CURRICULUM VITAE 2004

NAME: Louis James Maher, Jr.

ADDRESS:
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Wisconsin
1215 West Dayton St
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

OFFICE PHONE: (608) 262-9595
FAX: (608) 262-0693
EMAIL: maher@geology.wisc.edu

DATE OF BIRTH: 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH: Iowa City, Iowa

MARITAL STATUS: Married (Jane) with three children

HOME ADDRESS:
2129 Gateway Street North
Middleton, Wisconsin 53562

HOME PHONE: (608) 233-5747

MILITARY SERVICE:
U. S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps, 1956-58
Duty Station: La Rochelle, France, 1957-58

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
University High School, Iowa City, Iowa, 1948-52
State University of Iowa, 1952-56
University of Minnesota, 1958-61
Postdoctoral study at the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1961-62; 1986

DEGREES:
B. A. University of Iowa, 1955, With Highest Distinction
M. S. University of Iowa, 1959
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1961

ACADEMIC HONORS:
Phi Eta Sigma, 1953
University of Iowa Merit Award, 1954
Magnolia Petroleum Co. Scholarship in Geology, 1954-55
Sanxay Prize (Iowa), 1955
Lowden Prize in Geology (Iowa), 1955
Phi Beta Kappa, 1956 (President, Alpha Chapter of Wisconsin, 1976-77)

FELLOWSHIPS:
Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1955-61
NSF Cooperative Graduate Fellowship, 1959-61
NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1961-62

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
American Quaternary Association
Ecological Society of America
Geological Society of America, Fellow
Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America
Sigma Xi
Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters

TEACHING AND EXPERIENCE:
Teaching Assistant (Iowa), 1955-56; (Minnesota), 1960-61
Assistant Professor (Wisconsin), 1962-65
Associate Professor (Wisconsin), 1965-70
Professor (Wisconsin), 1970-2003
Department Chairman (Wisconsin), 1980-1984
Professor emeritus, 2003-present
Geol. 100, General Geology, 1962-66; 1969-75 ;1989-2000
Staff member in charge of Geol. 100 and 101 laboratories and teaching assistants, 1962-66
Geol. 101, General Geology, Closed-circuit TV: Madison Campus, 1967-69; Baraboo Center, 1969-70
Geol. 101, General Geology, classroom, 1975-2003
Geol. 106, Environmental Geology, 1970
Geol. 107, Life of the Past, 1968-80
Geol. 456, Geological Field Methods, 1992-1998
Geol. 722, Quaternary Pollen Analysis I, 1962-2002
Geol. 723, Quaternary Pollen Analysis II, 1962-2002
Geol. 459, Summer Field Course, 1963, 1965, 1985

OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Junior Geologist, Socony of Venezuela, Caracas, summer 1955
Research Assistant (Minnesota), 1958-59, 1961
Private Pilot license, 1964-present
Consultant, Reserve Mining Company, 1972-75
Letters and Science Undergraduate Education Committee, 1975-79
Faculty Honors Committee, 1977-80
Letters and Science Botany Review Committee (Chairman), 1977, 1992
University of Wisconsin Press Committee, 1978-81
Selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in America 1979-present
Special Review Committee to study the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 1983
Elected to Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Panel (Geol. Soc. America) 1985-87
Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 1985-1991
Letters and Science Scholarship Committee, 1986-1991
Elected AMQUA Councilor for Ecology/Paleoecology, 1986-89
L&S Special Committee (Chairman) to Review The Center for Mathematical Sciences, 1990
International Quaternary Association (INQUA) Holocene Commission Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, 1987-present; Newsletter Editor 1990-1995
INQUA Holocene Commission, Subcommission on Data-Handling Methods, President, 1995-99; Newsletter Editor, 1995-1997
Selected as Charter Member of the Advisory Committee for Project CELIA (Climate and Environment of the Last Interglacial in Arctic and Subarctic North America), established by the Boreal Institute of Northern Studies at the University of Alberta 1990
Invited to attend the NATO Advanced Workshop on Last Interglacial in the Arctic and Subarctic, held in Hanstholm, Denmark, 1990
Charter Member of the Board of Directors of the North American Pollen Database, 1990-present.
Convener of Symposium Computers and Palynologists at the 8th International Palynological Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1992
Invited to attend the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Past Global Changes (IGBP/PAGES) Data Management Workshop in Bern, Switzerland, 23-25 August 1993
Invited to conduct a 2-week short-course on Computer Techniques in Palynology at the Botanical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, April 1994
Elected to the University Library Committee, 1994-1998; Chairman, 1997-98
ad hoc Letters & Science Committee to Evaluate and Rank Applicants for Sabbatical and Faculty Development Grants for 1995-96; Chairman, 1996-97
Letters & Science Facilities Development Planning Committee, 1995-2003
Member of the Health Science Library Director Search and Screen Committee, 1996-97
University Archives Committee, Co-Chair, 1996-1998
Elected to Letters & Science Academic Planning Council, 1997-2000
Campus Planning Committee, University Library Committee's Representative, 1998
Invited to attend the Global Pollen Database Workshop held in Boulder, Colorado, November 8-10, 1999
Charter Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Pollen Database, 1999 - present

