GEOG 5420 - Pollen Analysis

Meets with GEOG 6420. Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 6420 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. This class exposes students to the study of pollen in this class, but the main objectives of the course include learning: 1) what pollen looks like, 2) the terminology to describe the sculpting and structure of a pollen grain, 3) to identify pollen grain to the lowest taxonomic level, 4) how to analyze a fossil sample, 5) how to present the results of a fossil sample analysis. The course includes lecture and laboratory components.