PEARL  Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory

  Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada, K7L 3N6

PEARL Home                    Teaching

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     Prairie Drought Project    Lake of the Woods Project

Basic Laboratory and Field Methods Used at PEARL

Diatom Prep    Diatom Taxonomy    Microscopy    Invertebrates    Freeze Drying/Dating   

   Glew Coring    Core Extruding    Line Attachment    Water Sampling    Safety

Line Attachment Procedures for Glew Gravity Corers

For additional internal METHODS and DOCUMENTS only available to PEARL students and researchers Click here. (Password required)

A valuable source of paleolimnological methods is the DPER book series Volumes 1-4 

 DPER - Book Series

Other Cool Resources

There are many resources on our links page at

A great source for Canadian topographic maps is http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map/