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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. |
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NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center - http://www.ncdc.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. |
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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. |
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Cambridge Quaternary - http://www.quaternary.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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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. |
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Climate Change Institute, University of Maine - http://climatechange.umaine.edu/
Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas. |
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Quaternary Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison - http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~qlab/
In Department of Geology and Geophysics, UW-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, Quaternary geology, engineering geology,and hydrogeology. |
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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - http://www.awi.de/en/institute/sites/potsdam/
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. |
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Quaternary Sciences Program at Northern Arizona University - http://www.nau.edu/~qsp/
Information about education, research and data dissemination activities regarding the Quaternary period of the arid western North America. Offers a Master's degree. |
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Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College - http://www.colby.edu/geology/Quaternary.html
Information about student research, with numerous links. |
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Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa - http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geographie/lpcweb/
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. |
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The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin - http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm
Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved. |
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Beringian Atlas - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/index.html
Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska. |
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Pliocene and Late Quaternary Sea Level - http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/data/sea_level/ofr96000.html
Global Gridded maps. USGS Open File Report 96-000. |
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Rutgers University Quaternary Studies - http://geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.shtml
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. |