Web Directory

» 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.
   http://www.awi.de/en/institute/sites/potsdam/

» Beringian Atlas
   Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/index.html

» Cambridge Quaternary
   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.
   http://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/

» Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
   Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas.
   http://climatechange.umaine.edu/

» 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.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/

» International Union for Quaternary Research
   Founded in 1928 by a group of scientists seeking to improve understanding of environmental change during the glacial ages through interdisciplinary research. Includes information on projects, meetings and publications.
   http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/

» 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.
   http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geographie/lpcweb/

» Lund University: Quaternary Studies
   Provides information about research groups, doctorol theses and the Swedish Quaternary Association.
   http://www.geol.lu.se/kvg/eng/

» Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum
   Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.
   http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/

» 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 macrofos
   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html

» 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.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/

» Pliocene and Late Quaternary Sea Level
   Global Gridded maps. USGS Open File Report 96-000.
   http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/data/sea_level/ofr96000.html

» Quaternary
   Information from Wikipedia on the Quaternary Period, the geologic time period after the Neogene Period continuing from about 2.6 million years ago to the present.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary

» Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College
   Information about student research, with numerous links.
   http://www.colby.edu/geology/Quaternary.html

» 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.
   http://www.nau.edu/~qsp/

» Quaternary and Paleoclimate Research
   In the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, paleoclimatology, glaciology and paleocoeanography.
   http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~qlab/

» 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.
   http://geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.shtml

» The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin
   Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.
   http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm

» 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 m
   http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/research/research_groups_and_projects/271