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:

1962 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, TX. Ephedra pollen in Late Glacial and Postglacial sediments of the Great Lakes Region and its probable significance (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America Annual Meetings Program, p. 102A.

1963 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Pollen analysis of surface samples in the mountains of Colorado (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America Annual Meetings Program, p. 107A.

1964 American Association for the Advancement of Science Meetings, Montreal. Problems and possibilities of pollen analysis in mountainous regions (SYMPOSIUM: Statistical Methodology and Problems in Palynology, sponsored by the Ecological Society of America at the AAAS Meetings, Montreal, 26 - 31 December 1964).

1968 National Association of Geology Teachers Meeting held jointly with the North-Central Section of the Geol. Soc. America in Iowa City, IA. May 1968. The presentation consisted of a color motion picture of air views of geological subjects that were used in my televised geology course.

1970 AMQUA Meeting, Bozeman, MT. A pollen paradox: blocking the drainage of a bog to create a pond may reduce the number of conifer pollen grains in its sediments (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the American Quaternary Association, First Meeting, 28 August - 1 September 1970, Yellowstone Park and Montana State Univ., Bozeman, p. 85.

1972 Ecological Society of America Meetings in Minneapolis, MN. 30 August 1972. Absolute pollen deposition rates in Redrock Lake, Boulder County, Colorado.

1973 IXth INQUA Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand. Pollen evidence suggests that climatic change in the Colorado Rockies during the last 5,000 years were out of phase with those in the northeastern United States (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the IXth INQUA Congress Meetings, 2 - 10 December 1973, Christchurch, New Zealand, p. 227-228.

1974 AMQUA Meeting, Madison, WI. A pollen study of the upper five centimeters of a site in the western arm of Lake Superior: The sedimentation rate averages 0.2 mm/year (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the Third Biennial Meeting, 30 July - 1 August 1974, University of Wisconsin-Madison, p. 24.

1975 Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, Univ. Waterloo. Postsettlement sedimentation rates in western Lake Superior based on ragweed pollen abundance (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs (15 - 17 May 1975), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, p. 813.

1975 International Association for Great Lakes Research, Albany, NY. Palynological investigations in the western arm of Lake Superior (ABSTRACT). Abstracts, 18th Conference on Great Lakes Research, 20 - 23 May 1975, State University of New York at Albany, p. 40.

1976-1977 Fourth International Palynological Conference, Lucknow, India. The confidence limit is a necessary statistic for relative and absolute pollen data (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the IV IPC (29 December 1976 - 5 January 1977), Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India, p. 96-97.

1977 Xth INQUA Congress, Birmingham, England. Confidence limits for pollen influx measurements based on the addition of a marker grain standard (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the Xth INQUA Congress Meetings, 16 - 24 August, Birmingham, England, p. 284.

1981 Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, Ames, IA. The Green Bay Sublobe began to retreat 12,500 BP: Total pollen influx during the early Greatlakean Substage (11,900 to 10,900 BP) was but half the influx during the Twocreekan (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 13, p. 288.

1981 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. A case for using a nonparametric statistic to zone pollen diagrams (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 13, p. 501-502.

1982 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Beware the positive correlation between concentrations of pollen taxa in samples spiked with marker grains (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 14, p. 553.

1983 Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, Madison, WI. Vegetation association during the Two Creekan of south-central Wisconsin based on significant correlations between the concentration of pollen taxa (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 15, p. 262.

1984 Sixth International Palynological Conference, Calgary, Alberta. Numerical zonation of cores with a microcomputer helps interpretation, but the zones differ according to the measure of pollen abundance (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the VI IPC (26 August - 1 September 1984), p. 98.

1984 American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Arlington, VA. Palynological data analysis using a microcomputer (ABSTRACT). Programs and Abstracts, 17th Annual Meeting of AASP (17 - 20 October 1984), p. 13.

1984 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Reno, NV. A microcomputer program for calculating distance and azimuth between points on the earth's surface (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 16, p. 582.

1987 Geological Society of America North-Central Meeting, St. Paul, MN. Late-Glacial Vegetation in Wisconsin (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 19, p. 232.

