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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Information about the central institute of German polar research, its history, its facilities and research ships, and research topics related to geology and biology of the polar regions and world oceans.
www.awi-potsdam.de
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center
Archive for paleoclimate data, research, and education. Climate reconstructions and contributed data sets including: borehole data, climate forcing, corals, fauna, ice cores, insects, paleoclimate modeling, paleolimnology, paleoceanography, plant macrofossils, pollen, and tree ring.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov
NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice
Educational website to accompany TV program offers information about Antarctica and about how ice cores provide a record of the past. Discusses how the world's coastlines would recede if some or all of the Antarctic ice were to melt.
www.pbs.org
Quaternary Sciences Program at Northern Arizona University
Information about education, research and data dissemination activities regarding the Quaternary period of the arid western North America. Offers a Master's degree.
www.nau.edu
Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov
Interdisciplinary international collaborative effort to assess the current state of knowledge of the relatively mild part of the last glacial when Neanderthals became extinct. Information about objectives, newsletters, publications, directory of project members, and related information.
www.esc.cam.ac.uk
Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa
Information about research in the analysis and modeling of climate changes and their impacts on ecosystems, with particular focus on Canada and the Arctic during the Holocene.
www.uottawa.ca
Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.
www.pbs.org
The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin
Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.
www.williamcalvin.com
Quaternary Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison
In Department of Geology & Geophysics, UW-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, Quaternary geology, engineering geology,and hydrogeology.
www.geology.wisc.edu
Quaternary Geology, Uppsala University
Conducts research on topics such as paleoecology and cosmogenic isotopes, in Sweden and around the world. Includes course listings, news, publications, downloadable software, and links.
www.kv.geo.uu.se
Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas.
www.ume.maine.edu
Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College
Information about student research, with numerous links.
www.colby.edu
Rutgers University Quaternary Studies
Offers a multidisciplinary graduate certificate program allowing students to specialize in the study of the last few million years in earth's history, incorporating anthropology, geology, geography, biology, meteorology, and environmental science.
geology.rutgers.edu
Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum
Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.
www.museum.state.il.us