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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.

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.

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.

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.

Beringian Atlas - Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.

The Stage Three Project - 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.

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.

Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum - Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.

Cracking the Ice Age - Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.

The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin - Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.

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.

Institute for Quaternary Studies, University of Maine - Studies of glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleoclimatology, paleooceanography, and paleoanthropology.

Pliocene and Late Quaternary Sea Level - Global Gridded maps. USGS Open File Report 96-000.

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.

IGU Commission on Climatic Change and Periglacial Environments - 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.

"Ice Cold in Paris" (report - New Scientist) - Potential effects of global warming in Europe.

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.

Fundamentals of Sample Age Determination from its Amino Acid Racemization - Short introduction to this method and its biochemical bases, by Policarp Hortolà.

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona - Teaching and research in all aspects of dendrochronology.

Sheffield Dendrochronology Laboratory - In Sheffield University, UK. Lab has a continuous master tree-ring sequence for England going back to about 5000BC. Site content includes "What is Dendrochronology?"

Aegean Dendrochronology Project - Site discusses the use of tree rings in dating and climatic reconstruction, as part of archeological studies. From Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, at Cornell University.

ADVANCE-10K - Analysis of dendrochronological variability and natural climates in Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. Research by the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit.

Lamont-Doherty Tree Ring Lab - Scientists from the TRL are actively involved in pioneering research projects in many parts of the globe; from the high latitudes of both hemispheres to the low-latitude tropics of Asia and the Americas.

Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc. - Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research is a nonprofit research organization that provides expertise in tree-ring data collection and analysis.

Dendroclimatology - Tree rings and climatology research at the Dendroclimatology Laboratory, Stockholm University.

The Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages - Organized collection of information and links on tree-ring research, or dendrochronology, by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer.

Euro Catalogue - Searchable database of European dendro-chronology, compiled by Dr Tom Levanic, Biotechnical faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Information on laboratories, accessed via search or sensitive map.

Dendroclimatology at SIO - Tree ring, climate, and marine varve research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology, Lund University - About the laboratory, current and past research activities, and links to other tree-ring websites, particularly in Europe.

Dendrochronology - A brief primer on the subject of dating past events by looking at tree rings.

International Tree Ring Laboratory - Dr. habil Martin Worbes' tree-ring research in temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions.

University of Western Ontario Dendrogeomorphology Laboratory - Information about people, facilities, and methods and results of research focused on the use of tree rings as dating and paleoclimatic tools in the Canadian Cordillera of Alberta and British Columbia.

University of Victoria Tree-Ring Laboratory - Research includes an archive of tree-ring chronologies from Vancouver Island and the Coast Mountains of British Columba.

University of Arkansas Tree-Ring Laboratory - Research concentrates on the development of exactly-dated annual tree-ring chronologies from ancient forests worldwide.

Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory - An independent tree-ring dating laboratory concentrating primarily on the dating and analysis of standing timber structures. Projects, publications, the dated buildings register.

Review and Atlas of Palaeovegetation - Preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the Last Glacial Maximum.

Global Vegetation History - An atlas of changes in climate and vegetation over the last 150,000 years (the Quaternary period).

Paleolimnology - Web resources and links about paleolimnology and pollen studies.

European Pollen Database - Collaborative project at NOAA to compile Quaternary pollen data.

Faunmap - An electronic database for the late Quaternary distribution of mammal species in the United States. Illinois State Museum.

Palynology Springboard - Course presents an overview of pollen morphology and pollination ecology, a history of palynology, and methodology for application of palynology to paleobotanical, geological and archaeological environmental reconstruction. Geosciences/Anthropology 446/846 (University Nebraska)

Paleoecological Analysis of Circumpolar Treeline - International collaborative effort to reconstruct circumpolar treeline location, climate and environmental conditions over the Holocene by analyzing modern treeline ecology, tree-ring records, tree macrofossil records of Holocene treeline change, and lake sediment and peat records.

Quaternary Entomology Laboratory, University of Waterloo - Features information about the study of fossil Coleoptera (beetles) in archeology, geology, Quaternary climate research, and related fields.

WAISCORES - Deep Ice Coring in Western Antarctica - initiative to investigate the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change through recovery and study of two ice cores.

GISP2 - Greenland Ice Sheet Project2 - 3053,44 meters, the deepest ice core in the world.

The GISP2 ice core record - Paleoclimate highlights - U.S. National Report to IUGG, 1991-1994.

Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group - Drilling projects in Bolivia, Greenland, Antarctica, Peru, Greenland, China and Franz Josef Land.

Welcome to GISP2 - Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 - An ice-core drilling project on Greenland.

Exotic microorganisms found in deep ice core samples - Life forms found in Antarctic ice include fungi, algae, bacteria, and diatoms. Space Science News article.

U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory - U.S. Geologcial Survey center in Denver, Colorado.

Ice Core Drilling in Greenland Ice Cap - Website of the Glaciology Group at the University of Copenhagen includes information on long-term studies in Greenland.

Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group - University of California Santa Cruz. Research areas include climate variability, warm climate transitions, Milankovitch forcing of early Cenozoic climates.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education.

The great climate flip-flop - Atlantic Monthly article reviews the abrupt (less than a decade transition) climate changes of the past, analyzes the role of the Gulf Stream's thermohaline circulation switching modes of operation, and presents three scenarios for the future, including potential methods for stabilizing the flip-flop tendencies.