1987 XIIth INQUA Congress, Ottawa, Canada. Palynological Zonation and Correlation using Dissimilarity Coefficients - A Cautionary Tale and Modest Proposal (ABSTRACT). Abstracts of the XIIth INQUA Congress Meetings, 31 July - 9 August, Ottawa, Canada, p. 218.

1987 American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Microcomputer Graphics and Palynological Data Analysis (ABSTRACT). Programs and Abstracts, 20th Annual Meeting of AASP (7 - 10 October 1987), p. 106.

1987 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Maps of Dissimilarity Coefficient Matrices help Zone and Correlate Stratigraphic Sections (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, v. 19, p. 756.

1988 7th International Palynological Congress, Brisbane, Australia. Microcomputer Graphics help Assess the Results when using Numerical Methods to Slot Pollen Sequences Together (ABSTRACT). Abstracts Volume, p. 99.

1989 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO. Quaternary Palynology: Key to the Past or the Emperor's New Suit? (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, p. A211.

1991 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Palynology of Bat Guano may provide a Useful Climate Record in Regions without Natural Lakes (ABSTRACT). Abstracts with Programs, Geol. Soc. America, p. A407.

1992 Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, Iowa City, IA. Palynology of Pond Silt under the Valders Till at the Type Locality suggests a pre-Twocreekan age; Cretaceous and Silurian Palynomorphs prevent C-14 Dating (ABSTRACT with D. M. Mickelson) Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, n. 4, p. 52.

1992 8th International Palynological Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Palynology of bat guano may provide a useful climate record (ABSTRACT). Program and Abstracts, p. 96.
Desk-top display of pollen data (ABSTRACT). Program and Abstracts, p. 96.

1993 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. A New Late Wisconsinan Interstadial Site at Valders, Wisconsin (ABSTRACT with D. M. Mickelson and R. G. Baker). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts and Programs, p. A225.

1996 Sixth North American Paleontological Convention, Washington, D.C. SLOTDEEP: A DOS computer program for correlating palynology sites using the visual information in an exploded matrix of their dissimilarity coefficients (ABSTRACT). The Paleontological Society Special Publication No. 8, p. 256.

1996 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Correlating pollen sequences by using the visual information in an exploded dissimilarity-coefficient matrix (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts and Programs, p. A499.

1997 Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, Madison, WI. A low-water stage at Devils Lake (Wisconsin) that palynology missed completely (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, n. 4, April.

1997 American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Woods Hole, MA. International Quaternary Association (INQUA) data-handling methods available free on the World Wide Web (ABSTRACT). Programs and Abstracts, 30th Annual Meeting of AASP (14 - 19 September 1997), p. 24 - 25.

1998 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. Automating loss-on-ignition measurements for sediment cores (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, 30:7.

1999 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Long-term trends in spruce/pine pollen ratios provide a key to understanding Front Range vegetation and climate history (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, 31:7.

2000 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Reno, NV. A tool to search for modern analogs of Pleistocene pollen data (ABSTRACT). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, 32:7.

2002 Joint Meeting of AASP-TMS-NAMS, 11-13 September, University College London. Environmental information from the palynology of bat guano (ABSTRACT). Programme & Abstracts, unnumbered pages.

2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. AMS radiocarbon dating documents climate events in the Upper Midwest coeval with Bølling/Allerød and Younger Dryas episodes (ABSTRACT) with Eric C. Grimm), Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, 352.

PUBLICATIONS:

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1963, Pollen analysis of surface materials from the southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 74, p. 1485-1504.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1964, Ephedra pollen in sediments of the Great Lakes Region: Ecology, v. 45, p. 391-395.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1965, (REVIEW of Paul Martin's book: The Last 10,000 Years, a fossil pollen record of the American Southwest): American Jour. Sci., v. 263, p. 191-192.

Black, Robert F., Hole, Francis D., Maher, Louis J., and Freeman, Joan E., 1965, Days 7 through 9, Wisconsin, p. 65-68. In Guidebook for Field Conference C, Upper Mississippi Valley: INQUA VIIth Congress, 126 p.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1968, Syllabus for televised sections of General Geology (Geology 101 TV) Madison, Wisconsin: College Printing and Typing Co., 163 p.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1968, Geology education by lightplane: The AOPA Pilot, v. 11, n. 1, p. 60-65.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1970, Two Creeks forest, Valders glaciation, and pollen grains, p. D-1 - D-8. In Black, R. F. et al., Pleistocene geology of Southern Wisconsin: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Information Circular No. 15, 175 p.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1971, An experiment in television geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, p. 30-34. In Teaching Introductory College Geology by Television: CEGS Programs Publication No. 6, 38 p.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1972, Nomograms for computing 0.95 confidence limits of pollen data: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 13, p. 85-93.

