, using the Tilia software. If you'd like to contribute data or receive Steward training, please reach out.