Berkeley Lab - Research News - "Astronomical Theory offers New Explanation For Ice Age"

Natural Science - A new European ice age?

Climate Change: A Geological Perspective - Carleton University, Canada - On-line syllabus and curriculum materials for a university science course on climate change (past, present, and future), its causes and effects.

Climate and Global Change - "Science for Everyone" articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience.

Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lesson from the Geologic Record - 100 million years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist.

Astronomical Theory of Climate Change - NOAA Paleoclimatology Program educational material concerning the Milankovitch theory, which explains changes in the seasons as a result of changes in the earth's orbit around the sun.

IMAGES Project - The International Marine Global Change Study - investigating the ocean's role in climatic changes during the Late Quaternary, using data from long marine sediment cores.

Paleoclimate and Carbon Dioxide - Examines the climate variation in the pas, and the link with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The Crevasse Zone - Glaciological data collected on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska. Focuses on GPS-derived surface velocity, surface elevations, and strain rates.

USGS Benchmark Glaciers - Long-term program to monitor climate, stream runoff, and the motion, mass balance, and geometry of glaciers at a few sites in Alaska and Washington State. Data are used to understand glacier-related hydrologic processes and improve prediction of water resources, glacier-related hazards, and the consequences of climate change.

Michael Studinger's Homepage - Geophysical and glaciological research on the Antarctic continent with aerogeophysical measurements.

INQUA Commission on Glaciation - The goal of the Commission on Glaciation is to explore and develop scientific cooperation for the study of past glaciation and present glacier processes.

Scott Polar Research Institute - University of Cambridge - World Data Center - Directory of European Glaciology

Park Geology Tour - Glaciers - Links to U.S. National Parks featuring alpine glaciers, glacial landforms, and Ice Age flood landforms.

Glacier - General introduction to glaciers, the Antarctic, and related topics in weather, climate, oceans, and geology, from Rice University (Texas).

Glacier Research Group, VAW Glaciology Section, ETH Zurich - Glacier and permafrost research in the Swiss Alps, Greenland Ice Sheet (Jakobshavn ice stream), and in Spitsbergen.

Glaciology at the University of Copenhagen - Climate research through ice core drillings (including logistics and instrumental development), analysis of chemical and physical parameters and modelling. Other topics: Studies of ice rheology and studies of extraterrestrial ice.

All About Glaciers - Links to glacier research and projects, glacier facts, questions and answers, a glossary, gallery, bibliography and links to glacier information on the Web.

Centre for Glaciology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth - Research focus is on glaciology and glacial geology. Staff expertise and research areas include relation between glaciers and climate and interactions between glaciers and the marine environment.

World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) - Source of information on glaciers and their fluctuations worldwide. World Glacier Inventory contains data on the spatial distribution of glaciers. Fluctuations of Glaciers and Mass Balance Bulletin document changes over time (changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers).

Glaciology at Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado - Research and reference information on ice-flow dynamics and calving, sub-glacial and englacial hydrology, permafrost, glaciers and sea-level change, climate change and glacier mass balance, heat exchange within snow packs, and related topics.

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) - U.S.G.S. research project using the world's glaciers to monitor climate change.

Glacier Image Database - A collection of photographs illustrating glaciation and its effects upon the earth's surface.

Glaciology, Alfred Wegener Institute - Topics include introduction to glaciology; studies of ice sheet volume and glacier mass balance of glaciers by means of modelling, geophysical reconnaissance and field studies; and reconstruction of climate history from ice core analysis.

Peter Knight's Glaciers - Information, photos, and links on glaciers, glacial environments and glacial geomorphology. Also additional resources for users of the book "Glaciers".

Satellite Images: Glaciers - US Geological Survey Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World.

Glaciers - Shockwave video demonstrates different types of glaciers, how they form and flow.

WWW sites related to Quaternary Studies - Short links list from Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Aberystwyth, Wales

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography - Links to websites about the climate, vegetation, and oceanography of the Quaternary and other past eras.

Polar Pointers - Annotated collection of internet links about the Arctic and Antarctic, maintained at Ohio State University. Includes glaciology links.

NASA: Global Change Directory - A collection of links to internet resources on global change, earth science, and environmental data and information.

The American Quaternary Association - Professional organization of North American scientists devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, about the last 2 million years of Earth history.

INQUA - International Union for Quaternary Research - Devoted to the Study of the Quaternary Period in Earth History

Quaternary Research Association - Organization comprising archaeologists, botanists, civil engineers, geographers, geologists, soil scientists, zoologists and others interested in the Quaternary. Most members are in Great Britain, but membership also extends to most European countries, North America, Africa and Australasia.

Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA) - A group devoted to the study of the Quaternary period. Site has organization information and links to related sites.

Australasian Quaternary Association - Primary focus is Quaternary research in Australia and New Zealand.

International Permafrost Association - Focus on scientific investigation and engineering work on permafrost. On-line access to recent issues of the journal "Frozen Ground."

Friends of the Pleistocene - Coordinates field trips to sites of Pleistocene interest throughout North America.

Irish Association for Quaternary Studies - Issues publications and organizes field meetings and conferences to promote cross-fertilisation of ideas in Quaternary studies in Ireland. Newsletter, publications lists, and other organization information.

Glacier Data - Offers services in ice core drilling and cold region exploration. Outlines experience and capabilities.

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