Maher, Louis J., Jr,. 1972, Absolute pollen diagram of Redrock Lake, Boulder County, Colorado: Quaternary Research, v. 2, p. 531-553.

Engstrom, Daniel R., and Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1972, A new technique for volumetric sampling of sediment cores for concentration of pollen and other microfossils: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 14, p. 353-357.

Wright, Herbert E., Jr., Bent, Anne M., Hansen, Barbara S., and Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1973, Present and past vegetation of the Chuska Mountains, northwestern New Mexico: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 84, p. 1155-1180.

Bruland, Kenneth W., Koide, Minoru, Bowser, Carl, Maher, Louis J., and Goldberg, Edward D., 1975. Lead-210 and pollen geochronologies of Lake Superior sediments: Quaternary Research, v. 5, p. 89-98.

Evenson, Edward B., Farrand, William R., Eschman, Donald F., Mickelson, David M., and Maher, Louis J., 1976, Greatlakean Substage: A replacement for Valderan Substage in the Lake Michigan basin: Quaternary Research, v. 6, p. 411-424.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1977, Palynological studies in the western arm of Lake Superior: Quaternary Research, v. 7, p. 14-44.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1980, The confidence limit is a necessary statistic for relative and absolute pollen data: Proceedings, IV International Palynological Conference, Lucknow (1976-77), v. 3, p. 152-162.

Evenson, E. B., Eschman, D. F., Farrand, W. R., Maher, L. J., Mickelson, D. M., Morgan, A. V., and Morgan, A., 1980, Comment on "The Fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, Wisconsin," by Alan V. Morgan and Anne Morgan: Quaternary Research, v. 14, p. 377-378.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1981, Statistics for microfossil concentration measurements employing samples spiked with marker grains: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 32, p. 153-191.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1982, The palynology of Devils Lake, Sauk County, Wisconsin, p. 119-135, In Knox, J. C., Clayton, L., and Mickelson, D. M., eds., Quaternary History of the Driftless Area: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Field Trip Guide Book No. 5, 177 p.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1987, The Late-Glacial transition in North America: Episodes, v. 10, p. 16-18.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1987, An inexpensive technique for cleaning small-volume pollen samples using density separation in common plastic tubing: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 52, p. 247-249.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1987, (REVIEW of H. J. B. Birks and A. D. Gordon, 1985, Numerical Methods in Quaternary Pollen Analysis, Academic Press, London, 317 p.): Journal of Quaternary Science (U.K.), v. 2, 84-85.

Maher, Louis J., Jr., 1987, (REVIEW of H. J. B. Birks and A. D. Gordon, 1985. Numerical Methods in Quaternary Pollen Analysis, Academic Press, London, 317 p.): Mathematical Geology, v. 19, p. 583-586.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1990, Newsletter 4: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, July, 12 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1990, Programs Useful in the Pollen Lab, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 4:7-10

Attig, J. W., Clayton, L., Lange, K. I., and Maher, L. J., 1990, The ice age geology of Devils Lake State Park: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Educational Series 35, 28 p. and map.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1991, Thoughts on a practical database and data exchange for CELIA/LIGA members: Quaternary International, v. 10-12, p. 243-248.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1991, Newsletter 5: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, January, 16 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1991, Thoughts on Practical Data Exchange, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 5:8-10.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1991, Newsletter 6: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, July, 16 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1991, Sending Binary Files by E-mail, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 6:10-13.

Brigham-Grette, J. and CELIA Board Members (alphabetical order: Edwards, M., Funder, S., Kutzbach, J., Maher, L., Matthews, J., Miller, G., Morgan, A., Rutter, N., Schweger, C., Tarnocai, C., Vincent, J-S., and de Vernal, A.), 1991, Project CELIA: Climate and Environment of the Last Interglacial (Isotope Stage 5) in Arctic and Subarctic North America, p. 644-648, in G. Weller, C. Wilson, and B. Severin, Eds., International Conference on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change: Proceedings of a Conference held June 11-15, 1990 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, v. II, Published by Geophysical Institute and Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775.

LIGA members (P. Anderson, O. Borisova, J.-L. de Beaulieu, A. de Vernal, J. Eiriksson, S. Funder, P. Gibbard, T. Hamilton, S.P. Harrison, M. Houmark-Nielsen, B. Huntley, K.L. Knudsen, E. Larsen, L.J. Maher, J.V. Matthews, Jr., G. Miller, A. Raukas, N. Reeh, A.-M.Robertsson, N. Rutter, C.E. Schweger, H.-P. Sejrup, A. Sher, A. Telka, C. Turner, A. Velichko, and B. Ward), 1991, Report of 1st discussion group: the last interglacial in high latitudes of the northern hemisphere: terrestrial and marine evidence: Quaternary International, v. 10-12, pp. 9-28.

