I was first introduced to the use of forest pollen when I was a gradate student working in Jasper National Park. One of the grad students was digging some impressive soil pits to get a variety of pollen samples for his studies.
Scientists using pollen for their research are called paleoecologists with some of the latest work on the boreal forest using ice cores from Greenland.
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