- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - http://www.awi-potsdam.de/index.html
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.
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html
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.
- NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/
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.
- Beringian Atlas - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/index.html
Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
- The Stage Three Project - http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/oistage3/Details/Homepage.html
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.
- Cracking the Ice Age - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/
Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.
- IGU Commission on Climatic Change and Periglacial Environments - http://cpesw3.mols.sussex.ac.uk/igu/
Information about international efforts to coordinate research on the effects of climate on permafrost and other processes and landforms in periglacial regions. Includes conference announcements and links to other resources.
- Quaternary Geology, Uppsala University - http://www.kv.geo.uu.se
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.
- Rutgers University Quaternary Studies - http://geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.html
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.
- Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge - http://www.giqr.group.cam.ac.uk/
Collaborators from several departments engaged in study of paleogeography, Quaternary history and stratigraphy, geoarcheology, palynology, paleontology, and related topics. Describes research, personnel, facilities, and activities.
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