LIGA members, 1991, Report of 2nd discussion group: inter-relationships and linkages between the land, atmosphere and oceans during the last interglacial: Quaternary International, v. 10-12, pp. 29-48.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1992, Newsletter 7: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, January, 22 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1992, DEPTH-AGE Conversion of Pollen Data, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 7:13-17.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1992, Newsletter 8: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, July, 30 p.

Juggins, S., Kovach, W., and Maher, L. J., Jr., 1992, The data-handling Internet, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 8:17-24.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1992, Turn Your Expensive Old PC into a Dumb Pollen Counter, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 8:24-27.

Baker, R. G., Maher, L. J., Chumbley, C. A., and Van Zant, K. L., 1992, Patterns of Holocene environmental change in the midwestern United States: Quaternary Research, v. 37, p. 379-389.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1993, Newsletter 9: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, January, 30 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1993, SLOTDEEP.EXE: Manual Correlation using the Dissimilarity Matrix, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 9:21-26.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1993, (REVIEW of E. C. Pielou, 1991, After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, The University of Chicago Press, ix + 366 p.): Journal of Geological Education, v. 41, p. 291-292.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1993, Newsletter 10: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, July, 36 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1993, Keep the Heart of the NAPD on a Single HD Floppy, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 10:15-17.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1993, Data-Handling while Sampling Cores: SPOON-EZ.BAS, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 10:27-30.

Mode, W. N., and Maher, L. J., Jr., 1993, Europe Lake sediment cores and vegetation history, p. 53-55, in A. F. Schneider (Ed.), Pleistocene geomorphology and stratigraphy of the Door Peninsula, Wisconsin: Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene 40th Annual Meeting, May 21-23, 156 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1994, Newsletter 11: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, January, 32 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1994, A Program for Counting Things on 16 Fingers, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 11:6-7.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1994, EDITKEY: For When You Change Your Mind, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 11:12-14.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1994, Using the Global Positioning System, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 11:23-28.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1994, Geodesics for Fun and Profit, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 11:28-29.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1994, Newsletter 12: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, July, 36 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1994, Locate your Scandinavian Sites with SITESCAN.BAS, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 12:21-23.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1994, Menu Structure of TILIA and TILIA-GRAPH, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 12:28-33.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1995, Newsletter 13: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods, January, 34 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1995, Synthetic Pollen Slides, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data-Handling Methods 13:28-31.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1996, Newsletter 14: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods, July, 34 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1996, CONVERT Your Data, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods 14:27.

Maher, L. J., Jr., and Mickelson, D. M. 1996. Palynological and radiocarbon evidence for deglaciation events in the Green Bay Lobe, Wisconsin. Quaternary Research, v. 46, p. 251-259.

Maher, L. J., Jr., (Ed.), 1997, Newsletter 15: INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods, January, 20 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1997, PLOT2, PLOTOVER, and PLOTLIM; Specialty Programs for Special Problems, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods 15:6-9.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1997, TST2NORM Determines the Overlap in Two Normal Populations, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods 15:16-18.

Maher, L. J., Jr., Miller, N. G., Baker, R. G., Curry, B. B., and Mickelson, D. M., 1998, Paleobiology of the sand beneath the Valders diamicton at Valders, Wisconsin. Quaternary Research, v. 49, p. 208-221.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1998, Automating the dreary measurements for loss-on-ignition, INQUA Commission for the study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods 18: 6 p.

Maher, L. J., Jr., 1998, SLOTDEEP v. 18 adds DC profiles to its DC map, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods 18: 7 p.

Baker, R. G., Mason, J. A., and Maher, L. J., Jr., 1999, Petaloid organs preserved in an Arctic plant macrofossil assemblage from full-glacial sediments in southeastern Minnesota. Quaternary Research, v. 52, p. 388-392.

Maher, L. J. Jr. 2000, MODPOL.EXE: A tool for searching for modern analogs of Pleistocene pollen data, INQUA Commission for the Study of the Holocene, Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods 20:12 p.

Maher, L. J. Jr. 2001, Geology by Lightplane, A web site of over 350 geological air photographs from Central and Western United States with comments and references and the means to download high-resolution digital copies that can be used free for noncommercial educational purposes. Click to go to web site now.