Baconizing Midwestern US Age Models

This repository represents an effort by the PalEON Project to re-build age models from the Neotoma Paleoecological Database using the Bayesian chronology method known as Bacon (Blaauw & Christen, 2001).

This work is used within the STEPPS pollen-prediction model as described in Dawson et al. (2016), but also represents an intellectual contribution in its own right, detailled in the RMarkdown file Baconizing_paper.Rmd.

Development

• Andria Dawson - webpage
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Simon Goring - webpage
  • Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison

To use this Repository

To Generate Age Models

To run the code to generate the age models:

1. From the command line (within the current working directory):

Rscript ./setup_bacon.r
Rscript ./run_bacon.r

To Generate the Paper

The paper can either be generated using RStudio's built in tools for rendering RMarkdown files, or from the commandline:

Rscript -e 'rmarkdown::render("Baconizing_paper.Rmd")'