Collaborate with FAILPOLLEN
Thank you for your interest in contributing to the FAILPOLLEN.
This platform collects and shares information on negative results in pollen analysis, whether from archaeological excavations, lake cores, or other paleoenvironmental investigations or sampling sites where no valid pollen data have been obtained.
Sharing negative outcomes helps reduce repeated work in unsuitable contexts, avoid redundant efforts, reduce publication bias, highlights methodological challenges, support more efficient research planning and provides a fuller picture of sampling conditions and site histories. Documenting that a specific depositional environment repeatedly yields poor results helps researchers allocate their effort more effectively.
By contributing to this platform, you join a community committed to transparency and collaborative progress.
Data usage and visibility
Our structured form requires you to provide mandatory contextual metadata, including site location, sample type, sampling method, and explanatory notes. We strongly encourage the upload of images. Our goal is to document not merely the absence of pollen, but the exact conditions of that absence.
All submissions undergo an editorial review process prior to public release. By submitting data through this form, you agree that the scientific information provided may be stored, curated, and publicly displayed.
After submitting the form, the contact researcher will receive an email confirming receipt and summarising the information provided. If the contribution is subsequently validated and published, the contact researcher will receive a second email with a PDF certificate recording the researchers, site name, submission and acceptance dates, permanent FP number, and a QR code linking directly to the published record on the FAILPOLLEN map.
The only exception is your email address, which will not be displayed to other users unless you explicitly authorize it later in the form.